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1724 AuthorsAuthorsZafar Adeel (Pakistan) is the Director of United NationsUniversity (UNU) Institute for Water, Environment andHealth. He has served with UNU since 1998 and holds aMaster’s Degree from Iowa State University (1992) and aPhD from Carnegie Mellon University (1995). Currently, heis serving as the Chair of UN-Water; a group of 27 agenciesfocused on global water issues. He has served with UNUsince 1998 and holds a Master’s Degree from Iowa StateUniversity (1992) and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University(1995). He has also served as a Senior Engineer at GeoTransInc. for a number of years before joining UNU. Hehas experience in a variety of water and environmental issues,including monitoring and control of water pollution,water management in dry areas, solutions to industrial environmentalproblems, modeling of environmental systemsand environmental policy formulation. He has led the developmentof a network of scientists working in waterscarcecountries, particularly those in Africa, Middle Eastand Asia. Through his editorial lead, this network has publishedeight books in the UNU Desertification Series: NewTechnologies to Combat Desertification (199), Water Managementin Arid Zones (2000), New Approaches to WaterManagement in Central Asia (2001), Integrated WaterManagement in Dry Areas (2001), Sustainable Managementof Marginal Drylands (2003), Challenges of Drylandsin the New Millennium (2004), Desertification and the InternationalPolicy Imperative (2007), and What Makes TraditionalTechnologies Tick (2009). He co-chaired the MillenniumEcosystem Assessment team that produced theglobal desertification synthesis. He has also served on theeditorial boards of Sustainability Science (Springer) andGlobal Environmental Change (Elsevier Science). He hasstudied formulation of environmental policy and governanceat several levels; his book on this topic is East AsianPerspectives in Environmental Governance – Response in aRapidly Developing Region (UNU Press 2003). He servesas an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the McMasterUniversity.Address: Dr. Zafar Adeel, United Nations University Institutefor Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH),175 Longwood Road South, Suite 204, Hamilton Ontario,L8P 0A1 Canada.Email: .Website: .John Emeka Akude (Germany/Nigeria), Dr. rer. pol., Lecturer,Research Fellow at the Chair of International Relations,Seminar for Political Science, University of Cologne.He obtained the following degrees: B. Sc. (Hons.) PoliticalScience, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; M. Sc. InternationalRelations, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; PhD in InternationalRelations, University of Cologne, Germany. Amonghis major publication are: Governance and Crisis of theState in Africa: the Dynamics and Context of the Conflictsin West Africa (London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers,2008); “Transformation Politischer Ordnung – Eine Erweiterungdes Transformation Begriffs”, in: Zeitschrift fürPolitik, 56, 2 (2009): 143-162; (with Anna Daun, David Egnerand Daniel Lambach): “Recipe for Strife: Conflicts inWest Africa’s Weak States And Their Connections to theGlobal Market”, in: Development and Cooperation (D+C),Nr. 6 (June 2009); 41-44; “Koloniale Ausbeutung – WirtschaftlicheZusammenarbeit: Das ökonomische InteresseEuropas an Afrika”, in: et cetera ppf, 1/2009 (April): 8-19;“Krisen und Krisenmanagement in Westafrika”, in: Feichtinger,Walter (Ed.): Afrika im Blickfeld: Kriege – Krisen –Perspektiven (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2004): 85-110;“Zwischen Wunschdenken und Ohnmacht: Der Anspruchder Afrikanischen Union auf Krisenmanagement in Afrika”,in: Feichtinger, Walter; Hainzl, Gerald (Eds.): KrisenherdNordostafrika: Internationale oder afrikanische Verantwortung(Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2005): 65-88; HistoricalImperatives for the Emergence of Development andDemocracy: A Perspective for the Analysis of Poor GovernanceQuality and State Collapse in Africa. Working Paperfor International Politics and Foreign Policy, Nr. 1/2006(Cologne: University of Cologne, Seminar for Political Science,Chair of International Relations); The Failure andCollapse of the African States: On the example of Nigeria.Commentary Paper (Madrid: Fundacion para las RelacionesInternationales y el Dialogo (FRIDE), September2007); at: ;A Political Economy of Bad Governance, Underdevelopmentand State Collapse in Africa: The Dynamics of theWest African Conflict (PhD Dissertation, University of Cologne,unpublished).Address: Dr. John Emeka Akude, Vogelsanger Strasse 498,50829 Köln, Germany.E-Mail: .Nisreen Daifallah Al Hmoud (Jordan) obtained a Ph.D. inMicrobiology from the University of Abertay, Dundee/Scotlandin 2002. In 2003, she joined the Royal Scientific Society(RSS) of Jordan as a Researcher at the Environment ResearchCentre (ERC). In 2006, she became the head of theWater Quality Studies Division (WQSD) at ERC. Sincethen, she has been supervising the execution of project contracts(environmental monitoring programmes and appliedresearches) at WQSD. She is an environmental microbiologistwith an experience in the following topics: biofouling,bio-solids, wastewater and greywater. She executed and supervisedthe following projects: Integrated Greywater ManagementPolicies for Large Water Consumers in VulnerableCommunities in Jordan; Safe Use of Greywater for Agriculturein Jerash Refugee Camp: Focus on Technical, Institutionaland Managerial Aspects of Non-Treatment Options;Bio-solids Characterization, Treatment and Application foragricultural lands. She is a member in a number of internationalsocieties for microbiology and a referee for the Journalof Applied Microbiology. In August 2007, she was nominatedto represent the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan intwo technical meetings at the United Nations Headquarter

Biographies of Contributors 1725in New York for updating the Technical Guidelines andProcedures for the Investigation of Alleged Use of Chemical,Biological, or Toxin (CBT) Weapons. Since January2009, she has been heading the group of Bio-safety at ERCand she is a member in the National Bio-safety Committee.Besides working at RSS, she has a teaching experience inMedical Microbiology at the University of Jordan and she isappointed as an Assistant Professor at Princess Sumaya Universityfor Technology, teaching a Master Programme inEnvironmental Technology and Management. Since 2005she published several peer-reviewed papers and books chapters.Address: Dr. Nisreen AL-Hmoud, Head of Water QualityStudies Division, Head of Bio-safety Unit, EnvironmentResearch Centre, Royal Scientific Society, P.O. Box 1438, AlJubeiha 11941, Amman, Jordan.Email: and .Website: .Francisco Alonso-Sarriá (Spain), PhD in geography, Lecturerat the University of Murcia and subdirector of its Instituteof Water and Environment (INUAMA). He obtained afirst degree on geography from the University of Murcia in1989. His thesis focused on quantitative morphometricalproperties of basin and drainage networks. In 1991 he obtainedan MSc on water science and technology and in 1995he obtained a PhD from the University of Murcia with athesis that focused on event-oriented modelling of a semiaridbasin applying the Geomorphologic Unit Hydrographby using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (Idrisi4.1) and developing new hydrologically-oriented moduleswith Basic. Between 1991 and 1997 he participated in internationalprojects (Medalus II and III) and in severalprojects funded by Spanish research programmes. In 1997he started as an assistant lecturer in the Geography Departmentof the University of Murcia. From 1999 and 2000 hewas a postdoctoral fellow at King's College in Londonworking with professor J.B. Thornes. In 2001 he obtained aposition as a permanent lecturer focusing mainly on topicsof GIS and remote sensing for degrees in geography andenvironmental sciences. Besides his teaching activities conductedresearch and technical activities at INUAMA of theUniversity of Murcia. His primary research interest is GISand remote sensing applied to hydrology and hydrogeomorphology.He is responsible for a number of projects on theuse of GIS and remote sensing data to improve hydrologicalmodelling efforts.Address: Dr. Francisco Alonso-Sarriá, Instituto Universitariodel Agua y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Murcia,Campus de espinardo, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain.Email: .Kwesi Aning (Ghana), Head, Conflict Prevention Managementand Resolution Department (CPMRD) of the KofiAnnan International Peacekeeping Training Centre(KAIPTC) in Accra, Ghana since January 2007. Prior heserved as the African Union's first expert on counter-terrorism,defence and security with responsibility for implementingthe continental counter-terrorism strategy and oversightof the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism(ACSRT) in Algiers, Algeria. He holds a doctoratefrom the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His primaryresearch interests deal with African security issues broadly,comparative politics, terrorism and conflicts. He has taughtin several universities in Europe and Africa. In 2007, heserved as a senior consultant to the UN Department for PoliticalAffairs, New York and completed a UN Secretary-General’s report on the relationship between the UN andregional organizations, particularly the African Union inmaintaining peace and security. He reviews for severalscholarly journals and serves on diverse boards. His publicationsinclude: “Perspectives on President-elect BarackObama’s Africa Foreign Policy”, in: African Security, 1939-2214, 2,1 (1 January 2009): 66-67; (with Samuel Atuobi):“Responsibility to protect in Africa: an analysis of the AfricanUnion’s Peace and Security architecture”, in: Journal ofthe Global Responsibility to Protect, 1,1 (February 2009):90-113 “The UN and the African Union’s security architecture:defining an emerging relationship?”, in: Critical Currents,No. 5 (October): 9-25; (with Thomas Jaye; Samuel Atuobi):“The Role of Private Military Companies in US-Africa Policy”, in: Review of African Political Economy,35,118 (2008):613 – 628.Address: Dr. Kwesi Aning, Kofi Annan International PeacekeepingTraining Centre, CMT 210, Cantonments, Accra,Ghana.E-mail: and: .Website: .Mamdouh Ahmed Antar (Egypt), Manager of the NileForecast Centre, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation,Planning Sector, Cairo. His Ph.D. focused on water resourcesmanagement using hydrological modelling with emphasison the utilization of newly developed modellingtechniques such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) incombination with Satellite images. The Nile forecastingcentre deals with flood management policies and the assessmentof climate impacts on the High Aswan dam(HAD). He managed the project titled ‘Lake Nasser Floodand Drought Control – Integration of Climate Change UncertaintyLNFDCP/ICC’ that focused on assessing the foreseenimpacts of climate changes and potential developmentprojects on Nile Basin countries. As national coordinator ofthe climate change risk management (CCRM) he promotedthe adoption of a Regional Circulation Model (RCM)as a way of identifying the possible range of climate changeimpacts on precipitation in the Nile Basin, and to adapt theexisting hydrological models to forecast climate change impactson Nile river flows. He coordinated the ‘nationalflood preparedness and early warning (FPEW) project’, oneof the Fast Track projects under the Nile Bain Initiative(NBI). Among his major publications is: (with Elassiouti, I.;Allam, M. N., 2006): “Rainfall-runoff modelling using artificialneural networks technique: a Blue Nile catchment casestudy”, in: Hydrological Process., 20, 1201–1216.

1726 AuthorsAddress: Dr. Mamdouh Ahmed Antar, full mailing addressplease.Email: .Carolin E. Arndt (Germany), Dr. scient., Programme Officerwith the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) Secretariat; Scientific Consultant for the World ClimateResearch Programme’s (WCRP) Joint Planning Staff(2006-2009). Main areas of expertise: sea ice dynamics(Arctic/Antarctic), biological oceanography and ecosystemanalysis. Publication highlights: (Ed.): Climate Research inService to Society (Geneva: WCRP, 2008); (Ed.): WCRP AccomplishmentReport 2007-2008: Providing the Science toClimate Change Solutions (Geneva: WCRP, 2007); (Ed.):WCRP Annual Report 2006-2007: New Futures: Buildingon Great Success (Geneva: WCRP, 2006); (Ed.): WCRP AnnualReport 2005-2006 (Geneva: WCRP, 2007).Address: Dr. Carolin E. Arndt, IPCC, c/o WMO, 7 bis Avenuede la Paix, Case Posta-le No 2300, CH-1211 Geneva,Switzerland.Email: ; .Website: .Tulio Arredondo (Mexico), Ph.D., agronomist with graduatestudies in ecology and management of drylands at theUtah State University, USA. With 20 years of experience inresearch dealing with conservation, restoration and managementof drylands, in particular the extensive grazing systemsin Northern Mexico. His current research topics focuson the impacts of global environmental change on thedrylands of Northern Mexico. In particular, he is trying tounderstand the role of land use change on the functioningof semi-arid forest and grasslands. To advance the understandingof these phenomena at regional scales he is leadinga network (GRACILIS) that covers a 1200 km stripalong the semi-arid grassland biome establishing and implementingsimilar research protocols in several sites. His currentpublications deal with the impacts of overgrazing onhydrologic function, genetic integrity of keystone speciesand organisms interactions of semiarid grasslands: “Finescalespatial genetic structure in perennial grasses in threeenvironments“, in: Rangeland Ecology and Management(2009): “Biological soil crusts exhibit a dynamic responseto seasonal rain and release from grazing with implicationsfor soil stability“, in: Journal of Arid Environments (2009);“Root Responses to Short-Lived Pulses of Soil Nutrientsand Shoot Defoliation in Seedlings of Three RangelandGrasses”, in: Rangeland Ecology and Management (2009);“Production and quality of senesced and green litterfall in apine-oak forest in central-northwest Mexico”, in: ForestEcology and Management (2009); “Grazing effects on fungalroot symbionts and carbon and nitrogen storage in ashortgrass steppe in Central Mexico“ in: Journal of AridEnvironments (2008).Address: Dr. Tulio Arredondo, Division Ciencias Ambientales(IPICYT), Camino de la Presa de San Jose # 2055,Lomas 4ta seccion, San Luis Potosi, SLP CP 78216, Mexico.Email: .Website: and .Ghassem R. Asrar (USA), Ph.D., Director of the World ClimateResearch Programme’s (WCRP) Joint Planning Staff;Deputy Administrator for Natural Resources and AgriculturalSystems with Agricultural Research Service (ARS), ofthe U.S. Department of Agriculture (2006-2008) after 20years of service with the U.S. National Aeronautics andSpace Administration (NASA) as chief scientist and associateadministrator in the Office of Earth Science. Areas ofexpertise: remote sensing and Earth system modelling. Publicationhighlights: Theory and Applications of Optical RemoteSensing (New York, NY: John Wiley, 1989); (co-authorwith R. B. Myneni): “Space-based measurements ofsurface albedo, absorbed photosynthetically active radiationand solar radiation: A modeling study”, in: Remote SensingReviews, 7 (1993): 197-222; (co-author with D. J. Dokken):The state of Earth science from space: Past progress, futureprospects (Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics[AIP] Press, 1995); “The contribution of environmental satellitesto World Meteorological Organization programmes:past and present”, in: Bulletin World Meteorological Organization,51,2 (2002): 120-129; “The view from space as awindow into the Earth system”, in: Glover, Linda K. (Ed.):National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space (Washington,DC: National Geographic, 2005); “Global agriculture in the21 st century: sustainable production of food, fiber, fuel andmore”, in: GEO Secretariat (Ed.): The Full Picture (Leicester,UK: Tudor Rose Publishers, 2007): 246-248.Address: Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, WMO, 7 bis Avenue de laPaix, Case Postale 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.Email: .Website: .Andrews Atta-Asamoah (Ghana) is a Senior Researcher inthe African Conflict Prevention Programme (ACPP) atthe Institute for Security Studies (ISS). Prior to his currentposition based in Nairobi, Kenya, he was a Research Associateat the Conflict Prevention, Management and ResolutionDepartment (CPMRD) of the Kofi Annan InternationalPeacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra,Ghana. He holds a Master of Arts degree in InternationalAffairs from the Legon Centre for International Affairs(LECIA) at the University of Ghana and a bachelor’s degreefrom the University for Development Studies (UDS) inGhana. He conducts research on peace and security issuesin Africa and has authored numerous articles and bookchapters among which are: “Sanctions and Embargoes inAfrica: Implementation dynamics, prospects and challengesin the case of Somalia”, ISS Paper 180 (Pretoria, Institutefor Security, 2009); “Mühsame Suche nach afrikanischenLösungen Afrikanische Friedensmis sionen brauchen häufigwestliche Hilfe”, in: Weltsichten, 1,7 (July): 31-33;“Counter-Terrorism and the National Security of African States:Points of Convergence and Departure”, in: Journal of SecuritySector Management, Cranfield: Cranfield University,2008; and “Understanding the West African Cyber CrimeProcess”, in: African Security Review, 18,4, 2009, 106-114.Address: Mr. Andrews Atta-Asamoah, Institute for SecurityStudies (ISS), P.O. Box 12869-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.

Biographies of Contributors 1727Email: , and .Website: .Mustafa Aydin (Turkey) is Professor of International Relationsand Rector at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey,as well as the President of the International RelationsCouncil of Turkey. Previously he served as the Head of InternationalRelations Department at the University of Economicsand Technology, and the Director of InternationalPolicy Research Institute (IPRI) of Ankara. He wasUNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for PeaceStudies, UK (1999); Fulbright Scholar at the JFK School ofGovernment, Harvard University (2002); Alexander S. OnassisFellow at the University of Athens (2003); and ResearchFellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris (2003).His most recent work includes Central Asia in Global Politics(in Turkish, 2004); International Security Today; UnderstandingChange and Debating Security (ed. with K.Ifantis, 2006); Turkish Foreign and Security Policy (ed.2006); Regional In/secuity: Redefining Threats and Responses(ed., 2007); Turkey’s Eurasian Adventure (in Turkish,2007).Address: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydin Kadir Has University,Cibali Campus, Kadir Has Caddesi, 34083 Cibali, Istanbul,Turkey.E-Mail: .Website: .Alyson J.K. Bailes (UK) is currently Visiting Professor atthe University of Iceland in Reykjavik, teaching on variousaspects of security studies, and also teaches a security policycourse at the College of Europe in Bruges. From July2002-August 2007 she was Director of the Stockholm InternationalPeace Research Institute (SIPRI), the first womanever to hold that post. Her former career was spent largelyin the British Diplomatic Service and included postings inHungary, Germany, NATO HQ, China, Norway, and Finlandwhere she served as Ambassador. She was posted in1970-1974 in Hungary, where she learned her first foreignlanguage. She went on to deal with arms control at the UKDelegation to NATO in Brussels, then had a sequence ofhome-based jobs including the EU internal policy desk; atemporary attachment to an EU ‘Wise Men’ study team oninstitutional reform; and an exchange posting to the BritishMinistry of Defence. She was posted again in 1981-1984 atthe Embassy in Bonn, dealing with defence and Berlin-relatedmatters. In 1984 she returned to the FCO as DeputyHead of Policy Planning Department. She was selected in1986 to be the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassyin Beijing and began work there in 1987 after sevenmonths learning Mandarin. She spent two and a half yearsin China, including the time of the Tian'anmen events, andduring this period was part of the Sino-British negotiatingteam for the future of Hong Kong. On return to the UKshe took a short academic sabbatical at the Royal Institutefor International Affairs in London. In 1990-1994 she wasDeputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Oslo,and in 1994-1996 Head of the FCO Security Policy Department.From 1996 to 1997 she was a Vice-President responsiblefor security policy programmes at the New York-basedEast-West Institute, and then became political director ofthe Western European Union, after which she was appointedambassador of Great Britain in Finland. Her current researchinterests include European, Nordic and Arctic securityissues and roles of non-state actors. Her 2009 bookThrough European Eyes and recent papers can be accessedat: . She is a member of theBoards of several think-tanks, academic organizations andperiodicals.Address: Amb. Alyson J.K. Bailes, Strandvegur 12, ibud0307, IS-210 Gardabaer, Iceland.Email: .Website: .Alex H. Barbat (Spain): Civil Engineer of Technical Universityof Iasi, Romania; Doctor of Civil Engineering of theTechnical University of Catalonia UPC, Barcelona (Spain).He is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the TechnicalUniversity of Catalonia (UPC). He conducts most of his researchactivity in the UPC’s International Centre of NumericalMethods in Engineering (CIMNE), in the field of seismicdamage evaluation for structures, stochastic simulationof the damage process and active and passive structuralcontrol, seismic risk evaluation and disaster preparedness.He published more than 60 articles in refereed internationaljournals on these topics and collaborated in morethan 14 projects of the European Commission. He is thePresident of the Association for Earthquake Engineering(AEIS) of Spain. He leads the Risk Management Group ofCIMNE. He wrote various books; the last three are: Elriesgo sísmico en el diseño de edificios (Madrid: CalidadSiderúrgica, 1998); Diseño sismorresistente de edificios(Barcelona: Reverté, 2000); and El riesgo sísmico y su prevención(Madrid: Calidad Siderúrgica, 2000).Address: Prof. Dr. Alex H. Barbat, Calle Jordi Girona 1-3Mod. C1. Campus Nord, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña,Barcelona, Spain.Email: .Steffen Bauer (Germany) is a Senior Researcher at the GermanDevelopment Institute (DIE) in Bonn and a researchassistant to the German Advisory Council on GlobalChange (WBGU) since 2006. He is a political scientist atthe DIE’s department “Environmental Policy and Managementof Natural Resources” with a focus on internationalorganization and global environmental governance. He isalso the Science and Technology Correspondent of Germanyto the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD). Recent research interests include securityand development implications of climate change, the relevanceof international secretariats in global environmentalgovernance, and adaptation to climate change and desertificationwith a regional focus on Sub-Sahara Africa. He haspublished inter alia in: Climate and Development, GlobalEnvironmental Politics, Global Environmental Change,Journal of Environment and Development and in the Reviewof International Organizations and has been a reviewerfor the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP’s GlobalEnvironment Outlook as well as a host of academic

1728 Authorsjournals including Climate Policy, Land Degradation andDevelopment, International Environmental Agreementsand Global Environmental Politics. He is co-editor of Adaptationto Climate Change in Southern Africa: NewBoundaries for Development (with Imme Scholz, Earthscan2010), and of A World Environment Organization: Solutionor Threat for Effective International EnvironmentalGovernance? (with Frank Biermann, Ashgate 2005), andone of the lead authors of Managers of Global Change:The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies(edited by Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner,MIT Press 2009).Address: Mr. Steffen Bauer, German Development Institute(DIE), Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, GermanyEmail: .Website: >http://www.die-gdi.de>.Ulrich Beck (Germany) is Professor for Sociology at theUniversity of Munich, and has been the British Journal ofSociology LSE Centennial Professor in the Department ofSociology since 1997. See biographies of authors of forewordsand preface essays.Arno Behrens (Germany) holds a Master’s degree in economicsand is about to finish his PhD on dematerialisationand decarbonisation issues. He is Research Fellow andHead of Energy at the Unit for Energy and Climate Changeof the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Beforethat, he worked as Second Secretary at the German FederalForeign Office in the context of the 2007 German Presidencyof the European Union. Other main cornerstones ofhis career include the European Commission (DG Development),the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI),and the United Nations Development Programme (UN-DP). He published numerous articles and reports focusingon European responses to energy and climate change issuesas well as policy options in support of sustainable development.Publications include ‘The Financing of the GlobalEnergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF)(2009), a Briefing Paper prepared for the European Parliament,and a CEPS Policy Brief, Learning from the Crisis: AMarket Approach to Securing European Natural Gas Supplies(2009). He also published a CEPS Task Force Reportwith C. Egenhofer entitled Energy Policy for Europe - Identifyingthe European Added-Value (2008). Other publicationsfocus on energy security of supply in Europe, as wellas on the financial impacts of climate change.Address: Mr. Arno Behrens, Centre for European PolicyStudies (CEPS), 1, Place du Congres, 1000, Brussels, Belgium.Email: (office).Richard Betts (UK) is Head of Climate Impacts at the MetOffice Hadley Centre, the UK government’s research centrefor climate change. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics,a Master’s in Meteorology and Climatology, and hisPhD thesis examined the role of the world’s ecosystems inclimate change. He has worked in climate modelling for 16years, with a particular interest in the impacts of climatechange on ecosystem services and the interactions with otherimpacts of climate change such as on water resources.He is also interested in the wide-ranging effects of land useand land cover change on climate. He has pioneered anumber of key developments in the extension of climatemodels to include biological processes, and has publishedover 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and other articles.As a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC 2007), he lead the assessment of theinfluences of land cover change on climate and contributingto the assessment of climate change impacts on freshwater. He played a similar role in the Millennium EcosystemAssessment. He was a leading peer-reviewer of theStern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (2006).Among his major publications are: (with Boucher, O.; Collins,M.; Cox, P.M.: Falloon, P.D.; Gedney, N.; Hemming,D.L.; Huntingford, C.; Jones, C.D.; Sexton, D.M.H.; Webb,M.J., 2007): “Projected increase in future river runoffthrough plant responses to carbon dioxide rise”, in: Nature,448: 1037-1042; (2007): “Implications of land ecosystem-atmosphereinteractions for strategies for climatechange adaptation and mitigation”, in: Tellus B, 59,3: 602-615.Address: Dr. Richard Betts, Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road,Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Issa Martin Bikienga (Burkina Faso) is Deputy ExecutiveSecretary of the Comité permanent Inter-Etats de LutteContre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS). He studied inGermany and France and received an agricultural engineeringdegree (University of Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany);a degree from the Centre d’Etudes Financières,Economiques et Bancaires (Paris), and a degree from theInstitut de Formation Agronomique et Rurale des RégionsChaudes (Montpellier, France). Since January 2003 he hasworked with CILSS as coordinator of policy programmeson food security, natural resources management, desertificationcontrol and since February 2005 as Deputy ExecutiveSecretary. From October 1999 to November 2000 hewas Minister of Agriculture in Burkina Faso; from July 1996to October 1999 he was Secretary-General of the Ministryof Agriculture and Animal Resources; from 1985 to 1995 heworked as operations manager for the Société Sucrière dela Comoé, in 1984 he was manager of a groundnuts projectand from 1979 to 1983 he managed a phosphate project. Heis officer of the Ordre National Burkinabè and member ofthe Association of Tropical Agricultural Engineers (Witzenhausen,Germany) and of the West and Central AfricanSoil Science Association (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). Hispublications include: Role and methodology of feasibilitystudy formulation within the context of irrigation projectplanning (1979, in German); La commercialisation des engraisen Haute - Volta (Rome: FAO-FIAC, 1983); Les contraintesà l’utilisation des engrais en Haute-Volta dans ledéveloppement des cultures vivrières (Paris: Centred’Etudes Financières, Economiques et Bancaires, 1984);“Sur l’efficacité agronomique du phosphate naturel deKODJARI”, in: Notes et Documents Burkinabé, 16,3–4 (July-December1996); “Zur Anwendung des landeseigenen

