cnt(A4871,"Zita Izakovicová is a landscape ecologist at the Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (ILE SAS) in Bratislava. She graduated from Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University Bratislava. Her research topics are: environmental planning, sustainable development, ecological networks, and evaluation of stress factors. She has written 6 scientific books, 5 textbooks, and about 80 scientific articles. She is national coordinator and evaluation of the "City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage" program in the 5th Framework Programme of the EU. She is chairperson of the Section Environmental Ecology of Slovak Ecological Society SAS, a secretary of SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), and member of the Geographical Society SAS and International Association of Landscape Ecology. She also sits on the editorial boards of the following journals: Environmagazin and Bulletin SEKOS. She is a president of the NGO Association Landscape 21 and a member of the Association NOOSFERA.")
cnt(A4870,"Zhou Hailin, Programme Officer at the Policy & Strategy Division of ACCA21,which is responsible for policies studies on sustainable development and policy research on key issues of international response to environment and sustainable development (SD). As a Project Manager of Institutional Development of EMCP (EU-China Environmental Management Cooperation Programme), I take responsibility for research, training and consulting activities on sustainable development indicators (SDI), climate change, water management, globalization and its impacts on SD. My main achievements and research contributions are related to SDI, theories and institutional base of SD, economic approaches for implementation of SD strategy, etc. My research results are widely accepted and publications have great influence on academic research on SD in China.")
cnt(A4869,"Zhao Shidong, a Research Professor of Forest Ecology in the Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Vice-Chair of Scientific Committee of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network.(CERN), member of the Standing Committee of Chinese Association of Ecology, and member of the Standing Committee of Chinese Association of Natural Resources. He graduated from the Department of Forestry of N.W. Agricultural University in 1963 and finished the graduated study in the Institute of Applied Ecology of CAS in 1967. Since then, he has been doing research on plant taxonomy and distribution, forest ecology, impacts of human activities on ecosystem biodiversity, impacts of climate change on ecosystems and land use and land cover change. So far, about 100 papers and 16 books in these fields have been published. He was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Applied Ecology of CAS from 1987-1991, and the Director of the Commission on Integrated Survey of Natural Resources of CAS from 1994-1998. As a Visiting Scientist, he did research in the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan in USA from 1983 to 1985. As a member of the Steering Committees of Global Observation System (GTOS), International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) and Global System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) and Assessment Panel of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), and the Regional Vice-Chair of Commission on Ecosystem Management of IUCN, he has been working with several international programs.")
cnt(A4868,"Zh. G. Gao (male) Ph.D. is Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Xinjiang Institute of Finance & Economics, Urumqi, P.R. China. His research interests include: regional economy, resources economy, industrial economy, and sustainable development. Since 1996, more than 30 articles have been published.")
cnt(A4867,"Zarina Patel joined the University of Witwatersrand School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies in October 2002. Her research interests are broadly within the field of urban sustainable development. Zarina has pursued her interests in Environmental Politics, Governance and Policy, as both a researcher and a practitioner in a range of institutions: including the School of Development Studies, University of Natal; the Durban City Council; the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; and most recently, she project managed "Greening the World Summit on Sustainable Development". She completed her PhD, entitled Rethinking Sustainable Development: Power, Policy and Practice in South Durban, through the University of Cambridge at the end of 2001. Her current research focuses on competing values in local environmental governance in Durban. Zarina serves on the Board of the South African National Parks.")
cnt(A4866,"Zahid Shariff is Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. Dr. Shariff's research and teaching interests are focused in a number of areas. One is public administration, where he concentrates on public administration theory and fiscal policy, and has published several relevant articles in Social Science Quarterly, Social Policy, Administration & Society, and in edited books. A second area is international affairs and comparative policy and administration, and in that field has published articles in The Annals of the American Society of Political and Social Science, Public Management and Policy, and Lahore Journal of Economics.")
cnt(A4865,"Yury N. Pavlovsky is Professor, Associated Member of Russian Academy of Science, head of Department 'Simulation Systems' of Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science. He holds his Dr. of Mathematical-Physical Sciences from Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, 1964. His scientific interests include Simulation Systems, Decomposition Theory, Control Theory. He published over 100 papers and 4 monographs. Among these the following can be mentioned: 1) The problem of decomposition in Mathematical Modeling. - Moscow: Nauka, 1998 (in Russian, together with T. Smirnova) 2) Simulation models and systems.-Moscow: Phasis, 2000 (in Russian).")
cnt(A4864,"Yury N. Ivanov Doctor of Sciences, Professor; Head of the Department on Mathematical Economics of Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman of Applied Economics of Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology; Member of Editorial Boards of "Journal of Emerging Markets", St. John's University, New York, USA; author of 6 books and more then 120 articles on mathematical economics, control theory, informatics, mechanics of space flight. Among these the following can be mentioned: 1. Mechanics of Space Flight. Problem of Optimization (1975, in Russian), Moscow: Fizmatlit Publishing Company, Science Publishers (together with Grodzovsky G.L., Tokarev V.V.). 2. Mathematical Description of Economy Elements (1994, in Russian), Moscow: Fizmatlit Publishing Company, Science Publishers (together with Tokarev V.V., Uzdemir A.P.). 3. Theory of Information Objects and Data Base Management Systems (1988, in Russian), Moscow: Fizmatlit Publishing Company, Science Publishers. Theoretical Economics: Economics Doctrines, Consumption Theory Economics (1997, in Russian), Moscow: Fizmatlit Publishing")
cnt(A4863,"Yury Mikhailovich Arskyi was born in Leningrad in November 1936. He graduated from the Faculty of Geology of the Moscow Lomonosov State University in 1959. He has been a Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy since 1979, a Professor since 1980, a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1990, a Full Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Russian Federation since 1996, a Full Member of the Academy of Mining since 1995, and a Full Member of the International Academy of Information Processes and Technologies since 1995. Since 1992 to the present Prof. Arsky is the Director of the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation, Senior Councilor in ecology and economics of the Government of the Russian Federation under the Economic Commission of the United Nations, Member of the Council and Chief of the European Commission of the Federation for Information and Documentation. The main trends of Prof. Arsky's activities are: system analysis of projects in development of mineral resources; new advanced information technologies; creation of large-scale databases and databanks in natural and technical sciences; Editor in Chief of the VINITI's Abstract Journal (annual description of more than 1 million scientific publications in 40 languages); information support of federal target programs and state scientific and technical programs; state examination of domestic and foreign projects; participation in realization of international programs: TACIS, Infoterra etc. Since 1995 he has been the head of the Laboratory of the Geoeconomics of the Geological faculty of the Moscow Lomonosov State University. 15 theses have been defended under his guidance. He is the head of the Dissertation Council for conferring doctoral degrees. Prof. Arsky is the author of more than three hundred scientific publications, including monographs on "Infosphere" (Moscow, 1996), and "Information Market in Russia" (Moscow, 1996), etc.")
cnt(A4862,"Yury I. Brodsky is Senior Research Scholar at Simulation and Modeling division of the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also is Associate Professor of Informatics and Discrete Mathematics at Moscow Pedagogical State University, where he delivered lectures on Computer Simulation and Discrete Mathematics. He got his M.S. degree in Systems of Automatic Control from Moscow Physical Technical Institute (PHISTECH) in 1976 and Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Cybernetics from the same institution in 1981. Dr. Brodsky published one monograph and about 50 papers in area of Computer Simulation, Mathematical Modeling, Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Control Theory, Functional Analysis, Theory of Extrema, CAD/CAM. In 1990 the Multilingual Instrumental System for Simulation (MISS) elaborated by Dr. Brodsky in cooperation with Dr. V. Lebedev won the First Prize in the Contest of Software Products arranged in former USSR by Japanese firm ASCII Corporation. Current research interests of Dr. Brodsky center on Software Engineering, Simulation and Mathematical Modeling, and World Wide Web.")
cnt(A4861,"Professor Yuri V. Gulyaev graduated from the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute, MPTI (1958) PhD (1962), D.Sci. (1970). Professor and Head of semiconductor electronics chair in MPTI (1971), corresponding member of Ac.Sci.USSR (1979), full member (academician) of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)(1984), Division of Informatics, Computer Sciences and Automation. From 1960 he worked in the Institute of Radio engineering and Electronics (IRE) Ac.Sci. USSR. Since 1988 he is the Director of IRE RAS. In 1992 Professor Yuri V. Gulyaev was elected as a Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Science. Professor Yuri V. Gulyaev is a specialist in the fields of solid-state physics, radio physics, electronics, computer sciences and telecommunications. Main scientific results obtained by Yuri V. Gulyaev are published in more than 400 scientific articles, 50 patents and 3 monographs. In 1979 Professor Yuri V. Gulyaev was awarded the Hewlett-Packard Euro physics Prize of European Physical Society. Twice (in 1974 and 1984) he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In 1993 Yuri V. Gulyaev received State Prize of Russian Federation for his works on SAW- devices. In 1995 Yu.V.Gulyaev was awarded the A. S. Popov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his contribution to electronics and telecommunications. Professor Yuri V.Gulyaev is the President of the Russian A. S.Popov Scientific and Technical Society of Radio engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications. Being elected in 1989-91 People's Deputy of the USSR and Chairman of Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Informatics of Supreme Soviet of the USSR Yuri V. Gulyaev participated in working out the strategy of the development of telecommunications in USSR and in particular in Russia.")
cnt(A4860,"Yuri S. Popkov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, born in 1937. He graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute, worked in the Institute of Control Problems. From 1976, he works in the Institute of Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the time of his activities, he worked his way up from engineer to assistant director of the scientific work. In 1964, he maintained the thesis for a Candidate's degree and in 1971, the thesis for the degree of Doctor. His sphere of scientific interests centers on problems of the mathematical investigation of complex dynamic systems that have a dual nature - a stochastic and a deterministic one. He developed the methods of investigation of the so-called systems effects arising in multiple element systems. These results provided the basis for the development of methods of functional-spatial modeling of urban, transport, and regional systems. Many of these methods have found application in the practical activity for the formation and implementation of the Master Plan of Moscow development. Yu.S. Popkov is the author of more than 120 scientific papers and 9 monographs. In 1999 he was given the rank of the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. Yu.S. Popkov is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Information Processes and Technologies.")
cnt(A4859,"Yuk-kuen Annie Cheung, Ph.D., MCIP, RPP is presently a Senior Associate with the Centre for Applied Sustainability (YCAS), York University, Ontario, Canada. She is also a Research Associate with the University of Toronto, York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS), and a Research Associate with the Multicultural History Society of Ontario (MHSO). Dr Cheung's current research interests include sustainable communities, culture and society, and Chinese communities.")
cnt(A4858,"Yukiko Fukasaku received her first university education in chemistry and biology and worked in the Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences in Tokyo for a few years before turning to studies in the history and social studies of science and international relations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Sussex in the U.K. in science and technology policy studies. She has worked for international organizations and research institutes including UNESCO, ILO, JETRO, and Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines either as staff or independent researcher. She currently works in the Science and Technology Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD.")
cnt(A4857,"Yoshio Sato has B.Sci. and Dr. Sci. degrees in oceanography from Tokai University, Japan. He has had more than 30 years of research and teaching experience in the university. His specialty is chemical analyses of the formation mechanism of manganese nodules on the ocean floor. Recently, he has become interested in preservation of the environment of enclosed sea areas, and utilization of ground seawater for fishery and deep ocean seawater. He is a member of the Chemical Society of Japan, the Oceanographic Society of Japan, the Geochemical Society of Japan, the Society of Sea Water Science,Japan, and the Japan Association of Deep Ocean Water Applications. He is a member of a committee for prevention of pollution in Shizuoka Prefecture, Committee of Environment in Shizuoka Prefecture, and Committee of Environment in Shizuoka City. He is a member of the Board of Directors, the Society of Sea Water Science, Japan. He has published more than 100 papers about seawater.")
cnt(A4856,"Yongyuan Yin is an adjunct professor with the Institute of Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is also an environmental scientist with Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada. Educated both in China and Canada, Dr. Yin has research experience and contacts in both countries. Dr. Yin's research has been focused on developing and applying computer based decision support systems and integrated assessment (IA) methods to assess implications of various environmental problems (e.g. climate change, soil erosion, air and water pollution) and policies for sustainable development. Dr. Yin is currently the PI of an Assessments of Impacts of and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC) project in Western China funded by UNEP/GEF. He is also leading the IA within the University of Toronto CIDA project on carbon sequestration in China. He has been coordinating the Pearl River Delta Sustainability project since 1999.")
cnt(A4855,"Yong Han graduated in 1997 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, with a Bachelor of Engineering and is currently a candidate for a master's degree in management science and engineering at Tsinghua University. His research area is energy system engineering, sustainable development strategy, and energy economics.")
cnt(A4854,"Dr. Yogesh Malhotra has contributed to knowledge management and strategic innovation policies and strategies of Intel, British Telecom (UK), Ziff Davis, Hewlett Packard, Arthur Andersen, South Korean technology companies, Government of Netherlands, U.S. Federal Government, and, Government of Mexico in advisory and visionary roles. He has taught on the faculty of Executive MBA programmes at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Mellon University and currently holds a professorial appointment at the Syracuse University. He is the author and editor of two critically acclaimed books and several influential research journals and articles on knowledge management, e-business, and strategic innovation. He has served on advisory, editorial and review boards of the National Science Foundation, the Conference Board, Knowledge Management Consortium International, the Academy of Management, IBM Research, Association of Computing Machinery, American Management Association, Association for Information Systems, Harvard Business School Publishing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Ziff Davis Standard for Internet Commerce. His interviews and analyses and reviews of his award-winning e-learning and knowledge management ventures have appeared in Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, Business 2.0, CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Information Week, KM World and hundreds of other TV, print and media channels around the world. As a global thought leader on Knowledge Management and E-Business, he has delivered recent invited keynotes to CIOs in Government of Mexico, hi-tech entrepreneurs and professionals network based in Silicon Valley, Baldrige Quality Award winning U.S. corporations, and global corporate executives at most prestigious industry conferences. He is the founding Chairman and Chief Knowledge Architect of the BRINT Institute, the New York based research, advisory, and e-learning company internationally recognized as a pioneer of leading edge research, practice, and thought leadership on Knowledge Management and Strategic Innovation. He is profiled in the Marquis' Who's Who in the World (Millennium Edition), Marquis' Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Knowledge Inc. Top Knowledge Management Experts and Luminaries, Who's Who in the Internet Commerce Standard, Leaders and Legends of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, and, CRM Leaders and Legends of Intellibusiness.")
cnt(A4853,"Dr. Ying Chen was born in April 1969 and is now an associate researcher with the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Chen graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, in July 1997 and she is now engaged in research of environmental and natural economics. Her areas of interest include global environmental problems, climate change economics, and sustainable development indicators.")
cnt(A4852,"Yifan Ding, deputy director of the Institute of World Development, Development Research Center of the State Council, People's Republic of China, graduated from Beijing Foreign Language Institute (now Beijing University for Foreign Studies). He was awarded a Ph.D. in political science from Bordeaux University in France before returning to teach at Beijing University for Foreign Studies as assistant and associate professor. He later moved into journalism, becoming editor of Xinhua News Agency, and was sent by Guangming Daily to Paris as bureau chief for more than five years. Returning once again to China, he was appointed to his present position. Dr. Ding has published many articles in various magazines and newspapers, translated several books from English and French into Chinese, and written four books about globalization and the challenges facing China, the European single currency, the knowledge-based economy, and the international financial system.")
