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Peter Bartelmus is honorary professor of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany). He holds a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. He has been teaching economics of sustainable development at the Wuppertal and Columbia universities.
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. His latest book, Quantitative Eco-nomics, is the result of this endeavor.
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