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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