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1732 AuthorsConstance (Ed.): Handbook for Climate Change and Society.Routledge (i.p.); “Shifting Vulnerabilities: A Study inFlood Affected Slums of Mumbai”. Source 10/2008 (Bonn:UNU-EHS): 100-109; (with Mitchell, James K.): 2007. “TheChanging Environment”, in: Auerbach, Paul S. (Ed.): WildernessMedicine: Management of wilderness and environentalemergencies (St. Louis: Mosby Year Book Inc.,52007): 2184–2198; “The Scope of Natural Hazard Insurancein Developing Countries”, in: Feng, H. Lizhong Yu &William Solecki (Eds.): Urban Dimensions of EnvironmentalChange: Science, Exposures Policies and Technologies(Monmouth, NJ: Science Press, 2005): 130-139.Address: Ms. Monalisa Chatterjee, Department of Geography,Rutgers University, 54 Joyce Kilmer Blvd. PiscatawayNJ 08854-8045 USA.Email: and: .Béchir Chourou (Tunisia) was Professor of InternationalRelations at the University of Tunis-Carthage in Tunisia.See: Biographies of editors.John A. Church (Australia), Ph.D., an Oceanographer withCSIRO, the Centre for Australian Weather and ClimateResearch and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CooperativeResearch Centre, a Principal Investigator on NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon and Jason Science Working Teamssince 1987, co-convening lead author for the chapter on SeaLevel in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Co-Chairedthe World Ocean Circulation Experiment (1994-1998) andthe World Climate Research Programme (2006-2008), aFellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciencesand Engineering. Awarded the 2006 Roger RevelleMedal by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission,a CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement in 2006,the 2007 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research and presentedthe 2008 AMOS R.H. Clarke Lecture. He is a memberof the IPCC team that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.Publication highlights include: co-author with Neil J. White;Julie Arblaster): “Significant decadal-scale impact of volcaniceruptions on sea level and ocean heat content”, in: Nature,438 (2005): 74–77, ; (withN. J. White): “A 20 th century acceleration in global sea-levelrise”, in: Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (2006) L01602,; (with Catia M. Domingues,Neil J. White, Peter J. Gleckler, Susan E. Wijffels, Paul M.Barker, Jeff R. Dunn): “Improved estimates of upper-oceanwarming and its contribution to multi-decadal sea levelrise”,in: Nature, 453 (2008): 1090-1093, ; (coed. with Siedler, Gerold; Gould, John):Ocean circulation and Climate, Observing and modellingthe global ocean. International Geophysics Series, vol. 77(San Diego: Academic Press, 2001).Address: Prof. Dr. John A. Church, CSIRO Marine andAtmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania7001. Australia.Email: .Website: .Cecilia Conde Álvarez (México), Dr. (National AutonomousUniversity of Mexico, UNAM), Researcher of ClimateCchange and Climate Variability, Centre of AtmosphericSciences of UNAM and chief of its InterdisciplinaryClimate Change Programme. She is a Focal Point of theNairobi Work Programme of the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She hascoordinated various interdisciplinary projects related to impacts,vulnerability and adaptation of climate variability andchange, particularly on the agricultural sector, with the involvementof regional stakeholders. She has collaboratedwith the Mexican government in the elaboration of theMexican National Communications, and with regional andlocal governments in the development of their Climatic ActionPlans. She is a member of the Council for ClimateChange, an organization of 23 scientists and decision makersthat supports de Mexican federal government in the designof its National Strategy of Climate Change. She hasparticipated in workshops for some Latin American countries(Belize, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) supporting them in thedevelopment of their National Communications and intheir projects related to the economy and climate change.She was co-author of the Adaptation Policy Frameworksfor Climate Change: Development Strategies, Policies andMeasures, published by the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP). She was lead author of two chaptersfor the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.She has published books, reports and articles in Atmosfera,Climate Research, Climatic Change, and in Applied VegetationScience.Address: Dr. Cecilia Conde, Centro de Ciencias de laAtmósfera, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito Exterior,04510, México, D.F., México.Email: .Website: .Paul C. Crutzen (The Netherlands), Nobel Laureate forChemistry in 1995; Member of the Max-Planck-Society forthe Advancement of Science, Director Emeritus of the AtmosphericChemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institute forChemistry, Mainz, Germany (1980-2000). See biographiesof authors of forewords and preface essays.Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (Palestine), Ph.D, Ph. D. is aProfessor of Political Science and International Relations;founding director, American Studies Institute, Al-Quds Universityand founding director of the Wasatia Moderate IslamicMovement in Palestine. He is a Jerusalem-born scholarand peace activist with two doctorate degrees ingovernment (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,1981; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1984). He is chairman.Board of Directors, House of Water and Environment;member, Board of Directors, YMCA-West Jerusalem;founding director, Jerusalem Studies and Research Institute.He was the founding director of the Palestinian Public AdministrationNational Institute; senior consultant on publicadministration of the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and