cnt(A4851,"Yiduan Wang is a senior engineer of Beijing Technology & Business University. Yiduan Wang graduated from the Petroleum Engineering Department of Tsinghua University in 1953 and worked in Beijing Petroleum Institute and the East China Petroleum Institute until the mid 1970s, afterwards serving as deputy director of the Education Department of Shandong Province, vice-president of Yantai University, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and President of Beijing Institute of Light Industry.")
cnt(A4850,"Yi Lei, born in 1962, gained his Ph.D. in ecophilosophy. Dr. Lei is a director of the Chinese Society for Environmental Ethics and he works in the Institute of Science, Technology and Society at Tsinghua University, Beijing.")
cnt(A4849,"Professor Yew-Kwang Ng holds a personal chair in Economics at Monash University and has been a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980. He is currently visiting the National University of Singapore. He has worked in welfare economics, proposed mesoeconomics (a simplified general equilibrium analysis with both micro and macro elements) and welfare biology. He also collaborates with Professor Xiaokai Yang on an inframarginal analysis of division of labour. He has published a number of books and journal papers as well as commentaries for the popular press.")
cnt(A4848,"Yelena Breeva was born in 1955. She graduated from the Moscow Economic-Statistical Institute, Department of Statistics, with a specialty in demography (1978), with a Doctor of Economic Sciences. Since 1990 she has worked at the Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences, as leading researcher. Her research interests are focused on children and youth issues: their health, education, work, relationships with parents and children of their age, problems of homeless and abandoned children. Her main publications are: Children in Russia: Socio-Economic Problems. Moscow: ISESP RAS, 1994; Children in the Current Society. Moscow: Editorial URSS, 1990; Politics, Children and Market. Sociological Studies, 7, 1995 (in Russian); and Current Problems of the Social Support of Children. Demographic Journal, 2, 1996 (in Russian).")
cnt(A4847,"Yaxin Zheng is an associate professor in the Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources (CISNAR), Chinese Acamedy of Sciences (CAS). His research interests include geochemistry and sustainable development. His research experience is as follows: 1. Geothermal Survey in Hengduan Mountains, eastern extension of Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau, south-west China, i.e. west Yunnan Province and Sichuan Province,1983-1985 2. Project of Resources Development expedition to Southwest of China, in charge of energy planning sub-project,1986-1988 3. Project of Tibet "One River and Two Tributaries(middle reach of Yarlung Zangbo river and middle and lower reaches of Lhasa river and Nyangqu river)",1989-1990 4. Project on sustainable development overall planning of Wuyishan Biosphere Reserve, 1991- 1992 5. Project of Sven Hedin's natural heritage in Tibet, preparatory stage of collecting materials in the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, August-October 1993 6. World Bank poverty alleviation project in South-west China 1994-1995 7. Project of Sino-Swedish cooperation project on Sven Hedin's natural heritage in Tibet, field work stage, September-October 1995 8. Project of Sino-Swedish cooperation project on Sven-Hedin's natural heritage in Tibet, indoor work stage 1996; Sino-Swedish seminar on groundwater protection and sustainable utilization, October-November 1996.")
cnt(A4846,"Mr. Yasunori Minagawa, Coordinator of Planning Technology Development Office (PTDO), UNCRD, was born in 1953 and graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology ( B.E. in 1976 and M.E. in 1978 both in Social Engineering). He served as a researcher on disaster prevention from 1978 to 1985 and as a system analyst on computer systems from 1985 to 1993 at Toyo Information Systems Co., Ltd. Since joined UNCRD in 1993, He is serving as the Coordinator of PTDO which deals with research and training projects")
cnt(A4845,"Yasuko Kawashima (Ph.D. at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1997) has been working for the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) since 1992. Her areas of research are climate change negotiation at international level, comparative studies of countries' decision-making processes on climate change, and linkage between domestic and international levels of climate change policy. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland in 1999-2000. Her publications include "Japan's decision-making about climate change problems: comparative study of decisions in 1990 and in 1997," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, (2000) Vol.3, pp.29-57; and "Comparative Analysis of Decision-making Processes of the Developed Countries towards CO2 Emissions Reduction Target," International Environmental Affairs, Vol.9, No.2. (1997) pp.95-126.")
cnt(A4844,"Yaping Du, born in 1960, received a bachelor's degree in agriculture in Wuhan, China, in 1982 and has worked as a researcher for the Economy and Environment Programme for Southeast Asia (based in Singapore) evaluating water quality improvement in China, and as an associate editor in the editorial office of the Chinese journal World Economy in Beijing.")
cnt(A4843,"Yanpeng Liu, is an Associate Professor, MS, secretary and member of Chinas National Conditions Investigation Group, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the first degree of science and technology progress by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. Also, he is one of the staff of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His working field is natural resources analysis. He is currently mainly studying Chinas natural resources and economic development (the Eighth National Conditions Report). His publications include: 1. A study on basic characteristic of regional movement of rural labor, journal of natural resources, 1999. 2. Tentative ideas on the application of expert system in resources engineering management, Journal of Resources Science, 1999. 3. Employment and development, Liaoning People's Publishing House, 1998. 4. Several problems of population, resources, environment and social economy sustainable development, report of national condition of China 1998, China Statistical Publishing House, 1998. 5. China's basic condition and the building of social security system, study collection of the discussion of social security system, Xuyuan Publishing House, 1998. 6. Agriculture and development, Liaoning People's Publishing House, 1997. 7. Chance and challenge, Science Press, 1995. 8. City and countryside, Science Press, 1994. 9. Exploring and conserving, Science Press, 1992.")
cnt(A4842,"Yang Zisheng is Professor at the Institute of Land & Resources and Sustainable Development (ILRSD), Yunnan University of Finance and Economics (YUFE), and the School of Resources Environment and Earth Science, Yunnan University. He was born in October 1964 in Dali County, Yunnan Province, China. He studied in the Geography Department of Southwest Normal University during 1982-1989 and obtained his Bachelor's degree of Science (Geography) and a Master's degree of Science (Land Resources Science). During 1993-1996 he undertook his doctoral courses and research at the Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, at Yunnan University, and received the Doctor's degree of Science (Ecology). Dr. Yang's main research interests focus on the fields of land resources and land use planning, land ecology, soil erosion and conservation, and natural disaster. He has made some remarkable contributions to the fields of land resources evaluation, land use planning, soil erosion and ecological improvement, and natural disaster regionalization. He has published some 60 research papers and eight books. He won six provincial and ministerial prizes of achievement in science and technology in 1998-2002, and a China's Youth Prize of Land Science and Technology in 2000. Currently, he serves as Director of ILRSD of YUFE, and he is a member of the land resources committee, China Society of Natural Resources.")
cnt(A4841,"Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in Physics in 1984. He was a Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow, and a joint postdoctoral fellow at MIT and IBM. After a junior faculty appointment at the Weizmann Institute, he became an Associate Professor of Engineering at Boston University in 1991. He left Boston University in 1997 to become president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He is also Associate of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Harvard University.Prof. Bar-Yam studies the unified properties of complex systems as a systematic strategy for answering basic questions about the world. His research is focused both on formalizing complex systems concepts and relating them to everyday problems. In particular, he studies the relationship between observations at different scales, formal properties of descriptions of systems, the relationship of structure and function, the representation of information as a physical quantity, and quantitative properties of the complexity of real systems. Applications have been to physical, biological and social systems. Prof. Bar-Yam has made contributions to: the theory of the structural and electronic dynamics of materials; the theory of polymer dynamics and protein folding; the theory of neural networks and structure-function relationships; the theory of quantitative multiscale complexity; and, the theory of evolution. Prof. Bar-Yam is author of over a hundred scientific articles and the textbook Dynamics of Complex Systems (1997) addressing the entire field of complex systems. He is Chairman of the International Conference on Complex Systems and Managing Editor of InterJournal -- an on-line electronic journal. He has consulted and given courses for: the World Bank, MITRE, and the US military and intelligence communities. He has taught about complex systems in Canada, China, Columbia, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Russia and many places in the U.S.")
cnt(A4840,"Yaman Barlas received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering, from Middle East Technical University, Ohio University and Georgia Institute of Technology respectively. In 1985, upon receiving his doctoral degree, he joined Miami University of Ohio as an assistant professor of Systems Analysis where he was granted tenure in 1990. He worked as a guest researcher at MIT in the summer of 1990. In 1992, he gave seminars in Istanbul, as a United Nations TOKTEN consultant. He joined Bogaziçi University in 1993, where he is currently working as a professor of Industrial Engineering and directing the SESDYN research laboratory (http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/labs/sesdyn/). He spent his sabbatical leave at University of Bergen in Norway in 2000. His interest areas are validation of simulation models, system dynamics methodology, modeling/ analysis of socio-economic problems and simulation as a learning/training platform. He has published numerous articles in journals, proceedings and books, and offered academic and professional seminars nationally and internationally in these areas. He teaches simulation, system dynamics, dynamics of socio-economic systems and advanced dynamic systems modeling. He is a founding member of the System Dynamics Society and member of several other international and national professional organizations. Professor Barlas was the Chair of the 15th International System Dynamics Conference, held in Istanbul in 1997. He is the editor of System Dynamics Review for short articles, an invited Honorary Editor of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems and a former President of the System Dynamics Society.")
cnt(A4839,"Dr. Yacov Y. Haimes is the Founding Director (1987) of the University of Virginia's Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, and holds the Lawrence R. Quarles professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a member of the Systems and Information Engineering and Civil Engineering faculties. On the faculty of Case Western Reserve University for 17 years, he was Chair of the Systems Engineering Department. During the 1977-78 sabbatical years, he was an AAAS/AGU Congressional Science Fellow, joining the staff of the Executive Office of President Carter, and later the staff of the House Science and Technology Committee. He is the recipient of several major awards in his field, including the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for Risk Analysis, the Georg Cantor Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, and the Warren A. Hall Medal from the Universities Council on Water Resources. He is a Fellow of the following professional societies: AAAS, IEEE, ASCE, IWRA, AWRA, INCOSE, and the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). He also served as President of SRA. He has published over 200 articles and technical papers, over 120 of which are in archival journals. He has authored/co-authored five books and edited 20 volumes. His most recent book is Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management, John Wiley & Sons, published in 1998.")
cnt(A4838,"Y.S. Zhang, male, born in 1955, is an Associated Professor of the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Peking University and Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and worked in the research center for land and natural resources, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (Chinese Academy of Sciences). He is mainly active in the fields of natural resource management and environmental protection, and has published over 20 papers in these fields.")
cnt(A4837,"Y. L. Yang, graduated from Lanzhou University in 1977 and has served in the Institute of Desert Research, Academia Sinica for 18 years. As a Senior Engineer and Division Director, he serves in the Secretariat of CCICCD and the National Bureau to Combat Desertification, SFA for implementing the NAP and UNCCD at national level. He has published over 15 papers and books as co-author and author.")
cnt(A4836,"Y. J. Zhang, is a Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China. His main research fields are: resource ecology, ecological economy, regional sustainable development. 10 articles were published.")
cnt(A4835,"Y. H. Lang (male) is a Professor in the Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include: regional economy and regional exploitation; resources economy and resources exploitation; industrial development and industrial distribution; industrial structure and planning; biological economy and environmental economy. His most significant written works are as follows: Industrial Corridor Construction in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River published in 1995 (in Chinese); Status and Countermeasures of Global Resources published in 1993 (in Chinese); Development and Distribution of Heavy Industry in Southwest China published in 1990 (in Chinese). He has published more than 120 articles and won many prizes of science and technology.")
cnt(A4834,"Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in Physics in 1984. He was a Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow, and a joint postdoctoral fellow at MIT and IBM. After a junior faculty appointment at the Weizmann Institute, he became an Associate Professor of Engineering at Boston University in 1991. He left Boston University in 1997 to become president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He is also Associate of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Harvard University. Prof. Bar-Yam studies the unified properties of complex systems as a systematic strategy for answering basic questions about the world. His research is focused both on formalizing complex systems concepts and on relating them to everyday problems. In particular, he studies the relationship between observations at different scales, formal properties of descriptions of systems, the relationship of structure and function, the representation of information as a physical quantity, and quantitative properties of the complexity of real systems. Applications have been to physical, biological and social systems. Prof. Bar-Yam has made contributions to: the theory of the structural and electronic dynamics of materials; the theory of polymer dynamics and protein folding; the theory of neural networks and structure-function relationships; the theory of quantitative multiscale complexity; and the theory of evolution. Prof. Bar-Yam is author of over a hundred scientific articles and the textbook Dynamics of Complex Systems (1997) addressing the entire field of complex systems. He is Chairman of the International Conference on Complex Systems and Managing Editor of InterJournal -- an on-line electronic journal. He has consulted and given courses for the World Bank, MITRE, and the US military and intelligence communities. He has taught about complex systems in Canada, China, Columbia, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Russia and many places in the U.S.")
cnt(A4833,"Xueyang He has been a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering in Tsinghua University, Beijing, since September 1996, having graduated from the same department in 1996.")
cnt(A4832,"Xiuji Zhou, a Chinese national was born in September 1932, in Jiangsu Province, P. R. China. He is currently Professor and Honorary Director of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Chinese Meteorological Administration. His first degree was from the Department of Physics, Peking University (1952 to 1956). From 1962 he was Sub-Doctor for Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, USSR. From 1963 to 1979 he was Associate Professor in the physics of clouds and precipitation, thunderstorm electricity and remote sensing of the atmosphere at the Institute of Atmosphere Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1979 to the present he has been a professor in atmospheric radiation and remote sensing, turbulence and nonlinear dynamics, and mesoscale meteorology at IAP and Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. 1981-1984: Deputy-director of Institute of Atmospheric Physics. 1984-1993: Director of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Chinese Meteorological Administration. 1993 to present, Honorary Director of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. 1991 to present, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1998 to present, Director of Dept. of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation of China. He is a Member of the Environmental Protection Committee of National Peoples Congress of P. R. China (1993 to present), Vice-president of Chinese Meteorological Society (1990-1998), Vice-president of Chinese Antarctic Academic Society (1987-1994), Member of XIX Executive committee of IAMAP, Member of Radiation Commission of IAMAP and Member of Committee of Atmospheric Sciences of WMO.")
