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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,