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Biographies of Contributors 1761then continued his graduate education at the University ofTexas in Austin, Texas, where he was awarded his PhD degreein experimental condensed matter physics in 1987. Aftercompleting a post-doctoral programme at this University,he returned to Guatemala, where he established theApplied Physics Laboratory within the Faculty of SystemsEngineering and Computer Sciences at Francisco MarroquinUniversity. At the request of National CoordinatingAgency for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala, he providedtechnical assistance on disaster preparedness, focusing onearly warning systems. By 2001, he was a regional consultanton risk management and early warning, and was conductingresearch in geophysics, as well as on vulnerabilityand risk assessment. In 2004 he became an Academic Officerin the United Nations University Institute for Environmentand Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn whereconducted research, provided technical and scientific adviseto various national and international agencies, and authored,co-authored, and edited more than 70 publicationsincluding books, journal papers, research reports, lecturenotes, as well as many articles for the media in several languages.Among his major publications are: (2008): RiesgoSísmico en el Sector Vivienda en Guatemala [A documentwhich presents the results of a risk assessment of the housingsector in Guatemala and its evolution in the last fourdecades.] (Guatemala City: CIMDEN-VILLATEK); (2008):Rapid Assessment of Potential Impacts of a Tsunami. Lessonsfrom the Port of Galle in Sri Lanka, Source, No. 9/2008 (Bonn: UNU-EHS); (2006): Vulnerability a Conceptualand Methodological Review, Source, No. 4/2006 (Bonn:UNU-EHS); (2005): “Quantitative Vulnerability and RiskAssessment in Communities in the Foothills of Pacaya Volcanoin Guatemala”, in: Journal of Human Security andDevelopment, 1,1; (2001): La Naturaleza de los Riesgos, unEnfoque Conceptual [Introduction to the theory of risksand risk management] (Guatemala City: CIMDEN-VIL-LATEK).Personal Address: Dr. Juan Carlos Villagrán de León, UN-SPIDER Programme, UNOOSA. Wagrammer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.Email; and .Website: .Femke Vos (The Netherlands/Belgium) is a Researcher atthe WHO collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiologyof Disasters (CRED) located within Research InstituteHealth and Society of the University of Louvain, Brussels.She graduated as an Engineer in Human Nutrition andHealth, specializing in Public Health. Since 2006, she hasworked in Nutritional Sciences developing a database onmicronutrients (INRA, France). In her current role, sheanalyses global data on natural disaster impacts on humansociety within the CRED international disaster database(EM-DAT). She contributes to providing data to governmentaland non-governmental organizations, universitiesand research organizations worldwide. Next to training andinformation provision, she focuses on strengthening thequality of national and regional disaster databases in Asiaby studying disaster database methodology and interoperability.Among her major publications are: Annual DisasterStatistical Review: The numbers and trends 2009 (CRED:Brussels, 2010).Address: Ms. Femke Vos, Centre for Research on the Epidemiologyof Disasters (CRED), Department of PublicHealth, University of Louvain, 30.94 Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.Email: .Website: .Wolfgang Wagner (Austria) is Professor of Social and EconomicPsychology at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria,and affiliated with the University of the Basque Country,San Sebastián, Spain. His research work is on societalpsychology, social and cultural knowledge, popularizationof science, racism and fundamentalism, and social representationtheory. In these fields he has authored and co-authoredmore than 120 journal papers and book chapters,authored and co-edited several books, including (with N.Hayes): Everyday Discourse and Common-Sense – TheTheory of Social Representation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2005) and (with T. Sugiman; K. Gergen; Y. Yamada):Meaning in Action – Construction, Narratives andRepresentations (Tokyo: Springer, 2008). He is associateeditor of Culture and Psychology (Sage), Public Understandingof Science (Sage) and of Papers on Social Representations;at: .Address: a. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, Inst. of Educationand Psychology, Johannes Kepler Universität, 4040Linz, Austria.Website: .Bruno Andreas Walther (Germany) was Science Officer forthe bioGENESIS and bioDISCOVERY Core Projects at theDIVERSITAS secretariat in Paris from 2007-2009 duringwhich time this chapter was written. He obtained a bachelordegree from Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA(1993), and a D Phil from Oxford University, United Kingdom(1998). He held postdoctoral positions at the KonradLorenz-Institute for Comparative Ethology, Vienna, Austria(1998-2000), the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen,Denmark (2000-2003), the Department of Zoology,University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2004) and theCentre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, University ofStellenbosch, South Africa (2005-2006) where his researchconcentrated on the behaviour, ecology and conservationof Afrotropical, Neotropical and Palearctic migrant birdsand the modelling of their distributions using GIS techniques,as well as statistical methods for species richness estimation,host-parasite and predator-prey interactions, andglobal biodiversity monitoring and indicators. He is now assistantprofessor for environmental science at Taipei MedicalUniversity, Taiwan.Address: Dr. Bruno Andreas Walther, DIVERSITAS,Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), MaisonBuffon, 57 rue Cuvier – CP 41, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France.Email: .Website: .