Biographies of Contributors 1729Rohphosphates in der Landwirtschaft Burkina Faso”, in:Der Tropenlandwirt. Zeitschrift für die Landwirtschaft inden Tropen und Subtropen (in German, 1985); “The SugarCane Irrigation Problems in the Sahel Region. Burkina Fasoas a Case Example (West Africa)”, in: Zeitschrift für Bewäserungswirtschaft(1989, in German); “The Drought in theSahel Region and its Consequences on Water Supply Projects”,in: Zeitschrift für Bewässerungswirtschaft (1992, inGerman); Proposition de quelques technologies pratiquespour la restauration et le maintien de la fertilité des sols auBurkina Faso (Ouagadougou: Ministère de l’Agriculture,Unité de Gestion de la Fertilité des Sols, 1995); Productionagropastorale au Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou: Universitéde Ouagadougou, 1996); Rentabilité financière et rentabilitééconomique. Principes généraux et cas pratiques des entrepriseset projets de production agricole (1997); Développementhumain durable. Contenu du Concept etimplications pour la recherche Scientifique au BurkinaFaso (1998) ; Quelle politique de sécurité alimentaire pourle Burkina au XXIè siècle ? Forum de la Recherche Scientifiqueet Technologique (2000).Address: Mr. Issa Martin Bikienga, Comité permanentInter-Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel(CILSS), 03 BP 7 156 - Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.Email: and .Website: .Jörn Birkmann (Germany) is Academic Officer and Headof the Vulnerability Assessment Section at the United NationsUniversity - Institute for Human Security and Environment(UNU-EHS). See biographies of editors.Hans Jürgen Boehmer (Germany) is a vegetation ecologist,currently working as a Senior Research Scientist and ManagingDirector at the Interdisciplinary Latin America Center(ILZ) of the University of Bonn, Germany. He gained afirst degree in geography, political sciences, and communicationsciences from the University of Bamberg, Germany,(1990), and his MSc. degree in geography with a specializationin biogeography (1993) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). A PhD (1998, Dr. rer. nat., Universityof Erlangen-Nuremberg) for a dissertation on “VegetationDynamics in High Mountain Regions under Impact ofNatural Disturbances.” After several years of a post doctoralresearch in Hawaii’s rainforests (Post Doctoral Fellow atthe Botany Department, University of Hawaii, U.S.A., withDieter Mueller-Dombois), he completed his habilitationthesis on “Dynamics and Invasibility of Hawaii’s MontaneRainforests” and obtained his habilitation at the Departmentof Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Germany,in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed to be Adj. Professor(Priv.-Doz., PD) at the same department. His research focuseson vegetation dynamics under the impact of naturaland human disturbance, particularly on the complex interactionsof natural vegetation dynamics, disturbance regimes,biological invasions, and climate change. He hasfield experience in a wide range of ecosystems in differentecozones. His recent publications include works on plantdiversity and dynamics of used and natural tropical montanerain forests in East Africa and the Pacific region, andthe ecological and societal consequences of biological invasions.Among his major publications are: (with M. Richter):“Regeneration of plant communities – an attempt to establisha typology and a zonal system” (1997); Vegetationsdynamikim Hochgebirge unter dem Einfluss natuerlicherStoerungen (Stuttgart – Berlin: Borntraeger 1999); CaseStudies on Alien Species in Germany (Berlin: German FederalEnvironmental Agency 2001); (co-author with Ch. Schmitt):“Floristic diversity in fragmented Afromontane rainforests:altitudinal variation and conservation importance”(2009); (co-author with V. Minden):“Effects of invasive alienHedychium gardnerianum on native plant species regenerationin a Hawaiian rainforest” (2009).Address: Adj. Prof. (PD) Dr. Hans Juergen Boehmer, InterdisciplinaryLatin America Center (ILZ), University ofBonn, Walter-Flex-Strasse 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany.Email: .Website: .Peter Bosch (The Netherlands) was Coordinator and Editorof the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) working group III on mitigation ofclimate change. Before he was employed at the EuropeanEnvironment Agency in Copenhagen as a specialist on environmentalindicators. He has coordinated and edited a seriesof pan-European state of the environment and environmentalindicator reports. He was educated as a physicalgeographer, and has worked for many years in environmentalstatistics at Statistics Netherlands, working, among others,on a project to calculate a sustainable national incomeindicator for The Netherlands. Among his major publicationsare: Climate Change 2007, Mitigation of ClimateChange, IPCC; Europe’s Environment, the second and thethird assessment (Copenhagen: European EnvironmentAgency, 1998 and 2003 respectively).Address: Mr. Peter Bosch, TNO-environment, P.O. Box80015; 3508 TA Utrecht; The Netherlands.E-mail: .Website: .Hans Günter Brauch (Germany), Privatdozent (Adj. Prof.)at the Faculty of Political Science and Social Sciences, FreeUniversity of Berlin, since 1987 chairman of Peace Researchand European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS). See Biographiesof editors.Carlo Buontempo (Italy/UK) Senior Scientist in ClimateImpacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre. He obtained hisBachelor’s degree in Physics at University of Rome with athesis on ground-based measurements of cloud water content.After working on boundary layer processes for a coupleof years he started his PhD research on tropical convectionat University of Aquila. Over the last 10 years he hasbeen developing numerical weather and regional climatemodels. In his current role he provides specialist advice tocompanies and policymakers on how to increase their capacityin dealing with climate risk. He has an excellenttrack record of publications communicating complex scientificinformation to both specialists and the general public.Among his major recent publications are: (with Scaife,

1730 AuthorsAdam; Ringer, Mark; Sanderson, Michael; Gordon, Chris;Mitchell, John. 2009): “Toward seamless Prediction Calibrationof Climate Change Projections Using SeasonalForecasts”, in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society(in press); (with Brookshaw, Anca; Arribas, Alberto;Mylne, Ken, 2010): “Multi-Scale Projections of Weather andClimate at the UK Met Office”; in: Troccoli, A. (Ed.):“Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the EnergyIndustry”. NATO Science Series, (Dordrecht: Springer AcademicPublishers).Address: Dr. Carlo Buontempo, Met Office Hadley Centre,FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Jean-Francois Bureau (France) has been Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Public Diplomacy of NATO since 2007. See Biographiesof authors of forewords and preface essays.Antonio [Tony] J. Busalacchi (USA), Ph.D., Director of theEarth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) andProfessor in the Department of Atmospheric and OceanicScience; Chair, Joint Scientific Committee, World ClimateResearch Programme (WCRP). Before 2000, he served asChief of the NASA Goddard Laboratory for HydrosphericProcesses. Main areas of expertise: climate variability andpredictability, tropical ocean circulation and its role in thecoupled climate system. Publication highlights: (co-authorwith: J. Ballabrera, R. Murtugudde, RH Zhang): “CoupledOcean-Atmosphere Response to Seasonal Modulation ofOcean Color: Impact on Interannual Climate Simulationsin the Tropical Pacific”, in: Journal of Climatology, 20(2007): 353-374; (co-author with: J. Kroger, J. Ballabrera-Poy,P. Malanotte-Rizzoli): “Decadal variability of shallow cellsand equatorial SST in a numerical model of the Atlantic”,in: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (2003) C12003,; (co-author with: D. Chen,D., S. E. Zebiak, M. A. Cane): “An improved procedure forEl Nino forecasting: Implications for predictability”, in: Science,269 (1995): 1699-1702.Address: Dr. Antonio J. Busalacchi, Earth System ScienceInterdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), Suite 4001, M SquareOffice Building, #950, 5825 University Research Court, Universityof Maryland, College Park Maryland 20740, USA.Email: .Michael Butts (New Zealand, Denmark) is currently Headof Innovation for Water Resources and EnvironmentalManagement at DHI. He obtained his 1st class Honoursdegree in Physics from the University of Canterbury, NewZealand and MSc & PhD in Hydrology from the TechnicalUniversity of Denmark. He has more than 20 years of professionalexperience in hydrology, including hydrologicalfieldwork and data analysis, network design and the developmentand application of hydrological databases and thedevelopment and application of integrated models in waterresources and water quality projects. He has worked on waterresources and flood management projects in the UnitedStates, Bangladesh, India, Hong Kong, China, CentralAmerica, Denmark, Poland and the United Kingdom. Hewas the scientific co-coordinator for the EU flood forecastingresearch project FLOODRELIEF (2003-2007). He iscurrently Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydrology(2007- ), and on the Editorial Board, UK (ICE) Water ManagementJournal. Among his major recent publications are:(with Boegh, E.; Poulsen, R.N.; Abrahamsen, P.; Dellwik,E.: Hansen, S.; Hasager, C.B.; Loerup, J.-K.; Pilegaard, K.;Soegaard, H., 2009): “Remote sensing based evapotranspirationand runoff modeling of agricultural, forest and urbanflux sites at Sjælland: from field to macro-scale”, in:Journal of Hydrology 37,3-4: 200-216; (with Overgaard J.;D Rosbjerg, 2005): “Land-surface modelling in hydrologicalperspective”, in: Biogeosciences Discussions, 2: 1815–1848,at: ; (with Payne, J.T.; Kristensen, M.; Madsen, H., 2004): “An evaluation ofthe impact of model structure on hydrological modellinguncertainty for streamflow prediction”, in: Journal of Hydrology,298,1-4: 242-266.Address: Dr. Michael Butts, Agern Alle 5, DK 2970, Hørsholm,Denmark.Email: .Website: .Vivienne Caballero (Colombia), Climate Change ProgrammeSpecialist at the Environment and Energy Group,Bureau for Development Policy in UNDP (at the time ofwriting). Currently, Programme Officer at the UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative in the RegionalOffice for Latin America and the Caribbean based in Panama.Her experience includes global climate change policyand water governance issues, as well as mainstreaming ofclimate change policies into national development policiesand processes in Latin America. She holds degrees in environmentalscience with specialization in biology from theUniversity of Idaho, and in science and environmental writingfrom New York University where she also conductedstudies in international affairs and non-governmental organizations.She has authored and co-authored articles in theenvironmental field and on institutional capacitydevelopment. Among her major publications: (co-authorwith Gomez-Echeverri, Luis, 2008): „Desarrollo Institucionaly Creación de Capacidades en el Desarrollo Internacional“,in: Alonso, Gabriel; Jiménez, Juan Carlos (Coord.): FortalecimientoInstitucional y Desarrollo (Madrid: EditorialBiblioteca Nueva): 47-60.Address: Ms. Vivienne Caballero, Programme Officer,UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative at theRegional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean,Building 103 Av Morse, City of Knowledge, Panama City,Panama.Email: .Website: .Osvaldo Francisco Canziani (Argentina) Ph.D., was Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC) for its Third and Fourth Assessments,and Vice-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II forthe Second Assessment. He was Professor of Meteorologyat the University of Buenos Aires, and at the University ofAsunción and La Molina (Lima, Peru). He was also the

Biographies of Contributors 1731UNDP Resident Representative in Paraguay and the RegionalDirector of the World Meteorological Organizationfor The Americas and the Caribbean. He is currently an advisorto the General Directorate of the Environment, Ministryof Foreign Relations in Argentina; advisor to the HongKong Climate Change Forum; technical advisor, InternationalCourt of Justice, The Hague; academician, ArgentinaAcademy of Environmental Sciences; member of the EditorialBoard of Regional Enviropnmental Change (Springer).Furthermore, he teaches in postgraduate courses in variousnational and private universities, including the University ofBelgrano, Buenos Aires. He obtained many prizes amongthem: Prize Senator Domingo Faustino Sarmiento by theNational Senate of the Argentine Republic (2009); 2008Human Rights Prize of the B´nai B´rith Association(2008); Juntos Educar 2008 by the Archbishop of BuenosAires and Cardinal of Argentina; Professor h.c. of the NationalUniversities of Bahía Blanca and Córdoba (Argentina)(2008); co-recipoient of the 2007 Peace Nobel Prize asa Member of the IPCC Bureau. He has published over 100research papers, book chapters and conference proceedings.He obtained a diploma of Imperial College (1948), aMSc in meteorology of London University (1948) and aPh.D. in meteorology of Universidad de Buenos Aires(1953).Address: Prof. Dr. Osvaldo F. Canziani, Av R. ScalabriniOrtiz 1978, 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina.Email: .Omar Darío Cardona A. (Colombia): Civil Engineer of theNational University of Colombia (UNC), Manizales; Doctorof Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics ofthe Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. He isProfessor and Researcher at the Institute of EnvironmentalStudies of UNC and at the Centre of Studies on Disastersand Risks (CEDERI) of the University of Los Andes (UNI-ANDES) and visiting professor of the International Centreof Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) of theUPC in Barcelona and of the European University Centrefor Cultural Heritage (CUBEC) in Ravello. He is theformer President of the Colombian Association for EarthquakeEngineering (AIS) and General Director of the NationalDirectorate of Disaster Prevention and Attention(DNPAD). He has been a consultant of the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank (IDB), of the World Bank, UNDP, andother international agencies. He is a founding member ofthe Latin American Network of Social Studies on DisasterPrevention (LA RED). He is the Coordinator Lead Authorof the chapter on “Determinants of Risk: Vulnerability andExposure” of the IPCC Special Report on Managing theRisks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance ClimateChange Adaptation (SREX). In 2004 he was awarded theUN Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Prize “in recognition ofhis outstanding research contributions to knowledge andinnovative practices for vulnerability assessment and disasterrisk reduction worldwide.” Publications: He has severalpublications in Spanish. Recent English books and chaptersinclude: “A System of Indicators for Disaster Risk Managementin the Americas”, in: Birkmann, Jörn (Ed.), 2006: MeasuringVulnerability to Hazards of Natural Origin: TowardsDisaster Resilient Societies (Tokyo: UNU Press): 189-209;“The Need for Rethinking the Concepts of Vulnerabilityand Risk from a Holistic Perspective: A Necessary Reviewand Criticism for Effective Risk Management”, in: Bankoff,Greg; Frerks, Georg; Hilhorst, Dorothea (Eds.), 2004:Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People(London: Earthscan); (co-author with Carreño, Martha-Liliana;Barbat, Alex H., 2006): “Neuro-Fuzzy Assessment ofBuilding Damage and Safety After an Earthquake”, in Lagaros,Nikos D.; Tsompanakis, Yiannis. (Eds): Intelligent ComputationalParadigms in Earthquake Engineering (HersheyPA: Idea Group Inc.). Recent English journals publications include:(co-author with Carreño Martha-Liliana, Barbat AlexH., 2010): “Computational Tool for Post-Earthquake Evaluationof Damage in Buildings”, in: Earthquake Spectra, 26,1(February): 63–86; (co-author with Carreño, Martha-Liliana;Marulanda, Mabel-Cristina; Barbat, Alex H., 2009): “Holisticurban seismic risk evaluation of megacities: Applicationand robustness”, in: Mendes-Victor, Luis A.; Sousa Oliveira,Carlos; Azevedo, J.; Ribeiro, A. (Eds.): The 1755 LisbonEarthquake: Revisited (New York: Springer); (co-authorwith Marulanda, Mabel-Cristina; Barbat, Alex H., 2009):“Robustness of the holistic seismic risk evaluation in urbancenters using the USRi”, in: Journal of Natural Hazards,49, 3 (June): 501–516; (co-author with Ordaz, Mario G.;Marulanda, Mabel-Cristina; Barbat, Alex H., 2008: “Estimationof Probabilistic Seismic Losses and the Public EconomicResilience – An Approach for a Macroeconomic Impact Evaluation”,in: Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 12,S2, (January):60-70; (co-author with Ordaz, Mario G.; Yamín, Luis E.;Marulanda, Mabel-Cristina; Barbat, Alex H., 2008): “EarthquakeLoss Assessment for Integrated Disaster Risk Management”,in: Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 12, S2, (January):48–59; (co-author with Carreño, Martha-Liliana;Barbat, Alex H., 2007): “A disaster risk management performanceindex”, in: Journal of Natural Hazards, 41, 1 (April):1-20; (co-author with Carreño, Martha-Liliana; Barbat, AlexH., 2006): “Urban Seismic Risk Evaluation: A Holistic Approach”,in: Journal of Natural Hazards, 40, 1 (January):137-172.Address: Prof. Dr. Omar Darío Cardona A., Carrera 19A 84-14, Of. 502/504, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.Email: and .Monalisa Chatterjee (India) is a doctoral candidate in theDepartment of Geography, Rutgers University, NJ, USAworking on “Urban Flood Loss Sharing and RedistributionMechanisms among the Impoverished Industrial Populationof Mumbai”. Her research examines informal coping methodsof poor urban flood victims and studies the impact ofglobalization on the changing nature of coping strategies.In her doctoral research she also explores the possibility ofintegrating poor population with more formal mechanismsof risk redistribution and loss sharing. Among her publicationsare: “Slum dwellers response to flooding events in themegacities of India”, in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategiesfor Global Change, 15,4 (2010): 337-353; “Urban Vulnerability– Case Study: Floods in Mumbai”, in: Lever-Tracy,

1732 AuthorsConstance (Ed.): Handbook for Climate Change and Society.Routledge (i.p.); “Shifting Vulnerabilities: A Study inFlood Affected Slums of Mumbai”. Source 10/2008 (Bonn:UNU-EHS): 100-109; (with Mitchell, James K.): 2007. “TheChanging Environment”, in: Auerbach, Paul S. (Ed.): WildernessMedicine: Management of wilderness and environentalemergencies (St. Louis: Mosby Year Book Inc.,52007): 2184–2198; “The Scope of Natural Hazard Insurancein Developing Countries”, in: Feng, H. Lizhong Yu &William Solecki (Eds.): Urban Dimensions of EnvironmentalChange: Science, Exposures Policies and Technologies(Monmouth, NJ: Science Press, 2005): 130-139.Address: Ms. Monalisa Chatterjee, Department of Geography,Rutgers University, 54 Joyce Kilmer Blvd. PiscatawayNJ 08854-8045 USA.Email: and: .Béchir Chourou (Tunisia) was Professor of InternationalRelations at the University of Tunis-Carthage in Tunisia.See: Biographies of editors.John A. Church (Australia), Ph.D., an Oceanographer withCSIRO, the Centre for Australian Weather and ClimateResearch and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CooperativeResearch Centre, a Principal Investigator on NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon and Jason Science Working Teamssince 1987, co-convening lead author for the chapter on SeaLevel in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Co-Chairedthe World Ocean Circulation Experiment (1994-1998) andthe World Climate Research Programme (2006-2008), aFellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciencesand Engineering. Awarded the 2006 Roger RevelleMedal by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission,a CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement in 2006,the 2007 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research and presentedthe 2008 AMOS R.H. Clarke Lecture. He is a memberof the IPCC team that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.Publication highlights include: co-author with Neil J. White;Julie Arblaster): “Significant decadal-scale impact of volcaniceruptions on sea level and ocean heat content”, in: Nature,438 (2005): 74–77, ; (withN. J. White): “A 20 th century acceleration in global sea-levelrise”, in: Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (2006) L01602,; (with Catia M. Domingues,Neil J. White, Peter J. Gleckler, Susan E. Wijffels, Paul M.Barker, Jeff R. Dunn): “Improved estimates of upper-oceanwarming and its contribution to multi-decadal sea levelrise”,in: Nature, 453 (2008): 1090-1093, ; (coed. with Siedler, Gerold; Gould, John):Ocean circulation and Climate, Observing and modellingthe global ocean. International Geophysics Series, vol. 77(San Diego: Academic Press, 2001).Address: Prof. Dr. John A. Church, CSIRO Marine andAtmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania7001. Australia.Email: .Website: .Cecilia Conde Álvarez (México), Dr. (National AutonomousUniversity of Mexico, UNAM), Researcher of ClimateCchange and Climate Variability, Centre of AtmosphericSciences of UNAM and chief of its InterdisciplinaryClimate Change Programme. She is a Focal Point of theNairobi Work Programme of the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She hascoordinated various interdisciplinary projects related to impacts,vulnerability and adaptation of climate variability andchange, particularly on the agricultural sector, with the involvementof regional stakeholders. She has collaboratedwith the Mexican government in the elaboration of theMexican National Communications, and with regional andlocal governments in the development of their Climatic ActionPlans. She is a member of the Council for ClimateChange, an organization of 23 scientists and decision makersthat supports de Mexican federal government in the designof its National Strategy of Climate Change. She hasparticipated in workshops for some Latin American countries(Belize, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) supporting them in thedevelopment of their National Communications and intheir projects related to the economy and climate change.She was co-author of the Adaptation Policy Frameworksfor Climate Change: Development Strategies, Policies andMeasures, published by the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP). She was lead author of two chaptersfor the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.She has published books, reports and articles in Atmosfera,Climate Research, Climatic Change, and in Applied VegetationScience.Address: Dr. Cecilia Conde, Centro de Ciencias de laAtmósfera, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito Exterior,04510, México, D.F., México.Email: .Website: .Paul C. Crutzen (The Netherlands), Nobel Laureate forChemistry in 1995; Member of the Max-Planck-Society forthe Advancement of Science, Director Emeritus of the AtmosphericChemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institute forChemistry, Mainz, Germany (1980-2000). See biographiesof authors of forewords and preface essays.Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (Palestine), Ph.D, Ph. D. is aProfessor of Political Science and International Relations;founding director, American Studies Institute, Al-Quds Universityand founding director of the Wasatia Moderate IslamicMovement in Palestine. He is a Jerusalem-born scholarand peace activist with two doctorate degrees ingovernment (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,1981; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1984). He is chairman.Board of Directors, House of Water and Environment;member, Board of Directors, YMCA-West Jerusalem;founding director, Jerusalem Studies and Research Institute.He was the founding director of the Palestinian Public AdministrationNational Institute; senior consultant on publicadministration of the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and

Biographies of Contributors 1733International Cooperation. Between mid-1998 and 2004 hewas director of the Technical Assistance and Training Department,(PECDAR), in charge of implementing a US$ 23-million World Bank Technical Assistance Trust Fund. Between1995 and 1997 he worked as Chief Technical Advisor,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Programmeof Assistance to the Palestinian People, providingtraining and consultancy services to the Palestinian Authorityon public administration development and institutionbuilding. Between 1990 and 1995, he founded and acted aschairman of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy,Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan. He frequentlyparticipates in local, regional and international conference,and is author and co-author of numerous academicbooks and articles in English and Arabic. He co-authoredwith Dr. Munther Dajani: Economic Sanctions: Ideals andExperience (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1983); EconomicDiplomacy (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1985); Al-Siyassa: Nazariat wa Mafaheem [Politics: Concepts andTheories (Amman: Palomino Press, 1986); al-Nizam al-Siyassial-Urduni [An Introduction to the Jordanian PoliticalSystem] (Amman: Palomino Press, 1993); Manhajiet al-Bahth al-Ilmi fi ilm el-Siyassa [Scientific Research Methodologyin Political Science] (Jerusalem: Al-Quds Universityand the Palestinian Center for Regional Studies, 1997); Al-Democratia wal Ta’adudieh [Democracy and Political Pluralism](Al-Bireh: Palestinian Center for Regional Studies,1998); al-Hukum wa al-Idara (Government and Administration(Jerusalem: al-Quds University, 2001); al-Muqademahfi al-Ulum Al-Siassiyah (Introduction to Political Science(Jerusalem: al-Quds University, 2009).He is author of:Mu’jam al-Quds [Quds Glossary of International Terms](Jerusalem: Palestinian Center for Regional Studies, 2001);Wasatia (Jerusalem, Wasatia Publishing, 2007); Wasatia:Min al-Nazaria ila Tatbik [Wasatia: From Theory to Practice](Jerusalem: Wasatia Publishing, 2008); Biblioghrafia al-Quds al-Sharif [A Bibliography of Arabic Books on Jerusalem]( Jerusalem: Wasatia Publishing, 2009); Biblioghrafiaal-Kutub al-Arabia on American Affairs [A Bibliography ofArabic Books on American Affairs] (Jerusalem: Al-QudsUniversity, 2009); Wasatia: The Spirit of Islam (Jerusalem:Wasatia Publishing, 2009).Address: Prof. Dr. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, P. O. Box14085, Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, Israel.Email: and < mohddajani@hotmail.com>.Website: and .Ashraf M. Dajani (Palestine), Ph. D. Candidate at the LawDepartment of the European University Institute in Florence,Italy. His doctorate dissertation is entitled “Jerusalemin international law”. He received master degrees from theEuropean University Institute, the University of Lund, andthe University of Malta where he studied International Law,Human Rights and Democratization.Address: Mr. Ashraf Al-Dajani, Department of Law, EuropeanUniversity Institute, Via Boccaccio 121,1-50133, Florence,Italy.Email: , .Simon Dalby (Canada), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University,Vancouver), Professor of Geography, Environmental Etudiesand Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa. Hisresearch work concerns critical geopolitics, environmentalsecurity and political ecology and increasingly how all thesematters link up with contemporary discussions of empire,and modes of urban consumption in the metropoles of theglobal economy. His articles have appeared in diversescholarly journals including: Alternatives, Antipode, AustralianJournal of International Affairs, Geopolitics, GlobalEnvironmental Politics, Intelligence and National Security,International Politics, Political Geography, Society andSpace and Studies in Political Economy. He is author of:Creating the Second Cold War (London – New York: Pinterand Guilford, 1990) and Environmental Security (Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2002); Security and EnvironmentalChange (Cambridge: Polity, 2009). He is coeditorof: Rethinking Geopolitics (London: Routledge,1998); The Geopolitics Reader (London: Routledge 11998,22006) and of the journal Geopolitics.Address: Prof. Dr. Simon Dalby, Department of Geographyand Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 ColonelBy Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S5B6 Canada.Email: .Website: .Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka) has been Presidentof the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairssince November 2007. From 1998 to 2003 he was UnderSecretary-General of the United Nations for Disarmament.See biographies of authors of forewords and preface essays.Abdel Kader Dodo (Niger), Expert in Hydrogeology andin charge of the Water Programme and Manager of the IullemedenAquifer System (IAS) project at the Sahara andSahel Observatory (OSS). He has PhD from the Universityof Neuchâtel in Switzerland focusing on groundwater deepflows in the great Niger basin. Since 1993, he has served asa senior lecturer and researcher at the Abdou MoumouniUniversity in Niamey (Niger). Concurrently, in 2000, hewas appointed as the national director for water resourcesat the Ministry in charge of water resource in the Republicof Niger. He joined OSS in 2004. He has published articlesand co-authored books in hydrogeology and hydro-ecology.He was also engaged in several regional and internationalresearch activities. In 2006, due to his contribution at thenational level, he became an Officer in the National Orderof Merit in the Republic of Niger.Address 1: Dr. Abdel Kader Dodo, Sahara and SahelObservatory (OSS), Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat, BP31, 1080, Tunis, Tunisia.Address 2: Dr. Abdel Kader Dodo, Université Abdou Moumouni,Faculté des Sciences, Département de Géologie, BP10662, Niamey, Niger.Email: .Website: .

