Professor Peter P. Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. He has a wide range of research interests, including the consequences of population on natural resources development; improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment; the development of robust indices of environmental quality and sustainable development; conflict resolution in international river basins; and the impacts of global change on water resources.

He has carried out extensive field and model studies on population, water and energy resources, and environmental problems in Costa Rica, Pakistan, India, China, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and to a lesser extent, in 25 other countries.

Recent work has focused on sustainable development with an emphasis on large cities in Asia. Professor Rogers is Senior Advisor to the Global Water Partner¬ship; recipient of Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fellowships and the Warren A. Hall Medal of the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR); member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); life member of the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers; and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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