1762 AuthorsKoko Warner (United States) is the Head of the EnvironmentalMigration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Sectionat UNU-EHS. She researches risk management strategiesof the poor in adapting to changing environmental andclimatic conditions, particularly environmentally inducedmigration and social vulnerability. She served on the managementboard of the EACH-FOR project, a first-time globalsurvey of environmentally induced migration in 23countries. She was Co-Chair of the German Marshall Fundproject on Climate Change and Migration. She helpedfound and is on the Steering Committee of the ClimateChange, Environment, and Migration Alliance (CCEMA)and works extensively in the context of the UNFCCC climatenegotiations on adaptation (particularly in risk managementand migration). She is co-chair of the GermanMarshall Fund Study Team on Climate Change and Migration,part of the FP7 Project Climate Change, Hydro-conflictsand Human Resources (CLICO), oversees the workof the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerabilityproject at UNU-EHS, a network of 7 endowed professorsand a network of experts working on related topics. She isthe UNU focal point to the UNFCCC for climate adaptationand the Nairobi Work Programme and for the UNSecretary General’s High Level Committee on Programming(a UN-wide coordinating body for “the UN deliveringas one” in areas such as climate change). She is a memberof the UN’s Interagency Standing Committee, Task forceon Climate Change, Migration and Displacement. She studieddevelopment and environmental economics at GeorgeWashington University, and the University of Vienna whereshe received her PhD in economics as Fulbright Scholar.Previously she worked at IIASA, and the Swiss Federal Institutefor Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) at the SwissFederal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She has publishedin Nature, Climate Policy, Global EnvironmentalChange, Disasters, Environmental Hazards, Natural Hazards,The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issuesand Practice, and other journals. She serves on the editorialboard of the International Journal of Global Warming.Address: Dr. Koko Warner, UNU-EHS, UN Campus, Herman-Ehlersstr.10, 53175 Bonn, Germany.Email: .Website: ; and .Tanja Wolf (Germany), Dr., is a Medical Geographer. Herscientific research focuses on health effects of climatechange. She obtained her masters in geography in Bonn,Germany (2002) with a thesis on “Sustainable water managementin Delhi, India”. In 2009 she was awarded a PhDfrom King’s College, London, UK with a thesis on “assessingvulnerability to heat stress in urban areas”, using the exampleof Greater London. Her interest is in bridging thegap between science and policy in the area of global environmentalchange and human health. In 2007 she was acontributing author to the IPCC chapter on human health.She gained experience in academia and policy, working atthe scientific secretariat of the German National Committeeon Global Change Research (2000-2003) and at the RegionalOffice for Europe of the World Health Organization(since 2004). Recent publications include: (2004): “Gli effettidei cambiamenti climatici sull’ecosistema”, in: Micron,1,2: 28–30; (co-author with Glenn McGregor, Mark Pellingand Simon Gosling, 2007): Social impacts of heatwaves.EEA report series “Using science to create a better place”;(Co-ed. with Bettina Menne, 2007): Environment and healthrisks from climate change and variability in Italy(Copenhagen – Rome: WHO Regional Office for Europe,APAT); (co-author with Glenn McGregor, Antonis Analitis,2009): “Assessing Vulnerability to Heat Stress in Urban Areas.The Example of Greater London”, in: Epidemiology,20,6: S24.Address: Dr. Tanja Wolf, WHO, Via F. Crispi, 10; 00187Rome, Italy.Email: ; .Website: and .Oran Young (USA) is a Professor of Environmental Policyat the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,University of California, Santa Barbara. Specializingin the analysis of environmental institutions with particularreference to international regimes, he also serves as co-directorof the Program on Governance for Sustainable Developmentat the Bren School. He served for six years asfounding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensionsof Global Change of the National Academy of Sciencesin the United States and chaired the Scientific SteeringCommittee of the international project on the InstitutionalDimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) underthe auspices of the International Human DimensionsProgramme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Hecurrently chairs the Scientific Committee of the IHDP. Anexpert on Arctic issues, he served as vice-president of theInternational Arctic Science Committee, chair of the Boardof Governors of the University of the Arctic, and co-chairof the Arctic Human Development Report. His work as authoror co-author of over twenty books and numerousscholarly articles includes: Institutions and EnvironmentalChange: Principal Findings, Applications, and Future Directions;The Institutional Dimensions of EnvironmentalChange: Fit, Interplay, and Scale; Governance in World Affairs;International Governance: Protecting the Environmentin a Stateless Society; and International Cooperation:Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment.Address: Prof. Dr. Oran Young, Bren School of EnvironmentalScience and Management, University of Californiaat Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131, USA.Email: .Website: and .Hongyuan Yu (People’s Republic of China) is an AssociateProfessor and Deputy Director of the Center of InternationalOrganizations and Laws at the Shanghai Institutesfor International Studies. He got his Ph.D degree from theChinese University of Hong Kong, and M.Phil degree fromRenmin University of China. From 1998 to 2000 he worked
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