1734 AuthorsFrédéric Dumay (France), Research Engineer, specialist inremote sensing for dry ecosystems. He works on desertificationin drylands (mainly in Mauritania). In 2006-2007 hewas involved in the NATO Programme Security ThroughScience, Collaborative Linkage Grant on: “Use of indicatorsfor desertification in the oasian settlements” in collaborationwith the universities of Errachidia (Morroco) andBlida (Algéria), and in 2005-2007 in two programmes ofAUF 6313PS590 on: “Dynamique du courant éolien littoraldu Maroc à la Mauritanie et aggravation de l'ensablementdes infrastructures humaines par sa rencontre avec les courantscontinentaux: spécificité des mécanismes d’ensablement deNouadhibou et de Nouakchott” with the Universities ofNouakchott and Errachidia; and of AUF P2-2092RR521 on:“Techniques traditionnelles de gestion et d'utilisation del'eau en milieu soudano-sahélien camerounais, en parallèleavec les données acquises en milieu soudano-sahélienivoirien. Etudes de cas” with the university of Abidjan (IvoryCoast) and N'agoundéré (Cameroon). His major publicationsinclude: with M. Mainguet: “The concept of globalwind action system and sediment balance, keys for aeolianaction monitoring”. The International Conference onDesert Development in the Arab Gulf Countries, Safat,State of Kuwait, 23-26 March 1996, in: Samira Omar, A.S.;Balkema, A.A. (Eds.): Sustainable Development in AridZones (Rotterdam: Brookfield, 1998: 127–141; with M.Mainguet: “La sédentarisation en milieu sec est-elle un progrès?Observations en Mauritanie”, in: Haramata, No. 50(London: October 2006); with Mainguet, M.; Mahfoud, A.;Hacen, L.: “Baseline and Growth Indicators for Desertificationin the Saharo - Sahelian Area of Mauritania and theirMonitoring from 1953 to 1998”. UNEP, DesertificationControl Bulletin N° 34 (1999): 21-30; with Mainguet, M.;Lémine Ould Elhacen, Mohamed; Mahfoudh, A.: “Diagnosticpar télédétection d'un changement de rythme de la dynamiqueéolienne: période d'amorce de la désertificationen Mauritanie Saharo-Sahélienne”, in: Télédétection 2001,2,2, AUPELF-UREF (Paris: GB Science Publisher): 129-136.Address: Dr. Frédéric Dumay, Université de Reims, LaboratoireGEGENA², Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne,51 100 Reims, France.Email: .Pál Dunay (Hungary) is faculty member, Geneva Centre forSecurity Policy and since the beginning of 2010 he has alsobeen Head of the International Security Programme at theGCSP. See biographies of editors.Christian Egenhofer (Germany) holds a Master's degree inAdministration from the University of Konstanz as well as aPublic Law degree. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Centrefor European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based thinktank specialising in EU affairs, where he is head of theEnergy, Climate and Environment Programme since 2000.He is also a Senior Research Fellow and Jean-Monnet Lecturerat the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Lawand Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland/UKsince 1999 and a visiting Professor at the College of Europein Warsaw and Bruges and at LUISS University in Rome.He has a 20 years experience in consultancy both for privateand public organisations including various Directorates-Generalof the European Commission, the EuropeanParliament, NGOs and business organisations. He has publishedmore than 100 articles and books on climate changeand energy and is a member of several editorial boards andfrequent reviewer for journals. Recent books include,amongst others Climate Change and Trade: Taxing Carbonat the Border; (co-author with D. Gros, 2010): BeyondBali: Strategic Issues of the Global Climate Change Negotiations(editor, 2008) and Climate and Trade Policy (co-ed.,2007).Address: Mr. Christian Egenhofer, Centre for European PolicyStudies (CEPS), Place du Congres 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.Email: (office).Mohamed El Raey (Egypt), Professor of EnvironmentalPhysics, University of Alexandria, Alexandria. He obtaineda Ph.D. in space physics; University of California, Berkeley(1971). Upon is return to Egypt he initiated and chaired thefirst department of environmental studies and he was deanof the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Universityof Alexandria (1994-2004). He is a member of the PrimeMinster’s National Committee on Climate Change inEgypt, chairman of the Sector Committee on Environment,Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities (2007- to date).He is environment advisor, Arab Academy of Science, Technologyand Maritime Transport and is presently working toinitiate the Regional Arab Center for Disaster Risk Reduction.Has received many awards including, the NationalState Award (1983), the Medal of Science and Arts of FirstClass (1985), the Price of the Arab Ministers of Environment(1999) and the University of Alexandria AppreciationAward (2006). He has published extensively on problemsof remote sensing, climate change and vulnerability of thecoastal zone of Egypt. Among his major publications are:(1991): “Responses to the Impacts of Greenhouse-InducedSea-Level Rise on Egypt”, in: Titus, J.G. (Ed.): ChangingClimate and the Coast, vol. 2: West Africa, the Americas,the Mediterranean Basin, and the Rest of Europe (Washington,DC: UNEP & USEPA); (1994): (co-author withDewidar, Khaled; El-Hattab, Mamdouh, 1999): “Adaptationto the sea level rise in Egypt”, in: Journal of Climate Research,12,2-3 (CR Special 6): 117–128; (co-author with Fouda,Yaser; Gal, P., 2000): “GIS for Environmental assessmentof impacts of urban encroachment of RosettaRegion”, in: Egyptian Journal on Environmental Monitoringand Assessment, 60,2: 217–233; (co-author with Fouda,Yaser; Nasr, Samir, 1997): “GIS Assessment of the vulnerabilityof the Rosetta area, Egypt to impacts of sea rise”, in:Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 47, 1: 59–77;(co-author with Frihy, Omran; Nasr, Samir M.; Dewidar,Khaled, 1998, 1999): “Vulnerability Assessment of Sea levelRise over Port-Said Governorate, Egypt”, in: Journal of EnvironmentalMonitoring, 56: 113–128; (co-author with Nasr,Samir M.; Frihy, Omran; Desouki, Sahar; Dewidar, Khalid,1995): “Potential impacts of Accelerated sea level rise on Alexandriagovernorate”, in: Journal of Coastal Research(special issue 14): 190–204; (co-author with Nasr, Samir M.;El-Hattab, Mamdouh; Frihy, Omran, 1995): “Change Detec-

Biographies of Contributors 1735tion of Rosetta Promontory over the Last Forty Years”, in:International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16,5: 825-834; (coauthorwith Shardul Agrawala; Annett Moehner; DeclanConway: Maarten van Aalst; Marca Hagenstad; Joel Smith,2004): Development And Climate Change In Egypt: Focuson Coastal Resources and The Nile, (Paris: OECD).Address: Prof. Dr. Mohamed El Raey, Institute of GraduateStudies and Research, University of Alexandria; Alexandria,Egypt.Email: .Website: .Walter R. Erdelen (Germany): Ph.D., Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO since 2001. WithinUNESCO he is responsible for the overall formulation,planning and coordination of UNESCO’s strategy, programmesand plans of action in the natural sciences thatinclude those of the Intergovernmental OceanographicCommission, the International Hydrological Programme,the International Geoscience Programme, the Man and theBiosphere Programme and the International Basic SciencesProgramme. This includes fostering international activities,strengthening endogenous capacities, developing majorintergovernmental and inter-disciplinary cooperation programmeson environmental issues and sustainable managementof natural resources, developing or improving linkagesbetween governments, scientists, the private sectorand civil society. He holds a Ph.D. in ecology and zoologyfrom the University of Munich, and a habilitation in biogeographyfrom the University of the Saarland. Followingpositions at the University of Munich, the ZoologicalMuseum in Munich, and Saarland University, in 1995 hewas appointed Professor of Ecology and Biogeography atthe Institute for Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology andDirector of the Ecological Field Station, University of Würzburg.In 1997 he became visiting professor at the Dept. ofBiology, Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia. Hehas consulted for national and international agencies workingon land use issues, nature conservation, and in the tertiaryeducation sector in Africa and Asia. He authored over70 scientific papers and reviews, he currently is Director ofPublication for the UNESCO newsletter, A World ofScience, and recently led the publication of Sixty Years ofScience at UNESCO: 1945-2005 (Paris. UNESCO).Address: Prof. Dr Walter R. Erdelen, Natural Sciences Sector,UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris, France.Email: .Website: .Louise von Falkenhayn (Australia) was an Academic Officerfor the International Human Dimensions Programmeon Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Secretariat inBonn. She is a specialist in biomonitoring and environmentalmanagement of Australian freshwater tropical systemsand obtained her Ph.D. in social science from The Universityof Adelaide, Australia. As an environmental change geographerand scientist her interests focus on exploring theimpacts of people and climate change on ecosystems. Thefocus of her current work is on ecosystem services and issuesof vulnerability, resilience and adaption.Email: .Fátima Flores Palacios (Mexico) is Professor of Psychologyat the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México andteaches at the postgraduate level. Her research interests aregender issues, health related behaviour, the psychosociologyof HIV/AIDS, and Social Representation Theory. Besidesher university related work she is also psychotherapist.She has published numerous papers in her fields of expertiseand published and co-edited several books. Her mostrecent co-edited books are: Social Psychology and Gender(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill – Mexico, D.F.: UNAM,2001); Paths of Social Thought (México D. F.: EdicionesCoyoacán/UNAM, 2002), and (with Blázquez, N.; Rios,M.): Epistemología feminista (México D. F., CRIM/CEI-ICH/UNAM, in press).Address: Prof. Dr. Fátima Flores Palacios, Facultad de Psicología,UNAM, México D.F., México.Email: .Website: .Ismail Abd El Galil Hussein (Egypt), is Head of the AgriculturalOffice at the Embassy of Egypt in Washington/USA, a Professor of Pomology and the former chairman ofDesert Research Center (DRC) which was founded in 1951to explore and utilize the natural resources in the Egyptiandeserts in a sustainable manner. He obtained a Ph.D in pomologyin 1985 in a collaborative reseach programme betweenthe unversities of Cairo and Hannover. For two yearshe was a visting scientist on on-farm water management atthe University of Arizona and the University of TexasA&M. He set up two Desert Reseach and Extension Centresin Sinai and established the Egyptian Desert GeneBank (1996-2000) which was selected by Bioversity Internationalas the Center of Excellence for CWANA for its efficientoperational system reflecting state of the art technologyin seed banking, conservation and utilization of plantgenetic resources and promoting greater use of neglectedplant species in the region. He established the EgyptianObservatory at DRC to build capacity, a database and informationto help combat desrtification in Egypt and Africa.Since 2003 he has been the national focal point of the UnitedNation Convention to Combat Desertification (UNC-CD) and he served as the chair of the Committe of theWhole (COW) at COP9 in Buenos Aires (2009). He wasawarded the silver medal of FAO World Food Day (October2003) and became a guardian of diversity in the Mediterranianon Biodiversity World Day (2009).With over thirty years of experience in technical assistancefor international institutions, local, and national governmentsin areas of farm management, dry farming, watermanagement, agro meteorology and seed banking he significantlyenhanced various agricultural activities in Egypt. Hemanaged agricultural development projects involving stakeholderswith different agendas and plans, such as the geneticresources policy initiative (GRPI) with six pathfindercountries (Egypt, Vietnam, Peru, Ethiopia, Nepal and Zambia)in three subregions (East, West and Central Africa).Another successful IFAD funded ptoject. coordinated by IP-

1736 AuthorsGRI, dealt with “Enhancing the Contribution of Neglectedand Underutilized Species to Food Security, and to Incomesof the Rural Poor”, involving farmers and NGOsfrom Asia, North Africa and Latin America. The MatrouhResources Management Project (MRMP) funded by theGovernment of Egypt and the World Bank relied on a communitydriven approach. He also founded a station for researchand extension in Toshka in Southern Egypt. He participatedin many international conferences and officiallyrepresented the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation(MALR) in regional and international events, hechaired the African ministers of agriculture meeting ofNEPAD initiative during the African Union Summit in Mozambique2003 and in 2002 he represented Egypt at theUN secretariat of the Convention of Biodiversity (CBD) inMonterial with his expertise in policy implementation. Heis an observer of the Interim Panel of Eminent Experts toestablish the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome (Italy).He represents MALR in the Executive Board of the ArabLeague Center for Arid Zone Studies (ACSAD) in Syria andin the Observatory of Sub Sahara and Sahel (OSS) in Tunis.His communication and negotiation skills were essentialfor handling vital agricultural initiatives in Egypt and forsecuring the needed funds for their implementation.Address: Prof. Dr. Ismail A. Hussein, Desert ResearchCenter, Mathaf Mataria Street, Mataria, Cairo, Egypt.Email: and .Zhanyi Gao (China) is the Director of the Department ofIrrigation and Drainage, China Institute of Water Resourcesand Hydropower Research (IWHR), and Directorof the National Centre for Efficient Irrigation TechnologyResearch (Beijing). He has served with IWHR since 1989and holds a Master’s Degree from the North China WaterResources and Hydropower University (1989) and a PhDfrom IWHR (2005). He has also served as a Senior Engineerat IWHR since 1995. From 2005 to 2008 he served asthe Vice President of International Commission on Irrigationand Drainage (ICID). Since 2003 he has served as Director,Board of Directors, Chinese Hydraulic EngineeringSociety. Up to now he has been project leader for 21 nationaland 5 international projects. As an expert he attendedseveral projects and review activities funded by theWorld Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Food andAgriculture Organization (FAO). His interested research areasinclude research and dissemination of water-saving technology,irrigation water management and assessment, irrigationdevelopment and food security, wastewater reuse,drainage and salinity controlling, the effect of climatechange on irrigated agriculture. Among his major publicationsare: “Integrated Wastewater Irrigation and Treatment”,in: Water Resources Journal (December 2003);“Discussion on the Selection of Effective Water Use Techniquesin Large-sized Irrigation Districts in China” (December2005); “Development of Multi Functions of Irrigationin China”, in: Journal of Economics of Water Resources(January 2006); “Strategy of Grain Security and IrrigationDevelopment in China”, in: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering(November, 2008).Address: Dr. Zhanyi Gao, China Institute of WaterResources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), No. 20West Chegongzhuang Rd., Beijing 100048, People’s Republicof China.Email: .Website: .Jorge García Gómez (Spain), Agronomic Engineer and Environmentalist,DEA on physical geography. His main researchareas are erosion processes and desertification. Hewas a technical expert in the Desertlinks Project and coordinatorof the LIFE project “Almond Pro soil” funded bythe EU. He was also involved in other cooperation and researchprojects and is a consultant for government bodies,research centres and NGO’s in Spain, Africa and LatinAmerica. He also worked as a consultant for NGO's inCuba and Argentina. He has co-authored articles and chaptersin books with López-Bermúdez. He is partner of theconsultancy firm “Eurovertice Consultores S.L” and memberof environmental associations and NGOs.Address: Mr. Jorge García Gómez, Carril de los Luíses 48,30107 Guadalupe, Murcia, Spain.Email: .Andrés Miguel García Lorca (Spain), PhD in Geography,Professor of Regional Geographic Analysis of the Universityof Almeria, scientific advisor of the OrganizaciónIberoamericana de Cooperación Intermunicipal (OICI)since 1989. He has directed and participated in ten researchprojects in Spain, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Argentine,Cuba and Honduras. He has also directed numerousresearch contracts for public and private agencies in Spainand in Latin America, he was responsible for scientificcourses and seminars in most Latin American countries,and he directed 6 PhDs in geography and several end ofstudies projects in agricultural engineering. He has been aspeaker at 20 international congresses. Since 1977 he hasbeen publishing in scientific journals, he is an author oreditor of 14 books, and of 30 chapters in several books editedin Spain and in Latin America: Geografía e integración.Retos y alternativas para América Latina (1999);From traditional agriculture to technology, from emigrationto inmigration (1995); Tendencias y transformacionesen la agricultura intensiva almeriense(1999); Influencia dela agroindustria en las transformaciones de los municipiosrurales (2002); Andalucía –Norte de Afríca: De la cooperacióna la integración (2003); Anotaciones sobre los cultivosbajo plástico en China (2005); La agricultura litoral(2005).Inmigración y desarrollo regional (2009)Address: Prof. Dr. Andrés Miguel García Lorca. Universidadde Almería: Campus Universitario. E-04120. Almería.Spain.Email: .Website: http://www.ual.es/Adeniyi Sulaiman Gbadegesin (Nigeria), is a Professor andHead of the Department of Geography, University ofIbadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. In 1991, he was the land-use consultantin SSRC/American Council of Learned SocietiesJoint Committee’s sponsored projects on The Impact of

Biographies of Contributors 1737River Bank Erosion Control Strategies on Agriculture inRivers State of Nigeria. He coordinated a WWF funded researchproject on forest resources management in southernNigeria in 1995. He has held several international researchpositions including a Visiting Research Scholar of the ThirdWorld Academy of Sciences at CSINAR, Beijing, China in1991 and a Visiting Associate Professorship of the SwedishInstitute at the University of Linkoping, Sweden between1998 and 1999. He is a member of the Management Teamin charge of Environment and Development issues at theFoundation for Urban Development and EnvironmentalInitiatives (FDI), Ibadan, Nigeria. Some of his recent publicationsinclude; (with Christiana N. Emuh, 2009): “SpeciesDiversity Patterns along the Forest-Savanna Boundary in Nigeria”,in: Management of Environmental Quality, 20,1:2064-2072; (with Niyi Gbadegesin and Felix Olorunfemi,2007): Assessment of rural water supply management inselected rural areas of Oyo State, Nigeria. ATPS WorkingPaper Series No. 49 (Nairobi, Kenya: ATPS Water and EnvironmentProgramme); (with Ibidun O. Adelekan, 2005):“Analysis of the Public Perception of Climate Change Issuesin an Indigenous African City”, in: International Journal ofEnvironmental Studies, 61,1: 115–124; (with K. Owolabi,2004): “Oil resource management and social justice in Nigeria”,in: Journal of Development Alternatives and AreaStudies, 23,1–2 (March/June): 91–123.Address: Prof. Dr. Adeniyi Sulaiman Gbadegesin, Departmentof Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universityof Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.E-mail: and: .Website: .Ebru Gencer (Turkey), Ph.D, Columbia University (2007).As a certified urban planner she obtained a Master of Philosophy(Urban Planning/ Architecture), a Master ofScience (Urban Preservation/Urban Planning), and a Diplomain City and Regional Planning. She was a research associateat Columbia University’s Academic Quality FundProject on Risk Assessment and Mitigation to MetropolitanAreas. Her previous professional experiences include urbandesign/planning projects such as ‘Post-war reconstructionof Mostar’, ‘Der Gürtel revitalization project in Vienna’ and‘Squatter improvement projects’ in Istanbul. In 2007, she attendedthe Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability organizedby UNU-EHS and the MunichRe Foundation. She isthe author of: Natural Disasters, Vulnerability, and SustainableDevelopment: Examining the Interplay, GlobalTrends and Local Practices in Istanbul (Saarbrücken: VdmVerlag Dr. Müller, 2008). She is currently a consultant atARC and a member of the ISOCARP Urban Planning AdvisoryTeam for Haiti and Chile.Address: Dr. Ebru Gencer, ARC, 12 West 23 rd St, New York,NY 10010, USA.E-mail: .Anton Georgiev (Bulgaria) is Researcher at the Centre forEuropean Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels since 2008. Heworks in the Energy and Climate Change Unit and participatesin the preparation of papers and reports in the areaof climate change policy. His previous career experiencesinclude work for the General Secretariat of the Council ofthe European Union, where he was part of the EnvironmentUnit, and for the Swedish Environmental ProtectionAgency. Anton holds a Master’s degree in Ecological Economics– Studies in Sustainable Development. He recentlypublished, as co-author with N. Fujiwara and C. Egenhofer,the CEPS Special Report: Getting Started Now: CapacityBuilding for the Data System Foundations of Sectoral Approachesprepared for the study financed by the EuropeanCommission on Global sectoral approaches as part of thepost-2012 framework (2010). He also contributed as a collaboratorto the book by D. Gros and C. Egenhofer (co-authors)with N. Fujiwara and S. Guerin (collaborators) entitledClimate Change and Trade: Taxing Carbon at theBorder (2010). Other recent publications include the report:Messages from Copenhagen: Assessments of the Accordand Implications for the EU (with M. Alessi and C.Egenhofer, 2010), as well as reports focusing on the transatlanticclimate change partnership and on the socio-economicimpacts of climate change in Europe.Address: Mr. Anton Georgiev, Centre for European PolicyStudies (CEPS), Place du Congres 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.Email: (office).Jihed Ghannem (Tunisia), Communications Specialist atthe Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS). He has a Mastersdegree in communications and a proven experience in developmentcommunications, particularly in the field of environmentalgovernance and natural resources management.He has been involved in the OSS work on the IullemedenAquifer System (West Africa) and the North-western SaharaAquifer System (North Africa) since 2007. Besides transboundarygroundwater issues, he has performed substantialwork on several themes, including climate change adaptationand development in Africa.Address: Jihed Ghannem, Observatoire du Sahara et duSahel (OSS), Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat, BP 31,1080, Tunis, Tunisia.Email: .Website: .Ernst Giese (Germany), Professor Emeritus for EconomicGeography at the University of Giessen (Germany). Hestudied geography, mathematics, and philosophy in Münsterand München. After his PhD in 1965 he wrote his(post-doctoral) habilitation thesis on the kolkhoz andsovkhoz system in Soviet Central Asia. He was assistant andassociate professor at the universities of Münster, Freiburg,and Cologne. Since 1973 he has been professor for economicgeography at the University of Giessen. 1998-2007 hewas member of the board of directors of the Center for InternationalDevelopment and Environmental Research atthe University of Giessen. He is also honorary professor atthe Institute of Environmental and Engineering Sciences inCold and Arid Regions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Lanzhou) and member of the scientific council ofthe Central Asian Institute of Applied Geosciences(CAIAG, Bishkek). Among his major recent publications

1738 Authorsare: (co-edited with R. Seidelmann) Cooperation and conflictmanagement in Central Asia (Frankfurt: Peter Lang,04); (co-authored with G. Bahrenberg; J. Nipper): StatistischeMethoden in der Geographie. Vol. 1: Univariate undbivariate Statistik, Vol. 2: Multivariate Statistik. 4 th edition,Stuttgart: Teubner, 42003); (co-authored with A. Bohnet;G. Zeng): Die Autonome Region Xinjiang (VR China).Eine ordnungspolitische und regionalökonomische Studie.2 vols (Münster: Lit, 1998, 1999); (co-authored with G.Bahro; D. Betke) Umweltzerstörungen in TrockengebietenZentralasiens (West- und Ost-Turkestan). Ursachen, Auswirkungen,Maßnahmen (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1998).Address: Prof. Dr. Ernst Giese, Institut für Geographie,Bereich Wirtschaftsgeographie, Senckenbergstraße 1, 35390Giessen, Germany.Email: .Website: .Yannick Glemarec (France), Executive Coordinator at UN-DP's Global Environment Facility. In this capacity, he is primarilyresponsible for the implementation oversight of a $6billion portfolio ($2 billion in grants and $4 billion in co-financing)comprising over 2,000 projects and activities in140 countries. He supervises UNDP-GEF staff both at HQand at six UNDP-GEF regional coordination units in Beirut,Bratislava, Dakar, Bangkok, Panama City and Pretoria. Hejoined UNDP in 1989 and successively served as a countrymanager in Vietnam for five years, in China for five yearsand in Bangladesh for two years prior to joining UNDP-GEF in New York in January 2003. He holds a PhD fromthe University of Paris in Environment Sciences, and twoMaster Degrees in Hydrology (DEA) from the French NationalSchool for Water and Forestry (ENGREF-France)and in Business Administration (Durham-UK). He has authoredand co-authored several publications in the fields ofenvironment management, disaster risk management andlow carbon/climate resilient development. Among his majorpublications: (co-author with others, 2009: Charting aNew Low Carbon Route to Development: A Primer on IntegratedClimate Change Planning for Regional Government(New York: UNDP).Address: Dr. Yannick Glemarec, Executive Coordinator atUNDP's Global Environment Facility, 304 East 45 th Street,New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.Email: .Website: .Francisco J. Gomariz-Castillo (Spain), Research Associateat the Institute of Water and Environment (INUAMA) atthe University of Murcia working on projects related toGIS, spatial modelling, hydrology, water resources management,natural hazards and remote sensing. From 1997 to2001 he studied geography at the University of Murcia. Until2003 he worked as a research associate at INUAMA atthe University of Murcia on risk and flood risk analysis.From 2003 to 2005 he was a technical assistant of the GeneralDirectorate of Natural Environment (CCAA of Murcia)working on planning on protected areas and applyinggeo-informatics to natural resources. From 2005 to 2009 heworked for the public company TRAGSATEC as head ofoperations and projects on the implementation of GeographicalInformation Systems (GIS) in the Coastal Directorateof the Ministry of Environment and as a consultantfor a project on environmental restoration and water-forestrestoration and planning. He participated in numerouspublications, conferences, committees on spatial modelling,hydrology, water resources management, natural managementresources and on the development of GISAddress: Mr. Francisco J. Gomariz-Castillo, Instituto Universitariodel Agua y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad deMurcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia,Spain.Email: .Jakob Granit (Sweden), Project Director at the StockholmInternational Water Institute (SIWI) for advisory servicesand applied policy development in the area of water, energy,and the environment. He worked for the World Bankas a Senior Water Resources Management Specialist includingas a Cluster Team Leader for the multi-sector Nile teamproviding advisory services and institutional building adviceto clients in East, Central and Southern Africa in the areaof multi-purpose water resources development for economicgrowth. Prior he was managing a transboundary waterresources support programme for the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Cooperation (Sida) in Southern Africa.He gained much experience in complex development processesand management of multinational project teamsthrough his work at the World Bank and Sida. He workedon the identification, project design, preparation, financingand implementation of projects including analytical workand strategic planning coupled with major fundraising activitiesand the fiduciary oversight and responsibility for significantcredits and grants. Among his major publication are:“Identifying Business Models for Transboundary River BasinOrganisations”, in: Water without Borders: From Rhetoricto Practice in Transboundary Water Management(Eds: Earle/Jägerskog/Öjendal, Earthscan 2010, in press);(coed. with Löfgren): Water and Energy Linkages in theMiddle East – Regional Collaboration Opportunities. SIWIPaper 16 (Stockholm, SIWI, 2010); (co-author with Bullock/Gooijer/Lindström/Löfgren/Pettigrew): Regional WaterIntelligence Report Central Asia. SIWI Paper No 15. (SIWI/WGF/UNDP, Stockholm, 2010); (coauthor with Phillips/Allan/Claassen/Jägerskog/Kistin/Patrick/Turton): TheTWO Analysis: Introducing a Methodology for the TransboundaryWaters Opportunity Analysis. Report Nr. 23.(Stockholm, SIWI, 2008); (coauthor with Jägerskog/Risberg/Yu):Transboundary water management as a RegionalPublic Good: Financing Development – an examplefrom the Nile Basin (Stockholm: SIWI, 2006); World BankCountry Water Assistance Strategies for Kenya and Tanzania(Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2004, 2006).Address: Mr. Jakob Granit, Drottningatan 33, 111 51 Stockholm,Sweden.Email: .Website: .

