Barbara Ward biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Barbara Ward

Author Name:

Barbara Ward

Born As:

Barbara Mary Ward

Other Names:

Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Born:

23 May 1914

Died:

31 May 1981




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Journalist                          
Selected Works:

The International Share-out - 1938
Turkey - 1941
Defence of the West - 1942
The West at Bay - 1948
Policy for the West - 1951
Faith and Freedom - 1954
Britain's interest in Atlantic union - 1954
Interplay of East and West - 1957
India and the West - 1961
The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations - 1961
The Plan under Pressure - 1963
Nationalism and Ideology - 1966 - lecture series - Carleton University

Spaceship Earth - 1966.  See also, Survival of Spaceship Earth in 1972; Ward co-wrote and appeared in this documentary film.

The Lopsided World - 1968 - lecture series - Johns Hopkins University
Only One Earth - 1972 - with René Dubos
A new creation? Reflections on the environmental issue - 1973
The Home of Man - 1976
Progress for a Small Planet - 1979.                          
Husband Australian Commander Robert Jackson, an administrator for the UN.                           
First woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops - 1971.                          
Early advocate of sustainable development before this term became familiar and was well-known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Ward was adviser to policy-makers in the UK, US and elsewhere.