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Peter Bartelmus' newly released book, Sustainability Economics, An Introduction . 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, Sustainability Economics, An Introduction, is the result of this endeavor. 

E-mail: Peter Bartelmus