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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,