cnt(A4831,"Xiaobai Xu (female) was born in 1927, In Suzhou City, elected as Academician (Environ.Chemist/Inorganic Chemist), CAS in Nov.1995. She graduated in 1948 from Department of Chemistry, Chiao-Tung Univesity and has been involved in research since then in the Institute of Chemistry of Academica Sinica; Institute of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Institute of Environmental Chemistry, CAS. She is now Research Professor and Advisor of Ph.D. Students in Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS. She was Visiting Scholar in UC Berkeley, USA 1980-1982 and later made short visits of 2-3 months as Visiting Professor. She is now a member of National Committee of Environmental Monitoring and SGOMSEC Member under SCOPE. She is the editor of some important journals and was the First of three in charge of the Key Project 'Environmental Changes and Ecological Effects of Some Typical Chemical Pollutants' sponsored by NSFC. After graduation, she worked successfully mainly in the field of Inorganic Chemistry: studies on the preparation and properties of halophosphate fluorescent material for lamps, of high temperature rare earth refractory binary compounds and of some uranium compounds. Since the mid 1970s she has been involved in research into Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Pollution Chemistry and Eco-toxicology of persistent organic pollutants, etc. relating to Energy & Environment, Chemical Safety and Management, and Green Chemistry. She has published more than 160 scientific papers, three Collections of Studies on Toxic Organics and one monograph 'Environmental Changes and Ecological Effects of Typical Chemical Pollutants'. She has been granted 11 S&T Awards by CAS and Our Nation, and has successfully supervised several MS students and more than ten Ph.D. students.")
cnt(A4830,"Woo-soon Park is Professor of Public Management at the College of Social Science at Dong-A University in Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University. His research interests include knowledge management and governance, and leadership and strategy in the public sector.")
cnt(A4829,"Wolter J. Fabrycky is chairman of Academic Applications International. He received the Ph.D. in Engineering in 1962 from Oklahoma State University, the M.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1958 from the University of Arkansas, and the B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1957 from Wichita State University. Dr. Fabrycky taught at Arkansas and Oklahoma State and then joined Virginia Tech in 1965 where he served as Chairman of Systems Engineering, Associate Dean of Engineering, and then as Dean of Research for the University. He is now the Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Distinguished Professor of Systems Engineering at Portland State University. Fabrycky received the Lohmann Medal from the College of Engineering at Oklahoma State in 1992 for Outstanding Contributions to Industrial and Systems Engineering Education, Research, and Publications. In 1990, he received the Hotlzman Distinguished Educator Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Fabrycky was elected to the Arkansas Academy of Industrial Engineering in 1989. Dr. Fabrycky was elected to the rank of Fellow in the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 1978, the rank of Fellow in American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980, and the rank of Fellow in the International Council on Systems Engineering in 1999. He is listed in Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in America. Fabrycky is a Registered Professional Engineer in Arkansas and Virginia. Six Prentice Hall books have been co-authored by Fabrycky. There are: Economic Decision Analysis (1998), Systems Engineering and Analysis (1998), Engineering Economy (1993), Life-Cycle Cost and Economic Analysis (1991), Procurement and Inventory Systems Analysis (1987), and Applied Operations Research and Management Science (1984). Dr. Fabrycky also co-edits the Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering that now contains more than 50 titles.")
cnt(A4828,"Witold R. Jacorzynski obtained his master degree in 1989 and his PhD degree in 1993 at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland. From 1987-1989, he was a visiting scholar and a lecturer at the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the Mexican National Institute of Archaeology and History in Mexico. Other postings have included the Medical Academy of Warsaw (1989-1992), the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care of Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom (1990-91), the Hastings Center of Bioethics in USA (1991), the University of Veracruz in Mexico (1993), the University of Warsaw (1993-1996), and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (1996-97). Since 1997 Professor Jacorzynski has worked in CIESAS Sureste (The Centre for Investigation and Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology, Southeastern Mexico) in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico where he writes and teaches on particular topics in the field of social anthropology, philosophy and ethics. Professor Jacorzynski's main areas of specialization are Mexican anthropology, ecological anthropology, bioethics, descriptive ethics and moral philosophy. He is the author of a book and multiple articles on moral philosophy and anthropology in Polish, Spanish and English.")
cnt(A4827,"Winfried Lang, an Austrian diplomat and Professor of International Law at the University of Vienna, served as an Austrian Ambassador to Switzerland (1993-1996) and to Belgium (from 1997 till his death in May, 1999). He chaired the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development"s Transformation Pollution Group (1977-1982) and presided over the United Nations Conference on the Protection of the Ozone Layer in 1987. During the GATT negotiations, he arbitrated a trade and environment dispute between the United States and the European Union (Tuna- Dispute). Since 1993, he served as a Chairman of the Council of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He was also a member of the IIASA Project since 1988. Lang was the author of the first comprehensive treatise on international environmental law (internationaler Umweltschutz) in the German language. As editor, he was responsible for the volumes Environmental Protection and International Law and Sustainable Development and International Law. He published some 50 articles on disarmament, political and economic integration (transboundary regionalism), environmental law issues (Montreal Protocol, climate change, trade and environment, compliance-control, etc.). Lang was Laureate of the Elisabeth-Haub-Award for Environmental Law (University of Brussels, 1994).")
cnt(A4826,"Mr. William Walton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen. He has strong research interests in the relationship between planning and transport, with particular reference to road transport, and has published extensively in research journals.")
cnt(A4825,"William S. Lind is Director of the Center for Cultural conservatism of the Free Congress Foundation in Washington, D. C.")
cnt(A4824,"William H. Sulis is Director of the Collective Intelligence Laboratory at McMaster University, Canada. He is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, and an Associate Member in the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology. He completed his B.Sc. in Mathematics (minor Theoretical Physics) at Carleton University, Canada and received his M.D., M.A. in Mathematics, and Ph.D. in Mathematics (under Helmut Jurgensen) at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He was President of The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and member of the American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, and the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Human Sciences Press. His research interests are wide ranging, and have included the modeling of tempered neural networks, non-autonomous cellular automata, cocktail party automata, and dynamical foundations of neural codes. He first discovered, in 1993, the phenomenon of transient induced global response synchronization in complex systems models. He has published extensively in the field of complex systems theory and artificial life, with over 50 papers and presentations, and he edited, with Allan Combs, the book Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behavior (1996), Singapore: World Scientific Press. He is currently at work on a book entitled, Archetypal Dynamics. He is married and has three children.")
cnt(A4823,"William H. Newell is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Miami and directs the Institute in Integrative Studies. He was the founding president of the Association for Integrative Studies in 1979 and currently serves as its executive director. He has published extensively on interdisciplinary studies and serves frequently as a consultant or external evaluator to interdisciplinary programs. His research focus is on interdisciplinarity and complexity, especially as applied to public administration.")
cnt(A4822,"William E. Rees has always been fascinated by the bio-ecology of Homo sapiens, a trait he attributes to his youthful experience working close to the earth on his grandfathers farm. Taking his PhD in population ecology from the University of Toronto, he was astonished to find that human ecology per se was of little interest to academic ecologists. (Humans were not regarded as part of natureand frequently still are not.) Switching disciplines to focus on humans, Prof Rees joined the University of British Columbias School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) in 1969-70. He founded the Schools Environmental Planning concentration in the 1970s and from 1994 to 1999 served as Director of the School. Prof Rees teaching and research focus on the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. Much of this work is in the realm of ecological economics where Prof Rees is best known for his "ecological footprint" concept. (Ecological footprint analysis estimates humanitys impact on the ecosphere in terms of the area of productive ecosystems required to satisfy human material demands.) Prof Rees is a founding member and recent past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. He is also a co-investigator in the "Global Integrity Project," aimed at defining the ecological and political requirements for biodiversity preservation. A dynamic speaker, Prof Rees has been invited to lecture on eco-footprint analysis and sustainability issues across Canada and the US, as well as in Australia, Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and the UK. In 1997 Prof Rees was awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize in acknowledgment of his research achievements and in 1999 he was recognized by The Vancouver Sun as one of British Columbias top "public intellectuals".")
cnt(A4821,"William Coleman graduated from the University of Sydney in 1981 with first class honors in a Bachelor of Economics. He was for several years a Research Officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia. In 1989 he was awarded a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics for his dissertation Prices and Interest Rates in the United Kingdom, 1870-1982: Tests of Some Simple Walrasian Models. Since 1991 he has been a member of the School of Economics at the University of Tasmania, where he lectures on financial economics, macroeconomic theory, and economic methodology. He has co-authored a textbook, Money and Finance in the Australian Economy (1994), and published on the gold standard, bimetallism, central bank independence, business cycles, and the Fisher Effect. He has also published in the history of economics and is the author of Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in the Origins of Economics (1995). He won the U.S. History of Economics Society Prize for the Best Article on the History of Economics in 1996 and is currently working on an intellectual biography of four founders of Australian economics: L.F. Giblin, D.B. Copland, James Brigden, and Roland Wilson. He is chief executive officer of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia and is the co-author of Exasperating Calculators: The Rage over Economic Rationalism and the Campaign against Australian Economists (2000), a book that received widespread publicity in the broadsheet press of Australia.")
cnt(A4820,"Professor William A. Wallace is a member of the faculty of the Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, Civil Engineering and Cognitive Sciences Departments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is presently Research Director of Rensselaer's Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies. He has held many appointments and positions abroad, including Visiting Professor, Systems Engineering and Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology, Visiting Professor, Polyproject: Risk and Safety of Technical Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and a U.S. faculty member at the Dalian Institute of Technology, Dalian, China. He was a research scientist at the International Institute of Environment and Society, Science Center, Berlin, Germany. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the University at Albany and Carnegie-Mellon University. Wallace completed assignments as Consultant, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council, and Expert, Civil and Mechanical Systems Division, National Science Foundation. As a researcher and a consultant in Management Science and Information Systems, Professor Wallace has over 30 years experience in and research on the development and use of information technology for industry and government. He is presently engaged in National Science Foundation sponsored research on the application of artificial intelligence to problems in incident management and emergency response, as part of a recent Information Technology Research grant, the issue of trust and knowledge management on the Internet and the vulnerability of critical infrastructure interdependencies, with particular emphasis on the World Trade Center attack. He received an International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference Award for Outstanding Long-Term Dedication to the Field of Emergency Management, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Third Millennium Medal, and is an IEEE Fellow. Professor Wallace received his bachelor's in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in management science from Rensselaer, and is a Navy veteran.")
cnt(A4819,"Professor Willard R. Fey, born 1935, was one of the original members of the Industrial Dynamics Group that developed the System Dynamics (SD) methodology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his academic education at MIT in electrical engineering, industrial management, systems theory, economics, psychology, and social science. While teaching at MIT, he directed the first industrial dynamics educational program, for which he received the 1966 Everett Moore Baker Award. In 1969, he brought the new field of System Dynamics to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has taught for 30 years. As a consultant, he has conducted SD studies of real human systems (military, higher education, criminal justice, ecological, and business) which have resulted in improved policies and procedures. He retired from teaching in 1999 to devote time to environmental research. He is currently the CEO of Ecocosm Dynamics, Ltd. (see www.EcocosmDynamics.org), a non-profit corporation that is the administrative home for this research.")
cnt(A4818,"Professor Werner Gocht has taught at the University of Berlin and currently teaches at RWTH Aachen. He is a consultant to various mining and infrastructure projects in 12 developing countries. He has also conducted project and program evaluation for the German Government, the EU Commission, the World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP, and UNCTAD/CFC in more than 30 developing countries. He has been the moderator and chairperson of about 25 international conferences and workshops, and a member and chairperson of the Consultative Committee, UNCTAD Common Fund of Commodities (1990-2000). He is also Chairperson of the Advisory Council for Development of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, and coordinator of the European SE Asian University Network in Engineering (ESA-UNET). His fields of research include: international commodity markets, commodity policy, science and technology policy, environmental economics, transfer of technology; he has published 12 books and 135 papers in German and international journals.")
cnt(A4817,"Wenxiang Yang (male) was born in 1931. He graduated from Department of Chemistry, Peking University in 1953 and was assigned to work in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Academy Sinica until 1978.During this period he was engaged in study polymer chemistry and irradiation chemistry. After that he transferred to work in the Institute of Environmental Chemistry, Academy Sinica, in Beijing. He worked in the field of organic pollution chemistry and atmospheric chemistry. He paid more attention to study the photochemical reactions of HCFCs, the chemical kinetics of organic compounds with OH radical as well as the sources and sinks of trace gases in China. Recently he has tried to approach problems of the global environment, such as the chemical processes of ozone depletion in Antarctica, the possibility of remediation of the ozone hole etc. He was a visiting research professor at UC Irvine USA in 1985-1986. He was recommended as a member of CACGP from 1987-1995.")
cnt(A4816,"Wenqi Wang was born on March 8, 1969, in Laiyang, Shandong Province. She graduated from the biology department of Chinese Eastern Normal University in 1991 (sites in Shanghai), and began to work in the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. During 1991-1995, her research subjects were majoring in marine biology about the Antarctic Euphausia superba. During 1994-1999, she carried out research on Bio-indicator Selection and Environmental Monitoring of the Jiaozhou Bay. Meanwhile, for her excellent research work and outstanding study, she pursued her masters degree and doctor degree, and published nearly 20 research papers. She is now continuing work in the following three areas: environmental bio-indicator monitoring in Jiaozhou Bay, microbiological monitoring in Jiaozhou Bay, and diseases of marine mammals in China.")
cnt(A4815,"Wenhua Li is a professor of resource management in the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the chief advisor of the FAO watershed management program. He is undertaking studies of forest ecology and strategies for sustainable development.")
cnt(A4814,"Weiwen Wu graduated from Qinghua University in 1960. From 1961 to 1986 he was an assistant, lecturer, and then associate professor of Peking University. From 1986 to 1998 he was Deputy Director of general office, director of policy research office, and research fellow of China Association for Science and Technology. He retired in 1998.")
cnt(A4813,"Weishuang Qu, Ph.D., is interested in applying quantitative methods to practical problem-solving. His interdisciplinary skills of research, engineering, and teaching include systems engineering, operations research, system dynamics modeling, econometric modeling, applied statistics, computer programming, and Monte Carlo simulation modeling. Dr. Qu obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Systems Engineering, another M.S. degree from the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China, and a B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since July 1994 he has been the Director of Analysis and Information Systems at the Millennium Institute in Arlington, Virginia, US, where he helped develop the Threshold 21 National Sustainable Development Model. Before joining the Millennium Institute, he had worked as a diplomat, a technical administrator, a researcher, and a professor. Dr. Qu has published more than ten papers in international journals.")
cnt(A4812,"Dr. Weiping Wu is currently an associate professor of urban studies and geography at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is also a faculty advisor in the Ph.D. program in public policy. She received a doctorate degree in urban planning and policy development from Rutgers University in the United States and was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution prior to joining Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been a consultant to the World Bank and was a member of the 1999/2000 World Development Report team. She also has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, evaluating its Beijing Office's funding activities on labor mobility in China. Dr. Wu's research interests have been in the areas of urban economic geography and policies, migrant settlements and urban morphology, and China's urban development. Her book, Pioneering Economic Reform in China's Special Economic Zones, examines the effects of foreign investment on the local industrial structure. In collaboration with Shahid Yusuf of the World Bank, she has co-authored a book published by the Oxford University Press, The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities. The book provides a historically grounded analysis of changes in the urban economies and strategies for future urban development. Currently Dr. Wu is undertaking research on settlement patterns and adaptation of China's rural migrants in urban settings, funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. She has completed extensive fieldwork in Beijing and Shanghai, and has begun to disseminate results from this study. Dr. Wu has published widely in her areas of research. In addition to the above two books, she has co-edited two books, Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World and Facets of Globalization: International and Local Dimensions of Development, and published about 20 journal articles and book chapters. She is a member of the advisory board for the Urban China Research Network and on the editorial board of Journal of Planning Education and Research.")
