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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Ph.: 802-656-0173 Email: saleem@alum.mit.edu |
Research Scholar Ph: 401-863-9823 |
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EDUCATION 2000 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge MA, USA: Ph.D. in Environmental Policy and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Dissertation title: "Environmental Resistance and Aboriginal Development: A Comparative Study of Mining Ventures in the United States and Canada." Advisor: Professor Lawrence Susskind. Committee members: Professor Joseph Kalt (Harvard, Kennedy School of Govt.), Professor Paul Carlile (MIT, Sloan School of Management). |
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1996 |
Yale University , New Haven, CT, USA: Masters of Environmental Studies. Focus: Industrial Environmental Management and International Development. Thesis: Water and Diamonds: Resource Scarcity and Environmental Degradation in Southern Africa . Advisor: Professor Daniel Esty |
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1994 |
Tufts University , Medford, MA, USA: Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude. Majors: Chemistry and Environmental Studies. |
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9/1992 -- 6/1993 |
University College London, London, UK: Junior Year Abroad, Chemistry and Ecology. |
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6/1992 -- 8/1992 |
Center for Rainforest Studies, Queensland, Australia (Administered by the School for Field Studies, Beverly MA). Applied field research course on "Tropical Reforestation." Interviewed farmers, analyzed water and soil samples on farms to prepare a report on the success of reforestation in the Lake Tinaroo catchment, Queensland, Australia. |
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9/1986 --5/1990 |
Secondary Schooling at Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan. Received School Certificate with honors under the auspices of The University of Cambridge International Examinations Syndicate (UK). |
WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
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9/2002 - present |
University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Environmental Planning and Conflict Resolution: Rubenstein School of Natural Resources. Teaching courses on research methodology, environmental conflict resolution, environmental peace movements, industrial ecology and environmental policy, planning and development. |
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12/2000– present |
Brown University, Providence RI, USA Adjunct Assistant Professor and Research Scholar: Taught courses on environmental planning, and environmental conflict resolution (to UNEP Fellows from developing countries at the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies). Continue to teach a one-week module on conflict resolution and work on research projects affiliated with this program. |
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6/2000 – 4/2002 |
Industrial Economics Incorporated, Cambridge MA, USA Environmental Associate: Working on various projects related to environmental impact assessment, natural resource damage assessment and policy evaluation for clients in the public and private sectors. Leading the development of a practice area within to firm to focus on natural resource damage assessments on Native American reservations. |
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8/1998 – 8/1999 |
ENSR Corporation, Acton MA, USA Environmental Consultant: Preparing international industrial audit protocols and social impact assessment documents for Environmental Health and Safety |
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Summer, 1998 |
Harvard Business School, Boston MA, USA Baker Foundation Research Fellow: Researched and wrote two teaching cases on corporate/community negotiations in the mining industry. |
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9/1997 – 2000 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA Teaching Fellow and Instructor Courses:
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7/1996 -- 8/1997 |
General Electric Company, Plastics Division (GE) Technical Leadership Program Associate and Environmental Engineer: Plastics Divisions, Based at GE’s silicones manufacturing site in Waterford NY, USA and the GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY, USA. Coordinated pollution prevention programs for silicones product division; air regulatory compliance and wastewater treatment optimization programs. Training in management of technology, environmental auditing and statistical methods for quality control. |
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Summer, 1995 |
General Electric Company, Corporate Environmental Programs International Environmental Management Intern, Corporate Headquarters, Fairfield CT: Designed and prepared environmental health and safety audit protocols for GE operations in UK, Mexico, Turkey, Spain and Indonesia. |
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9/1994 -- 5/1996 |
Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven CT, USA Teaching Fellow in Environmental Chemistry: Coordinated and assisted in the teaching of two graduate courses with Professor Gaboury Benoit and Dr. Shimon Cohen-Anisfeld: Environmental Chemistry of Pollution & Environmental Organic Chemistry. |
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1/1994 -- 8/1994 |
Global Development and Environment Institute, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford MA, USA. Research Assistant for a six volume publication project: Frontier Issues in Economic Thought.Conducted bibliographic research for volumes on "Ecological Economics," "Advertising and the Environment" and "The Consumer Society." |
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1/1993 -- 6/1993 |
British Parliament (House of Commons), UK Parliamentary Intern: Prepared press releases; researched material for environmental debates in parliament; responded to constituency correspondence and public relations. |
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4/1992 |
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History, Washington DC,USA. Natural History Research Training Associate, Washington DC, USA: Identified and documented various plant taxa from Cameroon with Dr. Robert Faden |
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9/1990 -- 5/1992 |
Institute for Global Communication, Medford MA, USA. Network Writer, Global Action and Information Network. (Administered by the Institute for Global Communication , San Francisco CA). Prepared computerized conferences on environmental themes for an interactive computer network. Topics on which informational papers were written on-line include: Antarctica, Ocean Pollution and Wastewater. |
PUBLICATIONS:
Ali, Saleem H. Mining, The Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts. University of Arizona Press. September, 2003, 270pp.