Biographies of Contributors 1739John Grin (Netherlands) is Professor at the Department ofPolitical Science of the University of Amsterdam and wasscientific director of the Amsterdam School for SocialScience Research (ASSR). See: Biographies of editors.Debarati Guha-Sapir (India/Belgium) is Director of theWHO collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiologyof Disasters (CRED) and Professor at the University ofLouvain, Research Institute Health and Society, Brussels.She holds an Adjunct Professor-ship at Tulane UniversityMedical Centre (New Orleans) for Health and HumanitarianAid. Trained at Calcutta University, Johns Hopkins Universityand University of Louvain she holds a PhD in epidemiology.Since 1984, she has been involved in field researchand training in emergency and humanitarian aid issues,working closely with WHO, United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) and the European Commission(EC) in various regions of the world. She is particularly interestedin health systems research, epidemiology in unstablesituations and international policy related to relief andpost conflict transition. She has written widely on theepidemiology of disasters and conflicts in journals such asThe Lancet, Tropical Medicine and International Health,Epidemiologic Reviews. Most recently, she received the PeterSafar Award at the 16 th World Congress on Disaster andEmergency Medicine, Victoria, Canada. Among her majorpublications are: “Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar: Lessons forpublic health preparedness for cyclones”, in: AmericanJournal of Disaster Medicine, 4,5 (2009); “Health impactof the 2004 Andaman Nicobar earthquake and tsunami inIndonesia”, in: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 24,6(2009) and Thirty years of natural disasters 1974-2003: thenumbers (Presses Universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-La-Neuve, 2004).Address: Prof. Dr. Debarati Guha-Sapir, Centre forResearch on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED),Department of Public Health, Université Catholique deLouvain, 30.94 Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 1200 Brussels,Belgium.Email: .Website: .Marwan Haddad (Palestine), Ph.D, is a Professor of EnvironmentalEngineering and director, Water and EnvironmentalStudies Institute, An-Najah National University, Nablus,Palestine. He was born in Nablus, Palestine and holdsa diploma of Engineering in Structural Civil Engineeringfrom the University of Kiril and Methody, Architectural andCivil Engineering Faculty, Skopje, Macedonia (1976), anMSc. in Sanitary Engineering from Syracuse University, NY,USA (1983), and a PhD in Environmental Civil Engineeringalso from Syracuse University, NY, USA (1986). He workedover four years for the Housing Corporation of Jordan(1976–1980), moved to the US for his graduate studies(1981–1986), and then joined the Faculty of Engineering atAn-Najah National University in Nablus in 1986 as anassistant professor. He obtained his promotion to associatethen to full professor in Environmental Engineering in 1994and 2000, respectively. His main research area is in waterquality and resource management. He has published over130 papers in his field, and edited over ten internationalconference proceedings and refereed books. He was aconsultant for local and international firms and NGOs. Forhis work he received several awards and honors. He servedas head of the Civil Engineering Department at An-NajahNational University (1986–1992), coordinator of thePalestinian Water Committee associated with the Peacenegotiation with Israel (1991–1995), director of the Waterand Environmental Studies Centre (1994–1996), dean ofthe College of Engineering (1996–1998), and director of theWater and Environmental Studies Institute (2008-present).Address: Marwan Haddad, Professor and Director, Waterand Environmental Studies Institute (WESI), An-NajahNational University, P.O. Box 7,707, Nablus, Palestine.Email: , and .Website: .Clair Hanson (United Kingdom), Ph.D., is a Senior ResearchAssociate at the University of East Anglia, UK. Shewas previously involved in the production of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth AssessmentReport for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptationand Vulnerability), as Deputy Head (Science) of the IPCCTechnical Support Unit while based at the UK Met Office.Her research interests include climate change impacts withparticular focus on extreme events in Europe, and rainfalland runoff variability in Africa and Asia.Address: Dr. Clair Hanson, Overseas Development Group,University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.Email: .Kanupriya Harish (India) is the Project Director of the JalBhagirathi Foundation (JBF) and is heading the professionalresource base of the JBF. She obtained a MPhil fromJawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and has been workingin the JBF since 2004 focussing on the revival of traditionalwater management systems through community institutions.She has worked on mainstreaming gender in watermanagement among very feudal and caste ridden communities.As head of the project team she is managing the implementationof a multi-pronged community based water managementprogramme being implemented in three districtsof Western Rajasthan, India. She is involved in advocacycampaigns for ensuring pro poor concerns are integrated inwater resource management. She has a keen interest in theempowerment of marginalized communities especiallywomen and has initiated many programmes for mainstreamingthem in the development process.Address: Ms. Kanupriya Harish, Jal Bhagirathi Foundation,Near Kayalana Lake, Bijolai, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.Email: .Website: .Vilho Harle (Finland): Dr. Soc.Sci. (IR), Professor of InternationalPolitics at the Department of Political Science ofthe University of Tampere, Finland. Formerly professor ofPolitical Science at the University of Tampere, and of IR atthe University of Lapland, and the University of Helsinki.His research has covered various topics in peace research,

1740 Authorsinternational theory, identity politics, and political geography.His current research focuses on critical theory, multidisciplinarityin IR, and the English School of IR and its applicationto the study of traditions and practice of Finnishforeign and security politics. He is the author of severalpublications including: Ideas of Social Order in the AncientWorld (Greenwood Press 1998), The Enemy with a ThousandFaces (Praeger 2000), and “Critical Geopolitics ofNorthern Europe”, Geopolitics 8,1, 2003 (Special Issue editedin cooperation with Pami Aalto and Simon Dalby).Address: Prof. Dr. Vilho Harle, Department of Political Science,University of Tampere, FIN-33014 University of Tampere,Finland.Email: Paul G. Harris (Hong Kong) is Chair Professor of EnvironmentalStudies in the Department of Science and EnvironmentalStudies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.From 2000 to 2009 he taught at Lingnan University, HongKong, where he was Professor of International and EnvironmentalStudies, Director of the Centre for Asian PacificStudies, Director of the Environmental Studies Programme,and Director of the Project on Environmental Change andForeign Policy. During the 1990s he was a faculty memberat universities in Britain and the United States. His researchon global environmental politics, foreign policy and internationalethics has been published widely in academic journals.His books include Climate Change and AmericanForeign Policy (New York: St. Martin's Press/London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2000); International Equity and GlobalEnvironmental Politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001); The Environment,International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy(Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2001), InternationalEnvironmental Cooperation (Boulder: UniversityPress of Colorado, 2002); Global Warming and East Asia(London: Routledge, 2003); Confronting EnvironmentalChange in East and Southeast Asia (Tokyo: United NationsUniversity Press/London: Earthscan, 2005), Europe andGlobal Climate Change (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,2007); The Global Politics of AIDS, co-edited with PatriciaD. Siplon (London: Lynne Rienner, 2007); EnvironmentalChange and Foreign Policy (London Routledge, 2009), ClimateChange and Foreign Policy (London: Routledge,2009), and World Ethics and Climate Change (Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2010).Address: Prof. Paul G. Harris, Department of Science andEnvironmental Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education,Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.Email: .Bassam Ossama Hayek (Jordan), Assistant Professor atPrincess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), Directorof the Eco-tech Park, Royal Scientific Society (RSS) andan independent consultant for environment & sustainability.He has Ph.D. in chemical engineer, University of Swansea(UK) in 1994. He started his career in 1994 as a researcherin the environment field at the RSS and served asthe director of the Environment Research Centre of RSS(2000–2009). He has experience in the treatment of domesticand industrial wastewater; environmental assessment;hazardous waste management and control. He hasexecuted and supervised research projects and studies onthe treatment of wastewater, industrial audits (pollutionprevention and waste minimization and cleaner production),environmental assessment, and hazardous materialsmanagement. He participated as a member in nationalcommittees, contributed in establishing the Master Programin Environmental Technology and Management atPrincess Sumaya University, the Cleaner Production Unitand the Biosafety Unit at RSS, and most recently initiatedthe Eco-tech Park project to assist Jordanian enterprisesand communities in adopting clean technologies and soundenvironmental practices in addition to working independentlyon water and environment governance. He has writtenand supervised or co-authored 22 publications of scientificpapers and technical reports, including: EnvironmentSector in Jordan; Key Issues for Environmental Risk Assessment,International Risk Management Meeting, Italy2001; Environmental and Economic Improvement throughImplementation of Cleaner Production in Hospitality Sectorin Jordan: Case Studies in Four Hotels (2008), ParticipativeIrrigation Water Management in the Jordan Valley(2010). He supervised the following studies: EnvironmentalImpact Assessment for Gas Transmission Project(2004); Environmental Impact Assessment for KemiraArab Potash Co. (2000); Water Pollution Crises Management;A Case Study on Cryptosporidium Outbreak inMunshiyat Bani Hassan - Jordan, report submitted to theMinistry of Health, Jordan (November 2007) and draftedbylaws related to irrigation water management (2010).Address: Prof. Dr. Bassam Hayek, Director, Eco-tech Park,Royal Scientific Society, P.O. Box 1438, Al Jubeiha 11941,Amman, Jordan.Email: and .Website: .Thomas Heberer is Chair Professor of East Asian Politicsat the Institute of Political Science and the Institute of EastAsian Studies at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany.His research focuses on political, social and institutionalchange, nationalities policies, environmental policies andcorruption in China. He has worked as a translator andreader with the Foreign Language Press in China from 1977-81. Since 1981 he is on a yearly basis conducting field researchin China for 2-3 months. He is a member of the AdvisoryBoard of the Europe-China Academic Network ofthe European Commission. Among his recent book publicationsare: Rural China Economic and Social Change inthe Late Twentieth Century, Armonk/London (Sharpe)2006; (with C. Derichs, ed.), The Power of Ideas - IntellectualInput and Political Change in East and Southeast Asia,Copenhagen (NIAS Press) 2006; Thomas Heberer/Anja D.Senz, China’s Significance in International Politics. Domesticand external developments and action potentials. GermanDevelopment Institute, Bonn 2007; Doing Business inRural China: Liangshan’s New Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Seattle/London(University of Washington Press) 2007; (withG. Schubert), Politcal participation and regime legitimacy inthe PR of China, vol. 1: the urban space, Wiesbaden (VerlagSozialwissenschaften) 2008 and vol. 2: the rural space (both

Biographies of Contributors 1741in German), Wiesbaden 2009; (with G. Schubert), Congqunzhong dao gongmin. Zhongguo de zhengzhi canyu(From Masses to Citizens. Political participation in China,Beijing (Bianyi chubanshe) 2009.Address: Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer, Institute for East AsianStudies, University Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg/ConfuciusInstitute Metropolis Ruhr, 47057 Duisburg.E-mail: .Website: .Ann Henderson-Sellers (Australia), DSc. (University ofLeicester, UK), Professor of environmental science, Environment& Geography Department, Macquarie Universityand ARC Professorial Research Fellow in the Climate RiskConcentration of Research. Until 2007, the Director of theUnited Nations’ World Climate Research Programme(WCRP), Ann has championed the scientific need for actionto mitigate and adapt to climate change for over 35years. She has been an Earth Systems scientist spearheadingthe description and prediction of the influence of land-coverand land-use change on climate and human systems. Sheobtained a BSc in mathematics at Bristol in 1973, PhD in1976 in collaboration with the U.K. Meteorological Officeand a D.Sc. in climate science in 1999. She is an elected Fellowof Australia’s Academy of Technological Sciences andEngineering and was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australiafor Service to Australian Society in Meteorology in2003. She is an ISI ‘most highly cited’ author of over 500publications, including 14 books and an elected Fellow ofAmerica’s Geophysical Union and the American MeteorologicalSociety. She has served as a Council member of theInternational Council of Science’s International Geosphere-BiosphereProgramme (IGBP) and was involved asan author in all assessments of the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC) that was rewarded the NobelPeace price in 2007, including as a Convening Lead Authorfor the Second Assessment. She served on Australia’s Scienceand Technology Council, chaired the Australian NationalCommittee for Climate and Atmospheric Sciencesand was the President of International Association of Meteorologyand Atmospheric Sciences’ International Commissionfor Climate from 1991-1995. Prior she was the FoundingDirector of the Climatic Impacts Centre at MacquarieUniversity, headed the Australian Nuclear Science andTechnology Organizsation’s Institute for Nuclear Geophysiologyand was the Deputy Vice Chancellor at the RoyalMelbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University.Among her major publications are: (co-author with V. Gornitz,1984): “Possible climatic impacts of land cover transformations,with particular emphasis on tropical deforestation”,in: Climatic Change, 6: 231-258; (co-author with R.E.Dickinson, 1988): “Modelling tropical deforestation: a studyof GCM land-surface parameterizations”, in: Quart. J. Roy.Meteor. Soc., 114,B: 439-462; (co-author with A.J., Pitmanand Z-L. Yang, 1990): “Sensitivity of regional climates to localizedprecipitation in global models”, in: Nature, 346:734-737; (co-author with P.J. Sellers, R.E. Dickinson, D.A.Randall, A.K. Betts, F.G. Hall, J.A. Berry, G.J. Collatz, A.S.Denning, H.A. Mooney, C.A. Nobre, N. Sato and C.B.Field, 1997): “Modeling the exchanges of energy, water, andcarbon between continents and the atmosphere”, Science,275: 502-509; (co-author with S.J. Doherty and S. Bojinski,et al., 2009) “Lessons learned from IPCC AR4: Scientificdevelopments needed to understand, predict and respondto climate change”, in: Bulletin of American MeteorologicalSociety, 90, 4;497-513; at: .Address: Prof. Dr A. Henderson-Sellers Macquarie University,Department of Environment and Geography, Sydney,NSW 2109, Australia.Email: .Website: ; and .Yasuaki Hijioka (Japan), is a Senior Researcher of the NationalInstitute of Environmental Studies in Japan. He receivedhis Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo,Japan in 2001. His research topics cover modellinganalysis for environmental issues related to climate changeimpacts, and he is involved in the development of theAsian-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) to estimate climatechange impacts and to assess policy options for stabilizingglobal climate.Address: Dr. Yasuaki Hijioka, Social and EnvironmentalSystems Division, National Institute for EnvironmentalStudies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan.Email: .HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (The Hashemite Kingdomof Jordan) is a pluralist who believes in societies inwhich all peoples can live, work and function in freedomand with dignity. See Biographies of authors of forewordsand preface essays.Yaqiong Hu (China) is the Senior Engineer of the Departmentof Irrigation and Drainage, China Institute of WaterResources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) and NationalCentre for Efficient Irrigation Technology Research(Beijing). She has served with IWHR since 1998 and holds aMaster’s Degree from McGill University, Canada. She hasbeen a member of the International Commission on Irrigationand Drainage (ICID) since 2005 and a member ofChinese National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage(CNCID) since 2003. Up to now she has undertaken 10 nationaland 3 international projects. Her research areas include:irrigation, water and soil management, agriculturalwater environment protection, effect of climate change onirrigated agriculture, drainage and salinity controlling.Among her major publications are: “Study on the environmentalproblems and its countermeasures in large irrigationdistrict in China”, in: Water Saving and Irrigation (March2003); “Countermeasures and suggestions to speed up theconstruction of agricultural water saving support system”,in: China Water Resources (March 2002); “Study on policiesof water price in pumping irrigation district”, in: WaterSaving and Irrigation (March 2002); Technical code forwater supply engineering of town and village (Beijing:China Water Power Press, February 2005); “Systems approachto achieve real water savings in Australia andChina”, in: Proceedings of the 19 th ICID Congress (Septem-

1742 Authorsber 2005); “The Effects of Oxidation-Reduction Potentialon the Solubility of Phosphorus in Agricultural Water ManagementSystems” (Master thesis, McGill University, June2008).Address: Ms. Yaqiong Hu, China Institute of WaterResources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), No. 20West Chegongzhuang Rd., Beijing 100048, People’s Republicof China.Email: .Website: .Veronika Huber (Germany) has worked at the Potsdam Institutefor Climate Impact Research (PIK) as a Scientific Assistantto the Director since 2008. See biographies of authorsof forewords and preface essays.Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald (Austria, Mexico), PhD inRange Ecology from the Utah State University (1996). Shereceived a Master’s degree in Biology/Botany from theUniversity of Innsbruck (1990). She was Scientific Officeron Global Change and Ecological Complexity of theGlobal Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE), CoreProject of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program(IGBP) at the Instituto de Ecología de la Universidad deBuenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1997). She wasAssistant Professor at the Grassland Science Department,Technische Universität München, Weihenstephan, Germany(1998-2001). She examined management effects on plantnitrogen and carbon allocation patterns and AM fungidistribution in different species-poor and species-richgrassland ecosystems. Currently she is involved in theseresearch activities:1) Ecosystem responses and feedbackmechanisms to variable abiotic and biotic environments atdifferent spatial and temporal scales in the semi-arid andarid region of Northern Mexico considering interactiveeffects of land use change; 2) Integrated assessment ofbiophysical and socio-economic factors and drivers thatcause desertificacion and land degradation in socioecologicalsystems in arid and subtropical regions of theAmericas applying the Dryland Development Paradigm toARIDnet case studies; 3) Coordination of the MexicanGrassland Network for Investigation and Leadership inSustainable Management, Grupo Regional en AgostaderosMexicanos para su Investigacion y el Liderazgo de su UsoSustentable (GRACILIS) and of the cross-cutting themebiogeochemical cycles and climate change as part of theNetwork Mex LTER.Address: Dr. Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Division CienciasAmbientales (IPICYT), Camino de la Presa de San Jose #2055, Lomas 4ta seccion, San Luis Potosi, SLP CP 78216,Mexico.Email: and .Website: and .Arie S. Issar (Israel), Professor Emeritus at the J. BlausteinInstitutes for Desert Research, and the Geological Departmentof Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He foundedand headed the Water Resources Center of the Institute forDesert Research since 1975 until his retirement in 1998. Hereceived his Ph. D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalemin 1961. From 1980-1998 he was the holder of the Alain PoherChair in Hydrogeology of Arid Zones. He received thefollowing prizes: Ernest D. Bergmann Prize for Special ScientificContributions to the Development of the NegevDesert (1985); Prize of the President of the International Associationof Hydrogeologists for Outstanding InternationalContributions toward the Advancement of Hydrogeology(2003); Honorary Member of the Israeli Association forWater Resources (2005). His current research focuses onthe impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle andsocio-economic systems; and developing the conceptualmodel of Progressive Development in order to mitigate thenegative impact of global change on the water resources ofthe Middle East and other arid and semi arid regions. Thismodel recommends long term policies of development ofthe marginal water resources as well as the exploitation ofthe fossil aquifers of these regions. He has published abouthundred papers and co-edited five books and wrote sixbooks in the fields of geology and hydrogeology. On theimpact of climate changes on the hydrological cycle and onthe environment he published these books: Water Shallflow from the Rock. Hydrogeology and Climate in theLands of the Bible (Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag,1990); Climate Changes during the Holocene and theirImpact on Hydrological Systems (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003); (Co-ed. with Angelakis, AndreasN.): Diachronic Climatic Impacts on Water Resources(with Emphasis on the Mediterranean Region (NATO ASISeries. Springer-Verlag, 1996); (Co-ed. with Brown, Neville):Water, Environment and Society in Times of ClimateChange (Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer AcademicPublishers, 1998); (Coauthor with Zohar, Mattanyah): ClimateChange – Environment and Civilization in the MiddleEast (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York : Springer 2004,2007); (Ed.): Progressive Development. To Mitigate theNegative Impact of Global Warming on the Semi-arid Regions(Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer, 2010).Address: Prof. Dr. Arie S. Issar, ZIWR, BGU, Sede BokerCampus, 84990, Israel; Home: Hameshoreret Rachel St.13,Jerusalem, 96348, Israel.Email: .Website: .Anders Jägerskog (Sweden): Ph.D., is Programme Directorat the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Previouslyhe has worked at the secretariat for the ExpertGroup on Development Issues (EGDI) at the Swedish Ministryfor Foreign Affairs, at the Swedish International DevelopmentCo-operation Agency (Sida) on water resources insouthern Africa and at the Stockholm International PeaceResearch Institute (SIPRI) on Middle Eastern security issues.Major English publications include: “Functional waterco-operation in the Jordan River Basin: Spillover or spillbackfor political security”, in: Brauch–Oswald Spring–Mesjasz–Grin–Chadha Behera–Chourou–Kameri-Mbote–Liotta (Eds.) Facing Global Environmental Change – Environmental,Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water SecurityConcept (Berlin - New York: Springer, 2008); “Human

Biographies of Contributors 1743Security – problems, opportunities and policy implications”,in: Conflict, Security and Development; 4,3 (2004); Whystates cooperate over shared water: The water negotiationsin the Jordan River Basin, Linköping University, PhD Dissertation,Linköping Studies in Arts and Science, 2003;“Risk and uncertainty from a political perspective: casesfrom water negotiations”, in: Towards Catchment Hydrosolidarityin a world of Uncertainties, SIWI Proceedings2003, Report 18 (Stockholm: SIWI); “The power of thesanctioned discourse – a crucial factor in determining waterpolicy”, in: Water, Science and Technology, 47,6 (2003);“Hydrosolidarity as seen from a political perspective – overcomingsanctioned discourse obstacles”, in: Balancing humansecurity and ecological security interests in a catchment:Towards upstream/downstream hydrosolidarity,SIWI Proceedings 2002 (Stockholm: SIWI, 2002); “Contributionsof Regime Theory in Understanding Interstate WaterCooperation: Lessons Learned in the Jordan River Basin”,in: Turton/Henwood (Eds.): Hydropolitics in theDeveloping World: A Southern African Perspective (Pretoria:African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU).Address: Dr. Anders Jägerskog, Stockholm InternationalWater Institute, Drottninggatan 33, SE-111 51 Stockholm,Sweden.Email: and .Jochen Jesinghaus (Germany) is an Economist and Engineer,since 1992 he has been an official of the EuropeanCommission, with extensive work experience in sustainabledevelopment, globalization and political sciences. WithErnst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, he wrote Ecological Tax Reform(1992). He has been a member of numerous Commissionworking groups, e.g. Interservice Working Group(IWG) on Green National Accounting and EnvironmentalIndicators and IWG on economic instruments for the preparationof the 1993 Delors White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness& Employment, of several Eurostat WorkingGroups, OECD SOE group, of the United Nations expertsgroup on SD indicators and on the Framework for the Developmentof Environment Statistics, the World EconomicForum ESI Peer Review Group, IISD Consultative Groupon Sustainable Development Indices, Bellagio group on SDindicators. Member of the Italian delegation to the WorldSocial Forum, Porto Alegre 2002, World Summit on SustainableDevelopment (Johannesburg 2002), and EuropeanSocial Forum (Florence 2002). From March 2003 to November2005 working in the European Commission’s GeneralDirectorate for Development (Unit for Relations withthe UN system, Member States and other OECD donors),responsible, inter alia, for the follow-up of the WSSD. SinceDecember 2005 working in DG JRC on complex indicatorsystems, inter alia on the ‘Millennium Development GoalsDashboard of Sustainability’ and on the ‘Measuring theProgress of Societies’ initiave led by the OECD World Forumon Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, and the EuropeanCommission's Beyond GDP initiative.Address: Jochen Jesinghaus, European Commission, DGJRC G-9 TP 36/170, Via Enrico Fermi, 1, I-21020 Ispra(VA), Italy.Email: .Website: .Richard Jones (UK) is Manager of Regional Cclimate Predictionsat the Met Office Hadley Centre where he hasworked since 1990. Prior to this he worked in the MathematicsDepartment at Oxford University having obtainedhis PhD in Numerical Analysis from Imperial College in1987. His main responsibilities are to provide state of theart regional climate modelling systems and to provide andanalyse regional climate change scenarios and advice onthese as required under contracts for various UK governmentdepartments and international bodies. He developedregional climate modelling in the Hadley Centre, overseeingmany major firsts in the field worldwide - developmentof a consistent GCM/RCM modelling system; domain-sizeexperiments; climate timescale experiments driven by numericalweather prediction analyses; multi-decade regionalclimate change experiments; development of GCMs to providehigh quality boundary conditions for RCMs; ensembleregional climate change experiments. He is a lead or majorcontributing author to many fundamental publications inregional climate modelling including being a lead author ofthe IPCC’s Assessment Reports (2001, 2007). He led thedevelopment of the regional climate modelling system PRE-CIS, has worked with many European institutes and is currentlyworking with institutes across all continents in thefields of climate prediction and climate scenario development.Among his major publications are: (with Jones, R.G.; Hassell, D.C.; Hudson, D.; Wilson, S.S.; Jenkins, G.J.;Mitchell, J.F.B, 2004: Workbook on generating high resolutionclimate change scenarios using PRECIS (Exeter, UK:Met Office Hadley Centre – New York: UNDP); (withChristensen, J.H.; Hewitson, B.; Busuioc, A.; Chen, A.;Gao, X.; Held, I.; Jones, R.; Kolli, R.K.; Kwon, W.-T.;Laprise, R.; Magaña Rueda, V.; Mearns, L.; Menéndez,C.G.; Räisänen, J.; Rinke, A.; Sarr, A.; Whetton, P., 2007:“Regional Climate Projections”, in: IPCC (Ed.): ClimateChange 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution ofWorking Group I (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press).Address: Dr. Richard Jones, Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoyRoad, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Lahcen Kabiri (Morocco), Professor of Geology at the Facultyof Sciences and Technology, Errachidia (FSTE), MoulayIsmaïl University (UMI) Meknes, Morocco; in charge ofthe Laboratory of Surface Formations (LFS)/Climate, Water,Environment and Heritage Sciences [SCEEP]. He wasthe Moroccan coordinator of a NATO Linkage project on:Use of Indicators for Desertification in the Oasis Settlements,in collaboration with Reims University (France) andBlida University (Algeria). L. Kabiri was responsible for theThématique d'Appui à la Recherche Scientifique PROTARS(P2T3/13, FSTE_UMI, Maroc) 1999–2004 on the climatechanges impacts on: écosystèmes de la région de Tafilalt etenvirons depuis environs 140 000 ans BP. In 2003 he benefittedof the UNESCO prize of the MAB project: Impact