cnt(A4811,"Wassily Leontief was educated at the University of Leningrad. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1928. He received honorary doctorates from York University, England, 1967; University of Louvain, 1971; University of Paris, 1972; University of Pennsylvania, 1976; University of Lancaster, England, 1976; and University Cordoba, 1990. He worked as a research economist at the Institute Weltwirtschaft, Kiel University, Munich, Germany, 1927-1928. He was assistant professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, 1933-1939, associate professor, 1939-1946, professor, 1946-1975. Then he became professor of economics at New York University, 1975-1999. He was Founder of the Institute of Economic Analysis, 1978-1985; Consultant to the US Department of Labor, 1941-1947; US Office of Strategic Services, 1943-1945; UN, 1961-1962; US Department of Commerce, 1966-1982; US Environmental Protection Agency, 1975-1980; UN, 1980. Professor Leontief is well known as the author of The Structure of the American Economy, 1919-29, Second Edition, 1976; Studies in the Structure of the American Economy, 1953, Second Edition, 1977; Input-Output Economics, 1966, Second Edition, 1986; Collected Essays, 1966; Theories, Facts and Policies, 1977; The Future of the World Economy, 1977. He was a member of the Commission to Study the Organisation of Peace, 1978, and trustee, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, 1978, and on the US Committee for National Security, 1980. He was a decorated officer of the Order Cherubim of the University of Pisa, 1953; Legion of Honor (France), 1967; Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), 1984; French Order of Arts and Letters, 1985. He was recipient of the Bernhard-Harms prize in economics from the Federal Republic Germany, 1970, and received the Nobel Prize in economics, 1973.")
cnt(A4810,"Wang Sung, Fudan University. Research Professor of Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), member of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and Co-Chair of Biodiversity Working Group/CCICED. Other honors include Vice President of China Zoo Association, Member and Vice Chair of China National Committee for IUBS, Vice President of China Foundation for Protection of Wild Animals and Plants. Song Qingling Foundation, member and advisor of CAS Biodiversity Committee, etc. Previous honors include Executive Vice Chairman and Advisor of Endangered Species Scientific Commission of P.R.C. (1983-2000), Scientific Advisor of China's State Council Environmental Protection Committee (1991-1997), head of Working Group on Biodiversity Conservation/Chinese Academy of Sciences (1990-1992), member of CITES Animals Committee & Nomenclature Committee (1989-1994), IUCN Councilor and Member of Species Survival Commission and World Commission of Protected Areas (1990s), etc. He edited China Red Data Book for Endangered Animals and was Chief Compiler for a volume of Mammalia. He is also Chief of Editorial Board of Acta Zoologica Sinica, member and Deputy Chief Editor of Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, Deputy Chief Editor, of Chinese Biodiversity, member of CITES/C&M International Magazine Scientific Committee, 1994-6, member of Environmental Awareness of International Society of Naturalists, Member, Advisory Board, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2001. Notable awards achieved are Scientific Award for FAUNA SINICA: MAMMALIA, CARNIVORA, CAS (1994); IUCN Certificate for Dedicated Service to Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources as IUCN Regional Councilor at World Conservation Congress I (1996 & 2000); IUCN; Environmental Award by China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development for his outstanding contributions to the lofty cause of environment and development in China and for his accomplishments in the field of international cooperation (1996 & 2001), Honorable Member of American Society of Mammalogists, New York Zoological Society, etc.")
cnt(A4809,"Wan Hashim Wan Ibrahim graduated from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana in 1989 in the field of Civil Engineering. He obtained an MSc in 1991 and a Phd in Civil Engineering in 1994 from Purdue University. After obtaining his PhD, he worked as a lecturer in the school of Civil Engineering at Iniversiti Sains Malaysia. He was appointed as Dean, School of Civil Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia in March 2003. Actively involved in several research projects on traffic engineering areas such as developing a highway capacity manual for Malaysia and evaluating motorcycle issues with respect to Malaysian traffic conditions.")
cnt(A4808,"Walter R. Stahel is an alumni of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, where he received his diploma in architecture in 1971. He has been one of the founder-directors of the Product-life Institute since 1983. Before that, Stahel worked as an architect in London and as a project-manager at the Center for Applied Economics, Battelle Geneva Research Centers, Geneva, in the fields of business strategy and feasibility studies. He left Battelle in 1980 to become personal assistant to the CEO of a holding company with worldwide activities in railway maintenance, shipping, and real estate. Since 1984, Stahel has worked as a business consultant in most European countries, the U.S., and Far Eastern countries in the fields of: the development of strategies and tools to foster sustainable development (sustainable production and consumption issues); research into utilization-related technologies such as the re-use, repair, reconditioning, and technological upgrading of components, goods and systems, from points of view of technical and commercial strategies as well as industrial design; risk management and the insurability of risks, and their relevance for an industrial and a service economy; regional economic development and job creation. In 1982, with a paper "The Product-life Factor," Stahel was one of the laureates of the Mitchell-Prize Competition on sustainable societies in Houston, Texas, USA. In 1978, together with Peter Perutz, he was awarded a first prize in a competition of the German Future's Society on job creation. Stahel has been a member of the first Environmental Council of the German Railways, Berlin since 1996, and of the Umweltrat of the UmweltBank, Nürnberg, since its foundation in 1997. He was member of the Jury of the SHE (Safety, Health, and Environment) Excellence Awards 1996, 1998, and 1999 of Du Pont de Nemours, Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the Eco-Dream-Team of Interface Inc, Atlanta GA, and of the work group on "Basic Needs" for the world exhibition EXPO 2000, Hanover. Additionally, Stahel acts as a consultant on strategies of a sustainable development to the European Commission in Brussels; he participated at its "Futures 2010" project and is an associate member of ESTO, the European Science and Technology Observatory. He also works as a consultant for a number of large industrial companies as well as SMEs. Stahel regularly lectures at universities in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. on subjects ranging from eco-design to sustainable development. Stahel is the author of books and numerous articles on policies, strategies and tools to foster an economic development aimed at a higher resource productivity, and for a more sustainable society.")
cnt(A4807,"Walter Hook is the Executive Director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), an international NGO incorporated in the USA to promote environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policy and projects in developing countries and economies in transition. ITDP gives technical assistance to municipalities in non-motorized transport, bus rapid transit, traffic demand management, and the re-use of derelict urban land. Mr. Hook received his PhD in Urban Planning at Columbia University in 1996. For more information about ITDP, see www.itdp.org.")
cnt(A4806,"Walter A. Kosters is a researcher at LIACS, the Computer Science department of Universiteit Leiden. His PhD thesis in the field of mathematics (1985, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands) is entitled Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces. Later on he became interested in computer science, in particular analysis of algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. His current research interests include heaps, genetic algorithms, neural networks, data mining, and concrete mathematics.")
cnt(A4805,"W. Scott Trees is a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at Siena College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include the economics of poverty; alternative methodologies and their contribution to our understanding of policy issues; sustainable agriculture; and mental model theory and measurement. Recent projects have included grants to study both community-supported agriculture in the United States and the impact of IMF policy on poverty in developing countries.")
cnt(A4804,"Voula Mega graduated as an engineer from the National Technical University of Athens, and completed her DEA Diploma at the National Geographical Institute in Paris. She continued with a DEA at the French Institute of City Planning, where she was also conferred with a PhD. Her post-Doctorate studies include research on Regional Policy in Oxford Brooks University and Environmental Economics in Harvard University. She started her career as Special Adviser to the Greek Government and the European Union. She has been Research Manager at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, in Dublin, and worked on issues of Sustainable Development, at the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, in Paris. She has written, co-written and edited more than 30 EU publications, and published more than 100 articles in international magazines. Her main subjects include innovation and sustainable development, urban dynamics, regional capital, enterprise and the environment, city and spatial policy, innovation and cultural value-added.")
cnt(A4803,"Vladislav V. Tokarev is a Professor at Moscow State University - Higher School of Economy. He got his Ph.D. and D.Sci. degrees in Applied Mathematics in 1964 and 1972 respectively. He worked as a researcher in the Central Aero-Hydrodynamical Institute (1960-9), as Head of Laboratory at the Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences (1969-81), and Head of Laboratory of Economic Models at the Institute of Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences (1981-98). Professor Tokarev taught courses in Applied Mathematics, Control Theory and Mathematical Economy. He has published three monographs and about 100 technical papers in the fields of space flight mechanics, optimization methods, control theory, mathematical economy, and computer simulation of economic systems.")
cnt(A4802,"Vladislav P. Kotchetkov is a consultant to the UNESCO. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Technological University in 1959 and worked on satellite and missile technology. In 1969 he was awarded by the USSR Laureate State Prize. He received a diploma cum lauda in international economics from the USSR Foreign Trade Academy in 1977 and worked as a Director of a Division of International Scientific and Technological Co-operation for the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology. He was involved in the preparation of the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD), was a Secretary of the USSR Preparatory Committee for UNCSTD, represented the country at the sessions of the UNCSTD Preparatory Committee, was elected as a Rapporteur at the European Regional Conference for UNCSTD in Bucharest in 1978 and participated in the Vienna Conference in 1979. From 1980 he has been working for the UNESCO Science and Technology Policy Division, was a Chief of the UNESCO Science, Technology and Society Programme and a UNESCO representative at the UN inter-Agency Task Force on Science and Technology for Development. He also served as the Executive Secretary of the Moscow International Energy Club, of the UNESCO International Council for Scientific Communication, the UNESCO representative at the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. He is a member of the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee.")
cnt(A4801,"Vladimir Pavlenko is a General Director of the Arctic Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, and Professor of Economics. Professor Pavlenko's research interests are focused in a number of scientific areas. One is social science and the industrial development of the Arctic and Northern regions of Russia. A second area is the sustainable development of Russia and, particularly, circumpolar territories, and international cooperation and security in the Arctic. Of special scientific interest are the ecological problems in the North, and protection of the arctic marine environment. Professor Pavlenko was a participant of a number of expeditions in the Arctic. He is also expert in State Duma of the Russian Federation.")
cnt(A4800,"Vladimir N. Kostiuk is the leading research officer in the Institute of Systems analysis (Russian Academy of Science), Doctor of philosophy, Doctor of economy, Professor, and a specialist in the field of methodology of system research and macroeconomics. He has published more than 100 scientific articles, including 6 monographs. At present he is engaged in researching complex system evolution (economy, socium, complex natural systems).")
cnt(A4799,"Vladimir N. Burkov Doctor of Science, Professor of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Laboratory Head of the Institute of Control Sciences ( Russian Academy of Sciences) more than thirty years of activity in large-scale systems control, project management and graph theory. He authored more than 300 scientific publications, including several monographs.")
cnt(A4798,"Vladimir I. Chalov was born in July 1938. By background he is an Engineer-Metallurgist of non-ferrous metals (in 1961 he graduated from the Mining and Metallurgy Institute in Ordzhanikidze). He is also an economist (he graduated from the postgraduate course at the Academy of Public Sciences under the CC CPSS). He obtained his Ph.D. (Economics) in 1979 and DSc. (Economics) in 1988. He is the author of over 250 scientific publications, including 12 books, over 30 brochures, several inventions, articles in magazines, and in various article collections. He publishes regularly, often together with his post-graduate students and doctors. He worked in Norilsk for 12.5 years, and for 3 years in Krasnoyarsk. For the last 25 years he has been busy in Moscow. He worked for 6 years at the Nickel Factory, Smelting Workshop of the Norilsk Plant. He was recruited by various scientific and research institutions over 17 years. Today he is a professor at the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation. His scientific interests involve forecasting industrial distribution in the national economy, efficient environmental management, eco-development, and informational support to sustainable life support activities.")
cnt(A4797,"Vladimir Gurman is Professor, head of Control Processes Research Center of the Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (PSI RAS) in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia. He holds Doctor of Technical Sciences degree from Control Problems Institute, RAS. 1970. He previously occupied permanent positions as head of System Theory Department of Irkutsk State University, head of System Analysis Department of Irkutsk Computer Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His main interests are in the fields of System analysis, Control theory and Optimization, Environmental economics. His work (over 130) in these and related areas has been pulished in referred journals, in control theory and mathematical economics. He also published several monographs. Among these the following can be mentioned: 1) The extension principle in control problems.- Moscow: Nauka, 1997 (in Russian); 2) Models of natural resources management. - Moscow: Nauka, 1981 (in Russian, together with G.Konstantinov, V.Dykhta and others); 3) Ecology-economic strategy of regional development.- Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1990 (in Russian, together with V.Baturin, E.Danilina, and others). He is a member of the International Informatization Academy and of Russian Space Academy.")
cnt(A4796,"Prof. Vladimir E. Krivonozhko is an author of more than 100 publications written in Russian and English, published in Russian and international scientific and business journals. He was born in Moscow in 1948. In 1972 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1979 he did his Ph.D. degree in the field of mathematical programming and its applications to economics. Prof. Vladimir Krivonozko has been working with the Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the moment of the foundation of this Institute, for more than 25 years. His doctor thesis was entitled "The Development of Decomposition Methods". Prof. Krivonozhko is a supervisor for students and post-graduates at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is a permanent participant of various scientific international conferences and congresses on mathematical programming and operational research. In 2002 he was an organizer of the International 2002 DEA Symposium in Moscow, Russia. He proposed and substantiated an approach for construction of a set of parametric optimization algorithms for analysis and visualization of complex systems behavior. He validated the use of a set of parametric algorithms for constructing and generalizing major functions in mathematical economics such as: production function, isoquant, isocost, isoprofit etc. He made an adaptation of parametric methods for calculation of the most important qualitative and quantitative indicators of complex systems behavior like returns to scale, scale elasticity, marginal rates, etc. The approach developed is applied to modeling of economic systems activities. Prof. V. Krivonozhko is a scientific advisor to the Smart Technology Center in the Global S. Consulting company where high-tech computer-based elaborations are being developed for economics and business.")
cnt(A4795,"Vincent I. Ogu worked on housing and urban infrastructure development and management at Cambridge University for his doctorate. He has conducted research on international participatory and partnership approaches to urban environmental and infrastructure management. Vincent has in recent years been working on market reforms and the role of the private sector in infrastructure provision, and on international partnership approaches to the management of the urban environment in developing countries, in particular Nigeria and Ghana. Vincent has held research fellow positions at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan and at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has also held senior analyst positions and worked on housing and urban development and planning issues in the Australian and South-East Asian contexts.")
cnt(A4794,"Víctor M. Díaz. Born on October 22, 1970, holds a degree in Political Sciences and Sociology, speciality of Industrial Sociology, granted by the Salamanca Pontifical University at Madrid. He is performing studies for a doctoral degree in the Department of Sociology, section of Human Ecology and Population, at the Madrid Complutense University. He has carried out research in the Institute of Demography of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) on the prospective of the evolution of Spanish population until 2025. He possesses diplomas of specialist in several areas related to the evaluation of training programs, human resources and labor law and social security. He is now a member of the Grupo Ciencia, Tecnologa y Sociedad in the Unidad de Polticas Comparadas (CSIC), where he is directing and collaborating studies on the evolution of public policies, in particular in the fields of health and biomedicine and biotechnology, being in charge of the monitoring during the last five years of the evaluation of biotechnology sector in Spain. He has published several articles in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has contributed to the first analytical and prospective study on industrial biotechnology in Spain sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Energy (1999-2000). He has authored or co-uthored several books, among them: Salud y ancianidad en Segovia and Evaluacin de las actividades de investigacin y desarrollo tecnolgico en acuicultura en el periodo 1982/1997.")
cnt(A4793,"Veniamin Naumovich Livchits is Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, member of a number of national and international scientific associations and academies, Laureate of the Russian Academy of Sciences' prize on economics named after Academician V. S. Nemchinov (1999), Head of Department for Analysis of Strategies and Valuation of Systems Development Efficiency at the Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Laboratory for Models of Investment Projects Efficiency Assessment of the Central Economic and Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the International University in Moscow, and of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is an expert in the evaluation of investment project efficiency, economic and mathematical modeling, transport economics. He published 280 scientific works on economics, mathematics, transport, and energetics, and a number of monographs in various Russian and foreign journals.")
cnt(A4792,"Valery N. Lopatin, Ph.D. (technics), is a professor at the Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation, and an academician at the Russian Environmental Academy. The major areas of his activities are: environmental management economics, environmental management, environmental expertise, environmental impact assessment, environmental audit, resources management audit, waste management, regulatory support for environmental management, and international standards. He is the author of over 160 scientific publications. In 1970 he graduated from the Moscow Highest College named after Bauman (Apparatus Building Faculty) and obtained a diploma of Engineering. At the same Highest College he obtained his Ph.D. (technics). In 1989 he obtained a degree of Doctor of Science (technics) with specialization in environmental protection and efficient use of natural resources, at the Academy of the National Economy under the Russian Government. He became a professor in environmental and industrial safety in 1991. His major occupational phases are: Deputy Head of the Technical Department at the State USSR Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environment Control, Head of the Laboratory for Metrology and Standardization at the Institute of Applied Geophysics named after Academician Fiodorov, Head of the Department for Regional Resources Use and Environmental Protection at the Council for Studies in Production Forces and Economic Co-operation under the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, Head of the Main Department for State Environmental Expertise at the Ministry for Environment Protection and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, and professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Management at the Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation.")
cnt(A4791,"Valérie Chambers has a doctorate from The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, and has published articles on the subjects of: international trade and regional groupings; trade of environmental technology in Asian developing countries; and urbanization, industrialization and sustainable development in Asian developing countries. Her current focus of research is on sustainable development and the pulp and paper industries in developing Asia.")
cnt(A4790,"Val Plumwood is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University. She has published over 100 papers as well as four books, including Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) and Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason (Routledge, 2002). Dr. Plumwood has lectured on environmental philosophy in the United States of America, Canada, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.")
cnt(A4789,"Vadim Nikolayevich Sadovsky is Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, and Chief of the Department for Philosophical and Sociological Problems of Systems Research, Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Moscow Institute of Economy, Policy and Law, and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is the author of more than 200 publications and books.")
cnt(A4788,"Dr. V.V. Krishna is Associate Professor in Science Policy at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He initiated the programme on sociology of science and history of science groups at the National Institute for Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi, in the 1980s. After serving for over twenty years in this institute, he was invited by the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1997 to rejuvenate the Science Policy Centre. This is the first center in South Asia to offer M.Phil./Ph.D. programmes in Science Policy Studies. Its main areas of teaching and research are sociology, politics, economics, history of science and technology, S&T policy analysis, technical change, and innovation studies. Dr. Krishna holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Science from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He has over 24 years' research experience in the sociology of science, science and technology policy studies, and social history of science. He has published 30 research papers and four books including Scientific Communities in the Developing Countries (1997, New Delhi: Sage) and Science and Technology in a Developing World (1997: The Netherlands: Kluwer). He is the founder-editor of Science, Technology & Society-An International Journal Devoted to the Developing World, published through Sage Publications. Dr. Krishna is a consultant to UNESCO, Paris, for its programmes on electronic publishing in the developing countries and its World Science Reports 1998 and 2000. He is a Council Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), USA and a member of the International Council for Science Policy Studies, ICSU, UNESCO, Paris.")
cnt(A4787,"Prof. V. Subramaniam started his education in chemistry and moved over to Political Science and Public Administration. For a while he worked as a journalist before he became an academic, and taught and researched in the area of public administration in general. He was a noted comparativist who believed that a study of higher civil servants as a distinct social group ought to start with an understanding of their social and educational background and their attitudes. He took his PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra. He was a Senior Fellow at the Manchester University, and lectured at the University of Queensland, the University of Western Australia and the University of Zambia. He also taught the Indian higher civil servants at the (Lal Bahadur Shastri) National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India. He twice won the Haldane Essay competition of the Royal Institute of Public Administration. Later part of his life was spent as Research Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He was also a notable Buddhist scholar and composer of southern Indian music. He passed away in May 2004.")
cnt(A4786,"V. N. Len'shin was born in 1939 in Rjazan, Russia. He graduated from Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a specialty of hydroelectric power stations. He was a teacher in the same Institute. Later, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Social Science. He was a head of department in the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education. He worked in the Department of Science in the Central Committee of CPSU, and the Ministry of Science and Technologies. He is a specialist in management of Higher Education and Science.")
cnt(A4785,"V. N. Alympiev was born in 1945 in Saratov, Russia. He graduated from Physical Faculty of Saratov State University, with a Ph.D. in Physics. He was a teacher in Saratov and Samara State Universities. Lately, he worked in the Department of Science in the Central Committee of CPSU, and was a head of department and Deputy of Minister in the Ministry of Science and Technologies. He is a specialist in economics and management of science.")
cnt(A4784,"V. M. Bouznik graduated from the Tomsk State University. He has been working at the science organizations of Siberian and Far Eastern Branches of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1966. The science fields are radio-spectroscopy and chemistry of non-organic materials. He is an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a doctor of chemistry. Hi is interested in high technology products production at the science institutes, and sustainable development problems.")
cnt(A4783,"Uri Merry had a distinguished career as a social scientist and political activist. He was one of the founders and later elders of one of the most successful Kibbutz in Israel, Maagan Michael, which has managed to adhere to its original idealistic principles, a fact to which Uri contributed greatly. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was a pioneer in spreading Organization Development practices throughout the world. He authored many articles and books including his insightful Coping with Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-organization, and Complexity. Westport, CT. (1995).")
cnt(A4782,"Umberto Colombo, born 1927, is a member of the Board of Directors of ENI S.p.A., ACEA S.p.A., Ericsson S.p.A. and Energy Conversion Devices (US). He is also the Chairman of Fondation LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) in Geneva and of the Scientific Committee of the ENI-Enrico Mattei Foundation in Milan. He is a member of the Club of Rome's Executive Committee. Professor Colombo received a doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the Pavia University in 1950 and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. He also has received honorary degrees from Anna University, Madras (1991) and Mendeleyev University, Moscow (1994). Professor Colombo has held a number of positions in the government, including Chairman of the Board of ENEA (National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment, 1983-93) and Italian Minister for Universities, Science and Technology (1993-94). From 1991 to 1993 Professor Colombo served as Chairman of the European Science Foundation. Professor Colombo is author of numerous books and over 200 papers on energy, environment and science and technology policy. Among the many honors he has received are the Honda Award for Ecotechnology (Tokyo, 1984) and the Triennal Prestige Lecture before the Royal Society and Fellowship of Engineering (London, 1988).")
cnt(A4781,"Ulrike Schuerkens has doctorates in both sociology (1983), and social anthropology and ethnology (1993), from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She received the diploma 'Habilitation à diriger des recherches' from the University Paris V - René Descartes (2002). From 1983 to 1985, she was an Associate Program Officer at the Regional Branch Office for West Africa at the United Nations High Office for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dakar, Senegal. From 1995 to 2003, she was a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany). Currently, she teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France). She has published extensively on development, social change, migration, multiculturalism, and colonialism. Her regional research focus is on Africa. Her latest publications are International Migration and the Issue of Multiculturalism (ed.), International Review of Sociology (10, 3, 2000), Changement social sous régime colonial: Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana indépendants (L'Harmattan, 2001), Transformationsprozesse in der Elfenbeinkueste und in Ghana (Lit, 2001), Social Transformations between Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds (ed.) (Current Sociology, 51, 3/4, Monograph 1/2, 2003). Currently, she is president of the Research Committee 09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development of the International Sociological Association. She was a councillor of the International Institute of Sociology from 1997 to 2001.")
cnt(A4780,"Ulli Zeitler studied philosophy and history at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. From 1984 to 1994 he lectured in philosophy at the University of Aarhus and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a research fellow at the Centre for Social Science Research on the Environment, Aarhus, from 1994 to 1999. After completing his Ph.D. about transport ethics in 1997, Dr. Zeitler worked as an associate professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Since 2001, Dr. Zeitler has been the director of the Centre for Innovation in Nursing Education in the County of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include Philosophy of Production (1988), Grundlagen der Verkehrsethik (1999), and numerous articles in the field of environmental ethics and transport ethics.")
cnt(A4779,"Udo Greinacher teaches courses in architecture and urban design at the University of Cincinnati. Born, raised and educated in Tuebingen, Germany, he holds a first professional degree in architecture from the Fachhochschule Stuttgart and a Masters Degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied with Lars Lerup, Spiro Kostof, Stanley Saitowitz and Dell Upton. He has lectured on urban issues in Europe and throughout the United States, and has participated and placed in several international and national design competitions in America and in Germany. Published works and designs include Fear and Dreaming in the American City: From Open Space to Cyberspace (Princeton Architectural Press; 1997), The New Reality: Media Technology and Urban Fortress, (JAE; February 1995), The Fence (Competitions vol. 3; Fall 1993), Berlin: The Wall of Shame, (Center of Environmental Design Research, Berkeley; 1991) and Staedtebaulicher Ideenwettbewerb Lahr (wettbewerb aktuell no. 9; 1988).")
cnt(A4778,"Tsepiso Mohapi holds an Urban and Regional Planning degree from the National University of Lesotho (NUL) and is currently completing an MBA in Strategic Management Practice with the University of Natal. She has been working as a Documentalist with the Institute of Southern African Studies (ISAS) at NUL. Her research interests include gender studies, urban studies, environmental management and population studies, with research focus on Southern African issues.")
cnt(A4777,"Trevor Salmon is professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He joined the Department in 1996 after working at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Limerick. His research interests include European Union policymaking and European security, within the wider context of his interests in International Relations. In addition to numerous papers on these topics, he has published Unneutral Ireland (1989), Understanding the New European Community (with Sir William Nicoll), Second Edition (1993), and International Security in the Modern World (with Roger Carey as editors) (1992).")
cnt(A4776,"Toshio Sugiman is Professor of Group Dynamics at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. His major research interests are the theoretical development of group dynamics and the action research based on the discipline. However, group dynamics he has pursued is totally different from the one that was developed mainly in the US and was characterized by rigorous natural scientific approach in which human group behavior was investigated by hypothesis testing where laboratory experiments played a central role. Instead, he has tried to develop a new group dynamics in which social constructionism is a theoretical backbone and collaborative practice by researchers and people in research field is emphasized in diverse areas like organization, community, education, medicine, and so on. He was a president of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association and an editor of the journal of the association in 1994-98. He is also an editorial consultant for the journal, Applied Psychology, published by the International Association of Applied Psychology.")
cnt(A4775,"Toshiaki Ichinose was born in 1963. He is a Senior Research Scientist at Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan. He is a Graduate of the Department of Urban Engineering, and a Doctor of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. Career: 1989: Entered Forestry Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. 1990: Chief of Ohmama District Forestry Office. 1990: Returned to the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor (Department of Urban Engineering). 1993: Moved to RCAST (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo). 1993: Guest Researcher at National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (until March 1996). 1996: Moved to CGER, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Current Post). 1996: Research Fellow of RCAST, the University of Tokyo (Division of Urban Environment System) until March 1998. 1998: Research Fellow of the University of Freiburg (Meteorological Institute), Germany (March 1998 to February 1999). 2001: Advisory Professor of East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China. 2002: Member of WMO Expert Team on Urban Climatology.")
cnt(A4774,"Torbjørn L. Knutsen is a Professor in International Relations at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. His publications include A History of International Relations Theory (1997) and The Rise and Fall of World Orders (1999). His current research interests include democracy and peace issues and questions of foreign policy.")
cnt(A4773,"Tony Weis is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at Queen's University (Canada). His doctoral research focuses on international political economy as it relates to peasant agriculture in the developing world and the challenge of building sustainable food systems. More specifically, his research is concerned with how Jamaican peasants and cooperatives are adapting to the challenges of the evolving international food regime. He has published articles on the political economic barriers to sustainability in the developing world, the political economic context of Jamaica's deforestation crisis, and the development lessons of farmers' cooperatives in Jamaica. In addition to his studies, Tony has been involved in various forms of environmental and social justice activism. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the Eastern Canada Chapter of the Sierra Club, been a Board member of a Public Interest Research Group, campaigned with a First Peoples action group, been active with two groups concerned with the ethical treatment of animals, and is currently a research associate (animal agriculture and environment) on the Changing the World - One Bite at a Time research team. He has also published an array of articles on various themes of environmental and social justice in different media outlets.")
cnt(A4772,"Tong Qiu is studying for her doctoral degree in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. She is researching the theory and practice of sustainable development and the sustainable exploitation and utilization of energy.")
cnt(A4771,"Tommy Stamland is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Wyoming where he teaches corporate finance, investment management, and the theory of finance. He is from Norway and earned his business degree, Sivilokonom, at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. His PhD in finance was earned at the University of California, Berkeley, where he wrote his dissertation on partially informative signaling games. A part of this work was published in the Journal of Economic Theory in 1999. Stamland's current research continues on the theory of partially informative signaling and on empirical investigations of such phenomena. In addition, Stamland works on methodological issues in the estimation of the willingness to pay for mortality risk reduction. This work considers issues in the estimation of this willingness-to-pay from revealed preferences in which people trade-off wages and mortality risk in their choice of profession, or pleasure and mortality risk in their choice of food consumption.")
cnt(A4770,"Tom Heskes received both the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. After a year postdoctoral work at the Beckman Institute in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, he (re)joined the Dutch Foundation for Neural Networks (SNN) in 1994. Currently he is the director of the company SMART Research BV and an assistant professor at the University of Nijmegen. His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of neural networks and related techniques, with an open eye towards applications.")
cnt(A4769,"Tom Cioppa holds a PhD in political science from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. He is currently instructor and head of the political science department at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey, USA. His research interests include international environmental policy, environmental institutions, and the polar regions. He served as a research assistant in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, during the 2002-2003 austral summer studying the impact of climate change on soil ecology.")
cnt(A4768,"Timothy J. McKeown is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Fuqua School of Business and Department of Political Science, Duke University. He holds a degree in Political Science from Macalester College and received his PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. Professor McKeown is a member of the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association. Among his consulting activities are his work for the US Council on Competitiveness, and for the US Department of Commerce and American Enterprise Institute. Professor McKeown has numerous publications, including scholarly articles in the journals International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, and American Political Science Review. Among his recent publications is his edited volume, with Dan Caldwell, of Diplomacy, Force and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George (Boulder: Westview, 1993).")
