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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