Branko Bošnjaković

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Branko Franjo Marko Bošnjaković (born February 18, 1939 in Zagreb ) is a Dutch-Croatian physicist and expert in the field of the environment and sustainability .

Life

Branko Bošnjaković studied physics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and obtained his doctorate on a nuclear physics topic at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht in 1968 . His career covered basic and applied research as well as international management and advisory functions.

He spent the years from 1968 to 1975 as a researcher in the field of elementary particles at CERN , Geneva. From 1975 to 1991, as a senior advisor in the Dutch Ministry of the Environment, he designed and coordinated the national multiannual program on environmental radiation. From 1979 to 1992 he was a member of the International Non-Ionizing Radiation Committee (INIRC, now ICNIRP ), and thus contributed to the development and worldwide acceptance of radiation protection standards . In 1990 he worked as a consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the consequences of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl .

From 1991 to 1993 he was a member of the management team of the REC (Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe) in Budapest , and then as an advisor to the World Health Organization at the WHO European Center on Environment and Health, Bilthoven ( Netherlands ). In 1994 he became a member of the Commission for Education and Communication of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ). From 1994 to 2001 he worked as a regional environmental protection advisor to the UN Regional Commission for Europe (UN Economic Commission for Europe) with a focus on cross-border environmental, water and energy problems in Central Asia , Transcaucasia and Southeast Europe . From 1994 to 2009 Bošnjaković was associated with the Avalon Foundation (Avalon Foundation) for the promotion of sustainable agriculture, most recently as a member of the supervisory board. In 2001 he was elected Adjunct Professor at the Technical Faculty of the University of Rijeka ( Croatia ), with lectures on environmental management . At times he works as a consultant for the European Commission , OSCE and UNESCO . He is the author or co-author of more than 120 scientific and technical publications in the fields of nuclear physics and elementary particle physics, radiation protection, institutional and geopolitical problems of the environment, natural resources and energy , as well as sustainability . A frequently cited book is Human Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation: Risks and Regulations .

From 1985 to 1991 Branko Bošnjaković worked as coordinator of the Dutch section of Amnesty International for human rights in the former GDR , and has since witnessed the democratic changes in Central and Eastern Europe many times . From 1990 to 1995 he was a board member of the Netherlands-Croatia Foundation. He was co-organizer of a conference on the history of science and technology in Central Europe between the two world wars, which was held in Vienna in November 2009. In 2011 he was invited writer at the “Conference on Scholars in Exile and Dictatorships of the 20th Century”.

Private

Branko Bošnjaković comes from a scientifically oriented family. His father was the thermodynamicist Fran Bošnjaković (1902-1993), his grandfather was Srećko Bošnjaković (1865-1907), a pioneer of chemistry and sports in Croatia. Bošnjaković is the father of two children and the grandfather of three grandchildren. His permanent residence is in Switzerland. 

Author or co-author of publications (selection)

  • Nuclear Waste Disposal in Salt: Long Term Environmental Consequences of Disposal in a Salt Dome in The Netherlands . In: Atomkernenergie-Kerntechnik , 38, 1981, pp. 127-133.
  • Transfrontier emergency planning within the European Communities , Proceedings of an International Symposium on Emergency Planning and Preparedness for Nuclear Facilities, organized by the IAEA and held in Italy, 4.-8. November 1985 (pp. 35-41).
  • UN / ECE strategies for protecting the environment with respect to international watercourses: the Helsinki and Espoo Conventions . In: Salman MA Salman, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: International watercourses: enhancing cooperation and managing conflict . World Bank Technical Paper No. 414. The World Bank, Washington DC 1998, pp. 47-64.
  • Regulations of International Watercourses under the UN / ECE Regional Agreements . In: Water International , Vol. 25, Number 4, December 2000, pp. 544-553.
  • UNECE environmental conventions: their role and potential to promote conflict prevention and settlement of disputes in transboundary environmental issues . In: E. Petzold-Bradley, A. Carius, A. Vincze (eds.): Responding to Environmental Conflicts: Implications for Theory and Practice . Kluwer Academic Publisher 2000, pp. 263-282.
  • Valuing and paying for ecosystem services: a pre-condition for sustainability . In: Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology , Vol. 6, Number 1-4, 2006, pp. 123-134.
  • Geopolitics of climate change: a review. Thermal Science, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2012, pp. 629-654.
  • Environment and climate change as geopolitical issues in the Asias: what can be learned from the European experience? Globality Studies Journal, Issue 35, 26 July 2013

Awards

In 1992 he was awarded a badge of recognition by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and in 1994 he received an award for civil protection of the Republic of Slovenia . Branko Bošnjaković was appointed Honorary Associate of the Center for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPLMP) in Dundee (Scotland) in 1998 and a Life Fellow of the REC (Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe) in Hungary in 2000 . In the same year he received the Gouden Tientje (golden ten guilder coin) from the Dutch Ministry of the Environment in recognition of his services to environmental protection and sustainable development.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigation of 35 Cl + p and 37 Cl + p resonances. Analogue states in 36 ares and 38 ares . Doctoral dissertation. North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam 1968
  2. ^ Radiation Aspects of Indoor Environment and Related Radioecological Problems; a Study of the Situation in The Netherlands , Proceedings of an International Seminar held at Anacapri (Italy), 3. – 5. October 1983
  3. ↑ Legal implications of exposure to enhanced natural radiation in the context of the Euratom directives , Proceedings of the Seminar on Exposure to Enhanced Natural Radiation and its Regulatory Consequences, Maastricht, 25.-27. March 1985
  4. ↑ Ultraviolet radiation: risk limitation and protection of the public , Proceedings of the International Non-Ionizing Radiation Workshop, Melbourne, 5. – 9. April 1988
  5. ↑ IRPA Guidelines on Protection against Non-Ionizing Radiation, Pergamon Press, 1990
  6. ^ IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. Member Directory, June 1995
  7. ↑ Avalon Annual Report 2008
  8. ^ Branko Bošnjaković: Scientist details. Who's who in Croatian science . Ruđer Bošković Institute Library.
  9. ^ Functional Review of the Environmental Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 2005
  10. ^ First Regional Meeting on Environment and Security in South East Europe, Belgrade, 3–4. December 2002
  11. ↑ Negotiations in the context of international water-related agreements , Proceedings of the International Conference "From conflict to cooperation in international water resources management", Delft, 20. – 22. November 2002. UNESCO, Paris 2003.
  12. ↑ WF Passchier, BFM Bosnjakovic (ed.): Human Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation: Risks and Regulations . Excerpta Medica, New York / Oxford 1987.
  13. ^ Scholars in Exile and Dictatorships of the 20th Century. May 24-26, 2011, Prague. Conference Proceedings, p. 30-89. http://www.science.usd.cas.cz/Scholars_in_Exile_2011_Proceedings.pdf
  14. ↑ N. Trinajstić, p-Paušek Baždar: Hrvatska kemija u XX. stoljeću. I., Kem. Ind. 56 (7-8) 403-416 (2007)
personal data
SURNAME Bošnjaković, Branko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bošnjaković, Branko Franjo Marko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-Croatian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb