Autor: Joy Dunkerley

Manzoor Alam: Since after completing his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University in 1962 has been engaged in urban studies where he has concentrated his researches in understanding the system of cities in India arid the developing countries. Metropolitan Hyderabad and its Region A Strategy for Development, Planning Atlas of Andhra Pradesh, and Urbanization in Developing Countries are some of his leading works. Metropolitan Systems of India and Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities (UNESCO – Project) are the most recent research studies completed by him. Before taking over his present office as the Vice-Chancellor of Kashmir University he was Professor of Geography and Director, Centre for Area Studies on the Indian Ocean Region at the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Joy Dunkerley has devoted the past ten years to research and writing on energy conservation. Now a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, she was a staff economist on the Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project which produced the first comprehensive set of energy consumption scenarios for the United States. At RFF, she has completed three studies on the energy conservation lessons to be drawn from comparing U.S. energy consumption patterns with those of other industrial countries. She currently is engaged in research on energy conservation and other topics in developing countries and is co-author of Energy Strategies for Developing Nations. K. N. Go pi is Professor of Geography with many years of research and teaching to his credit. He has made substantial contributions in the fields of Urbanisation, Urban and Regional Planning. Among his important books are Urbanisation in Middle Africa (1976), Process of Urban Fringe Development: A Model (1978), Urban Growth and Industrial Locations (1980), Settlement System of India (1982). Besides he has a number of research papers published in learned national and international journals. Dr. Gopi, at present, is teaching at Osmania University, Hyderabad and also actively engaged in research on problems of Urbanisation and Urban Development. William Ramsay, after earlier research in high-energy nuclear physics and astrophysics, has studied the systems analysis of village economies, urban land use, and waste-management systems. From 1972 to 1975, at the Atomic Energy Commission, he worked on environmental aspects of energy production, and later, as technical adviser to one of the commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he dealt with nuclear proliferation, safety, and risk analysis. His recent research as a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and now as Director of the Bio-Energy Project at Georgetown University”s Centre for Strategic and International Studies has focused on health and environmental costs of conventional and renewable energy sources and on energy economic problems in developing areas. He is a co-author of Energy Strategies for Developing Nations. Elizabeth Davis, an economist, worked on various energy and environmental issues while at RFF as a research assistant. She is now a doctoral candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan.