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SUMMARY:Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World - Andreas Schäfer\,
  Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Omer Music
DESCRIPTION:Transportation consumes two-thirds of the world's petroleum an
 d has become the largest contributor to global environmental change. Most 
 of this increase in scale can be attributed to the strong desire for perso
 nal mobility that comes with economic growth. In their forthcoming book\, 
 Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World (MIT Press)\, Andreas Schafe
 r and his MIT colleagues Professors John B. Heywood\, Henry D. Jacoby\, an
 d Ian A. Waitz present the first integrated assessment of the factors affe
 cting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger transportation. They e
 xamine such topics as past and future travel demand\; the influence of per
 sonal and business choices on passenger travel's climate impact\; technolo
 gies and alternative fuels that may become available to mitigate GHG emiss
 ions from passenger transport\; and policies that would promote a more sus
 tainable transportation system. And most important\, when all of these opt
 ions are taken together\, they consider whether a sustainable transportati
 on system is possible in the next thirty to fifty years\, or whether we mu
 st accept a future where transportation remains a major contributor to cli
 mate change.\n\nAndreas Schäfer is a lecturer in the department of archit
 ecture at the University of Cambridge\, where he lectures predominantly in
  the field of energy and sustainability. He has an MSc in aero- and astron
 autical engineering and a PhD in energy economics\, both from the Universi
 ty of Stuttgart\, Germany. He spent five years at the International Instit
 ute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg\, Austria\, followed
  by seven years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nAndreas h
 as been working for more than 10 years in the area of technology\, human b
 ehavior\, and the environment. His main areas of interest are modeling the
  demand for energy services\, assessing characteristics of future low-gree
 nhouse gas emission technologies\, and simulating the optimum technology d
 ynamics in a greenhouse gas constrained energy system. He has published wi
 dely on global travel demand modeling\, transport system technology assess
 ment\, and the introduction of technology. He is also part of the Institut
 e for Aviation and the Environment\, concerned with the integrated modelli
 ng of the world's aviation system (http://www.aimproject.aero). 
LOCATION:LR2\, Engineering Department\, Inglis Building
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