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Researchers: David C. Major, Ph.D.
Office Address: Affiliation: Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University Earth Institute, Center for Climate Systems Research; Senior Research Fellow, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University; Adjunct Lecturer, Florida Atlantic University Education: Wesleyan University, 1956-60 (1958-59 London School of Economics). B.A. with Honors and Distinction in Economics; Harvard University, 1960-65. M.A. (Economics) 1963; Ph.D. (Economics) 1966 Research Interests: Water Planning and Management; Global Environment; Public Policy and Administration; Urban Planning and Infrastructure; Benefit-Cost Analysis; Local Biography and History Principal Current Research: Co-Director (with Cynthia Rosenzweig) of a large-scale, multi-year Columbia/New York City program to integrate adaptation to climate change into the management, investment and policy decision-making of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and to facilitate the Department's mitigation activities. Technical Books and Monographs Multiobjective Water Resource Planning (Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, Water Resources Monograph 4, 1977). David C. Major and Roberto L. Lenton, Applied Water Resource Systems Planning (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Environmental Sciences Series, 1979). Hydropower: A National Energy Resource, Proceedings of an Engineering Foundation Conference, edited by David C. Major and others (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980). Principles of Water Resources Planning, by Alvin S. Goodman, with David C. Major and others (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1983). David C. Major and Harry E. Schwarz, Large-Scale Regional Water Resources Planning: The North Atlantic Regional Study (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Water Science and Technology Library, Volume 7, 1990). Lourdes Arizpe, Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major, eds., Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994). Kenneth D. Frederick, David C. Major, and Eugene Z. Stakhiv, eds., Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, published concurrently as a special issue of Climatic Change 37:1 (September 1997). David C. Major and John S. Major, eds., The Future of Africa: Essays in Honor of David A. Morse (New York: The New York Society for International Affairs, 2003). Books of General Interest William D. Major, David C. Major, and John S. Major, William P. Major: A Bergenfield Life (Bergenfield NJ: Bergenfield Museum Society, 1999). David C. Major and John S. Major, One Hundred One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide (Ballantine Books, 2001; joint selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club; 3rd printing, 2002). David C. Major and John S. Major, A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, in press). |
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