Josef Vavroušek

Josef Vavroušek (15 September 1944 in Prague, Czechoslovakia - 18 March 1995 Parichvost valley, West Tatras, Slovakia) was a Czech environmentalist, scientist, politician, and founder of the Environment for Europe process.

The expedition's aim, which visited fourteen African countries, was to provide material aid to the hospital and promote Schweitzer's ideals of humanism and respect for life.

[1][2] Josef Vavroušek formulated his "Ten Commandments" of values compatible and incompatible with a sustainable way of life in 1993 and considered it a preliminary proposal.

As environment Minister, he headed the Czechoslovakian delegation to the Rio Summit in 1992, but then political changes and the country's division brought his ministerial career to a premature end.

Vavroušek’s contribution to European environmental cooperation was to bring the interdisciplinary experience and understanding of how human systems and the environment work into mainstream political parlance across the new Europe at the time of its birth and to emphasize the importance of human values and environmental ethics in the search for sustainable ways of living.