Dr. C. Visvanathan, is a Professor of the Environmental Engineering and Management Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. He has a Ph.D. (Chemical /Environmental Engineering) from Institute National Polytechnique, Toulouse, France.  His main areas of research interests include: Sustainable Consumption and  Production  and Industrial  Environmental Management, Membrane  technologies for water and wastewater treatment and solid waste disposal and management.  In the field of solid waste, his main research interests focus around waste recycling and reuse, landfill pre-treatment technologies, plus methane oxidation and green house gas emission related to land fill design. He has published more than 160 international journal papers.  He has more than 29 years of experiences teaching environmental engineering and management related courses at graduate level at AIT.  His professional experiences include: Project Engineer, Asia Division, International Training Center for Water Resources Management, Sophia Antipolis, France, and short term consultant to UNEP Industry and Environment Office, Paris, France.  For further details visit: http://www.faculty.ait.ac.th/visu/