Josef Vavroušek

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Josef Vavroušek (15 September 1944 – 18 March 1995) was a Czech environmentalist, scientist and politician. He was the founder of the Environment for Europe process.

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Life Vavroušek was born on 15 September 1944 in Prague. He obtained his PhD from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1975, then worked for 15 years (1975–1990) as a scientist in the field of cybernetics, general systems theory, science of science, and human environment, specializing in macro-ecology of Man and environmental policy. During this period, he was a member of the executive body of the Ecological Section of the Biological Society, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1985–1991), one of the founding members of the first executive body of the Circle of Independent Intelligentsia (1988–1989) and a member of the Club of Rome. He was also one of the founders of the Civic Forum and later of the Civic Movement in Czechoslovakia and a member of their executive bodies. In 1968 he participated in the Lambaréné Student Expedition to the A. Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. The expedition's aim, which visited fourteen African countries, was to provide material aid to the hospital and promote Schweitzer's ideals of humanism and respect for life. It was a life experience that largely determined his future life. He coordinated (with Bedřich Moldan) the translation of Limits to Growth into Czech. In 1989, Vavroušek was…Citește mai mult

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Bibliography Vavroušek, J. (1993). Perspektivy lidských hodnot slučitelných s trvale udržitelným způsobem života. In P. Nováček & J. Vavroušek (Eds), Lidské hodnoty a trvale udržitelný způsob života: Sborník přednášek (pp. 91–100). Olomouc, Czech Republic: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého.