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About the Authors

Adesina Yinka is a Professor of Geography at Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile Ife, Nigeria. He undertakes a number of projects on climate change adaptationand technology transfer. He has also participated in several scientific and technicalreports, at both national and international levels. Such reports include theInternational Panel on Climate Change, second edition of NationalCommunication and Climate Change Policy for Nigeria. He is also the Dean,Faculty of Social Sciences at the same institution.Contact: Department of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, OsunState, Nigeria. Email: [email protected]

Ahmed Abd El Monem Mohamed Professor of Agronomy, National ResearchCenter. He was the PI in many projects for increasing productivity of field cropsunder Egyptian conditions.Contact: El Bohooth Str., Dokki, Giza, Egypt, P.O. Box 12311.Email: [email protected]

Alemayehu Fikadu Reta is among the founding members of RDFS professionalsassociation and he is on the academic staff at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. Hestudied for an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Development at the University ofCopenhagen. His research priorities include: rural livelihood, agriculture and foodsecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, human nutrition, climate change and naturalresource management.Contact: Permanent address: Hawassa University, College of Agriculture, P.O.Box 5, Hawassa, Ethiopia. Current address: Terrasserne 18 St 93, 2700Copenhagen, Denmark. Email: [email protected]

Alexandar R Junior Research Fellow (NCERT) ‘‘Ecology & EnvironmentalSciences’’ at Pondicherry University in India, where he is doing a Ph.D. onEnvironmental Education for Sustainable Development (EESD).

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Contact: No 3/21, Dr Ambedkar Street, Kadaperikuppam & Post, Vanur Taluk,Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: [email protected].

Aloj Eugenia is a Professor in Ecology and Professor in Hygiene at the SannioUniversity of Benevento. She has also been head of the team for ‘‘Biology andEcology for the Protection of the Environment’’ at the Regional Centre ofCompetence BENECON endorsed by Regione Campania. She is the author ofmore than 150 publications (handbooks, chapters in books, papers in journals) atnational and international level on the topic of sustainable development, focusingeither on global environmental problems (such as climate change, pollution) orenvironmental resources (water, air, etc.).Contact: Viale Maria Cristina di Savoia 18/d, 81100 Naples, Italy.Email: [email protected]

Azad Al Mamun is a senior disaster management officer with OxfamBangladesh. Prior to his present engagement, he served in different positions atthe World Food Programme. He has a bachelor degree in Urban and RuralPlanning from Khulna University.Email: [email protected]

Bahr Abbas Amany Professor of Agronomy, National Research Center. She hasworked on many projects for increasing the productivity of field crops underEgyptian conditions.Contact: El Bohooth Str., Dokki, Giza, Egypt, P.O. Box: 12311.Email: [email protected]

Bai Ramani Ph.D. (Environmental & Water Resources Engineering). AssociateProfessor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of NottinghamMalaysia Campus since May 2008. She has 17 years of significant service inenvironmental and water resources systems analysis, hydrology, water quality andwater treatment and optimization techniques, computer modelling, artificialintelligence methods such as fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks and neuro-fuzzylogic systems and geographical information systems. She has been involved in variousactivities as academician, project leader, researcher, thesis examiner, internationalproject reviewer, sole resource person of one-day, two-day seminars, etc. in the above-mentioned fields at Indian and Malaysian universities and organizations.

Barbir Jelena has a degree in Biology, joint European Master’s degree inEnvironmental Studies, and is doing a Ph.D. in Biological Control in Agriculture.Her research focus is in the areas of sustainable agriculture and climate changeadaptation.Contact: Jelena Barbir, Department of Crop Protection, Institute of AgriculturalSciences, Centre for Environmental Sciences, CSIC, Calle Serrano 115, 28006Madrid, Spain. Email: [email protected]

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Batyreu Victor is a part time senior scientist at the Minsk branch of MoscowState University for Economics, Statistics and Informatics. He has a Ph.D. inPhysics. His research focus is in the area of modelling environmental processes.Contact: Minsk Branch of Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics andInformatics, 127, Building 2, Room 301, Mayakovskogo Str., Minsk, 220028,Belarus. Telephone/Fax: +375-17-2914497. Email: [email protected]

Biggs Eloise is a lecturer at the University of Southampton. She lectures inGeography within the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) andenvironmental applications. Ellie completed her Bachelor degrees in EnvironmentalSciences and her Ph.D. in Geography, both at the University of Southampton. Herpostgraduate research investigated hydrological extremes and climate change in theSevern Uplands, UK. Ellie’s current research is centred on climate change and waterresources across rural Nepal, with particular focus on environmental risk.Contact: School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO171BJ, UK. Email: [email protected]

Boer Rizaldi is a head of the Climatology Laboratory at the Department ofGeophysics and Meteorology, Bogor Agricultural University. He has beeninvolved in numerous national and international research activities dealing withclimatic risk analysis, climate change mitigation and adaptation. He is also adirector of the Centre for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management at SoutheastAsia Pacific Bogor Agriculture University.Contact: Head of Laboratory of Climatology, Department of Geophysics andMeteorology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor AgriculturalUniversity, Gedung FMIPA Level 4 Wing 19 Kampus IPB Darmaga, Bogor16680, Indonesia. Telephone: +62-251-8313709 and +62-251-8623850 (work),Fax: +62-251-8310779. Email: [email protected]

Bogner Franz is Professor at the Bavarian Chair of Biology Didactics at theUniversity of Bayreuth, Germany. He also is head of the Centre of Maths andScience Education (Z-MNU). His research interests concentrate on educationalissues including environmental, health and experimental hands-on education.Contact: Chair of Biology Education, University of Bayreuth, NW I,Universitaetsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany.Email: [email protected]

Burger Dieter Professor at the Institute of Geography and Geocecology (IfGG,KIT) Karlsruhe, Germany. Member of the Physical Geography Chair and StudiesAdvisor for Geography Diploma. Main interest research works are: soil sciences,applied climatology and physical geography. He has supervised several researchworks on soil physics in Brazil, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.Contact: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Campus Süd, Kaiserstrasse 12,76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. Email: [email protected]

