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1728 Authorsjournals including Climate Policy, Land Degradation andDevelopment, International Environmental Agreementsand Global Environmental Politics. He is co-editor of Adaptationto Climate Change in Southern Africa: NewBoundaries for Development (with Imme Scholz, Earthscan2010), and of A World Environment Organization: Solutionor Threat for Effective International EnvironmentalGovernance? (with Frank Biermann, Ashgate 2005), andone of the lead authors of Managers of Global Change:The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies(edited by Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner,MIT Press 2009).Address: Mr. Steffen Bauer, German Development Institute(DIE), Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, GermanyEmail: .Website: >http://www.die-gdi.de>.Ulrich Beck (Germany) is Professor for Sociology at theUniversity of Munich, and has been the British Journal ofSociology LSE Centennial Professor in the Department ofSociology since 1997. See biographies of authors of forewordsand preface essays.Arno Behrens (Germany) holds a Master’s degree in economicsand is about to finish his PhD on dematerialisationand decarbonisation issues. He is Research Fellow andHead of Energy at the Unit for Energy and Climate Changeof the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Beforethat, he worked as Second Secretary at the German FederalForeign Office in the context of the 2007 German Presidencyof the European Union. Other main cornerstones ofhis career include the European Commission (DG Development),the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI),and the United Nations Development Programme (UN-DP). He published numerous articles and reports focusingon European responses to energy and climate change issuesas well as policy options in support of sustainable development.Publications include ‘The Financing of the GlobalEnergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF)(2009), a Briefing Paper prepared for the European Parliament,and a CEPS Policy Brief, Learning from the Crisis: AMarket Approach to Securing European Natural Gas Supplies(2009). He also published a CEPS Task Force Reportwith C. Egenhofer entitled Energy Policy for Europe - Identifyingthe European Added-Value (2008). Other publicationsfocus on energy security of supply in Europe, as wellas on the financial impacts of climate change.Address: Mr. Arno Behrens, Centre for European PolicyStudies (CEPS), 1, Place du Congres, 1000, Brussels, Belgium.Email: (office).Richard Betts (UK) is Head of Climate Impacts at the MetOffice Hadley Centre, the UK government’s research centrefor climate change. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics,a Master’s in Meteorology and Climatology, and hisPhD thesis examined the role of the world’s ecosystems inclimate change. He has worked in climate modelling for 16years, with a particular interest in the impacts of climatechange on ecosystem services and the interactions with otherimpacts of climate change such as on water resources.He is also interested in the wide-ranging effects of land useand land cover change on climate. He has pioneered anumber of key developments in the extension of climatemodels to include biological processes, and has publishedover 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and other articles.As a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC 2007), he lead the assessment of theinfluences of land cover change on climate and contributingto the assessment of climate change impacts on freshwater. He played a similar role in the Millennium EcosystemAssessment. He was a leading peer-reviewer of theStern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (2006).Among his major publications are: (with Boucher, O.; Collins,M.; Cox, P.M.: Falloon, P.D.; Gedney, N.; Hemming,D.L.; Huntingford, C.; Jones, C.D.; Sexton, D.M.H.; Webb,M.J., 2007): “Projected increase in future river runoffthrough plant responses to carbon dioxide rise”, in: Nature,448: 1037-1042; (2007): “Implications of land ecosystem-atmosphereinteractions for strategies for climatechange adaptation and mitigation”, in: Tellus B, 59,3: 602-615.Address: Dr. Richard Betts, Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road,Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, United Kingdom.Email: .Website: .Issa Martin Bikienga (Burkina Faso) is Deputy ExecutiveSecretary of the Comité permanent Inter-Etats de LutteContre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS). He studied inGermany and France and received an agricultural engineeringdegree (University of Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany);a degree from the Centre d’Etudes Financières,Economiques et Bancaires (Paris), and a degree from theInstitut de Formation Agronomique et Rurale des RégionsChaudes (Montpellier, France). Since January 2003 he hasworked with CILSS as coordinator of policy programmeson food security, natural resources management, desertificationcontrol and since February 2005 as Deputy ExecutiveSecretary. From October 1999 to November 2000 hewas Minister of Agriculture in Burkina Faso; from July 1996to October 1999 he was Secretary-General of the Ministryof Agriculture and Animal Resources; from 1985 to 1995 heworked as operations manager for the Société Sucrière dela Comoé, in 1984 he was manager of a groundnuts projectand from 1979 to 1983 he managed a phosphate project. Heis officer of the Ordre National Burkinabè and member ofthe Association of Tropical Agricultural Engineers (Witzenhausen,Germany) and of the West and Central AfricanSoil Science Association (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). Hispublications include: Role and methodology of feasibilitystudy formulation within the context of irrigation projectplanning (1979, in German); La commercialisation des engraisen Haute - Volta (Rome: FAO-FIAC, 1983); Les contraintesà l’utilisation des engrais en Haute-Volta dans ledéveloppement des cultures vivrières (Paris: Centred’Etudes Financières, Economiques et Bancaires, 1984);“Sur l’efficacité agronomique du phosphate naturel deKODJARI”, in: Notes et Documents Burkinabé, 16,3–4 (July-December1996); “Zur Anwendung des landeseigenen