the British Empire, and on 18 October 1976 a life peer as Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, of Lodsworth in the County of West Sussex; she and her husband both held noble titles in their own right. She wrote her last book, Progress for a Small Planet, despite her deteriorating health, discussing the "planetary community", dwindling resources used up too fast by wealthy countries, and the needs of poorer parts of the world. It was published in 1979, two years before her death on 31 May 1981, aged 67. Legacy In 1980, she received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award. Pope John Paul II sent a Cardinal to represent him at Ward's requiem service. At her own request, she was buried in the graveyard of the local Anglican parish church. Her brother, John Ward, was a noted civil engineer who, after his work on the M4 motorway in the 1960s, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Her great-niece, Marsha Shandur, is now a music presenter on radio. Affiliations 1972: Stockholm Conference on Human Environment (Earth Summit I) 1974: Cocoyoc Declaration, UNEP/United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Symposium on Patterns of Resource Use, Environment and Development strategies 1976: Vancouver Habitat Conference on Human Settlements Barbara Ward Lectures The International Institute for Environment and Development organises the 'Barbara Ward Lectures' in memory of Ward, who was the Institute's first director. 2007 Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland 2008 Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Housing of the Republic of South Africa 2010 Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action 2012 Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 2014 Fatima Denton, Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 2016 Debra Roberts, leader of the Environmental Planning and Climate Protection Department of eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018 Gro Harlem Brundtland, the first woman Prime Minister of Norway and former Director-General of the World Health Organization Selected works The International Share-out (1938) Turkey (1941) Defence of the West (1942) The West at Bay (1948) Policy for the West (1951) Faith and Freedom (1954) Britain's interest in Atlantic union (1954) Interplay of East and West (1957) Five Ideas that Changed the World (1959) India and the West (1961), published in the journal International Affairs, volume 37 issue