1744 Authorsdes changements climatiques et anthropiques sur les ressourcesen Eau dans l'Oasis de Ferkla (Tinjdad, Errachidia,Morocco). Among his main publications are: Kabiri, L. etal.: 2003: “Etude préliminaire de la dynamique des dunescontinentales dans le Sud Est marocain”, in: Sécheresse,14,3 (Sseptember): 149–156; Boudat; Kabiri, L., 2002: “Désertificationet Crise de quelques Oasis dans les bassins versantsde Ziz et Ghèris (Errachidia, Maroc)”, in: Revue deGéographie du Maroc, (RGM), 20,1–2 (Nouvelle série):97106; Kabiri, L., 2004: Contribution au développent durabledes Oasis du sud marocain: cas de l’oasis de Ferkla(Tinjdad, Goulmima, Errachidia, Maroc). Minbar Al JamiaaNo. 6 (Meknès: Université Moulay Ismaïl (UMI)):323–332; Bouhlassa, S. ; Alechcheikh, Ch.; Kabiri, L., 2007:“Origine de la minéralisation et de la détérioration de laqualité de la nappe quaternaire du sous- bassin versant deRheris (Errachidia, Maroc)”, in: Revue Sécheresse, 19,1(March 2008): 67–75; Buhl, D.; Immenhauser, A.; Smeulders,G.; Kabiri, L.; Richter, D., 2007: Times series d Mganalysis in speleothem calcite: Kinetic verus equilibriumfractionation, comparison with other proxies and implicationsfor palaeoclimate reserarch, in: Chemical Geology,isotope geoscience, 244: 715–729.Address: Prof. Dr. Lahcen Kabiri, Université Moulay Ismail,Faculté des Sciences et Techniques d‘Errachidia, Laboratoirede Science du Climat, de l'Eau, de l'Environnement etdu Patrimoine [SCEEP], BP 509, Boutalamine, 52 000 Errachidia,Maroc.Email: and .Patricia Kameri-Mbote (Kenya), is Professor of Law, Universityof Nairobi. See biographies of editors.Yasuko Kameyama (Japan) has been working for the NationalInstitute for Environmental Studies (NIES) since1992. Her academic background is international relations,and her studies have been mainly on international negotiationson climate change. She has participated in most internationalnegotiations related to UN Framework Conventionon Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the firstConference of the Parties (COP1) to the UNFCCC in 1995as a member of Japanese delegation. In 1999–2000, shestayed at the Department of Government and Politics, Universityof Maryland, U.S., as a visiting researcher. She obtainedher doctoral degree at Tokyo Institute of Technologyin 1997. She has many publications on internationalnegotiations, international institutions, and on the nationaldecision making process related to climate change. One ofher latest articles on climate change negotiation is: “ProcessMatters: Building a Future Climate Regime with Multi-Processes”,in: Climate Policy, 7,5 (2007): 429–443. She has recentlyco-edited a book with A. P. Sari, M. H. Soejachmoenand N. Kanie (2008): Climate Change in Asia: Perspectiveson the Future Climate Regime (Tokyo: UNU Press).Address: Dr. Yasuko Kameyama, Senior Researcher, NationalInstitute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba,305-8506, Japan.Email: .Website: .Narichika Kanie (Japan) is Associate Professor at theGraduate School of Decision Science and Technology,Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and VisitingAssociate Professor of the United Nations UniversityInstitute of Advanced Studies. Among others he serves as ascientific steering committee member of the Earth SystemsGovernance Programme of IHDP, and is editorial boardmember of the journal Global Environmental Governance.Currently he is a bureau member of Working Party onGlobal and Structural Policies (WPGSP) at OECD. FromAugust 2009 to July 2010 he is a Marie Curie IncomingInternational Fellow of the European Commission andbased in SciencesPo. and IDDRI, Paris, France. His recentpublications include “Post-2012 Institutional Architecture toAddress Climate Change: A Proposal for EffectiveGovernance. Global Warming and Climate Change”, in:Grover, V.I. (Ed.): Global Warming and Climate Change:Ten Years After Kyoto and Still Counting, Vol. 2. (city, NH:Science Publishers, 2008): 1065–1077; “The long-teamchallenge of climate change – Possible allocations for Japanand Asian countries in 2050”, in: (Co-ed. with YasukoKameyama, Agus P. Sari, Moekti H. Soejachmoen):Climate Change in Asia (Tokyo: United Nations UniversityPress, 2008): 31–48. He received his Ph.D. in Media andGovernance from the Keio University.Address: Prof. Dr. Norichika KANIE, Department of Valueand Decision Science, Graduate School of Decision Scienceand Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-W9-43 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.Email: .Website: .Nanda Kishor, MS (India) is a Project Consultant inthe Centre for Energy, Environment, Urban Governance &Infrastructure Development in the Administrative StaffCollege of India (ASCI), Hyderabad. He is presently workingon state sanitation strategies and city sanitation plansall over India under the most appreciated JawaharlalNehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) ofMinistry of Urban Development, Government of India. Priorto this, he was a faculty at Regional Centre for Urbanand Environmental Studies, Osmania University, Hyderabad,India, heading the Urban Poverty Alleviation Cell atthe centre. He obtained his Ph. D from the University ofHyderabad, India. He obtained his Ph. D from Universityof Hyderabad, India. He has been working on Poverty, displacement,forced migration, Sustainable Development,gender and vulnerability. He is a recipient of Junior ResearchFellowship under Indo-Finnish Exchange Programmeby the Government of Finland, Calcutta ResearchGroup, UNHCR and Brookings Institution. He has publisheda report on: “Finnish Asylum Policy and its Dilemmas”with the Calcutta Research Group. From 2003 to2007 he was working with Governance and Policy Spaces(GAPS, Hyderabad, India) for the Ford Foundation, India.He has presented work on forced migration and on India’sposition at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. He waschosen for the summer academy on Megacities: social vulnerabilityand measures to build social resilience” in theyear 2007. He is an advisory council member of Winter

Biographies of Contributors 1745Course on Forced migration sponsored by Government ofFinland, Calcutta Research Group, UNHCR and BrookingsInstitution. He has co-authored the article “The MegacityResilience Framework” (UNU-EHS series SOURCE No.10/2008).Address: Dr. Nanda Kishor, Project Consultant, Centre forEnergy, Environment,Urban Governance & InfrastructureDevelopment, Administrative Staff College of India,Bellavista, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, 500 082.Email: .Michael Krause (Germany) has been employed as a ResearchAssociate at the Potsdam Institute for Climate ImpactResearch (PIK) since 2007. See biographies of authorsof forewords and preface essays.Carmen Lacambra S. (Colombia) has recently completedher PhD at the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, in theDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, whereshe is now a research associate. Her project consists on thedevelopment of an ecosystem-inclusive coastal vulnerabilityassessment to natural disasters in coastal areas of the Neotropics.Carmen worked for UNEP- World ConservationMonitoring Centre in the UK (2002–2005 and 2010), forthe Colombian National Institute of Marine and CoastalResearch – Invemar (2001–2002), for the Institute of Estuarineand Coastal Studies at the University of Hull (1998-2000), and for the Colombian Oceanic Commission (1996-1997). Most of Carmen career has developed in the field ofCoastal Zone Management and the Conservation of naturalecosystems at local, national and regional level. Carmenis a biologist from the University of Los Andes in Bogota,Colombia, and holds a Masters degree in Estuarine andCoastal Science and Management from the University ofHull, UK.Address: Dr. Carmen Lacambra, St Edmund’s College,Cambridge, CB3 0BN, UK.Email: .Website: .Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (India/Australia) is a Fellow at the ResourceManagement in Asia Pacific Programme, College ofAsia and the Pacific, in The Australian National University(ANU). She has written widely on water resource managementin South Asia. Among her publications are: (co-editedwith Robert Wasson): Water First: Issues and Challengesfor Nations and Communities in South Asia (New Delhi:Sage, 2008; (ed.): Fluid Bonds: Views on Gender and Water(Kolkata: Stree, 2006); (guest ed.): ‘Water for People’,special issue of Development; (co-author with Gopa Samanta):“Like the drifting grains of sand: Vulnerability, securityand adjustment by communities in the charlands of the Damodardelta”, in: South Asia: Journal of the South AsianStudies Association, 32,2: 320-357; “People, power and rivers:Experiences from the Damodar river, India”, in: WaterNepal, 9-10,1-2: 251-267; “Imagining rivers”, in: Economicand Political Weekly, 35,27: 2395-2400.Address: Prof. Dr. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 231 Antill Street,Watson, ACT 2602, Canberra, Australia.Email: .Website: .Anne Larigauderie (France) is the Executive Director of DI-VERSITAS hosted by the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle(MNHN) in Paris. She received her Master’s Degreein molecular biology from the University of Toulouse,France (1982), and her PhD in plant ecology from theCNRS in Montpellier, France (1985). She then spent severalyears in the USA, working as a research assistant, and lateras a staff scientist on various projects. In Alaska, she was involvedin the first pilot project performing CO2 enrichmentof natural ecosystems in the tundra (1985-1987). At theSan Diego State University and the University of California-Davis, she worked on root competition of California grasslandspecies for soil nutrient pockets (1988-1990). A subsequentproject at Duke University, North Carolina, focusedon responses of various grass species to several scenarios ofelevated CO2 and temperature, the aim of which was topredict response of grasses to future climate change (1991-1992). In 1992, she returned to Europe, working as a researchscientist on the adaptation of dark respiration oflowland and alpine plant species to future elevated temperaturesat the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 1996, shebecame the coordinator of the Swiss Priority Programmeon biodiversity and the scientific advisor to the Swiss delegationto the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In1999, she joined the International Council for Science (IC-SU, Paris) where she was in charge of the portfolio of programmesrelated to the environment (which includes DI-VERSITAS). She was appointed Executive Director ofDIVERSITAS in late 2001 and tasked with launching thisnew international programme of biodiversity science. Shemaintains a strong interest in biodiversity science and especiallythe science-policy interface.Address: Dr Anne Larigauderie, DIVERSITAS, MuséumNational d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Maison Buffon, 57rue Cuvier – CP 41, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France.Email: .Website: .Pietro Laureano (Italy), Architect and Town Planner, is aUNESCO consultant on arid areas, Islamic society and ecosystemsin danger. He worked in the Sahara desert and coordinatedprojects in Algeria, Jordan, Yemen and Ethiopia.He is the author of the report on the addition of the Sassidi Matera and the Cilento Park to the UNESCO worldHeritage list. As the Italian representative in the Technical-Scientific Committee in the United Nations Convention toCombat Desertification (UNCCD) and as President of theTraditional Knowledge Panel he promoted a world databank on the local knowledge system. At present he is carryingout this mission with the Research Centre on Local andTraditional Knowledge (IPOGEA) he founded. IPOGEA’sactivities include coordinating EU projects in the Mediterranean,research and landscape restoration and using traditionaltechniques in an innovative way. His publications include:The Water Atlas. Traditional knowledge to combatdesertification (Barcellona: Laia Libros, 2005); Water, thecycle of the life [in French, Spanish and Catalan] (Barcello-

1746 Authorsna: Laia Libros, 1999); La Piramide Rovesciata, il modellodell’oasi per il pianeta Terra (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri,1995); Giardini di Pietra, i Sassi di Matera e la civiltà mediterranea(Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1993).Address: Mr. Pietro Laureano, Ipogea, Via Roma 595, 50012Bagno a Ripoli, Florence, Italy.E-mail: .Website: .Rik Leemans (The Netherlands), Dr. (University of Uppsala),Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis, EnvironmentalSciences Department, Wageningen University anddirector of the WIMEK graduate school. He also chairs theinternational Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) andthe Dutch National Global Change Committee. He workson various aspects of global environmental change. He currentlydirects several multidisciplinary projects on land-usechange, biogeochemical cycles, global biodiversity. All theseprojects accentuate resilience vulnerability and sustainability.His early studies at Uppsala University (Sweden) emphasizedthe successional dynamics and structure of boreal forests.His subsequent research position at the BiosphereProject of the International Institute of Applied SystemAnalyses (IIASA, Austria) focussed on boreal forest models.During the 1990’s he was a senior scientist of the NationalInstitute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) inBilthoven. Here, he directed the development of integratedmodelling approaches for the biosphere within the IMAGE2 model. Since then his research has excelled into modellingglobal environmental change. He has published manypapers in books, reports and academic journals like Science,Climatic Change, Ecological Modelling, Global EnvironmentalChange and Ecology and Society. He chairedthe Response Option Working Group of the MillenniumEcosystem Assessment (MA) and was involved as a lead-authorin all assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) that was rewarded the NobelPeace price in 2007. He is Editor-in-chief of Current Opinionin Environmental Sustainability, and on the editorialboard of Ecosystems, Climatic Change, Global EnvironmentalChange, Carbon Balance and Management, and amember of Faculty of 1000 Biology. He works as a refereefor the Dutch Science Foundations (NWO and WOTRO),the European Research Council (ERC) and is evaluator ofacademic institutions and research projects. He has been amember of several scientific associations, such as the InternationalAssociation of Vegetation Science, The IntegratedAssessment Society and the American Ecological Society.Address: Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Environmental SystemsAnalysis Group, Wageningen University & Research, POBox 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.Email: .Website: .Francisco López Bermúdez (Spain), Professor of PhysicalGeography at the University of Murcia since 1978. He obtainedthe “Juan Sebastián Elcano” National ResearchAward (CISC) in 1973 for his Ph.D. thesis. He has taughtenvironmental sciences and geography. His main researchissues are erosion processes and desertification. He was themain researcher in more than 30 research projects, he cooperatedin 5 projects funded by the National Plan for R&D,European Commission, Environment Ministry and the Regionof Murcia. He authored and co-authored 27 booksand studies, 104 book chapters, 140 scientific articles in nationaland international journals and he edited 7 books. Hewas president of the Spanish Geomorphology Society(1990-1992), of the Mediterranean Committee of the InternationalUnion for Conservation of Nature, director of theUniversity Institute for Water and Environment. He is amember of the Royal “Alfonso X” Academy. He is a memberof networks on erosion studies, of Spanish and Europeanscientific institutions, of a panel of experts that wrotethe National Action Plan against Desertification. He hasbeen teaching many courses and addressed conferences onenvironmental problems, erosion and desertification processesin Mediterranean environments. He is a member ofthe scientific board of Spanish and international journalsand he has directed many theses of students.Address: Prof. Dr. Francisco López Bermúdez, Departamentode Geografía, Univer-sidad de Murcia, Campus deLa Merced, 30001 Murcia, Spain.Email: .Michel Loreau (Canada) is Full Professor and Tier 1 CanadaResearch Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University(Montreal, Canada). After receiving his Ph.D. from theFree University of Brussels (ULB, Belgium) in 1983, he wasresearch assistant and senior research assistant of the NationalFund for Scientific Research (Belgium), assistant lecturerand lecturer at the Free University of Brussels, programmemanager at the Science Policy Office (Belgium),and professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris,France). He has won several scientific prizes, including theInternational Ecology Institute Prize, the Silver Medal ofthe National Centre for Scientific Research (France), andthe Agathon De Potter and Max Poll Prizes of the RoyalAcademy of Belgium. He has participated in the editorialboards of many top ecology journals, including EcologyLetters, The American Naturalist, Ecology, EcologicalMonographs and Oecologia. He is currently member of theeditorial board of PLoS Biology and the advisory board ofFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment. He is also headof the Section Community Ecology and Biodiversity of theFaculty of 1000. He has been member of numerous nationaland international scientific committees. In particular,he chaired the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS, theinternational programme of biodiversity science, the InternationalSteering Committee of the consultative process towardsan International Mechanism of Scientific Expertiseon Biodiversity (IMoSEB), the Steering Committee of theEuropean Science Foundation programme Linking communityand ecosystem ecology (LINKECOL), and the ScientificCommittee of the International Conference BiodiversityScience and Governance organized by France underthe high patronage of Jacques Chirac, President of theFrench Republic, and Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-Generalof UNESCO. He is the author of over 200 scientific publicationsin the fields of theoretical ecology, community ecology,ecosystem ecology, population ecology, and evolution-

Biographies of Contributors 1747ary ecology. His current research aims to make a theoreticalsynthesis between the so far widely separated fields of biodiversity,ecosystem functioning, community organisation,and evolution of species.Address: Prof. Dr Michel Loreau, Department of Biology,McGill University, 1205 avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal,Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada.Email: .Website: .Jens Kristian Lørup (Denmark) obtained his MSc degree inagronomy in 1991 specializing in hydrology, irrigation andsoil erosion. Soon after he joined the Technical Universityof Denmark, where he worked as research assistant and lecturerand completed his PhD study on the impact of landuse change on water resources in 1998. He joined the DHIin 1993, initially on a part-time basis parallel to his PhDstudy and assignments for Danida and the World Bank, andhe has been at DHI ever since apart from a 3½-years assignmentas Danida Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture inBhutan. He has been involved in a number of research studiesfocusing on the effect of climate change and/or landuse change on water resources, including on projects inTanzania, Zimbabwe, Denmark, Egypt and the whole NileBasin. He has comprehensive experience with training andtransfer of knowledge and technology. He has conductednumerous training workshops around the world has alsoconducted courses at the Technical University of Denmarkin hydrology, irrigation, and IWRM. Apart from Denmark,he has geographical experience from more than 15 countriesthrough one long-term assignment and from morethan 50 short-term assignments abroad, primarily in EastAfrica and Asia. He published on impact of land use andclimate change on the water resources, including: (1998):“Assessing the effect of land use change on catchment runoffby combined use of statistical tests and hydrologicalmodelling”, in: Journal of Hydrology, 205, 147–163.Address: Dr. Jens Kristian Lørup, DHI, Agern Allé 5, 2970Hørsholm, Denmark.Email: .Website: .Hermann Lotze-Campen (Germany) is leading a researchgroup on the interactions between climate change, agricultureand food production, land and water use, and adaptationoptions through biomass energy production and technologicalchange at the Potsdam Institute for ClimateImpact Research. See biographies of authors of forewordsand preface essays.Patrick P. Meier (United States of America): Doctoral ResearchFellow with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative(HHI), Harvard University, and PhD Candidate at TheFletcher School, Tufts University. His academic and professionalinterests focus on improving the science, practiceand impact of conflict early warning and disaster response.He is especially interested in self-organized and decentralizedmodes of operational warning and response. His doctoralresearch at Harvard University explores the impact ofinformation communication technology (ICT) such as distributedmobile technology and high resolution satellite imageryfor the purposes of humanitarian early warning, crisismapping and disaster response. He teaches advanced seminarson “Disaster and Conflict Early Warning/Response”and “Complex Systems Analysis” to graduate students andUN agencies. He has published on early warning and haspresented his cross-disciplinary research at dozens of respectedconferences worldwide. Among his major publicationsare: Patrick/Bond 2007; Bond/Meier 2006; Meier/Linotte2006; Bond /Meier 2005; Levy/Meier 2004. As aprofessional consultant, Mr. Meier has worked with theUN, OSCE, IGAD and ECOWAS. In addition, he hasworked with the International Crisis Group, InternationalAlert and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Mr.Meier is an alumnus of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) andholds an MA from Columbia University’s School for Internationaland Public Affairs (SIPA).Address: Mr. Patrick Meier, The Fletcher School, 160 PackardAvenue, Medford, MA 02155, U.S.A.Email: .Website: .Monique Mainguet (France), Professor Emeritus of theUniversity of Reims Champagne Ardenne (France), founder(1973) and director of the "Laboratoire de Géographie Zonalepour le Développement" (LGZD). She is honorariusmember of the "Institut universitaire de France" (IuF) andactive member of the "Comité Scientifique Français de laDésertification" (CSFD). Since 1975 she has been a consultantfor several international organisations (UNESCO, UN-EP, FAO, WMO, ESCAP, UNU) and from 1985 to 1989, shewas Deputy Director of the DC PAC (Desertification ControlActivity Centre) of UNEP in Nairobi (Kenya). In 2006-2007, she was a team leader of a NATO Programme SecurityThrough Science, Collaborative Linkage Grant on: “Useof indicators for desertification in the oasian settlements”in collaboration with the universities of Errachidia (Morroco)and Blida (Algéria), and of AUF P2-2092RR521: “Techniquestraditionnelles de gestion et d’utilisation de l'eau enmilieu soudano-sahélien camerounais, en parallèle avec lesdonnées acquises en milieu soudano-sahélien ivoirien.Etudes de cas” with the university of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)and N'agoundéré (Cameroon). Her research interests are:societal-environment links, dryland environments, desertenvironmental changes, mainly through a multi-scale approach:continental with satellite imagery, regional and localwith aerial photographs, the whole investigations sustainedby serious fieldwork. Recent investigations havefocussed on desertification in Central Asian Deserts (Uzbekistan)and in the Sahel (especially Mauritania and Senegal).Monique Mainguet has over 200 publications including8 books and 7 “Compte-Rendus” to the FrenchAcademy of Sciences. Major publications include: Le modelédes Grès. Problèmes généraux. Institut GéographiqueNational. Etudes de Photo-interprétation (1972), Thèse deDoctorat d’Etat; Desertification. Natural Background andHuman Mismanagement (21994); Aridity , Droughts andHuman Development (Heidelberg: Springer, 1999); Englishtranslation of : L'Homme et la Sécheresse (Paris: Masson,

1748 Authorséd. Collection Géographie, year); with Dumay F: “TransaharanWind Flows analysed on Meteosat 4 satellite imagery.Resources, urban, sand & wind, Desert Technology III,Oct 15–20, 1995, Lake Motosu, Japan”, in: Journal of AridLand Studies, 53 (1995): 89–94; “Desertification: GlobalDegradation of Drylands”, in: Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta,P.H; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul; Selim, MohammedEl-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean.Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts(Berlin-Heidelberg: pringer 2003): 645–653; with DumayF., 2006: “Erosion éolienne et désertification” (Paris:Comité Scientifique Français de la Désertification, les dossiersthématiques n°3); Les Pays secs, Environnement et Développement(Paris: Ellipses, Collection Carrefour, 2005).Address: Office: Prof. Dr. Monique Mainguet, Laboratoirede Géographie Zonale pour le Développement, Universitéde Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 57 Rue Pierre Taittinger, 51100 Reims. France; Private: 24 Rue de la Cité Foulc,30 000 Nîmes, France.Email: and .Esther Marijnen (The Netherlands) holds a BSC in politicalscience, with a focus on international relations and conflictstudies at the University of Amsterdam. Currently sheis doing her MA in Conflict Studies and Human Rights atthe University of Utrecht. Since 2008, she is the research assistantof Prof. John Grin. Fall 2009 she spent a semester inKigali, Rwanda, to conduct research and fieldwork for aproject on “The future of Rwanda, social cohesion or socialdisruption” as well as for a research project of theDutch development organisation, SNV and CARE concerningeconomic community-based enterprises, engaged in addressingthe interconnected problems of poverty, conflict,and environmental degradation. Afterwards she was an internat the Clingendael Institute for International Relations.Address: Ms. Esther Marijnen, Department of Political Science,University of Amsterdam OZ Achterburgwal 237, 1012DL Amsterdam, The Netherlands.E-mail: .Katharina Marre, née Thywissen (South Africa, Germany),PhD in geophysics (seismology), GeoForschungsZentrumPotsdam, University of Potsdam in Germany; MSc in geology(marine geology), University of Hamburg, Germany.She worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park,California; the reinsurance industry in New York on riskassessment, modeling, pricing and exposure control; onearly warning at the United Nations Environment Programme,Department for Early Warning and Assessment(UNEP/DEWA) in Nairobi, Kenya (2002-2003), and onpost-disaster damage assessment for a French consultantcompany (2003-2004). From 2004 to 2007 she was academicofficer at UNU-EHS in Bonn where she also servedas a senior scientific advisor to the German Federal ForeignOffice (2005–2006) and as an information exchange scientistat the German Federal Ministry for Education andResearch (2006–2007). From 2007 to 2008 she was a scientificadvisor at UNU-ViE dealing with core institutionaltasks including initiating new UN entities, relations withrelevant UN and other international organizations, academicinstitutions of higher education, governments, andUNU headquarters in Tokyo. Since August 2008 she is onmaternity leave. Among her major publications are: Componentsof Risk - A Comparative Glossary. SOURCE No.2/2006 (Bonn: UNU-EHS); (with Buton, J.-M.; Guillande,R. 2004): “Integrated real-time natural disaster managementin France”, in: Geoinformatics; (with Boatwright J.;Seekins, L.C., 2001): “Correlation of Ground Motion andIntensity for the 17 January, 1994 Northridge, California,Earthquake”, in: Bulletin Seismic Society, 91,4: 739–752;(with Boatwright J., 1998): “Using Safety Inspection Data toEstimate Shaking Intensity for the 1994 Northridge Earthquake”,in: Bulletin Seismic Society of America, 88, 5: 1243–1253.Address: Dr. Katharina Marre, Via Alberto da Sarteano 79,00126 Rome, Italy.E-mail: .Mabel-Cristina Marulanda (Colombia): is a Civil Engineer(2003) of the National University of Colombia, CampusManizales. She is a PhD student at UPC, Barcelona, Spain,in the Programme of Structural Analysis and a research assistantof the International Centre of Numerical Methodsin Engineering, Barcelona (CIMNE). She has been involvedin research projects related to the design and implementationof urban observatories using environmental indicators(2003-2004) and in the Programme of Indicators of DisasterRisk and Risk management Management for the Americasdeveloped (2004-2005) and updated (2008-2009) forthe IDB by the Institute of Environmental Studies (IDEA)of the National University of Colombia. She did graduatestudies in the National Research Institute for Earth Scienceand Disaster Prevention (NIED) of Japan (2005) and shehas been awarded by the ProVention Consortium’s programmeof applied research grants for disaster reduction(2005-2006) and by the ECOPOLIS’ programme of graduateand design awards of the International DevelopmentResearch Centre (IDRC) of Canada (2008-2009). Some recentand relevant publications are: (co-author with Cardona,Omar D.; Ordaz, Mario G.; Yamín, Luis E.; Barbat, AlexH., 2008): “Earthquake Loss Assessment for Integrated DisasterRisk Management”, in: Journal of Earthquake Engineering,12,1–2 (January): 48–59; (co-author with Carreño,Martha-Liliana; Cardona, Omar D.; Barbat, Alex H., 2009):“Holistic Urban Seismic Risk Evaluation of Megacities: Applicationand Robustness” in: Mendes-Victor, Luis A.;Sousa Oliveira, Carlos; Azevedo, João; Ribeiro, António(Eds.), 2009: The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited (Heidelberg:Springer).Address: Eng. Mabel-Cristina Marulanda, Jordi Girona 1-3,Mod. C1. Campus Nord, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña,Barcelona, Spain.Email: .Gordon McBean (Canada): Ph.D. (The University of BritishColumbia, Vancouver); Professor of Geography and PoliticalScience and Director of Policy Studies, Institute forCatastrophic Loss Reduction, The University of WesternOntario, London. Previously: Assistant Deputy Minister,

