Joseph Alcamo

Joseph "Joe" Alcamo (* 1951) is an American environmental scientist at the University of Kassel and current chief scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Life

Alcamo earned a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College in New York. He obtained at the University of California, Davis The Promotion. From 1973 to 1980 Alcamo worked as an environmental engineer in several American companies. In 1981, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and from 1982 to 1991 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg near Vienna. From 1992 to 1996 he worked at the Dutch Royal Institute voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu. Since 1996, Alcamo Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Systems Research is (Centre for Environmental Systems Research ) of the University of Kassel. In 1998 he received the Max Planck Research Prize. He is on leave from the University of Kassel for his current job as chief scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Work

Alcamo has numerous publications on environmental issues. His main areas of research are environmental modeling, scenario analysis on environmental issues, impact of global change and climate change impact assessment, environmental Eastern Europe and international science management and the link between science and policy mechanisms.