Joseph Alcamo

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Joseph "Joe" Alcamo (* 1951 ) is an American environmental scientist. From 1996 to March 2017 he was Professor at the University of Kassel and from 2009 to 2013 Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

Life

Alcamo earned a BA in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College , New York. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis . From 1973 to 1980 Alcamo worked as an environmental engineer in several American companies. 1981 then at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and from 1982 to 1991 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg near Vienna. From 1992 to 1996 he worked at the Dutch Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu . From 1996 to March 2017, Alcamo was Professor and Director at the Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel. In 1998 he was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize. He was on leave from the University of Kassel to work as chief scientist of the United Nations Environment Program.

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Alcamo has numerous publications on environmental issues. His research focuses on environmental modeling, scenario analyzes on environmental issues, the impact of global change and climate impact assessment , the environment of Eastern Europe as well as international science management and the connection between science and political mechanisms.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Experts' profiles. Joseph Alcamo. United Nations Environment Program, accessed December 1, 2012 .
  2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved December 1, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Joseph Alcamo. University of Kassel - Center for Environmental Systems Research, accessed on July 25, 2018 .
  4. ^ Idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft: [1] from December 3, 1998, last accessed on May 20, 2014.

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SURNAME Alcamo, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alcamo, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American environmental scientist, chief scientist at UNEP
DATE OF BIRTH 1951