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Rodney
White is an infrastructure planner with extensive overseas
experience, especially in Africa, where he has worked for
clients such as the World Bank, UNESCO, the Canadian International
Development Agency, the United States Agency for International
Development, W. S. Atkins (Consulting Engineers), SNC-Lavalin
(Consulting Engineers) and ARA Management Consultants. In
1997 he co-chaired an industry/university research group
that produced a report titled Coping with Natural Hazards
in Canada: Scientific, Government and Insurance Industry
Perspectives.
From
1996 to 2002 he was Principal Investigator for the GIS-based
Soil Erosion Management Project in North China and
P.I. for the Toronto component of the Sustainable Water
Management Project in the Beijing-Tianjin Region, both
funded by CIDA. In 1999-2000 he was an Associate Fellow
of the Environmental Change Institute, at the University
of Oxford, where he offered a graduate course on The
Financial Services Sector and Environmental Change.
He
has held teaching appointments at Northwestern University,
McMaster University and Ibadan University, and has also
taught short courses in Senegal, Malawi and Vietnam. He
was first appointed to the University of Toronto in 1974,
and since 1994, he has been Professor of Geography and Director
of the Institute for Environmental Studies. He holds degrees
in geography from Oxford, Pennsylvania State University
and Bristol University.
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