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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