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Catenazzo Giuseppe is a Doctoral Assistant at HEC University of Geneva,Switzerland. He holds a Master of Science degree in Management from theUniversity of Savoy, France, a Postgraduate Certificate in Applied EnvironmentalEconomics from the University of London, UK, and an undergraduate degree inEconomics and Business Administration from the University of Aosta Valley,Italy. He was formerly a Research Assistant at Geneva School of BusinessAdministration and co-headed several projects on business and environmentalmanagement. He is the co-author of a book dealing with services management, Lagestion des services (Economica, Paris, 2008), and papers on risk, services andenvironmental management.Contact: Haute École de Gestion de Genève Geneva School of BusinessAdministration Campus Battelle—Bât. F7, Route de Drize, 1227 Carouge GE,Switzerland. Email: [email protected]

Clements Rebecca is a policy specialist at Practical Action Latin America whereshe is working on a number of climate change projects. She has a Master’s degreein International Studies from the University of Sheffield in the UK. Her thematicareas of focus include governance and advocacy, rural livelihoods, small-scalebioenergy development, community-based adaptation to climate change,international climate change policy, and mitigation mechanisms (including cleandevelopment technologies and carbon markets). Country of origin: England.Contact: Soluciones Practicas—ITDG Av. Jorge Chavez 275, Miraflores Lima 18,Perú. Telephone: +511-4475127. Email: [email protected]

Colaiezzi Marina works at the Italian National Institute for EnvironmentalProtection and Research (ISPRA). Her research focus is on monitoring andprevention of atmospheric impacts, emission scenarios, integrated models andindicators.Email: [email protected]

Cóndor Rocío Dánica works at the Italian National Institute for EnvironmentalProtection and Research. She is responsible for preparing, improving and reportingthe National Agricultural Emission Inventory for the UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocoland the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP).Member of UNFCCC and CLRTAP roster of experts in the area of GHGinventory. Her research focus is on assessing GHG/ammonia mitigation measuresand policies, and the role of the Common Agricultural Policy on emission trends.Contact: Istituto Superiore per la protezione e la ricerca ambientale (ISPRA),Dipartimento stato dell’ambiente e metrologia ambientale, Via Vitaliano Brancati48, 00144 Rome, Italy. Email: [email protected]

Corderi Novoa David is an economist working in the fields of climate change,water resources, energy and sustainable development. He has been working forinternational organizations such as the World Bank and the Asian DevelopmentBank. David has previously worked as a researcher at Yale University and the


University of California. He has worked in countries across Latin America, Asia,Africa and Europe. David has a Master’s degree in International and DevelopmentEconomics from Yale University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural andResource Economics at the University of California at Davis.Email: [email protected]

Cruickshank Abigail currently works as the executive director of the AlouetteRiver Management Society, a community-based watershed managementorganization in Canada. She attained her Bachelor of Science in PhysicalGeography from Simon Fraser University and completed her Master’s inEnvironmental Studies at York University. Abby has had previous experienceworking with different cultural groups on water security issues in South Africa andKenya and completed a summer placement with Canada’s InternationalDevelopment Research Centre’s Rural Poverty and the Environment andClimate Change Adaptation in Africa programmes.Email: [email protected]

D’Urso Jennifer is currently a teacher in Sierre, Switzerland. Holder of a Bachelordegree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences of Wallis,Switzerland, she was formerly a Research Assistant at Geneva School of BusinessAdministration. As a staff member of Geneva School of Business AdministrationLaboratory of Market Research (LEM–HEG), she co-headed several survey projectson water management and sustainable development.Email: [email protected]

Dasanto Dwi Bambang is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department ofGeophysics and Meteorology, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. He has astrong background in geographic information systems and remote sensing. Hespecializes in hydro-climatology and has been involved in many studies on climaterisk assessments and climate change mitigation.Contact: Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Gedung FMIPA Level 4Wing 19 Kampus IPB Darmaga Bogor 16680, Indonesia.Email: [email protected]

Danh Thao Nguyen received a Ph.D. degree from Yokohama NationalUniversity, Yokohama, Japan in 2007. He is a lecturer at the Division of Portand Coastal Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering, HCMC Universityof Technology, Vietnam. His research interests include wave forces on coastalstructures, interaction between waves and structures, port and coastal management,natural disasters: prediction and methods of prevention, damage reduction, andchange of coastal areas due to human activities.Contact: Faculty of Civil Engineering, HCMC University of Technology, 268 LyThuong Kiet Str., Dist. 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Telephone: +84-8-38652442, Fax: +84-8-38653823


De Castro Mariagrazia is a Ph.D. student in Analysis of Economic and SocialSystems: Enterprise, Institutions, Territory at Sannio University. She is a learner inEcology under the Chair of Prof. Eugenia Aloj.Email: [email protected]

Diaz Harry is the Director of the Canadian Plains Research Center and Professorof Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. He has beeninvolved in several projects and publications focused on social vulnerability andadaptation to climate change.Email: [email protected]

Edwin Golda has obtained her Master of Science degree in Zoology and has over10 years of work experience as an environmentalist, researcher and activist forsustainable development. She is currently pursuing her doctorate from PondicherryUniversity, India and presently conducting an extensive study to access the role ofinvertebrates in water treatment using constructed wetlands. The main objective ofher research is to assess and provide factual solutions to the local municipalities tomake them sustainable with special reference to water, energy and waste. She hasalso worked with local NGOs and has undertaken community developmentprojects such as education, rainwater harvesting, health and hygiene workshopswith guidance from the Center for Sustainable Development, Guatemala. Herhonours include general proficiency for two consecutive years and she is also agold medalist in the Master’s programme.Contact: No. 23, Glory Home, Kamaraj Salai, Thattanchavady, Pondicherry605009, India. Email: [email protected]

