Christopher Doll

Research Fellow

Profile
Bibliography
  • INSTITUTE:
    UNU-IAS
    OFFICE:
    Pacifico-Yokohama, 1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, 220-8502 Yokohama
    E-MAIL:
    doll-NOT_FOR_SPAM-ias.unu.edu
    PHONE:
    +81 (0)45 221-2300
    NATIONALITY:
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    Research Interests

    Investigating global urbanization to help design sustainable development policies

    Education

    Ph.D., Remote Sensing, University College London M.Sc., Remote Sensing, University College London Bachelor's Degree, Geography and Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London

    Biographical Statement

    Christopher Doll is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) with joint membership of the Sustainable Urban Futures Programme and Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies. His research interest focuses on using spatially explicit datasets to understand regional scale urbanization and development.  More recently, he has complemented this with city level work on biodiversity and global/local co-benefits of the transport sector in urban development.

    Dr.Doll has previously held positions at Columbia University (CIESIN) in New York and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria as well as the JSPS Fellowship with UNU-IAS and the University of Tokyo. Born and educated in the UK, Christopher holds a bachelors degree from Royal Holloway (University of London) with a masters and PhD in Remote Sensing from University College London.

  • Peer-reviewed Books

    • Puppim de Oliveira, J.A., Balaban, O., Doll, C.N.H., Moreno-Penaranda, R., Gasparatos, A., Iossifova, D., Suwa, A., 2011. Cities and Biodiversity: Perspectives and Governance Challenges for CBD at the City Level. Biological Conservation. (144) 1302-1313. http://doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.12.007
    • Doll, C.N.H. and Pachauri. S. 2010. Estimating rural electricity access from Night-time light satellite data. Energy Policy. (38) 5661-5670. http://doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.05.014

    Other Publications (Conference Proceedings, etc)

    • Doll, Christopher. 2012. Behind the number? Implications of 7bn. Our World2.0. United Nations University. Available Onine:
      http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/behind-the-number-our-world-at-7-billion/
    • Doll, Christopher & Balaban, Osman. 2012. Mind the gap: Development options for Delhi’s Metro. Our World2.0. United Nations University. Available Onine: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/mind-the-gap-development-options-for-delhi%E2%80%99s-metro/