Ali Saleem H. and Robert Barsky ed. Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Trials and Triumphs of Popular Academics. Manuscript being considered for publication at Vanderbilt University Press. Web version at: http://www.mit.edu/~saleem/ivory
Ali, Saleem H. "Environmental Planning and Cooperative Behavior." Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 23, No. 2, 2003.
Ali, Saleem H. "Gold Mining and the Golden Rule: A Challenge for Consumers in Developing Countries." Under review with the Journal of Cleaner Production. (initiated, November , 2003)
Ali, Saleem H. and Wenjun Li (primary author). "Simulated Property Rights and Grassland Degradation: A Case Study of Xilingol Biosphere Reserve, Inner Mongolia of China." Under review at Natural Resources Forum. (initiated September 2003)
Ali, Saleem H. and Sanjeev Khagram. "Transnational Transformations: From Government-Centric Inter-State Regimes To Multi-Actor, Multi-Level Global Governance?" Paper to be submitted to World Development. (January, 2004).
Ali, Saleem H. and Larissa Behrendt ed. Mining and Indigenous Rights: Can Impacts and Benefits be Reconciled? Guest editor for a special issue of the Cultural Survival Quarterly, April, 2001. Web version available at http://www.cs.org/publications/CSQ/index.htm
Ali, Saleem H. "Shades of Green: NGO Coalitions, Mining Companies and the Pursuit of Negotiating Power." chapter in Jem Bendell ed.: Terms for Endearment: Business-NGO relations and Sustainable Development. London UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2000.
Ali, Saleem H. "Green Alliances: Anti-mining Activism and the Indigenous Rights Movement in the New World." Cultural Survival Quarterly, September, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. "Water Scarcity and Institutional Reform in Southern Africa." Water International (Journal of The International Water Resources Association),Vol. 24, No. 2, June, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. Cameco Corporation. A Case Study in Corporate/Community Negotiations. Boston MA: Harvard Business School case 5-899-285, May, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. WMC: Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine: A Case Study of Aboriginal Interactions with a Mining Company. Boston MA: Harvard Business School, 5-899-285, May, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. "Ecological Themes in Islam and Islamic Societies." Islamica (published by the London School of Economics, UK), Spring, 1998.
Ali, Saleem H. and Victoria Guisinger. Land Tenure and Environmental Management in Namibia. Yale School of Management Case Study, August, 1997.
Ali, Saleem H. Review of "State of the Environment in Southern Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies, (Cambridge University Press), Vol.34, No.3, 1996.
Ali, Saleem H. "Pakistan’s Environmental Predicament." Hemispheres: The Tufts Journal of International Affairs, Spring, 1994.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND REPORTS
Ali, Saleem H. et al. The K-2-Siachen Peace Park: Moving from Concept to Reality. A working paper prepared for a workshop on environmental peace-making at the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, November, 2003.
Ali, Saleem H. Scaled Partners: Public-Private Interactions for "Sustainable" Mineral Development. (peer reviewed).Presented at the Open Meeting on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. McGill University, Montreal, October, 2003.
Ali, Saleem H. Non-renewable but Sustainable? Environmental Planning for Mining Ventures. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning ( www.acsp.org) , Baltimore, MD, November 2002 and also included in the proceedings of the South African Chamber of Mines Annual proceedings of research, Johannesburg, 2003.
Ali, Saleem H. Mutual Lesson-drawing from Environmental Conflict Resolution in Canada and the United States. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Association of Impact Assessment conference ( www.iaia.org ) , Cartagena, Colombia, May, 2001.
Ali, Saleem H. Catalysts of Sustainable Consensus: Environmental Resources as Reasons for Cooperation Rather than Triggers for Conflict. Paper prepared for the Alliance for Global Sustainability (A research partnership between MIT, The University of Tokyo and the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). October, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. Industrial Ecology: The New Age of Environmental Management. Paper presented at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, August, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. Uranium Mining and Indigenous Communities: Cross-cultural Dispute Resolution in Australia and Canada. Paper presented at the WM99 conference of the nuclear industry in Tuscon, Arizona, March, 1999.
