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Breakthrough Innovations in the Developing World

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rocky rohwedder playing soccer with kids in South Africa
Introducing a One World Futbol to kids at the Khayelitsha Township, Capetown, South Africa.

About the Author

Rocky Rohwedder, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning at Sonoma State University, located in Northern California. Over the past decade Dr. Rohwedder has taught and conducted research in dozens of countries all over the world. For more than thirty years he has been a university professor of environmental science as well as an international consultant and keynote speaker. He has also served as a professor on multiple voyages with Semester at Sea.

Working with Wetu Tutu village children on Mt. Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia.

Dr. Rohwedder’s consulting clients have included the US Agency for International Development and the US Peace Corps, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), World Television News, and the George Lucas Education Foundation. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Education and Communication and the Advisory Board of the Lexicon of Sustainability.

He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in Resource Policy and Management from The University of Michigan, and a Bachelors Degree in Social Ecology from UC Irvine.

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Dr. Rocky Rohwedder is a very practically-minded, generous, and knowledgeable humanitarian. He has been all over the world in search of positive examples and in turn has become a champion for splendid grassroots efforts with international potential … [indigenous women and men] have found a principled and dedicated coworker in this splendid and committed academic.

—Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

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