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Event

MSE Speakers Series - Prof. Madhav Badami

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 12:30to13:30
University 3534 3534 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, CA

Urban Transport in India: My Journey to the Bottom of the Pyramid (And Other Diversions)

Madhav Badami has a joint appointment in the School of Urban Planning and the 91˿Ƶ School of Environment. After having studied mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, he spent nine years in diesel engine development in the Indian truck and bus industry, before going on to obtain a Master’s degree in environmental science at The University of Calgary, and a PhD in environmental policy at the University of British Columbia. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of environmental policy and planning; urban infrastructure and services in low-income countries; alternative transport fuels; sustainable urban transport; and environment and development.

He is the principal investigator of a SSHRC funded research program titled “A Critical Assessment of Alternative Transport Fuels in a Rapidly Motorizing Low-income Country: The Case of Compressed Natural Gas in India”. Between 2003 and 2005, he was a co-investigator in a research project titled “Urban governance and environmental management: action-oriented policy studies on waste management in Jabalpur and Raipur”, funded by the Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute and CIDA. He has delivered several invited presentations, including to senior decision makers in India, at the COP-11 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Montreal in 2005, and at the Asian Development Bank.

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