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PANEL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Raymond C. Loehr, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, Cochairman

Alejandro Melchor, Asian Development Bank, Manila, The Philippines, Cochairman

J. E. M. Arnold, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

Andrew Barnett, University of Sussex, Brighton, England

Elizabeth Colson, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Sylvia Forman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Ricardo Giesecke, United Nations, Managua, Nicaragua

M. N. Islam, University of Engineering and Technology, Dacca, Bangladesh

Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo, Permanent Interstate Committee for the Struggle Against Drought in Sahel, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta

A. K. N. Reddy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Roger Revelle, University of California, La Jolla, California, USA

Wu Wen, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

CONSULTANTS

Peter B. Hammond, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

C. Anthony Pryor, Center for Integrative Development, New York, New York, USA

R. Bhatia, Barvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Russell deLucia, Meta Systems, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Peter Hayes, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Raymond Noronha, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA

T. B. S. Prakasam, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, Cicero, Illinois, USA

Everett M. Rogers, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Vaclav Smil, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Timothy Wood, Sahel Regional Technical Coordinator for Fuel Conserving Technologies, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta

 

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