Industry Genius - the book
This book presents the inventive genius behind technological breakthroughs by ten global companies including Alcoa, DaimlerChrysler, Honda, ST Micro and Visteon. Readers will gain understanding and insight into how cutting-edge technology is helping protect the climate and/or the ozone layer, while contributing to the company's bottom line. Each chapter chronicles the challenge and triumph of invention, introduces the engineers and executives who overcome conventional wisdom, and demonstrates the contribution these companies are making to environmental protection. In full colour and crammed with graphics to illustrate the creative process of technological breakthroughs, the book is accessible and informative. The genius of these ten companies will inspire the engineer, the policy-maker, the student, the environmentalist, the CEO and the investor alike.
Inventions and People Protecting the Climate and Fragile Ozone Layer
by Stephen O. Andersen and Durwood Zaelke
Forewords by:
Richard Truly and Jaqueline Aloisi de Larderel
Genius Hunters:
contributing to this book are Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel (France), Yuichi Fujimoto and Tetsuo Nishide (Japan), Margaret Kerr (Canada), Helen Tope (Australia), and Stephen DeCanio, Caley Johnson, Hal Kane, Alan Miller, Roxanne Sher-Skelton, Sally Rand, Paul Tebo, Michael Totten, and Richard Truly (United States).
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About the book
Durwood Zaelke is the founder and past President (1989–2003) of the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, DC, and Geneva. He currently is the Managing Partner in the Washington office of Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Getty, as well as the founder and Director of the International Environmental Law Program at American University’s law school, and the co-founder and Co-Director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Sciences and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of International Environmental Law and Policy (with Hunter and Salzman; Foundation Press, 2002), which has been used in more than 110 universities around the world. Mr. Zaelke is a graduate of UCLA and Duke Law School.
Stephen O. Andersen is Director of Strategic Climate Projects in the US EPA Climate Protection Partnerships Division where he specializes in industry partnerships, international cooperation, and environmental performance incentives. Previously, he was Deputy Director for Stratospheric Ozone Protection. Prior to joining EPA, Dr. Andersen was professor of environmental economics at College of the Atlantic and University of Hawaii and has also worked for consumer, environmental, and environmental law non-governmental organizations. He is the author of Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History (with Sarma; Earthscan Publications, 2002). Dr. Andersen has a PhD in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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