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by Worldwatch Institute on December 8, 2005
Biodiversity, Forests, Invasive Species, Ecosystems
Chris Bright joined the Institute in 1994 as an editor on the staff of the World Watch magazine. He is author of Life Out of Bounds, the first general-audience, interdisciplinary study of bioinvasion as a global phenomenon. He is now a senior fellow and is currently studying world trade and bioinvasion, tropical agroforestry, and forest restoration. Chris is co-chair of the editorial working group of the Global Invasive Species Programme, an international consortium of bioinvasion experts and environmental agencies concerned with this issue. He has also organized a forest and stream restoration program for the Washington, DC area.
Before joining the Institute in 1994, Chris spent two years as an editor at the American Gardener magazine, where his main concern was in finding ways to increase reader interest in environmental issues. Before becoming an editor, Chris spent four years writing freelance for general circulation magazines on a broad range of environmental issues, from whaling and forestry to the pesticide trade. Chris is a cum laude graduate of Kenyon College, where he received a B.A. in English Literature in 1978. His Master’s degree, in Medieval Studies, is from the University of Toronto.
Chris has lectured widely on bioinvasion. He speaks at conferences for people professionally concerned with the field, such as the North American Aquatic Nuisance Species conference series or the convention of the American Society of Consulting Arborists. But he also talks to lay groups with an interest in conservation—university classes, for example, and church groups. Chris presents invasion as a broad cultural problem, and not simply an ecological concern. He also speaks occasionally on tropical agroforestry, particularly within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome, and on forest restoration. During 2001 and 2002, for example, he was a guest speaker at several forums on rainforest conservation in Bahia, Brazil.
Chris has contributed articles on the topic of bioinvasion and trade to Harvard International Review and Foreign Policy. Life Out of Bounds was favorably reviewed in New Scientist, Nature, and BioScience, and stories on it ran in some 90 newspapers in both the United States and abroad. Chris has also done dozens of interviews on bioinvasion for radio and television.
Biodiversity, Forests, Invasive Species, Ecosystems
Chris Bright joined the Institute in 1994 as an editor on the staff of the World Watch magazine. He is author of Life Out of Bounds, the first general-audience, interdisciplinary study of bioinvasion as a global phenomenon. He is now a senior fellow and is currently studying world trade and bioinvasion, tropical agroforestry, and forest restoration. Chris is co-chair of the editorial working group of the Global Invasive Species Programme, an international consortium of bioinvasion experts and environmental agencies concerned with this issue. He has also organized a forest and stream restoration program for the Washington, DC area.
Before joining the Institute in 1994, Chris spent two years as an editor at the American Gardener magazine, where his main concern was in finding ways to increase reader interest in environmental issues. Before becoming an editor, Chris spent four years writing freelance for general circulation magazines on a broad range of environmental issues, from whaling and forestry to the pesticide trade. Chris is a cum laude graduate of Kenyon College, where he received a B.A. in English Literature in 1978. His Master’s degree, in Medieval Studies, is from the University of Toronto.
- “A History of Our Future,” in State of the World, W.W. Norton, 2003.
- “The Restoration of a Hotspot Begins,” in World Watch, Vol. 14, No. 6, November/December 2001.
- “Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back,” in World Watch, Vol. 14, No. 6, November/December 2001.
- “Anticipating Environmental ‘Surprise’,” in State of the World, W.W. Norton 2000.
- Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World, W.W. Norton, 1998.
Chris has lectured widely on bioinvasion. He speaks at conferences for people professionally concerned with the field, such as the North American Aquatic Nuisance Species conference series or the convention of the American Society of Consulting Arborists. But he also talks to lay groups with an interest in conservation—university classes, for example, and church groups. Chris presents invasion as a broad cultural problem, and not simply an ecological concern. He also speaks occasionally on tropical agroforestry, particularly within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome, and on forest restoration. During 2001 and 2002, for example, he was a guest speaker at several forums on rainforest conservation in Bahia, Brazil.
Chris has contributed articles on the topic of bioinvasion and trade to Harvard International Review and Foreign Policy. Life Out of Bounds was favorably reviewed in New Scientist, Nature, and BioScience, and stories on it ran in some 90 newspapers in both the United States and abroad. Chris has also done dozens of interviews on bioinvasion for radio and television.