Ali, Saleem H. Environmental Planning for Mining Venture on Native Land. A briefing paper prepared for the Crow Tribe of Montana. Harvard University, Project on Native American Economic Development Report 98-11, December, 1998.
Ali, Saleem H. and Bo Barta Climate, Caprice and Consensus: Prospects for Water Management in the Zambezi Basin. Paper published in the proceedings of the UNESCO conference on Climate Change and Water, Espoo, Finland, August, 1998.
Ali, Saleem H. Ecological Themes in Islam and Islamic Societies. Paper presented at the Conference on Islam and Development, University of Rhode Island, April, 1998
Ali, Saleem H. Water and Diamonds: Resource Scarcity and Institutional Reform in Southern Africa. Published in the Proceedings of the World Water Congress, Montreal, September, 1997.
Ali, Saleem H. and S.H. Liberman. Greening Pharmaceutical Businesses? Effective Management of Biochemical Prospecting Agreements. Presented at the conference of the Pollution Prevention Consortium of New England entitled "Reinventing Environmental Protection" (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, February, 1996).
Ali, Saleem H., Hari Osofsky and Antoinette Wannebo. Environmental Rights and the Oil Industry in Nigeria: A Legal Review . A study prepared for the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School and the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, 1995.
Ali, Saleem H. and Amanda Kelly Forester. Water Quality and Reforestation in the Lake Tinaroo Catchment, Queensland, Australia. Directed research project for the Centre for Rainforest Studies, Yungaburra, QL, Australia, Summer, 1992.
For a detailed listing of ongoing projects and unpublished manuscripts please visit my web site at http://www.uvm.edu/~shali
AWARDS, RESEARCH GRANTS AND PROFESSIONAL INVITATIONS:
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2003 |
Invited participant in the U.K. Department for International Development / World Bank workshop on Communities and Small-scale gold mining, Accra, Ghana. |
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2003 |
Invited participant and peer reviewer at the World Bank Extractive Industries Review, indigenous rights workshop, organized by the Forest Peoples Programme, Oxford, UK and World Bank African mining workshop in Maputo, Mozambique (unable to attend) |
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2003 |
United States Institute of Peace: Research grant on "The Madrassahs of Pakistan: Pathways to Education, Extremism and Conflict prevention." $35,000. |
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2002 |
Mongolian Parliament (Great Hural of Mongolia), Invited for a scoping visit to develop ways of mitigating conflict between artisanal miners and mining companies in the country. |
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2002 |
Beijing University, China, College of Environmental Sciences: Invited guest lecturer for a one-week module on environmental conflict resolution. |
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2002 - present |
U.S.A.I.D Regional Environmental Initiative for Africa (FRAME): Member of Contact Group and coordinator for Mining projects. Establishing a network of communities impacted by mining in Africa: www.frame-web.org |
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2002 |
Luce Foundation Research Grant, Brown University (Principal grant recipients Steve Hamburg and Rick Wetzler). Grant to initiate an environmental and social audit program for mining ventures in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in collaboration with the University of Kinshasa. |
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2001 |
Government of Pakistan, Advisor to Higher Education Commission, Forestry Curriculum |
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1999 |
Kristen Finnegan Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1998 |
Martin Research Fellowship, Alliance for Global Sustainability: A joint initiative of the University of Tokyo, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1997 -- 1999 |
Voorhees Scholarship , Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1995 -- 1996 |
Donaldson Environmental Fellowship , Yale University |
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1994 |
Marshall-Hoshhauser Prize for "altruistic community service," Tufts University. |
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1994 |
Durkee Scholarship for chemical research, Tufts University |
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1994 |
Phi Beta Kappa , National Honors Society: elected from Tufts University |
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1992 |
The Model United Nations Conference at Harvard University: Outstanding Delegate Award. |
ACADEMIC PEER REVIEW AFFILIATIONS
Peer reviewed manuscripts for
Editorial Boards:
Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia, published in Stockholm, Sweden.
REFERENCES:
Dr. Jared Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon University, (Former Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, Ph: 412-268-2000, email: cohon@MAIL1.andrew.cmu.edu
Dr. Joseph Kalt, Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge MA 02138. Ph: 617-495-4966, Fx: 617-496-3900, Email: joe_kalt@harvard.edu
Dr. Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Environmental Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of The MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139. Ph: 617-253-2026, Fx: 617-253-7402, email: susskind@mit.edu