Biographies of Contributors 1749Meteorological Service of Environment Canada; Professorof Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, The University ofBritish Columbia. His research work has shifted from thestudies of weather, climate and ocean systems to issues ofenvironmental policy, natural hazards, weather and climateadaptation and policy issues, role of governments in hazardmitigation and weather and environmental prediction systems.He has published in the journals: Natural Hazards,Canadian Public Policy and Mitigation and AdaptationStrategies for Global Change. He is a Member of the Orderof Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, theAmerican Meteorological Society and the CanadianMeteorological and Oceanographic Society and shared inthe Nobel Peace Prize as a significant contributor to theIPCC. He is Chair of the International Council for Science(ICSU) - International Social Sciences Council - UN InternationalStrategy for Disaster Reduction Science Committeefor Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program.Address: Prof. Dr. Gordon McBean, Institute for CatastrophicLoss Reduction/Department of Geography, TheUniversity of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada,N6A 5C2.Email: .Website: .Rachel McCarthy (UK) is a Climate Change Consultantand Impacts Model Developer at the Met Office HadleyCentre. She is the climate impacts coordinator on the useof Met Office decadal forecasts to inform adaptation andmitigation strategies. Her role is concerned primarily withassisting governments and businesses to understand the potentialimpacts of climate change and in developing tailoredprojects to ascertain how climate change may impact ontheir concerns. She has considerable experience in the regionalmodelling of global water resources and the impactsof climate change on agriculture. She gained a joint, firstclass honours bachelor’s degree in physics and chemistryfrom the University of Durham and wrote her dissertationon polar ozone depletion.Address: Dr. Rachel McCarthy, Met Office Hadley Centre,FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Glenn McGregor (New Zealand/UK) is Director of theSchool of Environment, University of Auckland, New Zealand.He is a climatologist with interests in synoptic climatology,climate and health and large scale hydroclimatology.As well as researching and teaching in the field of climatology,he is Chief Editor of: The International Journal of Climatology,the World Meteorological Organisation’s Commissionof Climatology’s Lead Expert on Climate andHealth and the 2011 President elect of the International Societyof Biometeorology. He was a special advisor on climatologyfor the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise andalso a contributing author to the heath chapter of WorkingGroup II’s “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Report”for the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on ClimateChange. He continues to be involved in IPCC activitiesthrough his lead authorship of Chapter 2 entitled “Determinantsof Risks: Exposure and Vulnerability”, for a IPCCSpecial Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Eventsand Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation(SREX). Before joining the University of Auckland in 2008he was professor of physical geography and climatology atKing’s College London and before that reader in synopticclimatology at the University of Birmingham. During histime in the UK he led as principal investigator or collaboratedas co-investigator on a number of UK and EU fundedprojects on climate and health.Address: Professor Dr. Glenn McGregor, School of Environment,University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Auckland1142, Auckland, New Zealand.Email: .Website: .Czeslaw Mesjasz (Poland): Dr hab., Associate Professor,Faculty of Management, Cracow University of Economics,Cracow, Poland. See biographies of editors.Lidia Mesjasz (Poland): Ph.D., Assistant Professor at theDepartment of International Economics, Cracow Universityof Economics, Cracow, Poland. Her research interests include:international debt, sovereign debt restructuring, financialcrises, development economics. In 1988-1991 sheworked in the Research Centre on Debt and Development,Jagiellonian University, Cracow. In July-August 1999 she was aVisiting Researcher at the World Bank, Washington, D.C.,USA. In September-October 1999 she was a Visiting Professorin Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan,USA. Among her more than 40 publications are chapters inbooks and papers in Polish on international debt and financialcrises, including the following: “Kryzysy finansowe wewspółczesnej gospodarce şwiatowej” [Financial Crises inthe Current World Economy), in: Miklaszewski, Stanisław(Ed): “Międzynarodowe stosunki gospodarcze u progu XXIwieku” [International Economic Relations on the Turn ofXXI Century] (Warszawa: Difin, 2006): 108-162; “Kryzyszadłużeniowy i jego konsekwencje” [Debt Crisis and itsConsequences], in: Miklaszewski, Stanisław (Ed): “Krajerozwijające się w şwiatowym systemie gospodarczym” [DevelopingCountries in the World Economic System](Warszawa: Difin, 2007): 42–101; “Rola MFW wrozwiązywaniu kryzysów finansowych” [IMF Role in SolvingFinancial Crises], in: “Handel i finanse międzynarodowe wwarunkach globalizacji” [International Trade and Financein Global Economy] (Poznań: University of Economics PublishingHouse, 2007): 216–132; “Rola sektora oficjalnego wrestrukturyzacji długu państwowego” [Role of Official Sectorin Sovereign Debt Restructuring], in: Noga, Marian;Sawicka, Małgorzata (Eds.): “Problemy gospodarkişwiatowej” [World Economy’s Problems]. Scientific Papersof Wroc³aw Academy of Economics, 1191 (2008): 304–315.Address: Asst. Prof. Dr. Lidia Mesjasz, Cracow University ofEconomics, Pl-31-510 Kraków, ul. Rakowicka 27, Poland.Email: .Website: .Bert Metz (The Netherlands): PhD, studied Chemical Engineeringat the Delft University of Technology. He worked for

1750 Authorsthe Inspectorate for Environmental Protection of the NetherlandsMinistry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment,as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineeringat the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeriaand as Counsellor for Environment and Health at the RoyalNetherlands Embassy in Washington DC. In 1992 he becameDeputy Director for Air and Energy of the Netherlands Ministryof Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment. In thisfunction he was responsible for climate policy and internationalclimate change negotiations. He was chief negotiatorfor the Netherlands till the agreement on the Kyoto Protocol.From 1997 to 2008 he served as co-chairman of the WorkingGroup on Climate Change Mitigation of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. From1998 to 2008 he has been associated with the NetherlandsEnvironmental Assessment Agency, where he led the InternationalEnvironmental Assessment and the Global Sustainabilityand Climate Division. Since his retirement in 2008 he is afellow at the European Climate Foundation, a member of theScientific Advisory Board of the Mediterranean Climate Centrein Italy and of the editorial board of the journal Climateand Development. Among his major publications are: Thirdand Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group III IPCC,IPCC Special Reports on Technology Transfer, CO2 Captureand Storage and Ozone and ClimateAddress: Dr. Bert. Metz, Westerlookade 4, 2271 GA, Voorburg;The Netherlands.E-mail: .Website: .Sami Moisio (Finland): Ph.D., Docent in Political Geographyand Academy of Finland senior research fellow at theDepartment of Geography of the University of Turku. Heserved formerly as assistant professor of IR at the Universityof Lapland and assistant professor of Human Geographyat the Universities of Oulu and Turku. His research focuseson geopolitics, regional transformation, and European integration.He is the author of several publications and articleson European integration, geopolitical theory, northernEurope and Finland. He has published papers in these areasin, for instance, in: Geopolitics, National Identities, Cooperationand Conflict, World Political Science Review,and Scottish Geographical Journal.Address: Dr. Sami Moisio, Department of Geography, Universityof Turku, FIN-20014, Turku, Finland.Email: .Website: .Christoph Müller (Germany) is a Geoecologist and holds aPh.D. from Potsdam University and the International MaxPlanck Research School on Earth System Modelling inHamburg, Germany. See biographies of authors of forewordsand preface essays.Mathews Mullackal (India) is heading the Programme DevelopmentGroup in Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF). He isprimarily responsible for developing new programmes, addingvalue to the existing projects and action oriented research.He has a unique multidisciplinary educational background.He did his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineeringfrom the University of Calicut, post graduate diplomas inEnvironmental Management and NGO Management fromAnnamalai University and a Masters degree in InternationalDevelopment from the University of Bristol, UK. Moreover,he has eight years of work experience mainly in the waterand development sector in India and in the Middle East.He is experienced in all phases of project development,budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, includingresearch, strategic planning, analytical work, communitymobilization and organizational management. Hehas a strong interest in environment and development andbelieves that bottom-up development leading to communityempowerment and emancipation of marginalized sectionsis essential for addressing the challenges of the presentworld.Address: Mr. Mathews Mullackal, Jal Bhagirathi Foundation,Near Kayalana Lake, Bijolai, Jodhpur, Rajasthan,India.Email: .Website: .Sreeja Nair (India): Associate Fellow with the Center forGlobal Environment Research at The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI) in New Delhi. She works on issues pertainingto climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptationassessment. An inter-disciplinary researcher with aBachelors degree in biomedical sciences and a Masters inenvironmental studies and a Masters in Climate & Society(Columbia University), she works on crosscutting issuesand policy analysis related to climate change, across bothnatural science and social science realms. She has workedextensively assessing the impact of environmental and developmentalstressors on populations, with a major focuson the agriculture and water sector. Broadly, her interest areasinclude exploring the social dimensions of populationenvironment-developmentsynergies and conflicts.Address: Ms. Sreeja Nair, TERI (The Energy and ResourcesInstitute), Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, LodiRoad, New Delhi 110 003, India.Email: and .Website: .Fabien Nathan (France), Project Manager at Sogreah Consultantsin Echirolles, France. He obtained a PhD from theGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies(IHEID, Geneva). He graduated in sociology and history,then obtained master degrees in sociology and in developmentstudies. His main area of work are: sociology ofrisks and disasters, vulnerability and resilience analysis, riskmanagement, participatory community planning, resettlement,and public consultation. His publications include:“Natural Disasters, Vulnerability, and Human Security”, in:Brauch, Hans Günter; Grin, John; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; Krummenacher,Heinz; Chadha Behera, Navnita; Chourou,Béchir; Oswald Spring, Ursula; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia(Eds.): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental,Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water SecurityConcepts (Berlin–Heidelberg–New York: Springer-Verlag,2009): 1121–1129; “Comprendre le risque et la vulnérabilité.

Biographies of Contributors 1751Une perspective de sciences sociales à propos des risquesde glissement de terrain à La Paz, Bolivie”, in: Becerra, Sylvia;Peltier, Anne (Eds.), Risques et environnement: recherchesinterdisciplinaires sur la vulnérabilité des sociétés (Paris:L'Harmattan, 2009): 117–128; “Risk perception, riskmanagement and vulnerability to landslides in the hill-slopesin the city of La Paz, Bolivia. A preliminary statement”,in: Disasters, 32/3 (Autumn 2008): 337–357.Address: Dr. Fabien Nathan, 4, rue de la bajatière, F-38100Grenoble, France.Email: .Website: ; and .Hiromi Nishimoto (Japan) is a Ph.D. student of the GraduateSchool of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.Address: Ms. Hiromi Nishimoto, C cluster, Kyotodaigakukatsura,Nishigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 6158540, JAPAN,Email: .Carlos A. Nobre (Brazil), Senior Scientist at the BrazilianInstitute for Space Research (INPE), is chair of the ScientificCommittee of the International Geosphere-BiosphereProgramme (IGBP). He obtained a degree in ElectronicsEngineering at the Brazilian Technological Institute of Aeronauticsand a doctoral degree in Meteorology at the MassachusettsInstitute of Techology (MIT). He was director ofINPE's Center for Weather and Climate Forecasting(CPTEC) during 1991-2003 and the Programme Scientistfor the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment inAmazonia (1996-2002). His research insterests range fromtropical meteorology and Amazonia to climate modeling,biosphere-atmosphere interactions and climate change.Address: Prof. Dr. Carlos A. Nobre, Centro de Previsao deTempo e Estudos Climaticos, Instituto Nacional de PesquisasEspaciais, C. Postal 01, Rodovia Presidente Dutra,12630-000 Cachoeira Paulista, São José dos Campos, Brazil.Email: .Website: .Kevin Noone (United States/Sweden) is a Professorand has joint appointments at the Department of AppliedEnvironmental Science and the Stockholm Resilience Centreat Stockholm University, and is Director of the SwedishSecretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences at theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is the co-themeleader of the Global Environmental Change theme atStockholm Resilience Centre and is head of the AtmosphericScience Division at the Department of Applied EnvironmentalScience (ITM), Stockholm University, Sweden. Hehas degrees in Chemical Engineering, and Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering from the University of Washingtonin Seattle, WA (USA). He was on the faculty at the Departmentof Meteorology, Stockholm University from 1987-91,a research scientist and Adjunct Professor of Oceanographyat the Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies, GraduateSchool of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island(USA) from 1992-1995, and was Professor of Meteorologyand head of the Atmospheric Physics Division at the Departmentof Meteorology, Stockholm University from2000-2004. From 2004-2008 he was the Executive Directorof the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP),and a member of the Earth System Science Partnership (ES-SP). In autumn 2008 he moved back to Stockholm University,and moved half time to the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences in 2010. Early research work in Chemical Engineeringfocused on transparent semiconductors for use assolar cells in the generation of electricity. His primary researchinterests at present are in the area of atmosphericchemistry & physics, the effects of aerosols and clouds onair quality and the Earth's climate, global environmentalchange, and Earth System Science. He is an advocate of aninterdisciplinary approach to obtaining a solid scientific basisfor decisions on environmental and climate issues. He isauthor/coauthor of more than 120 scientific articles andbook chapters. He has headed up of a number of large internationalfield experiments, and is (or has been) a memberof a number of international committees and boards,currently including the European Academies Science AdvisoryCouncil´s Environment Steering Panel. He is AssociateEditor of the journals Ambio and Atmospheric Research,and was Editor in Chief of the IGBP Global ChangeNewsletter. He is active in conveying science to stakeholdersand the general public. He regularly gives presentationsand short courses on climate and Earth System Science fornon-science audiences. He also interacts regularly with themedia in international arenas.Address: Prof. Dr. Kevin Noone, Department of AppliedEnvironmental Science, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.Email: .Website: .U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria), Ambassador, currently serves as thePermanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations.Prior to her appointment as Nigeria’s Foreign Ministerin August 2006 she served as the first female Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs(NIIA). . See biographies of authors of forewords and prefaceessays.Hiroshi Ohta (Japan), Professor at the School of InternationalLiberal Studies, Waseda University. He received aPh.D. in international relations from the Department of PoliticalScience of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciencesof Columbia University in New York City. Some recent relevantworks to this volume include: “Japanese Foreign Policyon Climate Change: Diplomacy and Domestic Politics”, in:Harris, Paul G. (Ed.): Climate Change and Foreign Policy:Case Studies from East to West (London: Routledge, 2009:36–52); “A Small Leap forward: Regional Cooperation forTackling the Problems of the Environment and Natural Resourcesin Northeast Asia”, in: Timmermann, Martina;Tsuchiyama, Jituso (Eds.): Institutionalizing NortheastAsia: Regional Steps towards Global Governance (NewYork: United Nations University, 2008: 297-315); “Japanese

1752 AuthorsEnvironmental Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Japan-EU Cooperation: The Case of Global Climate Change”, in:Ueta, Takako; Àemacle, Eric (Eds.): Japan and EnlargedEurope: Partners in Global Governance (Brussels: PeterLang, 2005: 99-126).Address: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Ohta, Ph.D., School of LiberalStudies, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan.E-mail: .Felix Bayode Olorunfemi (Nigeria), Dr., Research Fellowat the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research(NISER), Ibadan. He obtained his PhD in Geography fromthe University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2004 with funding assistancefrom the Council for the Development of SocialScience Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal.He is also a Research Fellow of the Earth System GovernanceProject, a core project of the International HumanDimensions Programme on Global Change (IHDP), Bonn,Germany. At present, he is executing a fellowship programmeawarded by the Global Change SysTems Analysisfor Research and Training (START), Washington DC, underthe African Climate Change Fellowship Programme(ACCFP) at the University of Cape Town, Climate SystemsAnalysis Group, South Africa. The fellowship project focuseson flood risks and sustainable adaptation in selected informalsettlements in the city of Cape Town. Some of hisrecent publications include; (2009): “Willingness to Pay forImproved Environmental Quality Among Residents Livingin Close Proximity to Landfills in Lagos Metropolis”, in: AfricanResearch Review, 3,1 (April): 97-110; (with U.A Raheem,2006-2007): “Urban Development and EnvironmentalImplications: The Challenge of Urban Sustainability inNigeria”, in: Australasian Journal of African Studies (AfricanStudies Association of Australasian and the Pacific [AF-SAAP], Australia), 28: 74-96; (with F. Olokesusi, 2006):“Noise Pollution”, in: Matt, F.; Ivbijaro, F.; Akintola, Festus;Okechukwu, R.V (Eds.) Sustainable Environmental Managementin Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria: Mattivi Production):139-146.Address: Dr. Felix Bayode Olorunfemi, Physical DevelopmentDepartment, Nigerian Institute of Social and EconomicResearch, PMB 05, U.I P.O, Ojoo, Ibadan, OyoState, 200001, Nigeria.E-mail: .Website: .Konrad Osterwalder (Switzerland) has been the fifth Rectorof the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations since 1 September 2007. Seebiographies of authors of forewords and preface essays.Úrsula Oswald Spring (Mexico), Research Professor at theNational University of Mexico (UNAM), in the RegionalMultidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM) in Cuernavaca.See biographies of editors.Mohamedou Ould Baba Sy (Mauritania), HydrogeologicalExpert in charge of information systems and modelling inthe water sector at the Sahara and Sahel Observatory(OSS). He obtained a university diploma in 1992, he becamea principal engineer in geology in 1996, he obtained amaster degree on sedimentary basins in 1998 from the Facultyof Science of Tunis (Tunisia) and in 2005 he received aPhD also from the Faculty of Science of Tunis (Tunisia),specializing in hydrogeology. He joined the Sahara and SahelObservatory (OSS) in 2000 as an engineer assisting hydrogeologistswithin the framework of the North WesternSahara Aquifer System Project” (NWSASS) and since January2007 he is a Water Programme Officer, where he contributeshis skills on hydogeological modelling, databasesand Geographical Information Systems (GIS) managementHe contributed to the publication of the project reports.He acted as a hydrogeologist expert for the project “Managingrisks of the Iullemeden aquifer system (Western Africa)”for which he developed the hydrogeological modeland the data base. He wrote the reports on the Iullemedenmodel and on the database.Address: Dr. Mohamedou Ould Baba Sy, Observatoire duSahara et du Sahel (OSS), Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat,BP 31, 1080, Tunis, Tunisia.Email: .Website: ..Anna Paldy (Hungary) is a Medical Epidemiologist MPH,PhD with 30 years experience in different fields of environmentalhealth. She has been working at the National Instituteof Environmental Health (former National Institute ofPublic Health) since 2008 heading the Division of HealthImpact Forecast. Since 2002 she has been the deputy directorof the institute. She has been involved in several multicentre as well as Hungarian studies. Her research field coveredcytogenetics, environmental epidemiology focusing onthe effect of pesticides, air and water pollutants. She wasactively involved in the implementation of the National EnvironmentalHealth Action Programme. She has been frequentlyinvited as temporary advisor in climate and healthrelated issues by the WHO. In the last 10 years she studiedthe health impact of environmental pollution on mortalityand morbidity, among others the health impact of climatechange. She has largely contributed to the elaboration ofthe National Climate Adaptation Strategy and of the heathealthearly warning system in Hungary. She has been participatingin the activity of the research group on Adaptationto Impacts of Climate Change of the Hungarian Academyof Science. She is a member of the National EnvironmentalCouncil, she acted as a president of the Central-Eastern European Chapter of the International Society ofEnvironmental Epidemiology. She is president of the Societyof Hungarian Hygienists. She has leading the module ofEnvironmental Epidemiology at the School of PublicHealth in Debrecen, Hungary. She authored and co-authoredmore than 30 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.Address: Anna Paldy, MD, MPH, PhD, National Institute ofEnvironmental Health, Gyali ut 2-6, Budapest, 1097, Hungary.Email: .Website: .

