Cambridge and India

Sustainability

With the link between human activity and global warming firmly established, the University is working with industry and government to develop more efficient energy production and energy use. Innovative thinking is required to find solutions that meet the needs of developing societies while minimising emissions overall.

Sustainability is a huge area of growth for the Department of Engineering, which appointed Peter Guthrie as the UK's first Professor of Sustainable Development in 2000. Initiatives elsewhere in the University include a programme looking at urbanisation - Sustainability of Land Use and Transport - a five-centre research project involving the Department of Architecture.

The Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership runs leadership development programmes on sustainability for senior executives and policy makers worldwide. Its programmes - which include The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, The Climate Leadership Programme, and The Business and Poverty Leadership Programme - partner governments to drive climate change policies and practices.

Dr Dabo Guan
Judge Business School and Electricity Policy Research Group

Dr Guan is a member of the Energy & Environment research group and the Operations, Information & Technology teaching group. His research interests include International climate change policies, scenario analysis on global green house gas emissions, ecological-economic modeling and environmental input-output analysis related to topics such as hydrological ecosystem accounting, consumption and pollution of resources and sustainable consumption in developing countries.

India links: collaborating with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, on the assessment of regional trade and virtual water flow in India.
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Professor Nicholas Ray
Department of Architecture

Professor Ray is an Emeritus Reader at the Department of Architecture.

India links: he was a Lead Investigator on the project on Sustainable Humane Housing in Developing Contexts with CEPT University (Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology, Ahmedabad), RIZVI College of Architecture (Mumbai), EAPLV (Paris) and the Department of Architecture at Cambridge. A total of 90 students and 18 members of staff took part in the programme, which led to the founding of student-led charity Architecture sans Frontieres, overseen by Nicholas Ray.
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