Myers, Norman

LC control no.	n 80014900
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Myers, Norman *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Meyers, Norman Myers, N. (Norman)
Associated country	Great Britain Kenya United States
Located	Headington (Oxford, England)
Birth date	1934-08-24
Death date	2019-10-20
Place of birth	Whitewell (England)
Field of activity	Nature conservation Environmental management
Affiliation	University of California, Berkeley
Profession or occupation	Conservationists
Found in	Author's The long African day, 1972. His A wealth of wild species, 1983: CIP t.p. (Norman Myers) data sheet (b. 8-24-34) Economics of ecosystem management, 1985: t.p. (N. Myers) Kozub, J.J. Land and water resources management, 1987: t.p. (Norman Meyers [sic]) p. 52 (Norman Myers) A new atlas of planet management, c2005: t.p. (Norman Myers) p. 4 of cover (honorary visiting fellow of Green College, Oxford Univ.; visiting prof., Universities of Harvard, Cornell Stanford, California, Michigan, Texas; Faculty Fellow of SustainAbility in London; member, Global Council of the World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.; elected to U.S. Academy of Sciences; etc.) Guardian WWW site, viewed Nov. 1, 2019 (Norman Myers, environmentalist, born 24 August 1934, at Higher Lees farm at Whitewell, near Clitheroe, in Lancashire; died 20 October 2019. In 1958 he joined the Colonial Service and was posted to Kenya, and ultimately to the Masai tribal region, as a district officer. He learned both Swahili and Masai, fell in love with Africa, and stayed on after independence to become a Kenyan citizen, a schoolteacher and then a professional photographer, especially of wildlife. He completed a doctorate in conservation and development at the University of California at Berkeley in 1973. He returned to Britain, and to British citizenship, in the early 1980s, settled in Headington and continued to introduce new thinking about conservation and development)
Associated language	eng