Peter Warshall, Ph.D.

With an academic background in biology and anthropology, Peter works globally with highly diverse people and ecosystems. His expertise includes natural history, natural resource management (especially watersheds, wastewater, and wildlife), conservation biology, biodiversity assessments, environmental impact analysis, and conflict resolution and consensus building between divergent economic and cultural special interest groups. He has worked in Africa for various organizations and in Arizona for several Native American tribes and as an adjunct research scientist with the Office of Arid Lands Studies (University of Arizona).

Peter has consulted with corporations on improving their environmental practices and long-term visions of what kind of world they want to create. He has a special interest in producers of commodities (loggers, farmers, ranchers, fishermen, miners) as they are the link between the materials flows of our economy and the natural world. His teachers have included endangered squirrels, oil-slicked cormorants, rhesus monkeys and gorillas.

In addition to his role as Editor-At-Large with Whole Earth, he is the founder of Peter Warshall and Associates, a consulting firm specializing in complex economic/ecological systems, especially those that impact water resources and wildlife populations. Clients have included Volvo, Senco, Clorox, Trygg Hansa, SAS Airlines, and other companies; United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and US AID; the Tohono O'odham nation and Apache Survival Coalition; municipal, state and federal governments (eleven in African nations) and non-governmental organizations. After receiving his A.B. in Biology from Harvard in 1964, he went on to study cultural anthropology at l'École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris with Claude Lévi-Strauss, as a Fulbright Scholar. He then returned to Harvard where he earned his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology.

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