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PACIFIC IN PERIL: BIOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PACIFIC CORAL REEFS ABOUT THE AUTHORS This report required a multidisciplinary team to link its diverse elements. In addition to the authors below, the report was reviewed by and received crucial input from B Hare (Greenpeace International), A Strong (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington DC) and J Draunimasi (Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations, Labour Administration and Productivity Improvement, Fijian Government). R Johnstone (CMS) also reviewed this report and contributed heavily to the discussion of coastal impacts and climate interactions. OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is the Founding Professor of Marine Studies and Director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Marine Studies. Professor Hoegh-Guldberg specialises in the physiology and ecology of reef-building corals and began his studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He obtained his PhD in the laboratory of the eminent reef physiologist, Professor Leonard Muscatine. Following his studies at UCLA, Professor Hoegh-Guldberg held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California before returning to Australia to take a post at the University of Sydney. In 1992, he took up a lectureship in marine biology at the University of Sydney. In 1999, he moved to the University of Queensland and has continued to focus on the impact of human activities on coral reefs. Professor Hoegh- Guldberg is particularly interested in coral bleaching and the potential impacts of global climate change. He was awarded a Eureka Prize for excellence in scientific research for his contributions to research in this area in 1999. HANS HOEGH-GULDBERG Hans Hoegh-Guldberg is a leading economist specialising in the economics of the arts, tourism and cultural sectors. He [OHG1]graduated in Economics with a first-class degree from the University of Copenhagen (1958). From 1959 until 1976, he worked as a consulting economist in three major consulting firms. During this time, he undertook major projects in tourism, Australian regional studies and economic forecasting. Following eight years in strategic planning and new business development for a major Australian corporation, he set up his own economic consultancy, Economic Strategies Pty Ltd, in late 1984. The company has built up a leading position in arts and cultural economics in Australia – like the Pacific island economies, these areas have relatively undeveloped databases requiring a range of analytic techniques to produce valid results. From 1992, in collaboration with his partner Isobel (an Indonesian language and cultural expert), he 6 | Pacific in Peril developed an advisory service on Indonesia for business. As part of this work, he developed scenarios, including the construction of four scenarios to 2008 following the economic collapse in that country. He maintains an active interest in Indonesia and in scenario planning. He is a Member of the Institute of Management Consultants and a Chartered Management Consultant. DAVID K STOUT David Stout was New South Wales’ Rhodes Scholar in 1954. He studied Economics and Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, and stayed on to become an economics don at Oxford until the mid-1970s. He resigned his fellowship to head up economics at the UK’s tripartite National Economic Development Council. In the 1980s, he was recruited by Unilever to head its corporate development and economics function. Recently, he has been the Director of the Centre for Business Strategy at the London Business School. He has returned to Australia a number of times as an adviser on inflation and incomes policy. In the mid-1960s, he wrote a report, published by the UK Ministry of Overseas Development, on the New Hebrides economy and its taxation policy. Recently he has published three papers on the strategic use of scenarios. HERMAN CESAR Herman Cesar is an environmental economist and researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also a freelance consultant for the World Bank, USAID and other organisations through his company, Cesar Environmental Economics Consulting. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as environmental economist at the World Bank in Washington DC, focusing on cost benefit analysis for natural resource projects, the economics of coral reefs, tropical coastal zone management, reef fisheries, as well as acid rain and industrial pollution. Before joining the World Bank, Herman Cesar was Assistant Professor in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Tilburg (the Netherlands). He obtained his PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has just finished an edited monograph on the economics of coral reefs, to be published in late 2000. AXEL TIMMERMANN Axel Timmermann is working at the International Pacific Research Centre in Honolulu on ENSO-related topics. His background is theoretial physics (quantum field theory and relativistic hydrodynamics). In 1995 he went to the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany to write his PhD in meteorology. From 1998 to September 2000 he held a postdoctorate position at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Blit, Netherlands. His research covers subjects such as interdecadal climate variability in the North Altantic ENSO response to greenhouse warming,
nonlinear inverse modelling and ENSO and stochastic stability analysis of the ocean circulation. Axel Timmermann has contributed to several sections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report on climate change. He is involved also in bridging between the climate and climate-impact community. PEER REVIEWERS Dr Mahendra Reddy, Lecturer in Development Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva. Mr Lionel Gibson, Geography Department, University of the South Pacific, Suva. Mr Joeli Veitayaki, Coordinator, Marine Affairs Programm University of the South Pacific, Suva. Mr Jone Darunimasi Ms Kitsy McMullen, Impacts Coordinator, Greenpeace International. 7 | Pacific in Peril
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