Author: Sergio Ulgiati

B. Sudhakara Reddy is a professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India. His fields of interest include: energy and environmental policy, urbanization, and natural resource management. He has to his credit eight books and about a hundred papers in various national and international journals. Prof. Reddy is a member of the Editorial Committee on Energy Efficiency (Elsevier) and Environmental Accounting and Management (L&H Scientific Publishing). He has also served as Expert, Evaluation of Projects on Renewable Energy–FP7 Programme, European Commission, 2007 and on Climate Change, 2010; Member, Expert Appraisal Committee for Thermal Power and Coal Mine Projects; Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India; and Member, Network of Advisors, Linx Research, New York. Sergio Ulgiati is a professor of Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Certification at the Parthenope University of Napoli, Italy. He has founded the Series of Biennial Workshops on ‘Advances in Energy Studies’ in 1998. His research interests are in the fields of environmental accounting and emergy synthesis, life cycle assessment, and energy analysis. Dr. Ulgiati is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Energy (Elsevier), Ecological Modelling (Elsevier), and Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer). He is also the President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER), Wakefield, Rhode Island, USA.