Dr. Peter Rogers

Dr. Peter Rogers holds a Bachelors in Engineering from Liverpool University (1958), an MS from Northwestern University (1961), and a PhD from Harvard University (1966). He has held various appointments at Harvard University since 1966, including as the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning since 1974. Dr. Rogers' 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, and Bangladesh and, to a lesser extent, in 25 other countries.

His most recent work has focused on the relationship between Chinese electric power developments and their impact on global warming. He has over 150 publications in books, journals and periodicals.  He has done extensive international work with the World Bank and USAID, and has chaired or served on numerous panels and committees of the National Research Council and for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

While at IWR, Professor Rogers was engaged in several activities supporting the Corps efforts to define new approaches to U.S. water resources planning and management.  He was the Maass-White Visiting Scholar and later held an NRC Research Associateship. His research interests included the evaluation of the consequences of population on natural resources development; the development of improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment, including the use of optimization methods to incorporate both natural phenomena and engineering controls; and the development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development. 

He also has long been interested in water conflict resolution and research involving transportation and the environment with an emphasis on Asian cities. While at IWR, he focused on governance issues and the comparison of water governance and its impacts on environmental sustainability outcomes between the Colorado River in the U.S. and the Murray-Darling River Basin in Australia .

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