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Josef Vavroušek
Josef Vavroušek (September 15, 1944 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – March 18, 1995 in Slovakia) was a Czech environmentalist, scientist and politician, and the founder of the Environment for Europe process. 
He obtained his PhD (equivalent) from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1975 then worked for 15 years (1975–1990) as a scientist in the field of cybernetics, general systems theory, science of science, and human environment, specializing in macro-ecology of Man and environmental policy. During this
the 2009 Josef Vavroušek Prize for his persistent defence of local communities against the private interests of mining companies. Buřt was also awarded the Ivan Dejmal Prize in 2011 for an outstanding positive achievement associated with the landscape by the Society for Landscape.
Buřt is one of the main protagonists in the 2005 documentary, “God’s Stone Quarry” (Czech: “Kamenolom Boží”), by director Břetislav Rychlík about the life of people living in the vicinity of the lunarscape creating by brown coal mining in North Bohemia. The documentary