David C. Pitt
1938 – 2016
Charles David Pitt was a professor of sociology and anthropology born in Wellington, New Zealand. He passed away in Geneva, Switzerland in 2016. Obitury by Cluny Macpherson printed in *New Zealand Sociology* journal (print ISSN:0112-921X) Vol.31, Iss.1, p224-227, published 2016. Genres: Anthropology/ Ethnology, Sociology, Environmental sciences/Ecology, Geography, International relations/Current affairs. Career: Chargé de Recherches, Institut International de recherches pour la paix, Geneva, since 1984. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Victoria, B.C., 1965- 67; Professor of Sociology, University of Waikato, 1968-71, and University of Auckland, 1971-79. Consultant, International Labour Organization, 1968- 70, Unesco, 1970-71, and World Health Organization, 1979-83. *Genres & Career sourced from encyclopedia.com*
Books
- The Anthropology of War & Peace
- Culture and Conservation
- AIDS - A Cross Cultural Companion
- Nature of United Nations Bureaucracies
- Mountain World in Danger
- Population and development
- Emerging pluralism
- Rethinking population, environment, and development
- Culture and conservation
- The Social Dynamics of Development
- The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader
- The Future of the Environment (European Year of the Environment)
- Nuclear-Free Zones
- Society and environment, the crisis in the mountains
- Social processes in New Zealand's future
- Deforestation
- Development from below
- Using historical sources in anthropology and sociology
- Tradition and economic progress in Samoa
- Water in a Warmer World
- Future of the Environment
- Socio-economic development in the Pacific
- Social class in New Zealand
- New ideas in environmental education
- Children and war
- The Nature of United Nations bureaucracies
- Development from below
- Using historical sources in anthropology and sociology
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