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User: Your_Wikipedia_Ctaxib David C. Major (born 1938) is an American economist, writer and environmentalist. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center for Climate Systems Research.[1,2]

Contents

1. Biography 2. Selected works 3. References 4. External Links

Biography

Dr. Major completed his undergraduate work at Wesleyan University and the London School of Economics, and received the Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1966. Dr. Major’s early scientific work at Harvard and later at MIT focused on the development of methods for incorporating environmental and social objectives into water and other infrastructure planning. [3, 4] His principal current scientific research focus has been the sustainable adaptation of urban infrastructure to the impacts of climate change.[5] Dr. Major has lectured and consulted in the U.S. as well as South America, Asia, Europe and Africa on natural resources and climate change, and is also a writer of books for general audiences. [6, 7] Most recently he has been appointed a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland.[8]

Selected Works

In preparation (publication 2015): The Development of Water Resources Planning in the United States: An Assessment Based on Original Sources (with Eugene Z. Stakhiv).

Harry E. Schwarz and the Development of Water Resources and Environmental Planning U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, Maass-White Library Series in Water Planning and Management, vol. 3 (Alexandria VA: IWR Press, 2010).

Winston Yu, Mozaharul Alam, Ahmadul Hassan, Abu Saleh Khan, Alex Ruane, Cynthia Rosenzweig, David Major, and James Thurlow, Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh (London: Earthscan, 2010).

Jeroen Aerts, David C. Major, Malcolm Bowman, Piet Dircke, and M.A. Marfai, Connecting Delta Cities: Coastal Cities, Flood Risk Management, and Adaptation to Climate Change (Free University of Amsterdam Press, September, 2009).

David C. Major and John S. Major, A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). Awarded the National Huguenot Society Book Award, 2008, for the best scholarly work on the Huguenots published in 2007; reprinted 2013 by Rowman & Littlefield.

David C. Major and John S. Major, One Hundred One-Night Reads: A Book Lover’s Guide (Ballantine Books, 2001; joint selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club; 3rd printing, 2002; 1st hardbound edition, Barnes and Noble/Bristol Park Press, 2008).

David C. Major and John S. Major, eds., The Future of Africa: Essays in Honor of David A. Morse (New York: The New York Society for International Affairs, 2003).

William D. Major, David C. Major, and John S. Major, William P. Major: A Bergenfield Life (Bergenfield NJ: Bergenfield Museum Society, 1999).

Kenneth D. Frederick, David C. Major, and Eugene Z. Stakhiv, eds., Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, published concurrently as a special issue of Climatic Change 37:1 (September 1997).

Lourdes Arizpe, Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major, eds., Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

David C. Major and Harry E. Schwarz, Large-Scale Regional Water Resources Planning: The North Atlantic Regional Study (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Water Science and Technology Library, Volume 7, 1990).

Principles of Water Resources Planning, by Alvin S. Goodman, with David C. Major and others (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1984).

Hydropower: A National Energy Resource, Proceedings of an Engineering Foundation Conference, edited by David C. Major and others (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980).

David C. Major and Roberto L. Lenton, Applied Water Resource Systems Planning (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Environmental Sciences Series, 1979).

Multiobjective Water Resource Planning (Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, Water Resources Monograph 4, 1977).

In addition, Dr. Major has published many scientific articles and reviews; government and university reports; and contributions to The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge (“The Environment”), The New York Times Almanac, The Encyclopedia of New York City; and The Encyclopedia of New Jersey.

References

1. http://www.utrc2.org/people/dr-david-c-major 2. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/dmajor.html

3. David C. Major and Roberto L. Lenton, Applied Water Resource Systems Planning (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Environmental Sciences Series, 1979).

4. David C. Major and Harry E. Schwarz, Large-Scale Regional Water Resources Planning: The North Atlantic Regional Study (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Water Science and Technology Library, Volume 7, 1990).

5. David C. Major and Megan O’Grady, Lead Authors, “Adaptation Assessment Guidebook,” in New York City Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response, edited by Cynthia Rosenzweig and William Solecki, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1196, 2010, Appendix B. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05324.x/ 6. David C. Major and John S. Major, One Hundred One-Night Reads: A Book Lover’s Guide (Ballantine Books, 2001; 4th printing 2008 Barnes and Noble/Bristol Park).

7. David C. Major and John S. Major, A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007).

8. http://www.fulbright.fi/en/grantees/fulbright-center-grantees-2014-2015

External links:

•	http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/dmajor.html

•	http://www.utrc2.org/people/dr-david-c-major

•	http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2002/02-027

•	http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/100-one-night-reads-a-book-lovers-guide

•	http://www.daviddemarestbiography.com/

•	http://www.fulbright.fi/en/grantees/fulbright-center-grantees-2014-2015

Categories:1938 Births; Living people; Harvard University Alumni; Clare Hall Cambridge Life Members; Wesleyan University Alumni; American Economists; Fulbright Grantees; Woodrow Wilson Fellows; Phi Beta Kappa.