Qualifications: Ph.D (Biomedical Engineering [Health Care Systems Analysis]), Virginia
Career:
Senior Environmental Specialist, Climate Change, Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Secretariate, Washington DC; 1994-99
Adjunct Associate Professor of Systems, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 1993-94
Senior Analyst, The Bruce Company, U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC; 1988-9
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science; 1991-9
Fellow, Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi; 1982-88.
Guest Investigator, Unit for Research on Behavioral Systems, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland; 1978-79
IPH Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Program in Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; 1979-81
Distinctions:
Member of the Steering Group for Environmental Assessment of Power Sector Reform by the Government of Karnataka; 2000-
Review Editor, Chapter 6, Policies, Measures and Instruments, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Working Group III; 2000
Lead Author, IPCC Special Report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer; 1998
Co-chair, IPCCC-OECD Expert Subgroup on Methane Missions from Biomass Burning; 1993
Thermal Power Appraisal Committee, Govt. of India; 1986-87
Research Interests:
- Policy options for addressing global climate change, renewable energy systems,
and environmental impacts of biomass and fossil fuel combustion.
Publications:
| Books |
- Kumar, T and Ahuja, D (Eds.) (1987). Rural Energy Planning for the Indian Himalaya, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern.
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- Ahuja, D, Pachauri R and Gopalakrishnan, N (Eds.) (1984). National Energy Data Systems.New Delhi: Concept Publishers.
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| Papers |
| Ahuja, D R (2003). Mendacity in our midst: treatments in Ramanujan, Max Muller and in ancient Indian behaviour codes.Economic and Political Weekly 38(18): 1795-1799 |
| Ahuja, D R (2002). Book review of "International relations and global climate change" edited by Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F Sprinz. Current Science 82(7): 886-887 |
| Lashof, D A and Ahuja, D R. (1990). Relative contributions of greenhouse gas emissions to global warming. Nature 344(6266): 529-531. |
- Joshi, V, Venkataraman, C and Ahuja, D R. (1989). Emissions from burning biofuels in metal cookstoves. Environmental Management 13(6): 763-772
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| Chapters in Books |
| Ahuja, D R et al (2000). Enabling environments for technology transfer In: Methodological and technological issues in technology transfer. A special report of IPCC working group III (B Metz et al eds.). Cambridge: CUP. pp 105-141 |
| Ahuja, D R et al (2000).Financing and partnerships for technology transfer In:Methodological and technological issues in technology transfer. A special report of IPCC working group III (B Metz et al eds.). Cambridge: CUP. pp 143-74 |
- Tirpak, D and Ahuja, D R (1992). Implications for greenhouse emissions of strategies designed to ameliorate other soical and environmental problems In: Limiting the Greenhouse Effect: Options for controlling atmospheric CO2 accumulation(Ed. G Pearman). London:John Wiley. pp 535-559.
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| NIAS Publications |
Ahuja, D R (2003). Mendacity in our midst: treatments in Ramanujan, Max Muller and in ancient Indian behaviour codes.
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