Adjunct
Professor, Engineering
and Public Policy; CRC Professor, Sustainable
Development Research Institute, The University of
British Columbia.
Quantification
of uncertainties, exploration of the dynamics of integrated
models of human and natural systems and their interactions.
B.Sc. (Physics)
1980, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Ph.D. (Physics) 1984, University of Cambridge, England.
Carnegie
Mellon, 1991-.
Dr. Dowlatabadi
is the former director for the Center for Integrated
Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, which
is primarily interested in environmental problems
such as urban pollution, climate change, extreme events,
and management of and response to these issues. Over
forty investigators from a dozen institutions located
around the world collaborate in the Center's research.
For details see: http://www.hdgc.epp.cmu.edu.
Dr. Dowlatabadi
has studied problems of technology choice and impact
of deregulation on the power sector, environmental
impacts of economic activity and design of environmental
regulations, HIV/AIDS in New York and Sub-Saharan
Africa, economic transition in Eastern Europe, technological
innovation and diffusion, and ecosystem dynamics.
For the
past four years his work has focused on the dynamics
of complex systems and how humans go about identifying
problems and trying to solve them.
Dr. Dowlatabadi
is a University Fellow at Resources for the Future
(RFF), and a member of the US Scientific Committee
for the Problems of the Earth (SCOPE).
Representative
Publications
H. Dowlatabadi,
"Sensitivity of Climate Change Mitigation Estimates
to Assumptions about Technical Change," Energy
Economics, vol. 20, pp. 473-493, 1998.
H. Dowlatabadi,
"Assessing the Health Impacts of Climate Change: An
Editorial Essay," Climatic Change, vol. 35,
no. 2, pp. 137-144, 1997.
N. Mahasenan,
R. G. Watts, and H. Dowlatabadi, "Low-frequency Oscillations
in Temperature-Proxy Records and Implications for
Recent Climate Change," Geophysical Research Letters,
vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 563-566, 1997. |
