Sharon Beder

Sharon Beder is a professional engineer and associate professor in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Wollongong. She is the author of several books, including The Nature of Sustainable Development, Global Spin, Selling the Work Ethic, and Power Play (all published by Scribe).

In 2001 she was presented with the World Technology Award in Ethics, and in 2003 she was named in the Bulletin magazine’s ‘Smart 100’ list as one of Australia's top environmental thinkers. In 2004 she was listed by Engineers Australia as one of the 100 ‘most influential engineers’ in Australia.

Many of Dr Beder's articles are available on the internet at http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/sbeder/home.html

Books

• Global Spin: the corporate assault on environmentalism (Author)
  

  Global Spin shows how, in an awesome assault on democracy and its institutions, the massive, covert power of large corporations has enabled corporate agendas to dominate most debates about the state of the environment and what should be done about it.

• Power Play: the fight for control of the world's electricity (Author)
  

  Noted author Sharon Beder argues persuasively that the track record of electricity privatisation and deregulation around the world indicates that it is a confidence trick.

• Selling the Work Ethic: from Puritan pulpit to corporate PR (Author)
  
• The Nature of Sustainable Development: Second Edition (Author)
  

  Here is the second, up-to-date edition of a clear, comprehensive text that carefully examines the concept 'ecologically sustainable development' and the way it is used.