Name:

Peter Bartelmus

Member Since:

April 13, 2006

Member Name:

Peter.bartelmus

Last Logged in:

November 1, 2010

Hometown:

New York

Colleges / Universities Attended:

Heidelberg University, Germany

Peter Bartelmus' newly released book, Quantitative Eco-nomics. Click here to learn more or purchase.

At the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, he developed the UN environmental statistics and management program in cooperation with the UN Statistics Division (UNSD), New York. As head of UNSD's industry, energy and environment statistics program he was responsible for the development of the System for integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA), which was later endorsed by the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. As director of the environment division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy he sought to combine environmental and ecological economics in measurement and theory. He has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses of the economics of sustainable development at Columbia and Wuppertal Universities and is currently preparing for a course at the Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines. His latest book, Quantitative Eco-nomics, is the result of this endeavor. He is currently working on a textbook of "Sustainability Economics".

E-mail: Peter Bartelmus