Peter P. Rogers

Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning

B. Eng'g., 1958, University of Liverpool
M.S., 1961, Engineering, Northwestern University
Ph.D., 1966, Engineering, Harvard University

Environmental Systems Engineering

Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning at Harvard University. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership. Professor Rogers is the recipient of Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fellowships. His research interests include:

• the consequences of population on natural resources development
• conflict resolution in international river basins
• improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment, with emphasis on the use of analytic optimizing methods to incorporate both the natural phenomena and the engineering controls
• the impacts of global change on water resources, and the development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development.

He 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, 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.

His recent books include:

Science with a Human Face: A Memorial for Roger Revelle, Harvard University Press, 1997

Measuring Environmental Quality in Asia, Harvard University Press, 1997)

Water in the Arab World: Perspectives and Prognoses, Harvard University Press, 1994

America's Waters: Federal Roles and Responsibilities, MIT Press, 1993