El Karamany Mohamed Fraouk Professor of Agronomy, National ResearchCenter. She has worked on many projects for increasing the productivity of fieldcrops under Egyptian conditions.Contact: El Bohooth Str., Dokki, Giza. Egypt, PO Box: 12311.Email: [email protected]

Esteban Miguel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering at Waseda University, Japan. There, his research andteaching relates to the prevention and analysis of natural disasters, and howclimate change might have an effect on them. He received his Ph.D. in CoastalEngineering from Yokohama National University in Japan in 2007, and then hecontinued his work with Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the United NationsUniversity Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and at Kyoto University.He is currently also a Visiting Research Fellow at the UNU-IAS.Contact: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University,3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, 51-goukan, 4-kai, 7-shitsu, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.Email: [email protected]


Fischer Daniel MA (Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Communication,Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) was educated and trained as a school teacher, holdsa Master’s degree in Education Management and School Development, and works asa Research Fellow at the Institute of Environmental and SustainabilityCommunication (INFU) in the Faculty of Sustainability Sciences of the LeuphanaUniversity of Lüneburg. He teaches and does research in the fields of education forsustainable development, sustainable consumption and sustainable schooldevelopment and school/university culture.Contact: Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU),UNESCO Chair Higher Education for Sustainable Development, LeuphanaUniversity of Lueneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lueneburg, Germany.Telephone: +49-4131-6772927, Fax: +49-4131-6772819

Fragnière Emmanuel Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) is a Professor of ServiceManagement at the Haute Ecole de Gestion of Geneva, Switzerland. He is also aLecturer in Enterprise Risk Management at the Management School of theUniversity of Bath, UK. Previously, he was a commodity risk analyst at Cargill(Ocean Transportation) and a senior internal auditor at Banque CantonaleVaudoise, the fourth largest bank in Switzerland. His research is focused on thedevelopment of risk management models for decision-makers in the service sector.He has published several papers in academic journals such as Annals of OperationsResearch, Environmental Modelling and Assessment, Interfaces and ManagementScience. He is the author (with Sullivan) of the book entitled Risk Management:Safeguarding Company Assets, (Fifty-Minute Crisp Series, 2006).Email: [email protected]

Freund Eva Dipl.-Environmental Science (Chair of Vocational and EconomicEducation/ Didactics of Business Studies, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg),studied at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and holds a diploma degree inEnvironmental Sciences. She works as a Scientific Officer at the Chair ofVocational and Economic Education at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg inthe project ZUKKER (Development of sustainable competences for futuremarkets). The aim of the project is to provide additional qualifications forapprentices in retail business.

Garay-Flühmann Rosa social ecologist. She obtained her Ph.D. in EnvironmentalStudies at Yale University. Her research focuses on water-stressed environmentsand social organization, socio-ecosystem-based marine conservation andmanagement, and climate change and social institution adaptation.Email: [email protected]

Gaudioso Domenico works at the Italian National Institute for EnvironmentalProtection and Research, where he is currently responsible for the Climate andAtmosphere Unit. He has published about 50 articles on air emissions, with specialreference to methodologies for the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions.


In particular, he has contributed to the preparation of the UNECE-CORINAIRAtmospheric Emission Inventory Guidebook (Chapter 6, ‘‘Solvent and otherproduct use’’), the 1996 IPCC Revised Guidelines on Greenhouse Gas Inventories(Chapter 6, ‘‘Waste’’) and the 2006 IPCC Guidelines on Greenhouse GasInventories (Volume 3, ‘‘Industrial Processes and Product Use’’). He is member ofthe roster of methodology experts of the UNFCCC, and has taken part in severalreviews of GHG inventories and national communications.Email: [email protected]

Geiger Sonja Maria is a cognitive psychologist who is currently working withAmigos de la Tierra, Argentina in Buenos Aires on programmes concerning waterand climate justice. She is investigating the role of cognitive factors such asenvironmental knowledge and consciousness for sustainable behaviour of peopleand their consequent contribution to mitigation of climate change.Contact: Donado 1076, 1427 Buenos Aires, Argentina.Email: [email protected]

Gongwe Mhando David is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of theSocioeconomy Section at the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development,Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. He received his Masters and Ph.D.degrees in Rural Sociology from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania andGraduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan,respectively. His research focus is in the areas of farmer groups’ dynamics,livelihoods and rural economy, with special interest in rural development process.Country of origin: Tanzania.Contact: Centre for Sustainable Rural Development, Sokoine University ofAgriculture (SCSRD), P.O. Box 3035, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania. Mobile:+255-787-074407; +255-773-074407, Telephone/Fax: +255-232-604279.Email: [email protected]

González González Leonel holds a Master’s degree in Hydraulic Engineeringand works as a consultant for the National Water Authorities of Mexico, ComisiónNacional del Agua (CONAGUA). His main activities include the planning andimplementation of integrated water resources management in central Mexico, inthe province of Mexico (Estado de México). Country of origin: Mexico.Contact: Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA) Integrated Expert, Centre forInternational Migration and Development (CIM), Dirección Local, Estado deMéxico, Conjunto SEDAGRO, Edifício C-1 Metepec, Estado de México, C.P.52148, Mexico, Telephone: +52-722-2322660.Email: [email protected]

Grover Velma manages the Freshwater Ecosystem Programme at United NationsUniversity’s International Network on Water, Environment, and Health and hashad extensive experience in capacity building in developing countries, particularly


related to distance learning for integrated water resources management. She is anAdjunct Professor at the DOFASCO School of Engineering and Public Policy atMcMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and at the Faculty of EnvironmentalStudies at York University in Toronto.Email: [email protected]

