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ROBERT
T. LIVERNASH
131 North Fairfax St., #1
Alexandria, Va 22314
Tel: 703-739-2874
Fax: 703-739-2621
E-mail: r.livernash@.att.net
Sample Clients
- The World Bank
- The World Resources
Institute (WRI)
- The International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- The Global Environment
Facility (GEF)
- The White House
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
- The Nature Conservancy
(TNC)
- The Population
Reference Bureau (PRB)
- Centre for Development
Research (Bonn, Germany)
Subject Areas
- U.S. Environmental
Quality
- Global Environmental
Quality
- Sustainable Development
- Agriculture, Environment,
and Development
- Population, Environment,
and Development
- Environment and
Energy
Recent Work Experience
Since 1996 I've been working as an independent writer on environment and development issues. I specialize in writing original reports, revising manuscripts, and serving as an editor/consultant on environment-development publications. My principal clients are the World Bank, Global Environment Facility, and World Resources Institute.
In 2002, I spent most of my time writing a book on sustainable development for the Global Environment Facility, which is the designated financial mechanism for international agreements on biodiversity, climate change, and persistent organic pollutants. The Challenge of Sustainability was launched at the Second GEF Global Assembly in Beijing in October 2002. For the first GEF Global Assembly in New Delhi in March 1998, I served as a senior advisor and principal author of Valuing the Global Environment: Actions and Investments for a 21st Century.
I also served as editor of the 2002 edition of Environment Matters, the World Bank Environment Department's annual report; this has been an ongoing assignment since 1999.
In the fall of 2002, I worked on a series of World Bank technical notes on water resources and environment. Currently, I am working on a long-term strategy paper for the International Food Policy Research Institute.
In 2000 and 2001, I spent most of my time working with the World Bank on the development of the Bank's environment strategy. Published in October 2001, Making Sustainable Commitments is the first attempt to integrate the Bank's approach to environmental issues into a single document. I also edited a major report on China's environment--China: Air, Land, and Water--published in September 2001, and worked with the Centre for Development Research in Bonn, Germany, on a 10-year strategy report.
In 1999 and 2000, I had numerous assignments with WRI and IFPRI and worked on a manuscript on marine ecoregions for The Nature Conservancy.
During the Clinton Administration, I was the principal author of three editions--1994-95, 1996, and 1997--of Environmental Quality, the White House Council on Environmental Quality's annual report.
Employment History
1989-95: Senior
Editor, World Resources
This series, published every other year and sponsored by the United Nations
(UNDP and UNEP) and the World Bank, comprehensively reviews global environmental
and energy issues. In World Resources 1994-95, for example, I was the
principal author of the chapters on China, India, and population and the
environment.
1979-89: Senior
Staff Writer (1979-84) and Editor (1985-89), the Environmental
and Energy Study Conference Weekly Bulletin
EESC was a bipartisan legislative support organization of the U.S. Congress.
Its members included about 90 senators and 275 members of the House, making
it the largest such organization in the Congress. As senior staff writer,
I wrote over 1,000 stories and special reports under deadline pressure.
As editor, I was responsible for all of EESC's publications.
1977-79: Reporter,
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
I covered foreign trade and agriculture.
1976-77: Instructor,
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
I helped manage the school's newspaper workshop.
1968-69: Peace
Corps.
I worked as an English teacher.
Education
- M.I.A., 1973, Columbia
University School of International Affairs. I majored in South Asian
studies and participated in the university's International Fellows program.
- M.S., 1972, Columbia
Graduate School of Journalism. I majored in newspaper reporting and
writing.
- B.A., M.A., Johns
Hopkins University. I majored in liberal arts and received a master's
degree in creative writing.