cnt(A4767,"Timothy J. Bulman is a graduate student of economics at the University of Queensland. He is interested in development economics, in particular multinational institutional development. He is currently developing an evolutionary theory of social capital, and from 2002 is working in Economic Research at the Reserve Bank of Australia.")
cnt(A4766,"Timo Airaksinen holds a Ph.D. from the University of Turku, Finland, 1975. He is a full professor of philosophy in the Department of Ethics and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki. Professor Airaksinen is also the head of department and former assistant dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He has been a visiting professor in the Texas A&M University (1994-1996) and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Professor Airaksinen has published and lectured extensively on professional ethics, medical ethics, and problems of social justice. He has also written on Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, and Hegel. His books include The Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft (1999), The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade (1995), and The Ethics of Coercion (1988). Professor Airaksinen has written a number of university and high school textbooks in philosophy and non-religious moral education.")
cnt(A4765,"Prof. Dr. Tibor Vámos, was born on June 26, 1926 in Budapest, Hungary. He received the DSc in Technical Sciences (Computer Control) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, in 1964. He has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since l979. He was President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) during the period 1981-1984. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1986. He is the author or co-author and co-editor of a vast number of publications, mostly in automatic control.")
cnt(A4764,"Thomas Sterner is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He earned his PhD in Economics 1986 with a thesis on energy demand in Mexican industry, became an associate Professor 1989, and full Professor of Environmental Economics in 1995. He has published over 55 articles and books (including over 30 journal articles). He directs the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) which has half a dozen PhDs and about 20 graduate students from all over the World. The EEU specialises in the economics of the environment and natural resource management in both OECD countries and in developing countries. During 1998-99 Sterner was a consultant to the World Bank and Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). He is currently a university fellow at RFF. His professional work focuses mainly on the economics of policy instruments and on transport and energy economics. Through extensive collaboration with aid organizations such as Sida and the World Bank as well as other international bodies such as the Beijer Institute, RFF, IEED, CATIE, EEPSEA and others the EEU runs a number of research and training programs for capacity building in environmental economics (see http://www.handels.gu.se/econ/EEU). Thomas Sterner is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Environmental Economics in Gothenburg. He is also on the Research Board for Göteborgs Energi. He was Guest Editor for Environmental and Resource Economics, Spring 1998. Professor Sterner has taught a variety of courses in micro- and development economics, transport economics, energy economics and environmental economics. He has been the tutor for more than 10 PhD theses in economics at Gothenburg during 1990-2000.")
cnt(A4763,"Thomas Jandl is currently pursuing his doctorate degree in international relations at American University with a focus on economic development issues. He is an environment and development consultant in Washington, D.C. and the former Director of Bellona USA, the U.S. affiliate of the Bellona Foundation. As Bellona USA director, Mr. Jandl worked to raise awareness in the United States about increasingly severe environmental degradation in Russia caused by deteriorating nuclear infrastructure and nuclear naval vessels. Mr. Jandl authored papers on this problem and brought together Russian and U.S. lawmakers, technical experts, and industry representatives in periodic meetings to consider solutions involving the support of the United States and Norway. Prior to taking the helm of Bellona USA, Mr. Jandl worked as a reporter and editor for a Washington trade publishing company, where he focused on international security issues. Mr. Jandl has a master's degree in International Development from American University and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from San Diego State University. He received a diploma in economics from the Karl Franzens Universität in Graz, Austria, and a journalism certificate from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalism in Paris.")
cnt(A4762,"Dr. Thomas J. Gilmartin is a senior fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Center for Global Security Research, a study center which focuses on the intersection of technology and policy in international security, specifically, issues related to deterrence, nonproliferation, arms control, and regional security. He served on the Laboratory's Council for Energy and Environmental Systems, which fosters the development of science and technology for nuclear materials and systems, sustainable energy, global climate studies, and environmental science and technology. Prior to this Dr. Gilmartin was responsible for institutional long-range and strategic planning at the Livermore Laboratory after twenty years in technical and management roles on laser research and development programs with applications to radar, fusion energy, isotope separation, and strategic defense at Livermore and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Gilmartin received his B.S. (1962) in Physics from Georgetown University, M.S. in Physics (1964), and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1968) from Purdue University. He has more than 20 publications in areas of laser systems and applications, and of energy and environmental issues.")
cnt(A4761,"Thomas G. Whiston has a strong interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary background with several degrees in both the natural and social sciences. For a decade or so he was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Manchester, UK and subsequently a Senior Research Fellow for twenty-five years at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. During that latter period his research and teaching focused on three main areas: environmental policy and global sustainability issues; higher education policy relating to both developed and developing countries; innovation and Science and Technology policy and related corporate issues. He was a member of the team which over a period of ten years or so provided analysis and critiques of the global futures literature relating to the "Limits to growth" debate. He co-led the international research team involving forty or so researchers funded by the EU which addressed the issue of global sustainability in the program entitled "Global Perspective 2010-tasks for science and technology." He has researched and lectured in numerous European, North and South American, African and Asian countries. He is the author or co-author of approximately 150 texts, journal articles, and research reports. He is currently Professor of Environment at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, and Director of the international postgraduate course entitled "Environmental Policy and the Global Challenge. "")
cnt(A4760,"Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project and editor of Global Governance. Previously he was Research Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, Executive Director of the Academic Council on the UN System and of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UN secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. He has written or edited some 30 books on multilateralism.")
cnt(A4759,"Thomas E. Graedel is Professor of Industrial Ecology and Director, Center for Industrial Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University. B.S., Chemical Engineering, Washington State University, 1960; M.A., Physics, Kent State University, 1964; M.S., Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Michigan, 1967, 1969 Professor Graedel joined Yale University in 1997 after 27 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was the first atmospheric chemist to study the atmospheric reactions of sulfur and the concentration trends in methane and carbon monoxide. As a corrosion scientist, he devised the first computer model to simulate the atmospheric corrosion of metals. This work led to a voluntary position as corrosion consultant to the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project in 1984-86. One of the founders of the emerging field of industrial ecology, he co-authored the first textbook in that specialty and has lectured widely on its implementation and implications. His matrix assessment tool, developed while at AT&T, is a widely-used standard for the environmental assessment of products and services. His current research includes studies of the stocks and flows of materials in the industrialized society, especially in very large cities and in environmentally-sensitive regions. His studies of the cycles of industrially-used metals explore aspects of resource availability, potential environmental impacts, opportunities for recycling and reuse, and resources policy initiatives. Overall, he has published nine books (with total sales of more than 33,000 copies) and over 240 technical papers in various scientific journals.")
cnt(A4758,"Thomas D. Crocker is the J. E. Warren Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming. He earlier held faculty appointments at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, and a visiting appointment at the Pennsylvania State University. He was also the founding director of the School and the Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. Among his nearly 150 refereed publications are the original proposal for an analysis of tradable emission permits, the first empirical application of the Coase theorem, and two of the initial treatments in environmental settings of the principal agent problem. He also contributed to the initial development of environmental valuation techniques, especially the hedonic technique. Recently his research has focused mostly on the ways in which ecological and economic systems mediate each other's responses to change, endogenous risk, and the impact of environmental change upon human capital formation. His current work focuses upon the determinants of internal household environment and their effects upon child development.")
cnt(A4757,"Thomas C. Beierle is an Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, where his work focuses on environmental policy innovation. Prior to joining Ross & Associates, Mr. Beierle was a Fellow in the in the Risk, Resource, and Environmental Management division at Resources for the Future (RFF) and a visiting fellow at the Office of the United States Trade Representative. His work focuses on issues of democratic governance, transparency and public involvement. Mr. Beierle is the author of the book Democracy in Practice: Public Participation in Environmental Decisions (RFF Press, 2002). His recent articles and papers have examined the question of how to evaluate the success of public participation programs, the role of the Federal Advisory Committee Act on collaborative decision-making, and the influence of the Internet on public involvement. Mr. Beierle received his Masters of Public Affairs degree, with a focus on economics and public policy, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1997. At Princeton, he was senior managing editor of the Journal of Public and International Affairs. Beierle received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University in 1990.")
cnt(A4756,"Thomas Bäck received the Diploma degree in Computer Science in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1994, both from the University of Dortmund, Germany. In 1995, he received the best dissertation award of the German Association for Computer Science (GI) for his Ph.D. thesis on evolutionary algorithms. From 1990-1994, he worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Dortmund. From 1994-1996, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Systems Analysis within the Informatik Centrum Dortmund, and Department Director of the Center for Applied Systems Analysis from 1996 - 2000. Since March 1999, he is also Managing Director of divis digital solutions GmbH, and since January 2000 CTO of NuTech Solutions, Inc. and Managing Director of the German branch of NuTech Solutions (former divis digital solutions GmbH). The company specializes in optimization and data mining applications of computational intelligence technology for industrial problems. Since 1996, Dr. Bäck also serves as an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Leiden University, The Netherlands, and teaches courses on evolutionary computation and systems analysis at Leiden University. His current research interests are in the areas of theory and application of evolutionary computation and related areas of computational intelligence, as well as in DNA computing. He is author of the book Evolutionary Algorithms in Theory and Practice: Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming, Genetic Algorithms New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996 , co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Evolutionary Computation (New York, NY: Oxford University Press Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997), member of the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press , and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Natural Computing Series. Dr. Bäck is a member of the IEEE and the Dutch Association for Theoretical Computer Science (NVTI), serves on the IEEE Neural Networks Council's technical committee on evolutionary computation since 1995, was a co-program chair of the 1996 and 1997 IEEE International Conferences on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC) and the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP '96), program chair of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications (ICGA '97), and co-chair of the fifth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN V).")
cnt(A4755,"Thomas A. Birkland (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His research focuses on processes of policy change, particularly relating to environmental and natural hazards policy. His book, After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events, was published by Georgetown University Press in 1997. He is co-director of the University's graduate program in Biodiversity and Conservation policy.")
cnt(A4754,"Born and educated in Poland, Teresa Kwiatkowska completed her Ph.D. at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1982, she has been working in the Department of Philosophy in the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico City. Dr. Kwiatkowska's primary interests are environmental ethics, esthetics, and ethical problems of genetic and environmental engineering. She was co-editor (with Jorge Issa) of the first textbook on environmental ethics published in Spanish in Mexico, under the title Los caminos de la etica ambiental (Plaza y Valdes, 1998) and is currently editing the second volume of the textbook. She was co-editor (with Ricardo Lopez Wilchis) of the book La ingenieria genetica y ambiental: problemas filsoficos y sociales de la biotecnologa (Genetic and environmental engineering: philosophical and social issues; Plaza y Valdes, 2000); co-editor (with Manuel Medina) of the collection published in Spain Ciencia,tecnologia/naturaleza, cultura en el siglo XXI (Barcelona: Anthropos, UAM, 2000); author (with Jorge Issa and Francisco Pinon) of Mundo antiguo y Natualeza (Plaza y Valdes, 2001); and author of 19 chapters and various articles published in Mexico, Argentina, U.S., and Poland. She is also a co-editor of Dialogue and Universalism, published by Warsaw University. Dr. Kwiatkowska teaches bioethics and environmental ethics and is currently preparing a collection on the concept of nature that will be published in book form in Mexico.")
cnt(A4753,"Teo Yee Lan is a Senior Policy Officer in the Land Transport Authority of Singapore. She joined the Land Transport Authority in January 1998 after graduating with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honors) degree from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She was a Project Engineer with the Projects and Engineering Division, before she joined the Policy Department. Her portfolio includes reviewing the public transportation industry framework and development.")
cnt(A4752,"Teng Teng is a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, director of the Sustainable Development Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a professor at Tsinghua University. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1951. Teng Teng studied at the Institute of Technology, Leningrad, from 1957 to 1959 and since then has held the following positions: professor, dean of graduate school, and vice-president of Tsinghua University; vice-minister of the State Science and Technology Commission of China; vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; president of the University of Science and Technology of China; vice-minister of the State Education Commission; and vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has written more than one hundred papers and books in such fields as nuclear energy and the fuel cycle, radioactive waste reprocessing, solution theory and thermodynamics, clean coal combustion, technical-economic systems analysis, the environment, and sustainable development. He served as a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO from 1989 to 1993 and as vice-chairman from 1991 to 1993. Since 1993, he has been vice-president of the Association of Asian Social Sciences Research Councils.")
cnt(A4751,"Te Chen is a retired professor in philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen had been the chairman of the Department of Philosophy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Dean of Students at Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before retiring in 1999. He is now a senior college tutor of Chung Chi College. His area of expertise is ethics, including both Chinese and Western ethical theories. He also has interests in existentialism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. His teaching expertise includes ethics, existentialism, the ethical theories of Kant, Confucianism, philosophy, and the history of Chinese philosophy. As well as teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, he has supervised master's and Ph.D. students. After graduating from Chu Hai College, Hong Kong, in 1954, Professor Te Chen's M.Phil. was conferred by the New Asia Research Institute, Hong Kong, in 1968 and his Ph.D. by the Southern Illinois University, USA, in 1969. Professor Te Chen has written several articles on ethics, comparative philosophy, and neo-Confucianism, and a book on ethical theories that was published in 1994 and has been popular reading in this field.")
cnt(A4750,"Dr. Tatemasa Hirata is professor of Department of Environmental Systems, Wakayama University. He received master and doctor degrees from Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University. Originally he was Civil Engineer. After he joined the National Institute for Environmental Studies which belongs to Ministry of Environment of Japan, he started the career of environmental scientist, specializing water control management. Especially he worked as project manager for soil and groundwater pollution surveys and development and evaluation of remediation technologies. He moved to Wakayama University in 1995 to establish new Faculty of Systems Engineering, and has worked as a member of National Committee of Environmental Standards.")
cnt(A4749,"Tara L. Tchir (MSc) is Planning Ecologist with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, Ontario, Canada. She is an expert on forest fragmentation and ecological effects of land use.")
cnt(A4748,"Tams Balogh is a civil engineer and economist of the Budapest Technical University. His work focuses on technological development. He was member employee of the National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB); after a merger, it became the R&D division of the Ministry of Education. He works on innovation policy, technology audit, R&D evaluation, regional development, and international co-operation. Since 2000, he is head of the R&D strategy department and invited lecturer at three Hungarian universities. His engineering activities have focused on applied civil engineering (structural designer at an engineering company) and he has experience in research and higher education in civil engineering at the Hungarian institute for building science, at the Budapest Technical University, at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, USA, and at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is member of the Hungarian engineering chamber, of the architectural science committee at the Hungarian academy of sciences and of the Hungarian association of economists. Dr. Balogh has published over 50 papers in civil engineering and over 30 papers in science and technology policy in periodicals, conference proceedings and three books.")