Halliru Salisu Lawal is a teacher at the Federal College of Education Kano,Nigeria. He received his Bachelor of Science degree and Postgraduate Diploma inEnvironmental Management from Bayero University, Kano. As a younggeographer he undertakes projects on climate change issues, sustainabledevelopment, poverty indices, presenting his research work at both national andinternational conferences, and he is a member of a research and developmentnetwork. He is also an associate editor of International Journal of ClimateChange: Impacts and Responses, Volume 2, Nos. 1 and 2, 2010. He was recentlyoffered a place at the University of Sussex to read for the degree of Master ofScience in Climate Change and Development. His research focus is in the areas ofenvironmental management, sustainable development, population dynamic, waterresources management, rural development and poverty, education sustainability,with special interest in climate change and food security.Contact: Department of Geography, Staff Secondary School, Federal College ofEducation, Kano, P.M.B. 3045, Kano State, Nigeria.Email: [email protected]

Hasan Rashedul is a lecturer at Chittagong University of Engineering andTechnology (CUET). His major research areas are urban fringe, urban governance,land-use changes and hedonic pricing.Email: [email protected]

Herrfahrdt-Pähle Elke is a researcher at the Department of EnvironmentalPolicy and Natural Resource Management at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. She holds aPh.D. in Applied System Sciences from the University of Osnabrück, Germany.Her fields of study include resilience, adaptability and transformability of watergovernance regimes, as well as integrated and adaptive water governance.Contact: Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, Germany. Email: [email protected]

Hill Margot is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Geneva, in the ResearchGroup on Climate Change and Climate Change Impacts. She is researching theadaptive capacity of water governance systems to climate-related extreme eventsin two contrasting mountain watersheds (Aconcagua, Chile and Rhone,Switzerland).Contact: Research Group on Climate Change and Climate Impacts, University ofGeneva, Battelle, Building D, 7 Route de Drize, CH 1227 Carouge, Switzerland.Email: [email protected]


Hossain Afjal works as Assistant Project Coordinator at Medecins SansFrontieres, Belgium. He is also Director of the Safe Humanity Foundation. Inthe professional arena he has been involved in various development projects innutrition, sustainable development, renewable energy and climate change inBangladesh.Contact: 382/1 North Kazipara, Mirpur, Kafrul, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.Telephone: +88-01715623485. Email: [email protected]

Hossain Zakir is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Rural Planning at KhulnaUniversity, Khulna, Bangladesh. He has a Master’s degree from the UniversityAntwerp in Development Evaluation. His research areas deal with institutionalaspects of climate change adaptation, social exclusion and poverty, capabilityapproach and adaptation.Email: [email protected]

Hugé Jean has a Master’s in BioScience Engineering and a Master’s inDevelopment Studies from Ghent University, Belgium. He is a research fellow atthe Vrije Universiteit Brussel Policy Research Centre for SustainableDevelopment and KLIMOS Research Platform for Climate Change andDevelopment Cooperation. His research focuses on the theory and practice ofsustainability assessment, applied in particular in the fields of regional sustainabledevelopment policy, development cooperation and energy and climate change.

Huq Nazmul is the Senior Research Officer at the Bangladesh Centre forAdvanced Studies. He is currently involved with the project Action Research onCommunity Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB). His major research focuses arecommunity-based adaptation, social dimensions of climate change, anddevelopment cooperation and climate change adaptation. He has a Master’s inHuman Ecology from the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium.

Hurlbert Margot Associate Professor, is jointly appointed to the Department ofJustice Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University ofRegina. Margot has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters andscholarly papers on a broad range of justice topics including Aboriginal justice,earth system governance and climate change adaptation. Prior to embarking on afull-time academic career, Margot practised law in private practice for 12 yearsand in corporate practice as the Assistant General Counsel for SaskPower for7 years.Contact: Department of Justice Studies and Department of Sociology and SocialStudies, Canadian Plains Research Center, CL 235, University of Regina, 3737Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada.Email: [email protected]

Hutton Craig is a research scientist at the GeoData Institute based at theUniversity of Southampton, an institution which is developing a considerable


portfolio of research and supporting activity in the field of risk, vulnerability andclimate change. Craig has undertaken substantial research in Asia, Africa, the EUand the UK, with focus on vulnerability mapping of climate change. His researchprovides valuable context for decision support and policy formulation in water andland resource management, as well as food security.Email: [email protected]

Justice Nindi Stephen is a Senior Research Fellow and heads the ResourceManagement Section at the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development, SokoineUniversity of Agriculture in Tanzania, where he teaches, consults, undertakes andsupervises a number of projects on sustainable rural development, land usedynamics, climate change, GIS and remote sensing, livelihoods and rural economyacross southern Africa. He is also Patron of the Young Tanzanian for CommunityProsperity (YTCP). Country of origin: Tanzania.Contact: Centre for Sustainable Rural Development, Sokoine University ofAgriculture (SCSRD), P.O. Box 3035, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania. Mobile:+255-756092344, Optional Telephone/Fax: +255-232-604279.Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Kabiri Reza is a Research Assistant in a research project on database informationsystems and management funded by Asia Pacific Network for Global ChangeResearch, Japan. He is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervison of Ramani Bai andAndrew Chan at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia.

Kayes Imrul is a Project Coordinator of MSSUS Save the Children UK NSAProject. He received his Master’s degrees in Forestry and Wood Technology fromKhulna University, Bangladesh. His research focuses on the area climate changeand its impacts on the livelihoods of vulnerable people in the southwestern coastalzone in Bangladesh.Contact: 316, Khan Jahan Ali Hall, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh.Telephone: +88-1715605919. Email: [email protected]

Kreutz Esther works as a Project Coordinator at the Union of the Baltic Cities—Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat in Turku, Finland. Shegraduated from the University of Lüneburg, Germany as a Master ofEnvironmental Sciences with specialization in Environmental Law and Policyand Sustainability Communications. For her Master’s thesis about multi-levelgovernance in the Baltic Sea Region, she also studied at Åbo Akademi Universityin Turku, Finland. Currently, Mrs. Kreutz coordinates the climate change-relatedproject CHAMP.Contact: Union of the Baltic Cities, Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentSecretariat, Vanha Suurtori 7, FIN-20500 Turku, Finland.Email: [email protected]


