You are here: Home SEAS Directory Peter P. Rogers
Document Actions

Peter P. Rogers

Faculty
  • Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering

Professor

Peter P. Rogers

Contact Information

Office: Pierce Hall 116
Email: rogers [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: (617) 495-2025
Office Fax: (617) 496-1457
Assistant: Margaret Owens
Office: Pierce Hall 121
Email: owens [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: (617) 496-1468
Office Fax: (617) 496-1457
Lab Room: Pierce 121
Lab Phone: (617) 496-1468

Education

  1. B.Engineering, 1958, University of Liverpool
  2. M.S., 1961, Engineering, Northwestern University
  3. Ph.D., 1966, Engineering, Harvard University

Research Areas

  1. Environmental Sciences and Engineering: Engineering and Economic Development

Research Profile

Environmental Systems Engineering

Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering and the Third World Academy of Science, and is the recipient of the Maass-White Visiting Scholarship, and Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fellowships. His research interests include:

  • Conflict resolution in international river basins.
  • Improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment, with emphasis on the use of analytic optimizing methods to incorporate both the natural phenomena and the engineering controls.
  • Impacts of global change on water resources, and the development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development.
  • interaction of land use planning and central management.

He has carried out extensive field and model studies on population, water and energy resources, and environmental problems in Costa Rica, Pakistan, India, China, the Philippines, Bangladesh and, to a lesser extent, in 25 other countries. His most recent work has focused on sustainable development with an emphasis on large cities in Asia.