Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa
Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa
edited by
Ian H Rowlands
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by Ian H Rowlands
by Ian H Rowlands
by Ian H Rowlands
by R S Maya
by Bothwell Batidzirai, Norbert Nziramasanga and Ian H Rowlands
by Norbert Nziramasanga, Bothwell Batidzirai and Ian H Rowlands
by R S Maya and Ian H Rowlands
by Peter Zhou, Ian H Rowlands and John K Turkson
by Gordon A Mackenzie and Ian H Rowlands
Bothwell Batidzirai is a research fellow with the Southern Centre for Energy and Environment (Harare, Zimbabwe). He has worked previously as an assistant researcher in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe and as a systems development engineer for a laboratory in Harare. Mr Batidzirai has authored several reports and studies and has presented numerous papers at both local and international meetings. He is a member of the Energy and Climate Change Theme Group of the African Energy Policy Research Network and the National Climate Change Committee. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe.
Gordon A Mackenzie is a senior energy planner at the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment (Roskilde, Denmark). He has worked previously in the Energy Systems and Environmental Modelling Groups at the Ris National Laboratory (Roskilde, Denmark) and as a deputy director and energy advisor in the Zambian Department of Energy (Lusaka). He is the author or co-author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and co-editor of Energy Options for Africa: Environmentally Sustainable Alternatives (Zed Books, 1993). He was one of the initiators of the UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies and has worked closely with several African countries on climate change mitigation analysis. Dr Mackenzie holds a PhD in Physics and a BSc in Physics from the University of Edinburgh.
R S (Shakespeare) Maya is the executive director of the Southern Centre for Energy and Environment (Harare, Zimbabwe). He has served as lead author in the IPCC second assessment reports Working Group III and on the IPCC Working Group IIs technical paper on regional impacts of climate change. He is the author of several articles in international journals on the economic and political aspects of climate change and the co-editor of Joint Implementation: Carbon Colonies or Business Opportunities? Weighing the Odds in an Information Vacuum (Southern Centre, 1996). Dr Maya holds a PhD in energy analysis and policy, a BSc (Hons.) in International Relations and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from the University of WisconsinMadison.
Norbert Nziramasanga is the technical director of the Southern Centre for Energy and Environment (Harare, Zimbabwe). He has worked previously as a principal research engineer for the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authoritys Corporate Planning Unit and for the City of Harares Electricity Department. He has undertaken several studies on the power sector, and on energy and resource optimization. He has also conducted numerous training sessions on climate change mitigation. Mr Nziramasanga holds a BSEE in power systems and energy conversion from the University of Michigan.
Ian H Rowlands is an associate professor in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada). He has worked previously as an energy planner at the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment (Roskilde, Denmark) and a lecturer in International Relations and Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, United Kingdom). Dr Rowlands is the author of The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change (Manchester University Press, 1995) and co-editor of Global Environmental Change and International Relations (Macmillan, 1992). He has contributed articles on climate change, ozone layer depletion, African energy and development, sustainable development, and business and the environment to many journals and books. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto.
John K Turkson is an energy economist at the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment (Roskilde, Denmark). He has worked previously as a lecturer in the Department of Planning at the University of Science and Technology in Ghana, and served as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Energy in Ghana. Dr Turkson is the author of several articles on energy planning and policy issues in the energy sector in Ghana. He has also made several presentations at academic conferences on power sector reforms and the transport sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Turkson holds a PhD in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and a BA in Economics from the University of Ghana.
Peter Zhou is the director of EECG (Energy, Environment, Computer and Geophysical) Consultants in Gaborone, Botswana. Before founding EECG Consultants, he worked as head of the Geophysics Section in the Government of Zimbabwe, a lecturer in Physics at the Universities of Zimbabwe and Botswana and as a principal consultant with a Botswana water consultancy firm. He has also served as a consultant to various international organizations and individual SADC governments. Dr Zhou has contributed articles to various international journals and book chapters in the fields of mineral and groundwater geophysics, energy, environment and climate change. He is also a principal researcher and theme coordinator of the Energy and Climate Theme Group with the African Energy Policy Research Network. Dr Zhou holds a DPhil from the University of Zimbabwe.
AfDB | African Development Bank |
AFREPREN | African Energy Policy Research Network |
AIJ | activities implemented jointly |
APEC | AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation |
ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
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