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The Virtual Realm of Saleem H. Ali

Email: saleem@alum.mit.edu

Saleem H. Ali is  Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Natural Resources, and on the adjunct faculty of Brown University’s  Watson Institute for International Studies.For the 2007-2008 academic year, he also served as the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. For the 2008-2009 academic year, Dr. Ali is on sabbatical working on a sole-authored book pertaining to mineral resources and the environment. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts and how ecological factors can promote peace. He is also on the visiting faculty for the United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica), where he teaches a course on Indigenous Environment and Development Conflicts. Much of his empirical research has focused on environmental conflicts in the mineral sector and he is the author of  Mining, the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts  (published the University of Arizona Press, fall 2003). His most recent edited volume is Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution (MIT Press, September, 2007), which has received cover endorsements from E.O. Wilson, George Schaller and Achim Steiner, and a foreword by Julia Marton-Lefevre.

Dr. Ali is also a member of the  World Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN Taskforce on Transboundary Conservation. He has also been involved in promoting environmental education in madrassahs (Islamic religious schools) and using techniques from environmental planning to study the rise of these institutions in his ethnic homeland -- Pakistan, under a grant from the United States Institute of Peace.

Some of his current research on environmental health perception in mining areas and social resposibility in the mining sector is supported by the Tiffany &Co. Foundation .

Prior to embarking on an academic career, Dr. Ali has worked as an environmental health and safety professional at General Electric  (based at GE headquarters in Fairfield, CT, and at silicone resin manufacturing sites in New York). He has served as a consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Health Canada as an Associate at the Boston-based consulting firm Industrial Economics Inc. Pro bono projects include a mining impact prospectus for the Crowe Tribe of Montana and research assistance to   Cultural Survival  (an indigenous rights NGO).

He is also a professional mediator and has conducted workshops on consenus-building for private and public interests, as well as peer review of research publications for the World Bank, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, The Woodrow Wilson Center, the Journal of Environmental Management, the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, the Natural Resources Forum and Yale University Press.
  
Research appointments include a Public Policy Fellowship at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, a Baker Foundation Research Fellowship at Harvard Business School and a parliamentary internship at the U.K. House of Commons. Teaching experience includes courses on environmental planning, conflict resolution, industrial ecology, research methods and technical writing. Professor Ali received his doctorate in Environmental Planning from the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology  (MIT), an M.E.S. in environmental law and policy from Yale University, and his Bachelors in Chemistry from Tufts University  (summa cum laude).

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I also moderate a listserv on ecological mineral  management called "Ecominerals" which aims to provide free information exchange related to resposible management of mineral resources. Please email me if you would like to be added to this listserv:  saleem@alum.mit.edu

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