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- Discussion of a very timely, complicated subject with examples drawn from several cities and continents
Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 14)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fred Moavenzadeh: James Mason Crafts Professor of Systems Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Center for Technology and Industrial Development
Director, Technology and Development Program
Principal Fields of Interest: International Construction, Industrialization, Technology and Development
Fred Moavenzadeh’s current interests include technology and development with special focus on formulation of technological policies for socio-economic development. He is particularly interested in institutional structures required to develop a viable science and technology infrastructure that could serve the human resource development strategy of newly industrialized nations.
As director of the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development since October 1998, he is focusing on developing an institutional environment at MIT that fosters the interdisciplinary research needed for enhancement of industrial productivity and performance. CTPID’s primary areas of concentration are Aerospace, Automotive, Telecommunications, Mobility, Materials Systems, Environmental Policy, and Technology and Law. CTPID emphasizes interdisciplinary research and encourages collaboration with industry and government on issues of major concern to society at large.
As director of the Technology and Development Program since 1973, Professor Moavenzadeh has been involved in a wide variety of interdisciplinary research and teaching activities. In collaboration with other MIT faculty, he has taught subjects in engineering, economic, social, and political issues of concern to newly industrialized nations.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Construction Business Review, a journal for construction executives.
He is the author and co-author of five books including Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability. He has published over three hundred professional articles. He has served in advisory capacity andconsultant to several institutional agencies including World Bank, United Nations, Interamerican Development Bank.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moving Millions
Book Subtitle: Transport Strategies for Sustainable Development in Megacities
Editors: F. Moavenzadeh, M. J. Markow
Series Title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6702-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6701-3Published: 13 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7701-1Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6702-0Published: 25 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1571-4780
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1699
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 272
Topics: Environmental Management, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Public Economics, Climate Change, Economic Growth