cnt(A4747,"Tamra Pearson d'Estrée is Associate Professor in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and in Psychology from the University of Colorado, and an A.M. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of conflict resolution and social psychology. This has included work on social identity, intergroup relations, and conflict resolution processes, as well as on evaluation research. Her writings include chapters in Crocker & Hampson's Managing Global Chaos, Gaerling et al.'s Diplomacy and Psychology: Prevention of Armed Conflicts After the Cold War, and Ross & Rothman's Evaluating Success in Ethnic Conflict Interventions, and articles in various interdisciplinary journals. She and resource economist Bonnie G. Colby have recently completed a book on evaluating environmental conflict resolution entitled Braving the Currents: Lessons in Environmental Conflict Resolution from the River Basins of the American West. She also has facilitated interactive problem-solving workshops in various intercommunal contexts, including Israel-Palestine, Ethiopia, and in US intertribal disputes; she has led conflict resolution trainings in Europe, the Middle East, Georgia, and Ukraine; and she has worked to establish formal partnership relationships between her Institute and several universities in conflict-ridden areas.")
cnt(A4746,"T. Murayama obtained his B.Sc. in 1984 from Waseda University, an M.A. in 1986 and Dr. of Eng. in 1989 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After this he was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a research associate of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He achieved his position as an associate professor of Fukushima University in 1994, and transferred to Waseda University in 2000. In 1994, he was honored with the Treatise Prize of the Society of Environmental Sciences of Japan. He is also affiliated as a visiting professor of the University of the Air, and a member of committees held under the auspices of national and local governments. These include the Technical Committee of PRTR (Japan Environment Agency), the Research Committee on Chemical Risk Communication (Japan Environment Agency and Ministry of International Trade and Industry). Since 1998, he has been on the editorial advisory board of an international journal, 'RISK: Health, Safety and Environment'.")
cnt(A4745,"T. Govindaraj, received his Ph.D. (1979) in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Science (1977) degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. He also has a bachelor's degree (1971) and a master's degree (1973) in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. During the spring and summer of 1974, he was a graduate student at the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University. Since July 1982, he has been on the faculty of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia institute of Technology. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. His primary interests are in understanding and characterizing the role of humans in technologically complex environments, with scope ranging from well-defined engineered systems to globally distributed systems in which cultural, environmental, political, and social factors are significant.")
cnt(A4744,"Sylvie Faucheux is currently Professor in Economic Science at the University of Versailles-St Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) in Paris, France, and Director of the research institute C3ED (Centre d´Economie et d´Ethique pour l´Environnement et le Développement) based at the UVSQ. Since 1992, in addition to teaching, research supervision and other duties as a university professor, Faucheux has been responsible for the leadership and management of contract research at C3ED in the fields of sustainability, ecological economics, environmental policy and scenarios. She has published a large number of scientific papers in French and English, and is associated with several collective publishing ventures. These include: the role of coeditor for the International Journal of Sustainable Development which was established in 1998 and publishes a lot of ecological economics contributions; cooperation in the establishment of the International Library of Ecological Economics (a new monograph series published by Edward Elgar); and a new series in ecological economics based in Switzerland, to be published in French with translation agreements for English and German. Recently, she has especially concentrated on problems of governance, risks and technological change, and systems of "vigilance-foresight," with stakeholder-based approaches to the analysis of transitions towards sustainability in European countries. She has worked with several Ministries of the French state, with firms and with the European Commission on these topics, including recently climate policy, nuclear reactor waste management, and futures studies for technological innovation and the environment. As a member of the ISEE Board, Sylvie Faucheux brings a long experience in leadership, organization and resource management for ecological economics activities on an international and multilanguage level. In 1994, she led the organization of a major international conference in Paris on models for sustainable development (participation of 400), and in 1996 she played a central role in organizing the inaugural conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), the European branch of ISEE. She was elected the ESEE´s first President in 1996, until stepping down from this position at the end of 1999. Under her leadership, the C3ED research institute has acted as host for the ESEE Secretariat since 1996, and has provided the support needed to establish a regular ESEE Newsletter, to maintain the membership list, and other activities. Sylvie Faucheux has also led initiatives to establish partnerships with universities, ministries and industry in the Middle East and parts of Africa (especially French-speaking North and West Africa), in this way broadening the base of ecological economics networking. She is a member of the European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development as well as reporter of the Climate Change Working Group of the former forum.")
cnt(A4743,"Suzanne Marie Leland is currently an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at University of North Carolina Charlotte. She teaches in the areas of administrative behavior, urban politics, and state and local politics. Leland received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Kansas in August of 1999.")
cnt(A4742,"Dr. Susantha Goonatilake was trained in Sri Lanka, Germany, and Britain and has taught or researched in several universities and research institutes in Asia, Europe, and America. Among his books are Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Civilizational Misadventure (2001); Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge (1998); Merged Evolution: the Long Term Implications of Information Technology and Biotechnology (1998); Technological Independence: The Asian Experience (1993); Evolution of Information: Lineages in Genes, Culture and Artefact (1992); Aborted Discovery: Science and Creativity in the Third World (1984); Crippled Minds: An Exploration into Colonial Culture (1982); and Food as a Human Right (1982).")
cnt(A4741,"Professor Susan Walker has degrees in geography and engineering. Formerly a senior manager with the Environment Agency in England, she is in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. Her research interests include river basin management, water resources, and environmental conservation. She holds a number of public service appointments related to these areas.")
cnt(A4740,"Susan Parnell is an Associate Professor in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is a South African urban specialist who has published extensively on both historical and contemporary urban transformation. Her work focuses specifically on issues of race and gender, and more recently she has worked on poverty reduction and local government. She also writes on urban planning issues in Africa. Her academic appointments include positions at UCT, the University of London (SOAS), and the University of the Witwatersrand. In addition she has held Research Fellowships from the British Academy, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in France, the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics. Professor Parnell has an active involvement in the urban NGO sector and serves on the Board of the Isandla Institute and the Gender Advocacy Program.")
cnt(A4739,"Susan E. Cozzens is Chair and Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of its Technology Policy and Assessment Center. She has been a policy analyst for two decades, including a term at the National Science Foundation as Director of the Office of Policy Support. She has also served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and many other US, European, Latin American, and Asian funding and policy agencies. Her co-edited books include Theories of Science and Society and The Research System in Transition.")
cnt(A4738,"Prof. Sueli Ramos Schiffer, whose career has focused on urban and regional development, has been working at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP), as a researcher and teacher for 25 years. Appointed Titular Professor in 1997 and Head of the Department of Technology (one of the three departments of FAUUSP) from 1998 to 2002, Prof. Schiffer was leading over 35 professors who were involved in graduate and post-graduate teaching and research in this field. Prof. Schiffer obtained her Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urban Planning (1975) from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (FAUUSP), as well as her following degrees. For her Master's degree (1983), she developed a thesis focusing on urban development and politics, with a case study of the city of Petrolina. The phD (1989) and Associate Professor's degrees (1992) were both achieved through dissertations that focused on the regional development of the State of São Paulo, with an integrated socio-economic and geographical approach. After nine years of teaching environmental construction, while simultaneously carrying out research focusing on urban and regional development, Prof. Schiffer began teaching urban and regional planning methodologies. Since 1986, she has been engaged in academic research and governmental consulting work for national and international agencies and universities, in which the economic, historical and physical aspects of urban form and development were studied within an integrated approach. In the second semester of 2001, Prof. Schiffer has taken a sabbatical term to carry out research at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome, within the Heritage Settlements Programme, looking into the links between culture heritage investment and poverty alleviation. During her stay at ICCROM Prof. Schiffer also developed a research project focusing on recent trends within the São Paulo economy which is demanding new urban and management approaches, where heritage conservation may have a priority role in fostering social cohesion and minimizing increasing local poverty and crime rates.")
cnt(A4737,"Sue P. Stafford is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. She specializes in epistemology, ethics and technology, and philosophy of mind. In addition to over 20 years of teaching experience, Dr. Stafford has worked as a consultant for over 15 years in the areas of artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management, first at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then at Coopers & Lybrand in Boston; she currently consults independently. Her clients have included major financial and manufacturing institutions as well as government agencies such as NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency. Projects have included knowledge engineering work for a weather forecasting expert system for NASA, a pollution forecasting expert system for Mexico City, and a watershed management system for Massachusetts, as well as numerous seminars on knowledge elicitation, analysis, and modeling. Dr. Stafford publishes widely in the areas of epistemology, ethics and technology. Recent articles include: "Capitalizing on Careabouts to Facilitate Creativity", which appeared in the journal Creativity and Innovation Management (1998). Dr. Stafford holds a B.A. in philosophy from Wheaton College, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.")
cnt(A4736,"Steven R. Corman, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He serves on the editorial board of Human Communication Research. His publications on communication networks, interaction processes, and computer models of communication have appeared in a number of professional journals. He is an editor of Perspectives on Organizational Communication Finding Common Ground, published by Guilford publications in 2000.")
cnt(A4735,"Steven E. Aufrecht, Professor of Public Administration; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1978; MPA, University of Southern California, 1973; A.B., University of California at Los Angeles, 1967. Dr. Aufrecht has taught public administration courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage since 1977 and is currently the chair of the Department of Public Administration. He has also served as coordinator for a University of Alaska Anchorage/University of Southern California Joint Doctoral Seminar. Dr. Aufrecht has published articles in the Journal of Public Administration Education and the Public Administration Review, as well as other professional journals. He currently teaches Public Administration in Contemporary Society, Human Resources Administration, Seminar in Public Management, and Public Accountability, Law and the Administrative Process. In addition, he jointly supervises the Internship program for MPA candidates.")
cnt(A4734,"Steve Onyeiwu received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Connecticut, USA. He is currently an assistant professor of economics at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Wesleyan University, Trinity College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. His research interests include economics of innovation and technological change, as well as economic development.")
cnt(A4733,"Stephen Siu Yu Lau is Director, Center for Architecture & Urban Design for China and Hong Kong at the University of Hong Kong, China. Professor Lau's research and teaching interests are focused in a number of areas. The first area is sustainable urban design, which focuses on sustainable development policy and strategy at a city level. A second area is a study of the environmental design of both high-density urban development and sustainable building. A third focus is research on the socio-cultural attributes for urban form. He is conducting field research in a number of Asian cities. He is a coordinator of the CIB task group 43 on Mega-cities Research. Professor Lau is an urban dweller; he has lived and worked in London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.")
cnt(A4732,"Stephen Schecter did my undergraduate studies at McGill University, graduating in 1967 with a B.A. Honours in sociology and political science. I then went on to get my doctoral degree from the London School of Economics in political sociology in 1972. Since 1975 I have taught sociology at the Universit du Qubec Montral where I am now a full professor. I have written books on the city, on AIDS, and on Canadas constitutional imbroglio, but my main focus now is sociological theory. The theory I currently use is quite different from the one that inspired my previous books. I now am a partisan of Niklas Luhmanns systems theory and apply it to the analysis of different aspects of contemporary social life. In a nutshell, this approach holds that modern society can best be understood as a functionally differentiated, highly pluralist and complex society, which makes it at once rich, flexible, adaptive and highly problematic, not to mention conflict-ridden. Since social life is highly paradoxical, it elicits from the sociological observer and the citizen a wry, ironic and comic outlook on life.")
cnt(A4731,"Stephen P. Neun is a Professor of Economics who joined the faculty at Utica College in 1982. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Connecticut and has published numerous articles on executive compensation and corporate control in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Business, Economics and Managerial and Decision Economics and The Review of Economics and Statistics. Most recently he has been working in the area of health care and recently co-authored a textbook entitled Health Economics. At the present time he is the Dean for Social Sciences and Management at Utica College.")
cnt(A4730,"Stephen P. Mumme is professor of political science at Colorado State University where he specializes in comparative environmental politics. He is the author of 'NAFTA and the Environment,' appearing in Foreign Policy in Focus (November 1999) and editor of the La Paz Symposium on Transboundary Groundwater Management on the USA-Mexico border, appearing in the Natural Resources Journal (Fall 2000).")
cnt(A4729,"Professor Stephen K. Scott is Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds. He leads a research group investigating nonlinear kinetics in chemical reactions, with recent emphasis on controlling chaos in combustion reactions and pattern formation in solution-phase reactions. His research extends from experiment to theory and involves collaboration across Europe and the USA. He gained his PhD in 1982 from Leeds and spent periods at universities in Australia and the USA before returning to Leeds. From 1997 to 1999 he was Scientific Editor of the journal Faraday Transactions, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was awarded the Harrison Memorial Prize and the Marlow Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry.")
cnt(A4728,"Stephen J. Guastello is Professor of Psychology at Marquette University. He is widely published in the fields of complexity, psychology and organizations. He is the author of Chaos, catastrophe, and human affairs: Applications of nonlinear dynamics to work, (1995, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and the forthcoming Managing Emergent Phenomena: Nonlinear dynamics in work organizations. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). Dr. Guastello is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. He has served as a consultant to numerous organizations providing expertise in the areas of personnel selection and retention, occupational accident analysis and prevention, and management development.")
cnt(A4727,"Stephen Dovers (BApplSc; LittB; Ph.D.) is a senior fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, where he is engaged in research and postgraduate training in policy and institutional dimensions of sustainability, science-policy linkages, decision making in the face of uncertainty, and environmental history.")
cnt(A4726,"Stephen D. Hill is a post-doctoral fellow with the NSERC/SSHRC Chair Program in Risk Communication and Public Policy in the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business. He holds a PhD in environmental science from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Environmental Design. Dr. Hill is a professional engineer and has degrees in chemical engineering and biology from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His research interests include climate change policy and management, sustainable development, and corporate environmental management. He has taught courses in sustainable development and environmental management at the University of Calgary.")
cnt(A4725,"Dr Stephen B Kendie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Geography from the University of Ghana and a Master of Science degree in Regional Planning from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He has a doctoral degree in urban and environmental studies from the Rensselaer University, Troy, New York State, USA.")
cnt(A4724,"Stepan Wood is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches environmental, international and property law and coordinates the Bachelor of Laws/Master in Environmental Studies joint degree program. His publications deal with international fisheries management, voluntary corporate environmental initiatives, environmental management system (EMS) standards, endangered species protection, international law and international relations theory, and other environmental and international issues.")
cnt(A4723,"Stefaan Smis is a member of the Department of International Law of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the international law of self-determination. His main areas of research are human rights protection, border issues, and regionalization in Africa. He has contributed chapters in books and published in various international journals.")
cnt(A4722,"Sree N. Sreenath received his Bachelor's Degree from Bangalore University, India, in 1980, his Master's in Engineering Degree (M.E.) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1982, and a Ph.D. from University of Maryland, College Park, MD, in 1987. Currently he is a faculty member at the Systems Engineering Department of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, Ohio, where he has been employed since 1988, first as an Assistant Professor, and from 1994 onward as an Associate Professor. For the past seven years he has been interested in the broad topic of global issues. His area of specialty is in the application of systems science techniques to the problem of understanding the interaction of economic policies and the environment. In addition to many research papers, he has published a book Systems Representation of Global Climate Change Models, by Springer-Verlag, Berlin/New York/Tokyo, 1993. His present work has focused on the design of regional and international economic policies, and the impact of development in regions with shared water resources over long time horizons of years to decades. The case study of the Nile River Basin has been one such. He is a member of the Scenario Panel advising the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century. He is a Co-Director of the Global-Problematique Education Network Initiative (GENIe) program sponsored by United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He has held many honors: Center for Professional Ethics Fellowship, Lilly Teaching Fellow, NASA-OAI Summer Faculty Fellowship; the NASA-USRA Fellowship, Systems Research Center Fellow, National Merit Scholarship, founding chairman of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Cleveland Chapter, and, member of Tau Beta Pi Honor Society. He has been recognized by Case Western Reserve University with an Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award for 19951996. He has lectured in more than a dozen countries.")
