James G. Workman

Author of Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought

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James G. Workman, who studied at Yale and Oxford, has served as an adviser on water scarcity and natural resources issues to businesses, aid agencies, civic associations, and governmental organizations, including the World Commission on Dams. A veteran journalist, Workman spent several years in Africa writing about water scarcity there, and is the author of Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Vanessa and their two daughters Camille and Louise. — biography from Water (Diminishing Resources) … (more)

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Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Long List

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