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1752 AuthorsEnvironmental Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Japan-EU Cooperation: The Case of Global Climate Change”, in:Ueta, Takako; Àemacle, Eric (Eds.): Japan and EnlargedEurope: Partners in Global Governance (Brussels: PeterLang, 2005: 99-126).Address: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Ohta, Ph.D., School of LiberalStudies, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan.E-mail: .Felix Bayode Olorunfemi (Nigeria), Dr., Research Fellowat the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research(NISER), Ibadan. He obtained his PhD in Geography fromthe University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2004 with funding assistancefrom the Council for the Development of SocialScience Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal.He is also a Research Fellow of the Earth System GovernanceProject, a core project of the International HumanDimensions Programme on Global Change (IHDP), Bonn,Germany. At present, he is executing a fellowship programmeawarded by the Global Change SysTems Analysisfor Research and Training (START), Washington DC, underthe African Climate Change Fellowship Programme(ACCFP) at the University of Cape Town, Climate SystemsAnalysis Group, South Africa. The fellowship project focuseson flood risks and sustainable adaptation in selected informalsettlements in the city of Cape Town. Some of hisrecent publications include; (2009): “Willingness to Pay forImproved Environmental Quality Among Residents Livingin Close Proximity to Landfills in Lagos Metropolis”, in: AfricanResearch Review, 3,1 (April): 97-110; (with U.A Raheem,2006-2007): “Urban Development and EnvironmentalImplications: The Challenge of Urban Sustainability inNigeria”, in: Australasian Journal of African Studies (AfricanStudies Association of Australasian and the Pacific [AF-SAAP], Australia), 28: 74-96; (with F. Olokesusi, 2006):“Noise Pollution”, in: Matt, F.; Ivbijaro, F.; Akintola, Festus;Okechukwu, R.V (Eds.) Sustainable Environmental Managementin Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria: Mattivi Production):139-146.Address: Dr. Felix Bayode Olorunfemi, Physical DevelopmentDepartment, Nigerian Institute of Social and EconomicResearch, PMB 05, U.I P.O, Ojoo, Ibadan, OyoState, 200001, Nigeria.E-mail: .Website: .Konrad Osterwalder (Switzerland) has been the fifth Rectorof the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations since 1 September 2007. Seebiographies of authors of forewords and preface essays.Úrsula Oswald Spring (Mexico), Research Professor at theNational University of Mexico (UNAM), in the RegionalMultidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM) in Cuernavaca.See biographies of editors.Mohamedou Ould Baba Sy (Mauritania), HydrogeologicalExpert in charge of information systems and modelling inthe water sector at the Sahara and Sahel Observatory(OSS). He obtained a university diploma in 1992, he becamea principal engineer in geology in 1996, he obtained amaster degree on sedimentary basins in 1998 from the Facultyof Science of Tunis (Tunisia) and in 2005 he received aPhD also from the Faculty of Science of Tunis (Tunisia),specializing in hydrogeology. He joined the Sahara and SahelObservatory (OSS) in 2000 as an engineer assisting hydrogeologistswithin the framework of the North WesternSahara Aquifer System Project” (NWSASS) and since January2007 he is a Water Programme Officer, where he contributeshis skills on hydogeological modelling, databasesand Geographical Information Systems (GIS) managementHe contributed to the publication of the project reports.He acted as a hydrogeologist expert for the project “Managingrisks of the Iullemeden aquifer system (Western Africa)”for which he developed the hydrogeological modeland the data base. He wrote the reports on the Iullemedenmodel and on the database.Address: Dr. Mohamedou Ould Baba Sy, Observatoire duSahara et du Sahel (OSS), Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat,BP 31, 1080, Tunis, Tunisia.Email: .Website: ..Anna Paldy (Hungary) is a Medical Epidemiologist MPH,PhD with 30 years experience in different fields of environmentalhealth. She has been working at the National Instituteof Environmental Health (former National Institute ofPublic Health) since 2008 heading the Division of HealthImpact Forecast. Since 2002 she has been the deputy directorof the institute. She has been involved in several multicentre as well as Hungarian studies. Her research field coveredcytogenetics, environmental epidemiology focusing onthe effect of pesticides, air and water pollutants. She wasactively involved in the implementation of the National EnvironmentalHealth Action Programme. She has been frequentlyinvited as temporary advisor in climate and healthrelated issues by the WHO. In the last 10 years she studiedthe health impact of environmental pollution on mortalityand morbidity, among others the health impact of climatechange. She has largely contributed to the elaboration ofthe National Climate Adaptation Strategy and of the heathealthearly warning system in Hungary. She has been participatingin the activity of the research group on Adaptationto Impacts of Climate Change of the Hungarian Academyof Science. She is a member of the National EnvironmentalCouncil, she acted as a president of the Central-Eastern European Chapter of the International Society ofEnvironmental Epidemiology. She is president of the Societyof Hungarian Hygienists. She has leading the module ofEnvironmental Epidemiology at the School of PublicHealth in Debrecen, Hungary. She authored and co-authoredmore than 30 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.Address: Anna Paldy, MD, MPH, PhD, National Institute ofEnvironmental Health, Gyali ut 2-6, Budapest, 1097, Hungary.Email: .Website: .