Kumar Anil is a Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering at theG.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He hasbeen involved with teaching and research in the fields of soil and waterconservation engineering, hydrology, water resources development, and watershedmanagement. His interests in field studies in hilly and mountainous areas of theHimalayas include water harvesting and management, rejuvenation of naturalwater springs, soil and water conservation measures, and adaptation mechanismsto face climate change.Contact: Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, College ofTechnology, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand, India. Email: [email protected]

Leal Filho Walter heads the Research and Transfer Centre ‘‘Applications of LifeSciences’’ at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where heundertakes a number of projects on sustainable development, renewable energyand climate issues across the world. He is also the Chairman of the InternationalClimate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).Contact: Lohbruegger Kirchstrasse 65, Sector S4 / Room 0.38, 21033 Hamburg,Germany. Email: [email protected]

Lonkila Kirsi-Marja is a Master of Social Sciences, majoring in politicalscience. She graduated from the University of Turku, Finland in 2009. For herMaster’s thesis, she studied extended producer responsibility as an environmentpolicy instrument in the EU. In 2010 she also graduated as a Bachelor ofAdministrative Sciences from the University of Tampere, Finland, majoring inEnvironmental Policy and conducted her Bachelor’s thesis on climate policy in thecity of Lahti, Finland. At the moment she is working at the Union of the BalticCities Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat as Project Officer,for two climate-related projects called CHAMP and BaltCICA.Email: [email protected]

Maheu Audrey undertook the work presented in this book as a research intern inthe Climate Change and Water programme at the International DevelopmentResearch Center (IDRC). She now works as an Environmental IndicatorsSpecialist at Environment Canada. She holds a Master’s degree in IntegratedWater Resources Management from McGill University and a Bachelor degree inApplied Geomatics from the Université de Sherbrooke.Contact: 7 Des Frênes, Vaudreuil-sur-le-lac, QC, Canada, J7V 8P3.Email: [email protected]

Marth Reinhard is a Senior Scientific Officer at Project Management JülichGmbH, Germany, where he manages scientific programmes in the field ofenvironment technologies. He is a civil engineer and holds a Ph.D. in HydraulicEngineering. He is especially interested in integrated water resources management(IWRM) and sustainable sanitation approaches. The present paper is a result of his


activities with the National Water Authorities of Mexico (CONAGUA), where hewas working as an adviser for IWRM.Contact: Ebersstr. 87, 10827 Berlin, Germany. Telephone: +49-30-2019930.Email: [email protected]

Marthinus Delon is an Executive Director of Carbon and EnvironmentalResearch, Indonesia. He has extensive experience in geographic informationsystems (GIS) and remote sensing. He has been involved in a lot of researchrelated to climate risk assessment and climate change mitigation.Contact: CER Indonesia, Jl. Aryawidura 8 No. 2 Perum Aryawidura Bogor 16152,West Java, Indonesia. Email: [email protected]

McDowell Julia is currently completing her Master of Public Health at theRollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She served as the PrincipalInvestigator of the Climate Change Unit at Agua Sustentable in Bolivia and,previously, as a Fulbright Scholar to Bolivia. She received her BA from BrownUniversity in Latin American Studies and in Development Studies.Email: [email protected]

Miller Tony Tony is currently working at the University of British Columbia, andworking as a researcher for the Vancouver Aquarium, on the Pacific Ocean ShelfTracking Project (POST). He will be returning to Australia in 2011 to work onGeographical Information Science at the University of Queensland.Email: [email protected]

Mirgartz Michael has been a Student Research Assistant at the Institute ofEnvironmental Engineering since 2009. He has assisted in several projectsconcerning adaptation to climate change and wastewater treatment.

Mohan S. S. Mohan obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore, India. He is currently the Director of the National Institute of TechnicalTeachers Training and Research, Chennai. His research areas of interest includeengineering education, environmental engineering, water resources management,groundwater assessment and management and evolutionary algorithms. Prof.Mohan has authored many publications, journals and papers while attainingmultiple honours and awards from India and abroad.

Moniruzzaman Md. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographyand Environmental Studies, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. He received hisMaster’s degrees in Geospatial Technology from University Nova de Lisboa,Portugal, University Uaume I, Spain and the University of Münster, Germany, andin Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Rajshahi,Bangladesh, respectively. He has seven articles and three international conferencepapers published in various journals and conference proceedings. His research


focus is in the areas of physical environment management with the application ofGIS and remote sensing.Contact: Dept. of Geography & Environmental Studies, Rajshahi University,Rajshahi, 6205, Bangladesh. Email: [email protected]

Montaña Elma is a CONICET (Science and Technology National ResearchCouncil) Researcher at the Human, Social and Environmental Sciences Instituteand Full Professor at the National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Sheholds a Ph.D. and a DEA from the Sorbonne University, Paris in Geography andPlanning. Her research focus is in the areas of space–society and nature–culturerelations in drylands, political ecology of water and social dimensions of globalenvironmental change.Email: [email protected]

Mühle Sarah is a member of the working group on urban drainage at the Instituteof Environmental Engineering of RWTH Aachen University. She joined the groupin 2010 and works as a student research assistant. Sarah will complete her coursein Environmental Engineering in 2011.

Nursey-Bray Melissa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography,Environment and Population, University of Adelaide, Australia, where sheundertakes a number of projects in climate change adaptation, training andresilience. She is Director of the Social Science for Climate Change ResearchNetwork, co-theme leader of the National Climate Change Adaptation ResearchNetwork for Marine Biodiversity and a Tyndall Fellow (2009).Contact: University of Adelaide, North Terrace campus, North Terrace, Adelaide,South Australia, 5005, Australia. Email: [email protected]

Odekunle Theophilus is an Associate Professor of Geography at ObafemiAwolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He is a climatologist with special interest inclimate change science. He has carried out studies on extended range weatherforecasting as a strategy for enhancement of crop productivity, rainfall onset andretreat dates, climate variability and food security. His articles have appeared inInternational Journal of Climatology and Weather. He is also Head of theDepartment of Geography of the same institution.Contact: Department of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, OsunState, Nigeria. Email: [email protected]

Omrani Nizar Researcher in water and soil management at the Institute of AridRegions (IRA), Tunisia, and Ph.D. student in Geoecology at the Intistute ofGeopgraphy and Geoecology (IfGGI, KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. Main researchinterests are irrigation and drainage issues and water resources management undera climate change context. Involved in EU-funded research project MELIA andmember of the Water History Association.


