Faculty & Research

personnel profile

Leonard Ortolano

 
Title:Professor; UPS Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering in Urban and Regional Planning
Department(s):Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location:Y2E2 249
Mail Code:4020
Phone:650.723.2937       
Fax:650.725.3164
E-mail: ortolano@stanford.edu
URL: http://ortolano.web.stanford.edu
Administrator: Duc Wong

Research Statement

Ortolano is concerned with environmental and water resources policy and planning. His research stresses environmental policy implementation in developing countries, technology transfer, and the role of non-governmental organizations in environmental management. Several current projects concern air and water pollution control regualtions in China.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD 1969 Harvard
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Implementing cleaner production programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province Oliver, HH; Ortolano, L
Effects of economic and environmental reform on the diffusion of cleaner coal technology in China Ohshita, SB; Ortolano, L
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Academic Honors & Awards

Lillian and Thomas B. Rhodes Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1996; Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005; Fulbright-Hays Research Grants, Rome, Italy, and Paris, France; Lectureship from the National Science Council of the Republic of China; Visiting professorships at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Dipartimento di Urbanistica, Venice, Italy; L’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France ; and Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Montpellier, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France.