ABERT, James G. Dr.
b. 1932, US citizen

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vice President, Economics and Finance, National Soft Drink Association, 1982-88; Vice President, President and CEO, National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc., 1975-82; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Evaluation and Program Monitoring, US Department of Health and Welfare, 1969-71; Director of Research, Resource Management Corporation, 1966-69; Economist, Institute for Defense Analysis, 1963-66.

IN JAPAN: 1999-00, Senior Fulbright Scholar, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Tokyo and Japan Environmental Agency; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Municipal Waste Processing in Europe: A Status Report on Selected Materials and Energy Recovery Projects (World Bank, UNDP Project Management Report No. 4, 1985); Handbook of Resource Recovery (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983); "Resource Recovery: Economic and Institutional Aspects," Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering (ed. Bever) (Pergamon Press, 1983); "Materials and Energy from Refuse," Energy and the Environment: Interactions (ed. Theodore et al.) (CRC Press, Inc., 1980).