Contact: Institut des Régions Arides-(IRA) Direction Régionale de Kébili BP32,Route de Douz 4200, Kebili, Tunisia. Email: [email protected]

Oroud Ibrahim is a Professor of Physical Climatology, Hydroclimatology andWater Resources. He has been working on climate change impacts on waterresources, irrigation water needs and green water fluxes in the easternMediterranean since 2003. He has authored a book, Climate Change in theBalance. He has done significant work on evaporation from fresh and hypersalinewater bodies, and atmospheric radiation, with several scientific papers published inrenowned journals in this regard. Prof. Oroud has been working with Glowa for thepast nine years on climate change issues in the eastern Mediterranean. Many of theresults were presented in scientific journals and international conferences. Heserved as a consultant on climate change issues, hydrological issues in arid andsemi-arid areas, and also as an expert on modelling issues of evaporation fromhypersaline water bodies.Contact: Mu’tah University, P.O. Box 7, Karak, Jordan. Mobile: +962-795289874;+962-32372380. Email: [email protected]

Patnaik Rasmi is a Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Ecology andEnvironmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, India. She received her Master’sdegree in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Pondicherry University,India. Her research focus is in the areas of industrial ecology with special interestin eco-industrial parks, industrial symbiosis, by-product exchange, wastemanagement and corporate environmental management.Contact: Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, PondicherryUniversity, Kalapet, Puducherry-605014, India. Email: [email protected]

Perdinan is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Geophysics andMeteorology, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. He specializes in appliedclimatology and has been involved in many studies on assessing climate risks oneconomic sectors such as agriculture and water resources. Currently, he is pursuinga Ph.D. at the Department of Geography, Michigan State University, sponsored bythe Fulbright Presidential Fellowship.Contact: Department of Geography, 118 Geography Building, East Lansing,Michigan, 48824, USA. Email: [email protected]

Pinnekamp Johannes has been the Director of the Institute for EnvironmentalEngineering (ISA) of Aachen University (RWTH) since 2004. Under the directionof Prof. Pinnekamp, the Institute has been working successfully for many years inthe fields of water supply, urban drainage, wastewater treatment and solid wastedisposal.Contact: Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University,Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.Email: [email protected]


Poormohammadi Samaneh has an M.Sc. in Desert Management Engineeringand graduated from the University of Yazd, Iran in 2009. She has experience in thefields of remote sensing and GIS, climate change and evapotranspiration studies.At present, she is Senior Expert at the National Cloud Seeding Research Center(NACSER), Iran and works on this topic.Contact: National Cloud Seeding Research Center (NACSER), Daneshjoo Blvd.,P.O. Box 89158-69445, Yazd, Iran. Telephone: +98-351-82505512,Fax: +98-351-08251403. Email: [email protected]

Poyyamoli Gopalsamy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ecologyand Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, India, where he is focusingon eco-regional planning, ecotourism, solid waste management, agro-ecology andindustrial ecology. He is also the Coordinator for the M.Sc. (SustainableDevelopment) programme. He is a member of CEM (IUCN), Global ExpertsDirectory on Ecosystem Services and network member of the National EcosystemServices Research Partnership, USEPA.Contact: Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, PondicherryUniversity, Kalapet, Puducherry-605014, India. Email: [email protected]

Prasad Devi is a Professor in Ecology and Environment Science and is interestedin policy-related research. His other interests include behavioural ecology andmodelling ecosystems. He is currently with the Department of Science andTechnology, Government of India.Contact: Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, PondicherryUniversity, Kalapet, Puducherry-605014, India.

Propastin Pavel born in Kazakhstan, received his MA degree in Geography andhis Ph.D. in Remote Sensing and GIS from Georg-August University, Göttingen,Germany, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He is currently a Postdoctoral ResearchAssociate in the Department of Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing at Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany. His main research activities focus on theintegration of remote sensing and GIS in studies on climate dynamics and theirimpacts on vegetation in Asia.Contact: Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 5, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.Email: [email protected]

Rahimian Hassan Mohammad is a Senior Expert in irrigation and drainage atthe National Salinity Research Center (NSRC), Iran. He has six years ofexperience in the field of remote sensing and GIS. His main research interests aresoil and water salinity, geo-statistics, vegetation cover monitoring, energy balanceapproaches for actual evapotranspiration estimation and climate change impactassessment.


Contact: Azadegan Blvd., Nahalestan Ave., National Salinity Research Center(NSRC), P.O. Box 89195-315, Yazd, Iran. Telephone: +98-351-7212311,Fax: +98-351-7212312; Mobile: +98-9133588494. Email: [email protected]

Rahman Sania received her Master’s in Urban Planning and Management fromthe International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation(ITC). In the professional arena, she has been involved in various developmentprojects in sustainable development, renewable energy and climate change inBangladesh. Her research focus is vulnerability, with particular concern forclimate change.Contact: International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation(ITC), UPM M.sc 09, P.O. Box 6, P.M. Box 197, 7500AA Enschede, TheNetherlands. Email: [email protected]

Reyes Bernardo is President of Etica en los Bosques, an NGO specializing in theprotection of Chilean native forest ecosystems. Since 1998 he has been theDirector of the Ecological Economics Unit of the Institute for Political Ecology(IEP), Santiago, Chile.Contact: [email protected]

