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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-