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Biographies of Contributors 1729Rohphosphates in der Landwirtschaft Burkina Faso”, in:Der Tropenlandwirt. Zeitschrift für die Landwirtschaft inden Tropen und Subtropen (in German, 1985); “The SugarCane Irrigation Problems in the Sahel Region. Burkina Fasoas a Case Example (West Africa)”, in: Zeitschrift für Bewäserungswirtschaft(1989, in German); “The Drought in theSahel Region and its Consequences on Water Supply Projects”,in: Zeitschrift für Bewässerungswirtschaft (1992, inGerman); Proposition de quelques technologies pratiquespour la restauration et le maintien de la fertilité des sols auBurkina Faso (Ouagadougou: Ministère de l’Agriculture,Unité de Gestion de la Fertilité des Sols, 1995); Productionagropastorale au Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou: Universitéde Ouagadougou, 1996); Rentabilité financière et rentabilitééconomique. Principes généraux et cas pratiques des entrepriseset projets de production agricole (1997); Développementhumain durable. Contenu du Concept etimplications pour la recherche Scientifique au BurkinaFaso (1998) ; Quelle politique de sécurité alimentaire pourle Burkina au XXIè siècle ? Forum de la Recherche Scientifiqueet Technologique (2000).Address: Mr. Issa Martin Bikienga, Comité permanentInter-Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel(CILSS), 03 BP 7 156 - Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.Email: and .Website: .Jörn Birkmann (Germany) is Academic Officer and Headof the Vulnerability Assessment Section at the United NationsUniversity - Institute for Human Security and Environment(UNU-EHS). See biographies of editors.Hans Jürgen Boehmer (Germany) is a vegetation ecologist,currently working as a Senior Research Scientist and ManagingDirector at the Interdisciplinary Latin America Center(ILZ) of the University of Bonn, Germany. He gained afirst degree in geography, political sciences, and communicationsciences from the University of Bamberg, Germany,(1990), and his MSc. degree in geography with a specializationin biogeography (1993) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). A PhD (1998, Dr. rer. nat., Universityof Erlangen-Nuremberg) for a dissertation on “VegetationDynamics in High Mountain Regions under Impact ofNatural Disturbances.” After several years of a post doctoralresearch in Hawaii’s rainforests (Post Doctoral Fellow atthe Botany Department, University of Hawaii, U.S.A., withDieter Mueller-Dombois), he completed his habilitationthesis on “Dynamics and Invasibility of Hawaii’s MontaneRainforests” and obtained his habilitation at the Departmentof Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Germany,in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed to be Adj. Professor(Priv.-Doz., PD) at the same department. His research focuseson vegetation dynamics under the impact of naturaland human disturbance, particularly on the complex interactionsof natural vegetation dynamics, disturbance regimes,biological invasions, and climate change. He hasfield experience in a wide range of ecosystems in differentecozones. His recent publications include works on plantdiversity and dynamics of used and natural tropical montanerain forests in East Africa and the Pacific region, andthe ecological and societal consequences of biological invasions.Among his major publications are: (with M. Richter):“Regeneration of plant communities – an attempt to establisha typology and a zonal system” (1997); Vegetationsdynamikim Hochgebirge unter dem Einfluss natuerlicherStoerungen (Stuttgart – Berlin: Borntraeger 1999); CaseStudies on Alien Species in Germany (Berlin: German FederalEnvironmental Agency 2001); (co-author with Ch. Schmitt):“Floristic diversity in fragmented Afromontane rainforests:altitudinal variation and conservation importance”(2009); (co-author with V. Minden):“Effects of invasive alienHedychium gardnerianum on native plant species regenerationin a Hawaiian rainforest” (2009).Address: Adj. Prof. (PD) Dr. Hans Juergen Boehmer, InterdisciplinaryLatin America Center (ILZ), University ofBonn, Walter-Flex-Strasse 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany.Email: .Website: .Peter Bosch (The Netherlands) was Coordinator and Editorof the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) working group III on mitigation ofclimate change. Before he was employed at the EuropeanEnvironment Agency in Copenhagen as a specialist on environmentalindicators. He has coordinated and edited a seriesof pan-European state of the environment and environmentalindicator reports. He was educated as a physicalgeographer, and has worked for many years in environmentalstatistics at Statistics Netherlands, working, among others,on a project to calculate a sustainable national incomeindicator for The Netherlands. Among his major publicationsare: Climate Change 2007, Mitigation of ClimateChange, IPCC; Europe’s Environment, the second and thethird assessment (Copenhagen: European EnvironmentAgency, 1998 and 2003 respectively).Address: Mr. Peter Bosch, TNO-environment, P.O. Box80015; 3508 TA Utrecht; The Netherlands.E-mail: .Website: .Hans Günter Brauch (Germany), Privatdozent (Adj. Prof.)at the Faculty of Political Science and Social Sciences, FreeUniversity of Berlin, since 1987 chairman of Peace Researchand European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS). See Biographiesof editors.Carlo Buontempo (Italy/UK) Senior Scientist in ClimateImpacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre. He obtained hisBachelor’s degree in Physics at University of Rome with athesis on ground-based measurements of cloud water content.After working on boundary layer processes for a coupleof years he started his PhD research on tropical convectionat University of Aquila. Over the last 10 years he hasbeen developing numerical weather and regional climatemodels. In his current role he provides specialist advice tocompanies and policymakers on how to increase their capacityin dealing with climate risk. He has an excellenttrack record of publications communicating complex scientificinformation to both specialists and the general public.Among his major recent publications are: (with Scaife,