Reza Imran works as Research Associate at Practical Action. He is alsoExecutive Director of Safe Humanity Foundation. In the professional arena, he hasbeen involved in various development projects in sustainable development,renewable energy, infrastructure development and climate change in Bangladesh.Contact: Practical Action Bangladesh. Sajeda Mohol. First Floor, House 13, Road1, Civil Station Road, DC More, Rangpur, Bangladesh.Telephone: +88-018-18350177. Email: [email protected]

Rüd Sören works as a Technical Advisor for the Technical CooperationProgramme Urban-Industrial Environmental Management in Mexico of theDeutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, focusingon solid waste management and resource efficiency. He studied Environmental andResource Management and has worked for GTZ since 2006, primarily in the sectorproject Ecosan–resource-oriented sanitation systems.Contact: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH,Edif. Semarnat, Av. San Jerónimo 458, Col. Jardines del Pedregal, 01900 Ciudadde México, Mexico. Email: [email protected]

Salas Sonia is a Professor at the University of La Serena, Chile. She received herMaster’s degree from the Catholic University of Chile and her Ph.D. from theUniversity of Tennessee, USA. She is currently a Research Associate at CEAZA(Advanced Research Center for Arid Zones). Her focus is on the areas of sustainabledevelopment, social vulnerability in rural areas and socio-clinical psychology.Email: [email protected]


Salvático Natalia is an activist for the NGO Amigos de la Tierra Argentina andthe coordinator of the programme ‘‘Water and sustainability’’. She also works inthe communication area of the organization. She studies Design at the Universityof Buenos Aires and investigates organic production of fabrics and non-pollutingdyeing.

Sanni Maruf is a Research Officer at the National Centre for TechnologyManagement, Nigeria. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria,where he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Geography. His area of focus isenvironmental change. He has participated in projects such as the Assessmentsof Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, Technology TransferRequirements for Nigeria in relation to Climate Change, and Adaptation toGlobal Climate Change in Nigeria. His articles have appeared in Int. J. TechnolManag, Climate Change Management Series and World Association ofSustainable Development Publication.Contact: Maruf Sanni, National Centre for Technology Management, PMB 012,Obafemi, Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.Email: [email protected]

Sarkar A. N. is currently working as Senior Professor and Area Chairperson(International Business) in the Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi,where he undertakes a number of research studies in the emerging fields of energyand environmental security, natural resources management, sustainabledevelopment, renewable energy, and climate change-related policy issues. Hehas authored 10 books and more than 100 research papers, published in reputednational and international journals.Contact: Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, 3 & 4 Institutional Area, JasolaVihar, New Delhi-110025, India. Telephone: +91-98-73824296.Email: [email protected]

Sellmann Daniela is a Ph.D. student at the Bavarian Chair of Biology Didacticsat the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her current research focuses onenvironmental education and its potential in areas of sustainability with specialfocus on global climate change.Contact: Chair of Biology Education, University of Bayreuth, NW I,Universitaetsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany.Email: [email protected]

Shibayama Tomoya is a Professor at the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, Waseda University. His research interests and teaching subjectsinclude coastal engineering, sediment transport mechanics, tsunami and stormsurge simulation, coastal environment, hydraulics, international developmentengineering, sociology of construction, engineering ethics, and constructionmanagement. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Coastal Engineering andHydraulics in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1985. He is a


member of the Japan Society of International Development (JSID), fellow of JapanSociety of Civil Engineers (JSCE), member of Japanese Association for CoastalZone Management (JACZM), member of American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), member of International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR), anda member of Japan Sociological Society.Contact: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University,3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan. Email: [email protected]

Siekmann Marko is the head of the working group on urban drainage at theInstitute of Environmental Engineering of Aachen University. He completed hisCivil Engineering studies 1993 in Hannover and worked at a consulting companyfor a period of 12 years. He moved to the Institute of Environmental Engineeringin 2005. Since that time, numerous projects in the field of climate change,environmental engineering and urban planning have been part of his researchactivities.Contact: Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University,Mies-van-der-Rohe-Strasse 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany. Email: [email protected]

Steinel Anke works as a hydrogeologist at the Federal Institute for Geosciencesand Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany. She conducted her Ph.D. at theInstitut for Sustainable Water Resources (now Centre for Water Sensitive Cities) atthe Civil Engineering Department, Monash University, Australia. Her researchinterests are in the area of sustainable groundwater management, water reuse andmanaged aquifer recharge.Contact: Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR),Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany.Email: [email protected]

Sumarto Saroyo heads a conservation biology laboratory at the Faculty ofMathematics and Natural Sciences, Sam Ratulangi University, Manado, Indonesia.He has an interest in nature conservation. His current main research isconservation of Macaca nigra, an endemic fauna of North Sulawesi.Contact: Department of Biology, FMIPA, University of Sam Ratulangi, Manado,95115, Indonesia. Email: [email protected]

Takagi Hiroshi is in charge of various overseas projects, mainly in the field ofdisaster and climate change issues as an Associate Expert at Japan InternationalCooperation Agency (JICA). He received his Doctoral degree from YokohamaNational University in 2008.Contact: Disaster Management Division, Global Environment Department, JapanInternational Cooperation Agency (JICA), 5-25, Niban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo102-8012, Japan. Telephone: +81-3-52269589, Fax: +81-3-52266343.Email: [email protected]


Tallei Trina heads a biotechnology service unit at the Faculty of Mathematicsand Natural Sciences, Sam Ratulangi University, Manado, Indonesia. Her maininterest is in genetic resources conservation. She has been involved in researchabout nature conservation and biodiversity.Contact: Department of Biology, FMIPA, University of Sam Ratulangi, Manado,95115, Indonesia. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Tawfik Medhat Mekhail Associate Professor of Field Crop Physiology, NationalResearch Center. He works on many projects to improve the livelihoods of therural community through sustainable utilization of saline agriculture, climatechange problems and their effect on the ecological footprint of field crops in Egyptand integrating drought management and water policy.Contact: El Bohooth Str., Dokki, Giza, Egypt, P.O. Box 12311.Email: [email protected]

