Centre Coordinators

 
 

Prof. S. C.  Rajan (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India)

Curriculum

  • 2007 (ongoing): Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras
  • 2000: Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute, Boston, MA, USA
  • 1999: Consultant, UNDP, New York
  • 1995: Director (Operations and Asia), International Energy Initiative, Bangalore, India
  • 1989: Air Resources Engineering Associate, California Air Resources Board, El Monte, CA, USA
  • 1988: Air Quality Scientist, ENSR, Camarillo, CA, USA

Research Interests

  • Automobility
  • Political theory and the environment
  • Climate and migration
  • Climate policy
  • Sustainable development

Publications (selcetion only, complete list here)

  • S.C. Rajan (2010) Parental Sacrifice as Atonement for Future Climate Change, in Michael Maniates and John Meyer (eds.) The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010
  • S. Byravan and S.C. Rajan (2010): “The Ethical Implications of Sea-level Rise Due to Climate Change,” Ethics and International Affairs, 24.2, Fall Issue.
  • S.C. Rajan (2008) Meeting the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Challenge: The Case for Biome Stewardship Councils. In Janet Ranganathan et al., (Eds.) Policies for Sustainable Governance of Global Ecosystem Services, Edward Elgar, UK.
  • Mayer Hillman, Tina Fawcett and S.C.Rajan (2007) The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe, St. Martin’s Press, New York.
  • S.C. Rajan (2007): “Automobility, liberalism and the ethics of driving,” Environmental Ethics Spring 2007, 77-90.
  • S.C. Rajan (2006): “Climate Change Dilemma: Technology, Social Change, or Both? An Examination of Long-Term Transport Policy Choices in the United States,” Energy Policy 34: 664–679.
  • S.C. Rajan (2006) Automobility and the Liberal Disposition. In Steffen Boehm et al. (Eds.), Against Automobility: Social Scientific Analyses of a Global Phenomenon, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford
  • S.C. Rajan (1996) The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Series on Policy and Institutional Studies; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/p/pittpress/.
  • M. FitzSimmons, J. Glaser, R. Montemor, S. Pincetl and S.C. Rajan (1994) “Environmentalism and the liberal state,” in Martin O’Connor: Is Capitalism Sustainable? Guilford Books.

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Prof. Dr. R. Azzam (Department of Engineering Geology and  Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen University)

Curriculum

  • 1980: Research assistant at the Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • 1984: Research fellow at the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia
  • 1987: Senior lecturer at the Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • 1993: Professor for Engineering Geology and Environmental Geotechnics at the Freiberg University of Science and Technology and member of Faculty Board, Germany
  • 1999: Director of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at the Freiberg University of Science and Technology, Germany
  • 2002: Head of the Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany

Research area

  • Remedeation and management of brownfields
  • Risk prognosis
  • Environmental Geotechnics

Publications (selection only, complete list here)

 

  • Neukum, C. and Azzam, R. (2012): Impact of climate change on groundwater recharge in a small catchment in the Black Forest, Germany. In: Hydrogeology Journal, DOI 10.1007/s10040-011-0827-x
  • Feinendegen, M., Ziegler, M., Spagnoli, G., Azzam, R., Fernandez-Steeger, T.M.  (2010):  Ein neues Verfahren zur Bewertung des Verklebungspotenzials beim maschinellen Tunnelvortrieb mit Erddruckschilden , In:  31. Baugrundtagung, 3-6 November 2010, München , 103 – 110 .
  • Feinendegen, M., Spagnoli, G., Stanjek, H., Neher, H.P., Ernst, G., Weh, M., Fernandez-Steeger, T.M., Ziegler, M., Azzam, R.  (2010):  InProTunnel: Interfacial Processes between Mineral and Tool Surfaces – Causes, Problems and Solutions in Mechanical Tunnel Driving , In:  Geotechnologien Science Report 16: Mineral Surfaces – From Atomic Processes to Geotechnology , 111-125 , (accepted) .
  • Klebingat, S., Schulten, S., Kempka, T., Schlüter, R., Rüterkamp, P., Neukum, C., Azzam, R., Quicker, P.  (2010):  Underground Coal Gasification and groundwater risk potential: Modelling tar masses and pollutant spectrum , In:  Hoppe, A. , Röhling, H.G. , Schüth, C. (Hrsg.): GeoDarmstadt 2010 – 8th European Coal Conference, Darmstadt, 10-13 October 2010, SDGG publication 68-2010 , 313 .
  • Klebingat, S., Schulten, S., Kempka, T., Schlüter, R., Rüterkamp, P., Neukum, C., Azzam, R., Quicker, P.  (2010):  Modelling of pollutant production by underground coal gasification , In:  Zereini, F. , Hashwa, F. (Hrsg.): Proceed. of the 5th Environmental Symposium of German-Arab Scientific Forum for Environmental Studies 21-22 September 2010, Byblos, Lebanon , 42-43 .
  • Hu, H., Fernandez-Steeger, T.M., Dong, M., Nguyen, H.T., Azzam, R.  (2010):  3D Modeling using LiDAR Data and its Geological and Geotechnical Applications , In:  The 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics, June. 18-20, 2010. Beijing (China) , 1-6 . Read online
  • Dong, M., Neukum, C., Azzam, R., Hu, H.  (2010):  3D Stratigraphic Modeling of Central Aachen , In:  General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union 2010, May 02-07. 2010, Vienna (Austria). Geophysical Research Abstracts , Vol. 12 (EGU2010-547-7) .
  • Spagnoli, G., Fernandez-Steeger, T.M., Feinendegen, M., Stanjek, H., Azzam, R.  (2010):  The influence of the dielectric constant and electrolyte concentration of the pore fluids on the undrained shear strength of smectite , In:   Soils and Foundations 50 (5) , 737-743 .

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