Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications - Softcover

Munasinghe, Mohan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521008883 ISBN 13: 9780521008884

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Condensed, accessible review of latest state-of-the-art assessments of IPCC, within context of sustainable development.

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Professor Mohan Munasinghe has post-graduate degrees in engineering, physics and development economics, from Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, and Concordia University. Presently, he is Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute For Development (MIND), Colombo; Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva; and Hon. Chief Energy Advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo. From 1974-2002, he worked for the World Bank, Washington DC, in various positions including Director and Senior Advisor. From 1982 to 1987, he was the Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka. During 1990-92, he served as Advisor to the United States President's Council on Environmental Quality. He has implemented international development projects for three decades, and contributed to IPCC work for 15 years. He has won a number of international awards and medals for his research, authored over 80 books and several hundred technical papers, and serves on the editorial boards of a dozen international journals.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521008883
• ISBN 13: 9780521008884
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 458
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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