Biographies of Contributors 1753Erika Palin (UK) is a Climate Change Consultant at theMet Office Hadley Centre. She obtained a first-class Masterof Natural Sciences degree from the University of Cambridgein 2000, and remained at Cambridge for her PhD,which she completed in 2003. Subsequently, she worked inacademic research at the Royal Institution of Great Britainand the University of Cambridge, and published eighteenpeer-reviewed papers during her academic career. Shejoined the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2008, where herrole involves assisting commercial and government customersto understand the potential impacts of climate changeon their operations. She has recently worked on projects involvingthe assessment of climate risk in various Africancountries; seasonal forecasting of winter wave heights inthe North Sea; and understanding the effects of climatechange on energy infrastructure in the Northeast USA.Address: Dr Erika Palin, Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoyRoad, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Jean Palutikof (United Kingdom), Ph.D., is Director of theNational Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility atGriffith University. She took up the role in October 2008,having previously managed the production of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth AssessmentReport for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptationand Vulnerability), while based at the UK Met Office. Priorto joining the Met Office, she was a Professor in the Schoolof Environmental Sciences, and Director of the ClimaticResearch Unit, at the University of East Anglia, UK, whereshe worked from 1979 to 2004, and a Lecturer at the Departmentof Geography, University of Nairobi, Kenya, from1974 to 1979. Her research interests focus on climatechange impacts, and the application of climatic data to economicand planning issues. She specializes in the study ofchanges in extreme events and their impacts, especiallywindstorm. She was a Lead Author for Working Group IIof the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports. Shehas authored more than 200 papers, articles and reports onthe topic of climate change and climate variability. Herproudest moment to date was attending the ceremony in2007 at which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel PeacePrize.Address: Prof. Dr. Jean Palutikof, NCCARF, Gold CoastCampus, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia 4222.Email: .Martin Parry OBE (United Kingdom), Ph.D., was recentlyCo-Chair of Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation andVulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC). Formerly he was Professor of Geographyat the Universities of Oxford, University College London,Birmingham and the University of East Anglia. He is currentlya visiting professor at Imperial College, University ofLondon. He was chairman of the UK Climate Change ImpactsReview Group, and a coordinating lead author in theIPCC’s first, second and third assessments. His main researchinterests concern impacts and adaptation on agriculture.He has published 5 books and about 150 scientific paperson climate change impacts.Address: Prof. Dr. Martin Parry OBE, Grantham Instituteand Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London,South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK.Email: .Mark Pelling (UK) is Reader in Human Geography, andChair of the Environment, Politics and Development ResearchGroup King’s College London. Before this he wasLecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool (UK)and University of Guyana (Guyana). His PhD on a politicalecology of social vulnerability to urban flooding in Guyanawas awarded by the University of Liverpool in 1998. His researchfocuses on social vulnerability and adaptation to environmentalrisks including those associated with climatechange with a particular interest in urban governance andpoverty alleviation. His publications include: Adaptation toClimate Change: A Progressive Vision of Human Security(London: Routledge, 2010); (with Ben Wisner, Ed.): DisasterRisk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa (London:Earthscan, 2009); The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasterand Social Resilience (London: Earthscan, 2003) and(Ed.) Natural Disasters and Development in a GlobalizingWorld (London: Routledge, 2003). He has been a consultantwith UN-HABITAT, UNDP, DFID and the ProVentionConsortium. He has acted as chair of the Climate ChangeResearch Group, Royal Geographical Society, 2004-2009;as a member of the International Advisory Committee forthe ProVention Consortium, 2005–2010, and; as a Lead Authorin the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks ofExtreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate ChangeAdaptation, 2008–2011. As an active member of the InternationalHuman Dimensions Programme (IHDP), he hasserved as an associate of the Global EnvironmentalChange and Human Security (GECHS), and Urban GlobalEnvironmental Change (UGEC) research programmes andalso on the UK Committee for Human Dimensions of GlobalEnvironmental Change.Address: Dr. Mark Pelling, Department of Geography,King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK.Email: .Website: .Ariel Macaspac Penetrante (Germany/Philippines): PhDcandidate at the universities of Vienna and Cologne. He iscoordinator of the Processes of International Negotiationat the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis(IASA), where he researches on international negotiation incollaboration with the United Nations, the ComprehensiveNuclear Test Ban Organisation (CTBTO) and the UnitedStates Institute for Peace. He holds a M.A. in political science,sociology and education from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universityin Munich and a M.A. in Mediation fromthe Vriadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) andHumboldt University in Berlin (Germany). His areas of interestare mediation, conflict management, climate change,negotiation, small arms and light weapons, circular migration,and education of migrants. He has worked with the

1754 AuthorsCTBTO in evaluating a large-scale exercise in Kazahkstan(2008), with the Philippine government negotiating panelfor the Mindanao peace process (2008-2009), and lecturedat the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Hecontributes to the PinPoints Magazine on international negotiation.Major publications: “Common But DifferentiatedResponsibilities – the North-South Divide in the ClimateChange Negotiations”, in: Sjöstedt, Gunnar; Penetrante, ArielMacaspac (Eds.): Climate Change Negotiations: AGuide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating MultilateralCooperation (London: Earthscan, 2010); Mass-killings andmass-violence in Southern Philippines – Negotiating IdentityConflicts”, in: Zartman, William, I; Meerts, Paul; Anstey,Mark (Eds.): External Efforts to Promote Negotiation inIdentity Conflicts (forthcoming 2010); “Micro- and Macroperspectivesin the Point of Entry Negotiation of theComprehensive Nuclear Test-ban Treaty”, in: Hampson,Fen Osler; Melamud, Mordechai; Meerts, Paul (Eds.):CTBT in Motion (forthcoming 2010).Address: Mr. Ariel Macaspac Penetrante, International Institutefor Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361Laxenburg, Austria.Email: .Alexander Popp (Germany) is a Research Fellow at thePotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) andhead of the working group on land use management in ResearchDomain III - Sustainable Solutions.Juan Manuel Quiñonero-Rubio (Spain), Ph D candidate atthe University of Murcia, a Researcher in the Programmeon Water Sources Management at the Technical Universityof Cartagena. He graduated in geography in June 2005 atthe University of Murcia. He collaborated in several nationaland regional environmental projects working on GeographicalInformation Systems (GIS) and in fieldwork onhydrology and erosion control. In September 2005 heworked on sediments transport at the Earth Sciences Institute“Jaume Almera” with a research fellowship of the NationalResearch Council of Spain (CSIC). In December2006 he was granted the 1 st National Award on Geographyby the Science and Education Ministry of Spain. From 2005to 2008 he worked on hydrological modelling and digitalelevation models analysis to improve geomorphologic mapsand hydrological processes. He studied soil erosion protocolsand laboratory and hydrological response at the Universityof Bristol, UK. Since May 2008 he worked on regionalspatial planning for the government of Murcia toapply GIS on roads, and since 2009 he works for the Centreof Soil Science and Applied Biology of Segura of theCSIC in Murcia on GIS, hydrology, erosion control and geomorphologywithin the European project MIRAGE.Address: Mr. Juan Manuel Quiñonero-Rubio, Centro deEdafología y Biología aplicada del Segura, CSIC, Campusde Espinardo, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain.Email: and .Usman Adebimpe Raheem (Nigeria) teaches Human Geographyat the University of Ilorin, Nigeria where he hasbeen teaching and conducting research for more than adecade. He is a final stage doctoral student of health geographyat the University of Ibadan. His research interestscover the broad area of medical geography with an emphasison urban health, climate change and risk analysis. Hehas participated in several international conferences andtraining workshops including the 6 th International HumanDimensions Programme (IHDP) in Germany, 2005. Healso received the World Meteorological Organization(WMO) travel grant to attend the Earth System SciencePartnership (ESSP) Open Science Conference in China,2006, the 5 th IHDP Workshop, New Delhi, 2008 and theBergen Summer Research School (BSRS) on Global DevelopmentChallenges, Norway, 2009. He is a member of severallearned societies both at home and abroad includingthe Canadian Society for International Health, InternationalSociety for Urban Health, USA, International Society forEcological Economics (ISEE), International Association forResearch in Income and Wealth (IARIW) and Associationof Nigerian Geographers (ANG). He also published widelyin reputable local and international research journals. Hisrecent publications include (with F.B Olorunfemi, 2008):“Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Nigeria: Lessonsfor Developing Countries”, in: African Research Review,2,2 (April): 187-217; “Biodiversity Management and PovertyReduction in Nigeria: Towards a Pro-Poor Approach”, in:Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management,1,8 (2008): 23-32.Address: Mr. Usman Adebimpe Raheem, Department ofGeography, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Universityof Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.E-mail: .Website: .Andreas Rechkemmer (Germany) is presently a Guest Professorof Political Science at the Beijing Normal University,China and he teaches in the International Master ofEnvironmental Science (IMES) Programme of the Universityof Cologne. He advises the United Nations, the GlobalRisk Forum (GRF) Davos, and the European Associationof Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).He is a Visiting Scholar at the Warner College of NaturalResources at Colorado State University. From 2005 to2009, he was Executive Director of the International HumanDimensions Programme on Global EnvironmentalChange (IHDP). He holds a masters degree in philosophyand political science and a PhD in international relations.He has published several books as well as numerous bookchapters and journal articles. Among others, he is the authorof Postmodern Global Governance (2004) and theeditor of: UNEO – Towards an International EnvironmentOrganization (2005). He has a distinct background in sciencefor policy-making processes, and has worked with theUN in several functions, as well as with the Social ScienceResearch Centre Berlin (WZB), the German Institute forInternational and Security Affairs (SWP), and the EuropeanSchool of Governance (EUSG).Address: Dr. Andreas Rechkemmer, Global Risk Forum(GRF), CH-7270 Davos, Switzerland.Email: .

Biographies of Contributors 1755Boualem Rémini (Algeria), Professor in the Department ofWater Sciences and Environment of the Blida University(Algeria); specialist of fluids (wind actions and water runoff).He has a doctorate in hydraulic status of the NationalPolytechnic School of Algiers (1997) and a doctorate in geographyobtained at the University Champagne Ardenne ofReims (2001). He received the award for best publicationof Algeria in 2006. In 2006-2007 he was involved in theNATO Programme Security Through Science, CollaborativeLinkage Grant on: “Use of indicators for desertification inthe oasian settlements” in collaboration with the Universityof Reims Champagne Ardenne (France) and Errachidia(Morroco). His over 100 publications, among them 5books, include: Doctorate thesis of 1997: “Siltation of damsin Algeria: Magnitude, mechanisms and extraction of densitycurrent”; Doctorate thesis in Geography at the UniversityChampagne Ardenne of 2001: “Mega-barriers and their influenceon the wind action and sand encroachment inoasis”. His latest book: The foggara (Algiers: Office of UniversityPublications, 2008); “Evolution of large dams in aridregions: a few examples of Algeria”, in: Secheresse, 20,1(2009): 96-103.Address: Prof. Dr. Boualem Remini, Faculty of EngineeringSciences, Department of Sciences of Water and Environment,Saad Dahlab University, Blida, Algeria.Email: .Fabrice Renaud (France) is Associate Director and Head ofthe Environmental Vulnerability and Energy Security Sectionat the United Nations University - Institute for Environmentand Human Security (UNU-EHS). He holds aPhD in agronomy (soil physics) from the University of Arkansas(USA). He has broad expertise in the fields ofagronomy, soil science, and pesticide fate modelling. Hehas worked on rural development projects in Namibiawhere he mainly carried out farming system surveys and inThailand where he worked on soil conservation projects. AtUNU-EHS he is responsible for developing concepts andprojects dealing with the environmental dimension of vulnerability;water pollution; land degradation; and energy securitywhich also represent his main research foci. He supervisesPhD candidates and is involved in capacitydevelopment in academia and in training seminars andworkshops. Among his major publications are: (co-authorwith Bellamy, P.H.; Brown, C.D., 2008): “Simulating pesticidesin ditches to assess ecological risk (SPIDER): I. Modeldescription”, in: Science of the Total Environment, 394:112-123; (co-author with Brown, C.D., 2008): “Simulatingpesticides in ditches to assess ecological risk (SPIDER): II.Benchmarking for the drainage model”, in: Science of theTotal Environment, 394: 124–133; (co-author with Bogardi,J.J.; Dun, O.; Warner K., 2007): Control, adapt or flee:How to face environmental migration? InterSecTionsNo.5/2007 (Bonn: UNU-EHS); “Environmental componentsof vulnerability”, in: Birkmann, Joern (Ed.): Measuringvulnerability to natural hazards. Towards disaster resilientsocieties (Tokyo: UNU Press): 117–127; (co-author withBrown, C.D.; Fryer, C.J.; Walker A; 2004). “A lysimeter experimentto investigate temporal changes in the availabilityof pesticide residues for leaching”, in: Environmental Pollution,131,1: 81-91; (co-author with Birkmann, J., Damm, M.and Gallopín, G.C. (in press): “Understanding multiplethresholds of coupled social-ecological systems exposed tonatural hazards as external shocks”, in: Natural Hazards;(co-author with Dun, O., Warner, K. and Bogardi ,J. (inpress): “A decision framework for environmentally inducedmigration”, in: International Migration (manuscript acceptedfor publication); (co-author with Kaplan, M. andLüchters, G., 2009): “Vulnerability Assessment and ProtectiveEffects of Coastal Vegetation during the 2004 Tsunamiin Sri Lanka”, in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences,9:1479–1494.Address: Dr. Fabrice Renaud, UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers Str. 10, 53111 Bonn, Germany.Email: .Martin Rice (UK), Coordinator of the Earth System SciencePartnership (ESSP) based in Paris, France. The ESSP isa joint initiative of four global environmental change researchprogrammes: (DIVERSITAS - an international programmeof biodiversity science, IHDP - InternationalHuman Dimensions Programme on Global EnvironmentalChange, IGBP–International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme,and WCRP–World Climate ResearchProgramme). The Partnership allows for an integratedstudy of the Earth system, the ways that it is changing, andthe implications for global and regional sustainability. Priorto working for the ESSP, Martin Rice was a ProgrammeManager for the Asia-Pacific Network for Global ChangeResearch in Kobe, Japan. He has a Master of Science inEnvironmental Management and a Master of Arts (Hons.)in Geography and International Relations from the Universityof Aberdeen, Scotland.Address: Martin Rice, ESSP Coordinator, c/oDIVERSITAS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 57rue Cuvier - CP 41, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.Email: Website: .Badaoui Rouhban (Lebanon): Dr., Director, Section forDisaster Reduction in the Natural Sciences Sector,UNESCO. Within UNESCO he is the focal point for theUnited Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction(UN/ISDR). He manages and coordinates internationalactivities related to the scientific, engineering and educationalaspects of natural disaster studies and prevention. Heis involved in several United Nations projects and mechanismsconcerning disaster risk reduction. He holds a degreeof Doctor of Engineering from the University ‘Pierre& Marie Curie’ in Paris and has carried out post-doctoralresearch at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He joinedUNESCO in 1981. He authored several papers and articlesand is co-editor of the book: Assessment and mitigation ofearthquake risk in the Arab region (Paris: UNESCO).Address: Dr Badaoui Rouhban, Natural Sciences Sector,UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris, France.Email: .Website: .

1756 AuthorsUriel N. Safriel (Israel), Professor of Ecology at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, Israel. He received his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1967, and spent two post-doctoralyears at the University of Michigan. He served asHead of the Department of Zoology of the Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem, Chief Scientist in Israel’s Nature andParks Authority, Head of the Mitrani Department ofDesert Ecology at the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research(at the Sede Boqer Campus of Ben-Gurion University)and as the Director of these Institutes. He headed theIsraeli delegations to the United Nations Convention toCombat Desertification (UNCCD) and functions as the IsraeliFocal Point of this Convention. He carried out researchand published papers and book chapters on population,community and behavioural ecology of birds andmollusks of marine intertidal, desert and tundra environments.His current research focuses on the interlinkages betweendesertification, biodiversity and climate change in drylands.He participated as Lead Author, Coordinating LeadAuthor and Review Editor in the 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th IPCC AssessmentReports, in the Millennium Ecosystem AssessmentReport and Synthesis, and in UNEP’s Global Outlookof Deserts report.Address: Prof. Dr. Uriel N. Safriel, Department of Evolution,Ecology and Systematics, Berman Building, SafraCampus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904Israel.Email: .Hilmi S. Salem (Palestine/Canada), Director General,Applied Sciences and Engineering Research Centers(ASERCs), Palestine Technical University, Kadoorie (PTUKis a multidisciplinary scientist; Ph.D. in engineering geophysicsand petrophysics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.He has degrees and professional experience in multidisciplinaryareas of the natural sciences and engineering, andin the humanities (socio-economics and politics), gainedfrom institutions in the Middle East, Europe and NorthAmerica. He has participated in inter- and multinational(micro to mega) projects, aiming at sustainable developmenton water resources management and development,the environment, climate change, renewable energy, agriculture,land reclamation, food security, biodiversity, transportation,drilling technology, seismicity, earthquake seismology,porous-media characterization, onshore and offshore oiland gas exploration, geographic information systems (GIS)and remote sensing, computer modelling and applications,gender mainstreaming, poverty, economics, demography,human rights, democracy, justice, peace, transparency andgovernance. He has worked in administration, management,consulting, teaching at universities, and research anddevelopment at academic, industrial, governmental andnon-governmental institutions. He authored and co-authoredbooks, chapters in books, atlases, technical reports,project proposals, policy and strategy position papers, andmany articles in international peer-reviewed journals, andothers presented at several international conferences. He isa member in scientific and professional societies. He receivedseveral honorary awards, including, for instance, theKapitsa Medal, and the International Award of EnergyGlobe-2008 at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.He was nominated for other international awards forhis contributions to research and development on water resourcesmanagement, the environment, climate change, andrenewable energy.Address: Dr. Hilmi S. Salem, Director General, Applied Sciencesand Engineering Research Centers (ASERCs), PalestineTechnical University, Kadoorie (PTUK), P.O. Box 7,Kadoorie Circle, Yaffa Street, Tulkarm, West Bank, Palestine.E-mails: ; ; .Michael Sanderson (UK) is a Senior Climate Consultant atthe Met Office Hadley Centre. He graduated from the Universityof York in 1994 with a First Class BSc and D. Phil inAtmospheric Chemistry. Next, he worked as a post-doctoralassistant at Cambridge University, first researching theglobal methane budget and then building and testing alightweight ozone monitor which used a gas sensitive resistorto measure surface ozone concentrations. He joined theMet Office in 2000, where he worked on the developmentof the STOCHEM chemistry-transport model. He thenused it to perform numerous experiments for the UK government’sDepartment of the Environment, Food and RuralAffairs (Defra) to aid the development of policies forthe improvement of air quality. He has also used the STO-CHEM model to examine interactions between vegetationand the atmosphere, focusing on the impact of hydrocarbonsemitted by vegetation and increasing carbon dioxidelevels on ozone concentrations. He moved to the consultancyteam in 2007, where he designs and oversees climateimpacts studies for both government and commercial customers.He has contributed to 39 peer reviewed publicationswith a specialization in atmospheric chemistry.Among his major publications are: (with Jones, C. D.; Collins,W. J.; Johnson, C. E.; Derwent, R. G., 2003): “Effectof Climate Change on Isoprene Emissions and SurfaceOzone Levels”, in: Geophysical Research Letters, 30,18, (20September): 1936, ; (withCollins, W. J.; Johnson, C. E.; Derwent, R. G., 2006):“Present and future acid deposition to ecosystems: The effectof climate change”, in: Atmospheric Environment,40,7, (1 March): 1275-1283; (with Collins, W. J.; Hemming,D. L.; Betts, R. A., 2007): “Stomatal conductance changesdue to increasing carbon dioxide levels: Projected impacton surface ozone levels”, in: Tellus, 59B, 3, (23 January):404-411; (2008): “A multi-model study of the hemispherictransport and deposition of oxidised nitrogen”, in: GeophysicalResearch Letters, 35,17, (13 September): L17815,; (with Collins, B.; Johnson,C. E., 2009): “Impact of increasing ship emissions on airquality and deposition over Europe by 2030”, in: MeteorologischeZeitschrift, 18,1, (1 February): 25-39,

Biographies of Contributors 1757Email: .Website: .Jürgen Scheffran (Germany) is Professor at the Institute forGeography and head of the Research Group ClimateChange and Security (CLISEC) in the KlimaCampus ExcellenceInitiative of Hamburg University, Germany. Untilsummer 2009 he held positions at the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): in the Program in ArmsControl, Disarmament and International Security, the Departmentsof Political Science and Atmospheric Sciences,and the Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research. After hisPhD in physics at Marburg University he worked at TechnicalUniversity of Darmstadt, the Potsdam Institute for ClimateImpact Research, and as Visiting Professor at the Universityof Paris (Sorbonne). His research and teachinginterests include: energy security, climate change and sustainabledevelopment; complex systems analysis and modelling;technology assessment and international security. Heserved as advisor to the United Nations, the TechnologyAssessment Bureau of the German Parliament, the FederalEnvironmental Agency, and he took part in the Germandelegation to the climate negotiations in New Delhi in2002 (COP-8). Recent projects include CLISEC, the ConflictSpaceproject, the Renewable Energy Initiative and relatedprojects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,the Energy Biosciences Institute and the EnvironmentalCouncil at UIUC. He is co-editor of the INESAP InformationBulletin, and of the journal Global Responsibility andWissenschaft und Frieden. Recent books include: (co-ed.with Khanna, M.; Zilberman, D.): Handbook of BioenergyEconomics and Policy (Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer, 2010);(co.ed. with Kropp, J.): Advanced Methods for DecisionMaking and Risk Management in Sustainability Science(New York: Nova Science, 2007); (co-authors Datan, M.,Hill, F., Ware, A.) Securing Our Survival (Cambridge: IPP-NW, 2007): (co-ed. with Billari, F., Fent, T., Prskawetz, A.);Agent-Based Computational Modelling in Demography,Economic and Environmental Sciences” (Heidelber-Berlin:Springer/Physica, 2006).Address: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, Research Group ClimateChange and Security (CLISEC), Institut für Geographie,KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg, Zentrum fürMarine und Atmosphärenwissenschaften, Bundesstrasse 53,D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.E-Mail: .Web: .Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Germany) has been Directorof the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)since its foundation in 1992. See biographies of authors offorewords and preface essays.Jenniver Sehring (Germany), Dr., is Assistant Professor atthe Institute of Political Science at the University of Würzburg.She studied Political Science and Social Anthropologyat the University of Mainz. She was research assistant at theCenter for International Development and EnvironmentalResearch (ZEU) at the University of Giessen (2002-2006)and at the Institute of Political Science of the University ofHagen (2006-2008). In 2008, she obtained her PhD with athesis on water institutional reform in Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan. Recent publications include: The Politics ofWater Institutional Reform in Neopatrimonial States. AComparative Analysis of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. (Wiesbaden:VS Verlag, 2009); “Path dependencies and institutionalbricolage in post-Soviet water governance”, in: WaterAlternatives 2, 1 (2009): 61-81; “Irrigation Reform in Kyrgyzstanand Tajikistan”, in: Irrigation and Drainage Systems,21,3–4 (2007): 277–290; “Die Aralsee-Katastrophe.Ein Nachruf auf das Krisenmanagement”, in: Osteuropa,57,8-9 (2007): 497–510; (co-authored with E. Giese): “Konflikteums Wasser. Nutzungskonkurrenz in Zentralasien”, in:Osteuropa, 57,8–9 (2007): 483–495; “Gebrochene Verträge.Multilaterale Abkommen zu Flüssen in Zentralasien”, in:WeltTrends, 15,57 (2007): 66–78.Address: Dr. Jenniver Sehring, University of Würzburg,Institute of Political Science, Wittelsbacherplatz 1, 97070Würzburg, Germany.Email: .Website: .Sybil Seitzinger (USA/Sweden) is the Executive Director ofthe International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)in Stockholm, Sweden. She moved to IGBP after leavingher position as Director of the Rutgers/NOAA CMER Program,Rutgers University and has been a visiting Professorat Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciencessince 1994. She received her Ph.D. from the Universityof Rhode Island School of Oceanography, and thenworked as Senior Scientist and Curator at the Academy ofNatural Sciences of Philadelphia. She has been a memberof the IGBP Scientific Committee since 2003, and her areasof expertise include biogeochemistry, nutrient dynamics,and land/atmosphere/ocean interactions.Address: Prof. Dr. Sybil Seitzinger, IGBP Secretariat, RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, SE-114 18 Stockholm, Sweden.Email: .Website: .Gamal M. Selim (Canada/Egypt), PhD Candidate and SessionalInstructor in the Department of Political Science atthe University of Calgary (Canada); Lecturer in the Departmentof Political Science at Suez Canal University (Egypt).He obtained his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science fromthe American University in Cairo in 2000 and 2005 respectively.His research interests include theories of internationalrelations, democratization, arms control and non-proliferation,and Middle East politics. He received a ‘DoctoralResearch Award for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’ (2009); a joint initiative from The SimonsFoundation and the International Security Research andOutreach Programme (ISROP) of Foreign Affairs and InternationalTrade Canada. He has published: “The Arabs andCentral Asian Republics”, in: The State of the Arab World:the 11 th Arab National Conference (Beirut: Center for ArabUnity Studies, 2002). He also participated in a number of

1758 Authorsscholarly conferences in Canada. His conference papers include“Continuity and Change in the U.S. Arms ControlPolicy in the Middle East in the Post-Cold War Order”(2009), presented at a special consultation held by ForeignAffairs and International Trade Canada; “Western ReformInitiatives in the Arab World in the Post-September 2001Era” (2008), presented at the conference on The MuslimWorld and the West, co-sponsored by the Universities ofVictoria and Calgary, and “Arms Control in the MiddleEast: Motivations and Constraints” (2007), presented at theconference on Middle Eastern and African Studies, sponsoredby the University of Alberta.Address: Mr. Gamal M. Selim, Department of Political Science,University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary,Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4.Email: .Mohammad El-Sayed Selim (Egypt/Kuwait), Professor ofPolitical Science at Kuwait University. He obtained a Ph.D.in Political Science from Carleton University, Canada in1979. He majored in foreign policy analysis, theories of internationalrelations and Euro-Mediterranean relations. Hetaught at Cairo University, the American University inCairo, King Saud University, the United Arab Emirates University,and Kuwait University. He established the Centrefor Asian Studies in Cairo University and served as its firstdirector (1995-2003). He published books and articles in Arabicand English in scholarly journals on issues related toforeign policy analysis, Arab-Asian and Euro-Mediterraneanrelations. He also represented the Government of Egypt inworld and Asian forums. Among his major books are: Non-Alignment in a Changing World (1983); Relations AmongMuslim States (1991); Mediterraneanism: a New Dimensionin Egypt’s Foreign Policy (1995); Foreign Policy Analysis(1998); The Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company:A Study in Decision Making (2002); (Co-ed.):Security and Environment in the Mediterranean, and authorof “Conceptualizing Security by Arab Mashreq Countries”,(2003); The Development of International Politics inthe Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2008), He haspublished a number of academic papers on Euro-Mediterraneanrelations such as, “Egypt and the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership: Strategic Choice or Adaptive mechanism,” in:Mediterranean Politics (1997); “Weapons of Mass Destructionin the Euro-Mediterranean World: An Arab Perspective”,in: Mediterranean Politics (2000); “The environmentin the 2002 Arab Human Development Report: A critique”,in Arab Studies Quarterly (Spring 2004); “Globalizationand the Social Sciences”, in: Journal of Social Sciences,Kuwait University (2006); “The Environmental Risksand strategies in the GCC States” (2007), Tohuko University,Japan. He has recently translated Daisaki Ikeda andMajid Tehranian: Global Civilization, A Buddhist-IslamicDialogue, into Arabic .The translation was published by theNational Center for Translation, Higher Council for Culture,Cairo, 2010. He has also delivered the Keynote addressentitled, “The Interchange of Civilizations in theMediterranean area,” at the conference of the Institute forMediterranean Studies of Pusan University of Foreign Studies,April 2010.Address: Prof. Dr. Mohammad El-Sayed Selim, Dept ofPolitical Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kuwait University,P.O. Box 68168, Kefan, Kuwait.Email: .Anja D. Senz is holding an M.A. for Political Science, Sociologyand Anthropology at the University of Trier, Germany.She studied Chinese at Zhongshan University inGuangzhou (P.R.China). Currently she is lecturer at the Instituteof Political Science and the Institute of East AsianStudies at University of Duisburg-Essen and executive directorof the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr. As a researchfellow she contributed to two research projects atthe University of Duisburg-Essen one on participation andvillage elections in China (funded by the DFG) and theother one on an international comparison on village governance(funded by the EU). Her research focus is institutionalchange and stability in China and in her PhD thesisshe analysed decision-making processes in Chinese villages.She has field research and working experience in PR China,Hong Kong, Korea, India and Nepal. She is Co-editor ofthe China Companion, a comprehensive source for researchon the Politics, International Relations and PoliticalEconomy of contemporary China, (www.thechinacompanion.eu).Among her recent publications are: (co-author withHeberer, Thomas): “Reform, Demokratisierung, Stabilitätoder Kollaps? Literaturbericht zur Entwicklung des chinesischenHerrschaftssystems”, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift,50,2 (2009): 306-326; “Vier Demokratien für China'sDörfer?”, in: Das neue China, 2 (2008): 19-22; (co-authorwith Heberer, Thomas): China’s Significance in InternationalPolitics. Domestic and External Developments andAction Potentials (Bonn: German Development Institute,2007).Address: Ms. Anja D. Senz, University of Duisburg-Essen,Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr, Bismarckstr. 120,47057 Duisburg.Email: .Website: .Alexander Sergunin (Russia) is Professor of the Departmentof International Relations Theory and History,School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University.Until 2008 he was a chair of the Department of InternationalRelations and Political Science, NizhnyNovgorod Linguistic University. He holds Ph. D. in generalhistory from Moscow State University (1985) and a habilitationin political science from St. Petersburg State University(1994). The fields of his research are: IR theory, securitystudies, Russian foreign policy-making, Russia’s security policiesin the CIS space and Europe, federalism and regionalismin post-Soviet Russia. His most recent book-length publicationsinclude: Russia's Policy on Europe: Decision-Making Mechanism (Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny NovgorodLinguistic University Press, 2007); International Relationsin Post-Soviet Russia: Trends and Problems (NizhnyNovgorod: Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University Press,2007); (co-authored with Pertti Joenniemi): Russia and EuropeanUnion’s Northern Dimension: Clash or Encounter

