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Hazel Henderson (born 1933 in Bristol, England) is a futurist and an evolutionary economist. She is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, and Planetary Citizenship (the latter with Daisaku Ikeda).
Henderson is now a television producer. She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley). She has also been a traveling lecturer and panelist. Recently, she has served on the boards of such publications as Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence, Foresight and Futures (UK). She advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980.
Henderson has been in good part concerned with finding the unexplored areas in standard economics and the "blind spots" of conventional economists. Most of her work relates to the creation of an interdisciplinary economic and political theory with a focus on environmental and social concerns. For instance, she has delved into the area of the "value" of such unquantifiables as clean air and clean water, needed in tremendous abundance by humans and other living organisms.
What defines the "realities" that scientists study?
Henderson has been one of the critics to point out that the definitions of "realities" devised by natural and social scientists often pertain to the "realities" they are paid to study — begging the questions as to who has funded these investigators and theoreticians, and why? Who deems certain research grants to be worthy of funding? Which questions crop up in the first place?
Henderson believes that the various threats to peace, community security, and good environment have led us into a new era in which we are obliged to look for values, information, and know-how that we seemed to be able to do without until recent decades.
Books
- Beyond Globalization
- Building a Win-Win World and Paradigms in Progress
- Creating Alternative Futures
- The Politics of the Solar Age
- The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives
- Redefining Wealth and Progress
- Planetary Citizenship (by Daisaku Ikeda & Hazel Henderson)
External links
- HazelHenderson.com
- Big Picture TV free video clips of Hazel Henderson
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