Torres Juan is Practical Action Latin America’s resident climate change expertwith a Master’s degree in Biology from the National Autonomous University inMexico. His specialist areas include: community-based climate change adaptation,indigenous knowledge, environmental impact assessments, ecology, desertificationand forests. Since 1991, Juan Torres has been working at the National AgrarianUniversity of Peru as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and since 1990has worked as Director of the Centre for Research into Arid Zones at thesame university. Over the past ten years, Juan Torres has held the position ofExecutive Director at the Andean Centre for Science and Technology. Country oforigin: Peru.Email: [email protected]

Totàro Michela is a primary school teacher. She is an expert in environmentaleducation, environmental didactic approaches and integration of disabled people inenvironment.Email: [email protected]

Tuberosa Jean is a UAS Professor of Accounting and Finance and Head of theLaboratory for Market Studies (LEM) at Geneva Haute Ecole de Gestion,Switzerland. He specifically focuses on consumer expectations and distributors’requirements. He provides support with regard to market expectations to FairTrade products and traceability. He has previously obtained funding from RUIG-GIAN Geneva International Academic Network for a project entitled‘‘Understanding the Private Demand for International Payments for EcosystemsServices’’, which was conducted in association with the United NationsEnvironment Programme, Economics and Trade Branch (UNEP-ETB) and theWorld Conservation Union (IUCN).Contact: Jl. IKIP III No. 10, Kampus UNSRAT, Manado, 95115, Indonesia.Mobile: +62-8179255866. Email: [email protected]


Umar Da’u Abba was educated at Bayero University Kano and Federal Universityof Technology Yola, where he obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees, respectively. Heis a geographer, an environmental scientist, educationist and registered member of theNigerian Environmental Society (NES). He is presently a research officer with JigawaResearch Institute, Kazaure and a part-time lecturer with the Geography Department atthe Federal College of Education, Kano. He has four journal articles and he haspresented a number of papers at various conferences, nationally and internationally.His research interests are soil geography, hydrology and water resources, climatechange and environmental issues. He is married with children.

Varughese Susan is a Ph.D. scholar at the Department of Ecology andEnvironmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, India. She completed herMaster’s with a focus on membrane wastewater treatment technologies atPondicherry University. Her research focus is in the area of agricultural watermanagement and water transactions.

Vitullo Marina works at the Italian National Institute for EnvironmentalProtection and Research. She is responsible for preparing, improving andreporting the LULUCF sector of National Emission Inventory for the UNFCCCand Kyoto Protocol. Member of UNFCCC roster of experts in the area ofgreenhouse gas inventory. Her research is focused on the development ofmethodologies to estimate removals and emissions of GHG in the LULUCF, andcollecting, analysing and elaborating data concerning various processes affectingatmospheric emission at national and local level.Email: [email protected]

Vomberg Nina graduated in Environmental Engineering at Aachen University in2010. She continued working on her diploma thesis on multifunctional land use forstormwater retention purposes as a graduate assistant at the Institute ofEnvironmental Engineering. Today she works at a consultant company forenvironmental technologies and civil works.Contact: Dr.-Ing. Bernd Diering GmbH, Ingenieurgesellschaft für Umwelttechnologie,Jülicher Strasse 318-320, 52070 Aachen, Germany.Email: [email protected]

Waagsaether Katinka Lund is a Master’s student with the Climate SystemsAnalysis Group at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2009 she did herhonours in Atmospheric Science, also with the Climate Systems Analysis Group atthe University of Cape Town, focusing on the communication of climate science topractitioners. Her current Master’s research is concerned with small-scale farmers’vulnerability to climate change.Contact: Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental andGeographical Science University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch,7701, South Africa. Email: [email protected]


Waas Tom is a Research Fellow at the Biology Department of the VrijeUniversiteit Brussel, Belgium. Together with Jean Hugé, they form amultidisciplinary team focusing on the theory and practice of sustainabilityassessment. They develop and apply assessment processes in the fields of(sub-)national sustainable development policy, development co-operation,sustainble higher education and energy. They are part of the Flemish PolicyResearch Centre for Sustainable Development team, as well as of the KLIMOSResearch Platform for Climate Change and Development Cooperation.Contact: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, DBIO / APNA, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels,Belgium

Watmough Gary is a Ph.D. student in the School of Geography at the Universityof Southampton. He completed his Master’s degree in Remote Sensing and SpatialAnalysis at the University of Southampton and a Bachelor’s degree in Geographyat Lancaster University. Gary’s research is focused on the use of remote sensing,geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial statistics for internationaldevelopment. His Ph.D. research is exploring the spatial links between censusvariables and remotely sensed environmental metrics in Assam, northeast India.Email: [email protected]

Zenchanka Siarhei heads the Department of International Relations andMarketing at the Minsk Branch of Moscow State University for Economics,Statistics and Informatics. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Science. His research focus isin the areas of quality management and environmental management. He is acontact person for relations with the Baltic University Programme.Contact: Minsk Branch of Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics andInformatics, 127, Building 2, Room 301, Mayakovskogo Str., Minsk, 220028,Belarus. Telephone/Fax: +375-17-2914497. Email: [email protected]

Zidan Mohamed Soliman Professor of Agronomy, National Research Center.She has worked on many projects for increasing the productivity of field cropsunder Egyptian conditions.Contact: El Bohooth str., Dokki, Giza, Egypt, P.O. Box 12311.Email: [email protected]

Ziervogel Gina is a Lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Shecompleted her Ph.D. in Geography in 2002 at the University of Oxford, exploringissues around seasonal climate forecasts and use among smallholder farmers inLesotho, as well as the national and district institutions supporting climateinformation dissemination. This work has since developed to focus on a broadrange of issues related to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change insouthern Africa.


Contact: Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental andGeographical Science University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch,7701, South Africa. Email: [email protected]

Zollo Anna is Professor of Ecology at the L. Quaroni Faculty of Architectureat Sapienza University. She is Learner in Ecology under the Chair of Prof.Eugenia Aloj.Email: [email protected]


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