Biographies of Contributors 1759of Civilizations? (Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny Novgorod LinguisticUniversity Press, 2003).Address: Prof. Dr. Alexander Sergunin, Department ofInternational Relations Theory and History, School ofInternational Relations, St. Petersburg State University, 1/3,entrance 8, Smolny St., St. Petersburg 191060, Russia.E-mail: .Website: .Omar Serrano (Switzerland/Mexico) is a PhD Candidate atthe Graduate Institute of International and DevelopmentStudies, Geneva (HEID) on domestic influences in Europeanenlargement and defence policies. He obtained a Masterof Science degree (MSc.) with a thesis on: “Two-LevelGames, Regional Integration and Referenda Strategy. Austria,Norway, Sweden and Switzerland: a Case Study”(2005) from the Government Department of the LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science (LSE); and abachelor degree with a thesis on: “The internal effects ofEU conditionality on Turkey” (2004) from the InternationalRelations Department at ITAM University, Mexico City.Among his publications are: “The political economy ofright-wing populism and Euroscepticism in Switzerland”(Co-written with Stefan Collignon).Address: Mr. Omar Serrano, Institut de Hautes ÉtudesInternationales et du Développement, Genève (The GraduateInstitute/HEID), PO Box 136, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland.Email: .Xiaomeng Shen (China) is an Associate Academic Officerat the United Nations University Institute for Environmentand Human Security (UNU-EHS) Bonn. She holds a PhDin geography from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universityof Bonn, Germany. Her thesis research on: Risk Perceptionand Communication within risk managementunits in Different Cultural Settings of China and Germanyidentifies the commonalities and differences in flood riskperception and communication and analyzes how these differencesare embedded in culture. She also holds a Bachelorof Arts (English literature and international relations)from the Beijing Foreign Studies University in China and aMaster of Arts (German Diplom) Translation, Linguisticsand Economics) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn in Germany. She has successfully completeda doctoral course on Development Studies at theCentre for Development Studies (ZEF) and a series ofcourses in Human Geography at the Geography Departmentof the University of Bonn.Address: Dr. Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University,Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), UN-Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Str.10, 53113 Bonn,Germany.Email: .Website: .Reena Singh (Germany/India) is a Research Associate atthe Department of Geography, University of Cologne. Sheholds a M.A and M.Phil in Geography from Delhi Schoolof Economics, Delhi. She has completed her doctorate atthe University of Cologne. Her research interests are urbanand social problem, urban vulnerability studies, water systemand health related issues. She has worked as researchassociate for a project about “Enhancing the flow of waterin river Yamuna upstream Delhi”, funded by the Ministryof Environment and Forestry and on another project entitled‘Poverty eradication and role of local institutions incomparative perspective: with focus on Kalahandi, Bhojpurand Chittoor’, funded by the Planning Commission, India.She has published a short paper entitled ‘A new approachto analyse water related vulnerability in megacities: casestudy of Delhi’, (2006), in: WHOCC Newsletter No. 10, anotherfull length paper entitled ‘Wastewater related risk andsocial vulnerability’, (2008), in: SOURCE 10 – a publicationseries of UNU-EHS. She has also made contribution to ajoint publication entitled ‘Vulnerability in megacities: an integratedapproach using high resolution satellite data andsocial analysis, in: Wuyi, W., Krafft, T., and Kraas, F., (Eds.)(2006): Global change, urbanisation and health. She hasparticipated in numerous national and international seminarsand given oral and poster presentations about her ongoingresearch works.Address: Dr. Reena Singh, 1/H/6 Saha Rajab Road, Hastings,Kolkata, 700022 West Bengal, India.Email: .Paul J. Smith (USA) is an Associate Professor with the USNaval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where hespecializes in transnational and nontraditional security issues.He has recently examined the security implications ofclimate change and has published articles on that subjectfor Contemporary Southeast Asia (Singapore) and Orbis(United States). He is author of: The Terrorism Ahead:Confronting Transnational Violence in the 21 st Century(M.E. Sharpe, 2007). His edited books include Terrorismand Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challengesto States and Regional Stability (M.E. Sharpe, 2004) andHuman Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and theChallenge to America’s Immigration Tradition (Center forStrategic and International Studies, 1997). He holds a B.A.from Washington and Lee University (Virginia), an M.A.from the University of London, School of Oriental and AfricanStudies (SOAS) and his PhD degree from the Universityof Hawaii.Address: Prof. Dr. Paul J. Smith, Naval War College,NSDM, Code 1B, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841-1207, USA.Email: .Eduard Soler i Lecha (Spain) is a Research Fellow leadingthe Mediterranean and Middle East lines of study at theBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) andlecturer at IBEI, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals.He holds a PhD in International Relations and is agraduate in Political Science, both at the Autonomous Universityof Barcelona. He is a member of the Observatory ofEuropean Foreign Policy and participates in different transnationalresearch projects and networks such as Euro-MeSCo, INEX or EU4SEAS. He has published in booksand in journals: Mediterranean Politics, Insight Turkey and

1760 AuthorsEurope’s World. Among his most recent publications are:EuroMeSCo paper n. 80 Flexible Multilateralism: UnlimitedOpportunities? The Case of Civil Protection in theMediterranean (with Niklas Bremberg, Ahmed Driss, JacobHorst and Isabelle Werenfels) and he coordinated the specialissue of Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals onSpanish Arab and Mediterranean Policy. His main areas ofwork are: Euro-Mediterranean relations, the process of Turkey’sentry into the EU, Spain’s Mediterranean policy andsecurity in the Mediterranean. He has also collaboratedwith different areas of the printed and audiovisual media.Address: Dr. Eduard Soler i Lecha, CIDOB, c/Elisabets 12,08001 Barcelona, Spain.Email: .Website: .Achim Steiner (Germany) is Executive Director of theUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Under-SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. See biographiesof authors of forewords and preface essays.Anastasia Svirejeva-Hopkins (Russia/Canada/Germany)has worked at PIK since 1999. See biographies of authorsof forewords and preface essays.Sýdýka Tekeli Yeþil (Turkey/Switzerland): Ph.D. (Epidemiology),Researcher at the Swiss Tropical and Public HealthInstitute. She holds master degrees in public health and inEuropean public health both from the University ofBielefeld, Germany. She gained her Ph.D. at University ofBasel, Switzerland. When she prepared her Ph.D. sheworked on a project about factors affecting individual preparednessfor an earthquake in Istanbul. Her research areasare disaster management in health systems, disaster epidemiologyand public education programmes for disasters.She created some specific tools for the “WorkshopStrengthening Health Systems’ Response to Crises” conductedby the Disaster Preparedness and Response Unit ofthe WHO Europe during her internship in 2004. Her publicationsinclude: “Public health and natural disasters: disasterpreparedness and response in health systems”, in: Journalof Public Health 14,5 (October 2006): 317–324;“Individual preparedness and mitigation actions for a predictedearthquake in Istanbul”, in: Disasters, i.p.; “Factorsmotivating individuals to take precautionary action for anexpected earthquake in Istanbul”, in: Risk Analysis, August2010; “Home preparedness” in: Bradley Penuel, K.; Statler,M. (Eds): Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief (Thousand OaksCA: Sage Publications), i.p.Address: Dr. Sidika Tekeli Yeºil, Swiss Tropical and PublicHealth Institute, Department of Epidemiology and PublicHealth, Socin Str. 57 P.O Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland.Email: and .Asli Toksabay Esen (Turkey) is a Policy Analyst at the EconomicPolicy Research Institute of Turkey (TEPAV). Shehas received a M.Sc. degree in Economics from MiddleEast Technical University and an M.A. in International PoliticalEconomy from the University of Warwick. She hasbeen a doctoral candidate at McMaster University in PoliticalScience, expecting a degree in 2009. She works primarilyon Turkey’s integration to the European Union, Turkishpolitics as well as on gender issues. Among her publicationsare: (coauthor with M. Aydin, 2007): “Conditionality,Impact and Prejudice: A Concluding View from Turkey”,in: Tocci, N. (Ed.): Talking Turkey: Conditionality, Impactand Prejudice in Turkey-EU Relations; (coauthor with T.Bölükbaþý, 2008): “Attitudes of Key Stakeholders in TurkeyTowards EU-Turkey Relations: Consensual Discord OrContentious Accord?”; in: Tocci, N. (Ed). Talking Turkey:Views from Stakeholders for a Tailored CommunicationStrategy.Address: Asli Toksabay Esen, TEPAV, Sogutozu Caddesi,No 43, Sogutozu, 06560, Ankara, Turkey.E-Mail: .Veerle Vandeweerd (Belgium), Director of the Environmentand Energy Group at UNDP. As part of her career withthe UN system, she has held the positions of Acting Directorof UNEP´s Division of Environmental Policy Implementation,Coordinator of the Global Programme of Actionfor the Protection of the Marine Environment fromLand-based Activities, Head of the UNEP’s Regional Seas,Coral Reefs & Small Island Developing States Programmes,and Deputy Director of UNEP´s Division of EnvironmentalPolicy Implementation. From 1989 to 1999 she oversaw severalglobal environmental monitoring systems, such as theGlobal Environmental Monitoring System Pollution Programmeson Water, Air and Food, and assessment. She wasalso Director of Environmental Assessment and Reportingfor the Flemish Region, Belgium. She has authored and coauthoredover 100 publications on environmental monitoringand assessment. She also initiated and directed the GlobalEnvironmental Outlook (GEO) Report Series of UNEP,a major reference work for academics and policy makers.She was a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Lusaka,Zambia and spent many years in Africa working in humanitarianassistance. She holds a PhD in Biochemistryfrom the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has overseenthe preparation of over 100 publications dealing primarilywith environmental monitoring and assessment. She holdsa Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Antwerp,Belgium and was a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the Universityof Lusaka, Zambia. Among her major publications: “GlobalMonitoring and Reporting: A New Paradigm?”, in:Brune, D. et al (Eds.): The Global Environment: Science,Technology and Management (Berlin: Wiley-VCH, 1997):973–986.Address: Dr. Veerle Vandeweerd, Director of the Environmentand Energy Group, Bureau for Development Policy,UNDP, 304 East 45 th Street, New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.Email: .Website: .Juan Carlos Villagrán de León (Guatemala) is ProgrammeOfficer, UN-SPIDER Programme, UNOOSA, United NationsOffice in Vienna; former academic officer, Head,Risk Management Section, UNU-EHS. He completed hisundergraduate education in physics at the Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1981. He

Biographies of Contributors 1761then continued his graduate education at the University ofTexas in Austin, Texas, where he was awarded his PhD degreein experimental condensed matter physics in 1987. Aftercompleting a post-doctoral programme at this University,he returned to Guatemala, where he established theApplied Physics Laboratory within the Faculty of SystemsEngineering and Computer Sciences at Francisco MarroquinUniversity. At the request of National CoordinatingAgency for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala, he providedtechnical assistance on disaster preparedness, focusing onearly warning systems. By 2001, he was a regional consultanton risk management and early warning, and was conductingresearch in geophysics, as well as on vulnerabilityand risk assessment. In 2004 he became an Academic Officerin the United Nations University Institute for Environmentand Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn whereconducted research, provided technical and scientific adviseto various national and international agencies, and authored,co-authored, and edited more than 70 publicationsincluding books, journal papers, research reports, lecturenotes, as well as many articles for the media in several languages.Among his major publications are: (2008): RiesgoSísmico en el Sector Vivienda en Guatemala [A documentwhich presents the results of a risk assessment of the housingsector in Guatemala and its evolution in the last fourdecades.] (Guatemala City: CIMDEN-VILLATEK); (2008):Rapid Assessment of Potential Impacts of a Tsunami. Lessonsfrom the Port of Galle in Sri Lanka, Source, No. 9/2008 (Bonn: UNU-EHS); (2006): Vulnerability a Conceptualand Methodological Review, Source, No. 4/2006 (Bonn:UNU-EHS); (2005): “Quantitative Vulnerability and RiskAssessment in Communities in the Foothills of Pacaya Volcanoin Guatemala”, in: Journal of Human Security andDevelopment, 1,1; (2001): La Naturaleza de los Riesgos, unEnfoque Conceptual [Introduction to the theory of risksand risk management] (Guatemala City: CIMDEN-VIL-LATEK).Personal Address: Dr. Juan Carlos Villagrán de León, UN-SPIDER Programme, UNOOSA. Wagrammer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.Email; and .Website: .Femke Vos (The Netherlands/Belgium) is a Researcher atthe WHO collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiologyof Disasters (CRED) located within Research InstituteHealth and Society of the University of Louvain, Brussels.She graduated as an Engineer in Human Nutrition andHealth, specializing in Public Health. Since 2006, she hasworked in Nutritional Sciences developing a database onmicronutrients (INRA, France). In her current role, sheanalyses global data on natural disaster impacts on humansociety within the CRED international disaster database(EM-DAT). She contributes to providing data to governmentaland non-governmental organizations, universitiesand research organizations worldwide. Next to training andinformation provision, she focuses on strengthening thequality of national and regional disaster databases in Asiaby studying disaster database methodology and interoperability.Among her major publications are: Annual DisasterStatistical Review: The numbers and trends 2009 (CRED:Brussels, 2010).Address: Ms. Femke Vos, Centre for Research on the Epidemiologyof Disasters (CRED), Department of PublicHealth, University of Louvain, 30.94 Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.Email: .Website: .Wolfgang Wagner (Austria) is Professor of Social and EconomicPsychology at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria,and affiliated with the University of the Basque Country,San Sebastián, Spain. His research work is on societalpsychology, social and cultural knowledge, popularizationof science, racism and fundamentalism, and social representationtheory. In these fields he has authored and co-authoredmore than 120 journal papers and book chapters,authored and co-edited several books, including (with N.Hayes): Everyday Discourse and Common-Sense – TheTheory of Social Representation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2005) and (with T. Sugiman; K. Gergen; Y. Yamada):Meaning in Action – Construction, Narratives andRepresentations (Tokyo: Springer, 2008). He is associateeditor of Culture and Psychology (Sage), Public Understandingof Science (Sage) and of Papers on Social Representations;at: .Address: a. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, Inst. of Educationand Psychology, Johannes Kepler Universität, 4040Linz, Austria.Website: .Bruno Andreas Walther (Germany) was Science Officer forthe bioGENESIS and bioDISCOVERY Core Projects at theDIVERSITAS secretariat in Paris from 2007-2009 duringwhich time this chapter was written. He obtained a bachelordegree from Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA(1993), and a D Phil from Oxford University, United Kingdom(1998). He held postdoctoral positions at the KonradLorenz-Institute for Comparative Ethology, Vienna, Austria(1998-2000), the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen,Denmark (2000-2003), the Department of Zoology,University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2004) and theCentre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, University ofStellenbosch, South Africa (2005-2006) where his researchconcentrated on the behaviour, ecology and conservationof Afrotropical, Neotropical and Palearctic migrant birdsand the modelling of their distributions using GIS techniques,as well as statistical methods for species richness estimation,host-parasite and predator-prey interactions, andglobal biodiversity monitoring and indicators. He is now assistantprofessor for environmental science at Taipei MedicalUniversity, Taiwan.Address: Dr. Bruno Andreas Walther, DIVERSITAS,Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), MaisonBuffon, 57 rue Cuvier – CP 41, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France.Email: .Website: .

1762 AuthorsKoko Warner (United States) is the Head of the EnvironmentalMigration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Sectionat UNU-EHS. She researches risk management strategiesof the poor in adapting to changing environmental andclimatic conditions, particularly environmentally inducedmigration and social vulnerability. She served on the managementboard of the EACH-FOR project, a first-time globalsurvey of environmentally induced migration in 23countries. She was Co-Chair of the German Marshall Fundproject on Climate Change and Migration. She helpedfound and is on the Steering Committee of the ClimateChange, Environment, and Migration Alliance (CCEMA)and works extensively in the context of the UNFCCC climatenegotiations on adaptation (particularly in risk managementand migration). She is co-chair of the GermanMarshall Fund Study Team on Climate Change and Migration,part of the FP7 Project Climate Change, Hydro-conflictsand Human Resources (CLICO), oversees the workof the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerabilityproject at UNU-EHS, a network of 7 endowed professorsand a network of experts working on related topics. She isthe UNU focal point to the UNFCCC for climate adaptationand the Nairobi Work Programme and for the UNSecretary General’s High Level Committee on Programming(a UN-wide coordinating body for “the UN deliveringas one” in areas such as climate change). She is a memberof the UN’s Interagency Standing Committee, Task forceon Climate Change, Migration and Displacement. She studieddevelopment and environmental economics at GeorgeWashington University, and the University of Vienna whereshe received her PhD in economics as Fulbright Scholar.Previously she worked at IIASA, and the Swiss Federal Institutefor Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) at the SwissFederal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She has publishedin Nature, Climate Policy, Global EnvironmentalChange, Disasters, Environmental Hazards, Natural Hazards,The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issuesand Practice, and other journals. She serves on the editorialboard of the International Journal of Global Warming.Address: Dr. Koko Warner, UNU-EHS, UN Campus, Herman-Ehlersstr.10, 53175 Bonn, Germany.Email: .Website: ; and .Tanja Wolf (Germany), Dr., is a Medical Geographer. Herscientific research focuses on health effects of climatechange. She obtained her masters in geography in Bonn,Germany (2002) with a thesis on “Sustainable water managementin Delhi, India”. In 2009 she was awarded a PhDfrom King’s College, London, UK with a thesis on “assessingvulnerability to heat stress in urban areas”, using the exampleof Greater London. Her interest is in bridging thegap between science and policy in the area of global environmentalchange and human health. In 2007 she was acontributing author to the IPCC chapter on human health.She gained experience in academia and policy, working atthe scientific secretariat of the German National Committeeon Global Change Research (2000-2003) and at the RegionalOffice for Europe of the World Health Organization(since 2004). Recent publications include: (2004): “Gli effettidei cambiamenti climatici sull’ecosistema”, in: Micron,1,2: 28–30; (co-author with Glenn McGregor, Mark Pellingand Simon Gosling, 2007): Social impacts of heatwaves.EEA report series “Using science to create a better place”;(Co-ed. with Bettina Menne, 2007): Environment and healthrisks from climate change and variability in Italy(Copenhagen – Rome: WHO Regional Office for Europe,APAT); (co-author with Glenn McGregor, Antonis Analitis,2009): “Assessing Vulnerability to Heat Stress in Urban Areas.The Example of Greater London”, in: Epidemiology,20,6: S24.Address: Dr. Tanja Wolf, WHO, Via F. Crispi, 10; 00187Rome, Italy.Email: ; .Website: and .Oran Young (USA) is a Professor of Environmental Policyat the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,University of California, Santa Barbara. Specializingin the analysis of environmental institutions with particularreference to international regimes, he also serves as co-directorof the Program on Governance for Sustainable Developmentat the Bren School. He served for six years asfounding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensionsof Global Change of the National Academy of Sciencesin the United States and chaired the Scientific SteeringCommittee of the international project on the InstitutionalDimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) underthe auspices of the International Human DimensionsProgramme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Hecurrently chairs the Scientific Committee of the IHDP. Anexpert on Arctic issues, he served as vice-president of theInternational Arctic Science Committee, chair of the Boardof Governors of the University of the Arctic, and co-chairof the Arctic Human Development Report. His work as authoror co-author of over twenty books and numerousscholarly articles includes: Institutions and EnvironmentalChange: Principal Findings, Applications, and Future Directions;The Institutional Dimensions of EnvironmentalChange: Fit, Interplay, and Scale; Governance in World Affairs;International Governance: Protecting the Environmentin a Stateless Society; and International Cooperation:Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment.Address: Prof. Dr. Oran Young, Bren School of EnvironmentalScience and Management, University of Californiaat Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, USA.Email: .Website: and .Hongyuan Yu (People’s Republic of China) is an AssociateProfessor and Deputy Director of the Center of InternationalOrganizations and Laws at the Shanghai Institutesfor International Studies. He got his Ph.D degree from theChinese University of Hong Kong, and M.Phil degree fromRenmin University of China. From 1998 to 2000 he worked

Biographies of Contributors 1763with the administrative centre for China’s Agenda 21 at theMinistry of Science and Technology. He is the author ofnumerous publications, including: Global Warming andChina's Environmental Diplomacy (New York: Nova SciencePublishers, 2008); “Environmental Change and theAsia Pacific”, in: Global Change, Peace, and Security, 17,1;“Knowledge and Climate Change Policy Coordination inChina”, in: East Asia: An International Quarterly, 21,3;“The Logic of Collective Action in International EnvironmentalCooperation”, in: World Economics and Politics[Shi Jie Jing Ji Yu Zheng Zhi], No. 5, 2007 (in Chinese); “Interest-basedExplanation for Environmental Policy Coordinationin China”, in: The Academic Journal of Fudan University[Fu Dan Xue Bao], No. 1, 2006 (in Chinese);“Global Environment Facility (GEF) and China’s EnvironmentalDiplomacy”, in: Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies[Dang Dai Ya Tai], No.2, 2006 (in Chinese).Address: Prof. Dr. Hongyuan Yu, No. 19-2304Lane 151,Donglan Road, Shanghai 201102, China.Email: .Kaveh Zahedi (United Kingdom) is the Climate ChangeCoordinator at the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP). He is responsible for managing UNEP’sclimate change work programme and major partnershipswith the United Nations and the World Bank. He hasworked at UNEP headquarters in Kenya (1995–1999), theRegional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean inMexico (1999–2004), the UNEP World Conservation MonitoringCentre in the UK (2004–2007) and is now based atthe Division of Technology, Industry and Economics inParis. Before joining UNEP, he worked with a non governmentalorganization in the UK as project manager for developmentaid projects in Latin America and the MiddleEast. He holds a Masters degree from the Fletcher Schoolof Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, and a BSc(Econ.) degree in Economics & Geography from the UniversityCollege London.Address: Mr. Kaveh Zahedi, 15 Rue de Milan, Paris 75009,France.Email: .Website: .Ricardo Zapata-Marti (Mexico/Chile) is an economistwho joined the United Nations Economic Commission forLatin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, CEPAL) in1975. Previously he was chief of the International TradeUnit at the subregional headquarters of the ECLAC at theUnited Nations in Mexico, since 1989 he has beenECLAC’s Focal Point for Disaster Evaluation, where he coordinatedthe updating of the ECLAC Handbook for theEvaluation of the Socioeconomic and Environmental Impactof Disasters (2003), the current international standardtool for assessing natural disasters, including five hurricanesin the Caribbean (2004). He cooperated with the WorldBank’s assessments of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December2004 and has led more than 20 disaster assessmentmissions in Latin American and Caribbean. A member ofthe Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Price and was a lead authorin Working Group 2, given his experience in assessingthe socioeconomic and environmental impact of disasters.He conducted various interdisciplinary research projectsand programmes on trade, integration, tourism, and smalland medium size enterprises. He participated in many conferences,symposia, seminars on trade issues and on the socio-economicimpact of natural disasters, including theUnited Nations’ World Conferences on Natural DisasterReduction and the Davos Global Forum on Disasters andClimate Change. Prior to joining ECLAC, he was a professorand researcher at the Universidad Católica in Peru andUniversidad Católica de Guayaquil in Ecuador, and a columnistand editor in Ecuador (1972–1975). He studied internationalrelations at the El Colegio de México (1967-68),and economics at the Universidad Católica del Perú (1970-72).Address: Mr. Ricardo Zapata-Marti, Av. Dag Hammarsjkjold3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile, Casilla Postal 179 – D,Santiago, Chile (official), Av. Polanco 32-3, Col. Polanco,C.P. 11570, México D.F., México (residence).Email: and .Zhongqin Zhao (People’s Republic of China) is a BrigadierGeneral of the Chinese Army. He was educated at the MilitaryUniversity Xian and worked as troop commander,trainer and chief of company in the 127 th Division of theChinese Army. After his studies at the Military Academy Shijiazhuang,he received a diploma in military affairs in 1992and worked at the academy as a lecturer until 2001. In2002 he took part in a course at the Military Academy inHamburg and, in 2003, became assistant professor at theMilitary Academy Shijiazhuang. During his stay as a fellowat IFSH he was working on the influence of globalisationon Chinese security. He has published books on InformationWarfare and on Military Philosophy and the HighlyEngineered War as well as over 40 articles in journals andnewspapers, among them, articles on military leadershiptheory and the work of the high command.Email: .Md Zillur Rahman (Bangladesh) is currently a PhD Scholarat the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Collegeof Medicine, Biology and Environment, in The AustralianNational University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He holdsa research-based MSc. in technological and socio-economicplanning from Roskilde University, Denmark, and as partof his MSc thesis he undertook advanced courses in InternationalDevelopment at NORAGRIC, Universitetet forMilj- og Biovitenskap (UMB) in ÅS, Norway. In 2007, hehad conducted a participatory action research based fieldworkon ‘rural water resources management and local livelihooddevelopment’ in Bangladesh. In addition, he was achairman of board of Stichting HESDOB; a developmentorganization and he was also an executive in the board ofCareGambia in Netherlands. His PhD research addressesthe key question: What are the determinant factors of socialnetworks for the sustainability of water resource managementin rural areas in Bangladesh under ClimateChange conditions?

1764 AuthorsAddress: Mr. Md Zillur Rahman, Fenner School of Environmentand Society, Building 48, The Australian NationalUniversity (ANU), Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.E mail: .Website: .Hania Zlotnik (Mexico): is Director of the Population Division,United Nations. See Biographies of authors of forewordsand preface essays.