cnt(A4721,"Dr. Sotirios G. Ziavras received in 1984 the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece. He received in 1985 the M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA. He was awarded in 1990 the Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA, where he was a Distinguished Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Graduate Research Assistant. From 1988 to 1989, he was also with the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, in Spring 1990. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA. His major research interests are processor and computer systems designs, and parallel computing systems and algorithms.")
cnt(A4720,"Sophie Oldfield was trained as a geographer at Syracuse University and at the University of Minnesota in the United States. Since 1997, Sophie has lectured in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department at the University of Cape Town, teaching development and political geography. Her research has been based primarily in South Africa. Her research focuses on the reconstruction of local government and issues of community and state reconstruction in this process. She has published on developmental local government, the South African state in transition and on issues of urban and community development.")
cnt(A4719,"Dr. Sompong Sucharitkul is currently Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of International and Comparative Law at Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, USA. He also directs the Golden Gate Center for Advanced International Legal Studies and the LL.M. and S.J.D. International Programs. He holds B.A. (Hons. Jur.), M.A., B.C.L., Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil.) and Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) from Oxford; Docteur en Droit (D.E.S.D.I.Pub.) from Paris; and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard. He also has a Diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law and is Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, United Kingdom. For 15 years, Dr. Sucharitkul served as Ambassador of Thailand to BENELUX, Japan and four other European countries as well as the European Economic Community and UNESCO. For nearly three decades, he has frequently been Representative of Thailand to the United Nations General Assembly, and served as Chairman of the Delegation to the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. He served 10 years as a Member of the International Law Commission, 9 years as Special Rapporteur of the Commission and sometimes as its First Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Drafting Committee. Ambassador Sucharitkul has been a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (Thai National Group) and is currently a Member of the Commercial Arbitration Centre at Cairo, of the Regional Arbitration Centre at Kuala Lumpur, and Member of the Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators of ICSID (International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes), World Bank, Washington D.C. He is a Member of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Mediation and Arbitration Center, Geneva, and a Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), Geneva. He is also serving as Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), Geneva. He is an elected Member of the Institute of International Law (Geneva) and a Corresponding Collaborator of UNIDROIT (Rome); he is currently serving as President of the ASEAN Investment Dispute Tribunal. As a teacher of international law, apart from at universities in Thailand, Dr. Sucharitkul has served as Fulbright Professor of International Law and World Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, as Visiting Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, as Robert Short Professor of International Law and International Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School, USA, as Visiting Professor of International Law and Business at Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law, USA. and as Cleveringa Professor of International Law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Dr. Sucharitkul has conducted research and published extensively in international law and world affairs. His publications include eight U.N. reports for the International Law Commission. His works are mainly in English, French and Thai.")
cnt(A4718,"Dr. Sohail Inayatullah is Professor, Center for Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia. In 1999, he held the UNESCO Chair, the University of Trier, Germany, and the Tamkang Chair, Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is also a fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Futures Studies (www.ed.tku.edu.tw/develop/JFS) and associate editor of New Renaissance (www.ru.org). He is on the editorial board of Development, Futures and Foresight. Among his authored/edited books are: Macrohistory and Macrohistorians; Situating Sarkar; Understanding Sarkar; Transcending Boundaries; and Transforming Communication. His CD-ROMs include: Futures Studies: Methods, Issues and Civilizational Visions and The Views of Futurists - Volume 4 of The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies. Forthcoming are: Youth Futures (Greenwood, 2002); Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures (Pluto, 2002) and The Rights of Robots (Praeger, 2003). He is the author of over 250 journal articles, book chapters, and magazine pieces. Website - www.metafuture.org.")
cnt(A4717,"Snorre Kverndokk was born in 1962 in Trondheim, Norway. He graduated in economics (Cand. Oecon) from the University of Oslo in 1988 and got his Ph.D (Dr. Polit) from the same university in 1994. The title of the thesis was Essays on Cost-effectiveness, Efficiency and Justice in International CO2 Agreements. He has published papers in profiled journals such as Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Resource and Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Environmental Values, and Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. In 1993 he received the IAEE Award for "Energy Journal Best Paper". Kverndokk is currently a Research Economist at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, and has held previous positions at Statistics Norway and Department of Economics, University of Oslo, in addition to sabbatical visits to University College London and University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Lead author in the third assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III. In addition to environmental and resource economics, his research interests also include welfare economics and health economics.")
cnt(A4716,"Simone Buechler is an assistant professor/faculty fellow in the Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University. Her research interests include: globalization and cities, labor market restructuring, women and economic restructuring, Brazil, social movements, squatter settlements, and urban planning. She has conducted extensive research on low-income women and urban labor market restructuring in São Paulo, Brazil. She received a Ph.D. in May 2002 from the Urban Planning Department at Columbia University, a Master's degree in Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a B.A. from Brown University. She was a consultant for the National Academy of Sciences on the informal sector in São Paulo. Her publications include the articles, "Sweating it in the Brazilian Garment Industry: Bolivian Workers and Global Economic Forces in São Paulo" in Latin American Perspectives, forthcoming in 2004; "Daring to Dream: Social Actors Fighting for Labor Rights" in New Approaches to Social Reform in Brazil. Bildner Center, CUNY, forthcoming; "The Degradation of Work in the Global Economy: Low Income Women and the Precarious Labor Market in São Paulo, Brazil" in Saskia Sassen and Peter Marcotullio (eds). Global Sustainable Development, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO, forthcoming; "The Growth of the Informal Sector in São Paulo, Brazil" in Selected Papers of the Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, forthcoming on website in 2003, National Academy of Science; and "Financing Small-scale Enterprises in Bolivia" co-authored with Hans, Judith-Maria, and Stephanie Buechler in The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America edited by Lynn Phillips, Jaguar Books on Latin America No. 16. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc. 1998. Before returning to get her Ph.D. she worked at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).")
cnt(A4715,"Simon Zadek is chair of the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility and visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He works with businesses, NGOs, and governments as advisor, external reviewer and trainer; and at the governance level of the Global Reporting Initiative, the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, and the Copenhagen Centre. His publications include Building Corporate AccountAbility (with Peter Pruzan and Richard Evans), Partnership Alchemy (with Jane Nelson), Ethical Trade Futures, and Unlocking Potential: the Business Case for Employing Disabled People (with Susan Scott-Parker). He is currently completing a book entitled The Civil Corporation. Simon can be contacted at zadek@csi.com and further information on his activities and publications can be found at www.zadek.net.")
cnt(A4714,"Simon Lightfoot is a lecturer in European Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. His research interests include social democratic parties, transnational political parties, and EU Environmental Policy. He has published in Environmental Politics, Contemporary Politics and German Politics. He is co-author of 'The Greening of the EU' (Sheffield Academic Press) with Jon Burchell.")
cnt(A4713,"Simon Dalby: Educated in Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Victoria and with a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, Professor Simon Dalby joined Carleton University in Ottawa in 1993. Author of the 1990 book Creating The Second Cold War (London, Pinter and New York, Guilford) his ongoing research interests are in critical geopolitics and environmental security. He co-edited The Geopolitics Reader and Rethinking Geopolitics, both published by Routledge in 1998. His latest book, Environmental Security, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2002.")
cnt(A4712,"Silvia Austerlic was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1965. She studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires, where she was a teacher of art history from 1990 to 1997. In 1997 she helped to set up a Virtual University of Latin America (http://www.ldc.lu.se/latinam/uvla/ uvla1.htm). Since 1995 she has been working on an info-design conceptual framework to counteract the cultural impacts caused by changes in the use of information and communication technologies. Her design interest is to develop new ways of thinking, sharing, and using the collaborative potential of the Internet to empower the voice of new actors in ways that both protect human nature and transform cultural identities. She currently lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she studies web design and digital media.")
cnt(A4711,"Siamak Namazi is the Managing Director of Atieh Bahar Consulting (www.atiehbahar.com) in which capacity he advises a number of major international oil companies in Iran, among others. Mr. Namazi is the editor of Iran Energy Focus (published by UK-based Menas Associates) and a frequent contributor to a variety of publications that deal with Iran and the Caspian area. He has contributed to several books and served a stint as a Visiting Scholar to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He also previously worked with leading intelligence firms in Washington, DC. Mr. Namazi holds a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and an MS in Urban Planning from Rutgers University.")
cnt(A4710,"Shuntaro Shishido is Vice-President and Director General, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA). He is also Emeritus Professor of the University of Tsukuba, Emeritus Professor of International University of Japan, Vice-Chairman Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Study, and Chairman, Council of National Accounts, Economic Planning Agency. During the period from 1987 to 1995, he served as President, International University of Japan (IUJ). He served as Professor and Vice President of the University of Tsukuba for the period from 1974 to 1987, and was Special Advisor to the Minister, Economic Planning Agency, and the Japanese government during 19731974. He has held membership in the following academic societies: International Econometric Association, International Association of Income and Wealth, Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Study, International Association of Input-Output Analysis, Japan Economic Association, Japan Statistical Association, Japan Association of Planning and Administration, Japan Association of Economic Policy, Japan Association of Regional Science, and so on.")
cnt(A4709,"Shulin Gu was trained as a natural scientist in Chemical Physics. From the late 1960s to the 1970s, she worked in several distinguished Chinese institutes. In the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, she was Assistant to the Director and worked in the field of chemical dynamics; and in the Central Research Institute of the Beijing Petrochemical Corporation she took a leading role in several areas of petro-chemical catalyst processes. Since the 1980s Shulin Gu has been engaged in science, technology and innovation policy studies. She worked in the Institute of Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the 1980s, and took the leadership of the Science and Technology Policy Department. From 1992 to 2000 she was Senior Research Fellow at UNU/INTECH, Maastricht, where she completed several INTECH projects in science and technology policy and transformation of the innovation system in China, and contributed to the research on national innovation systems in developing countries. Her work is now based on China, and she is Visiting Professor of TsingHua University and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of UNU/INTECH. Shulin Gu is a member of the Advisory Board of several academic journals. She is also involved in activities organized by UNDP and UNU. Of her wide publications in both Chinese and English, the book Chinas Industrial Technology, Market Reform and Organizational Change (Routledge 1999) is highly appraised in book reviews (China Quarterly, 1999 December, Research Policy 2001 August) as an important work on S&T policy and the reform of the S&T system in China. Her research interest is in technological innovation and innovation policy in developing countries, and clustering and regional development strategies.")
cnt(A4708,"Show-ling Wen is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Director of Intelligent Building Simulation laboratory at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Wen has done a great deal of research on the development of intelligent buildings (IB) in the subtropical island environment such as the major cities in Taiwan. The research results have indicated that the facilities used for the indoors climate control of IB are technically sophisticated and mostly imported from the developed countries located in the cooler and less humid environment. Many hardware and software problems have occurred and been identified in Dr. Wen's research. The facilities management systems to deal with the problems encountered in the IB of the subtropical islands are currently under developing at Dr. Wen's Laboratory.")
cnt(A4707,"Shima Barakat is currently researching the effects of environmental legalization and other environmental pressures on corporate strategy at the University of Strathclyde as part of her PhD. She has an MBA and a Certificate in Environmental Studies. She also teaches, on the MBA program, and undergraduates in both the engineering and business faculties of the University of Strathclyde.")
cnt(A4706,"Shigeo Takahashi is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his B.A. in geography at Tokyo University of Education, 1977, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in geography at the University of Kansas, USA, in 1982, and 1988 respectively. His research interests are urban and economic geography, and geography of Japan and USA. Selected publications include "A new approach to disaster mitigation and planning in mega-cities" (in Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies, UNU Press, 1999, co-authored) and "Social geography and disaster vulnerability in Tokyo" (in Applied Geography, 1998), as well as other articles and books on urban and economic geography such as office location and retail geography.")
cnt(A4705,"Sherilyn MacGregor holds a Ph.D in environmental studies from York University, Toronto, Canada and is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University, UK. She does research in the areas of ecofeminist theory and green politics and has been an editor of Women and Environments International.")
cnt(A4704,"Shengkui Cheng, Deputy Director and Professor of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from the Department of Agronomy at North-west Agricultural University in 1982 and 1985, gaining, respectively, his Bachelor and Master degrees. In 1990 he gained his Ph.D. degree at China Agricultural University. For a long period he has been engaging in the research on cropping system, macro-agricultural development, resources ecology, and integrated planning of agricultural development in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau areas, and developmental ecology and regional sustainable development. At present he is in charge of some key projects, including regional sustainable development and the national resources report, amongst others.")
cnt(A4703,"Shem Oyoo Wandiga has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Case Western Reserve University, US. A professor of Chemistry in the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Professor Wandiga was also Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration and Finance) of the University. He was subsequently appointed as the Coordinator of the Policy and Planning Task Group of the Ministry of Education (1991), elected as Kenya's Representative to the Executive Board of UNESCO (1995), President of the Program and External Relations Commission of Executive Board (1997), and as a member of the General Committee and Advisory Committee on Environment of the International Council of Science. Currently Chairman of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences, Professor Wandiga is the author of a large number of publications in scientific and educational fields. He has also chaired several national committees on university education and been a consultant on World Bank, UNESCO and United Nations Environment Programme projects undertaken in Kenya and East Africa.")
cnt(A4702,"Dr. Shandre Thangavelu is an active researcher on technology transfer, government infrastructure investment, productivity and economic growth in the region. He has written extensively on productivity and economic growth, and has published his research in major international journals. He has also worked on several projects, which include the transfer of technology through FDI, the impact of government infrastructure on manufacturing productive performance, and industrial sector productivity growth in Singapore and the region. Dr. Shandre M. Thangavelu can be contacted at the National University of Singapore, Department of Economics, Singapore.")
cnt(A4701,"Sergey V. Dubovsky is Assistant Professor, candidate of physicist-mathematical sciences, head of laboratory of Institute of the Systems Analysis, RAS, Moscow, Russia. Graduated Moscow Physicist-technical Institute and graduate school CAGI. With 1968 year concerns with mathematical modeling social-economic systems. Reads economic and mathematical lectures in the Moscow Physicist-technical Institute and Russia University of the Friendship of Folk. Co-author of three known monographs: "Mechanics of the space flight" (in Russian, ?. Science, 1975), "The Future of the World Economy" (N.Y., Berlin, 1989), "New paradigm of the development of Russia" (in Russian, ?. Academia, 1999). Leader and performer 2 domestic and 3 international global projects. Author mathematical models of the scientific-technical progress, of cycle Kondratiev, of non-equilibrium economic growth, of non-stationary inflation, of exchange rate and foreign trade, of Russia social cataclysms, of variational principle economy. Author more than 80 scientific publications. Laureate bonus of Russia Fund of Fundamental Studies for 1998.")
cnt(A4700,"Serge Latouche is from Paris, France and began his university career teaching economics, first in Zaire and subsequently in Laos during the 1960s. Subsequently he joined the faculty of the University of Science and Technology at Lille in northern France, where he continued to work on the critique of economic development theory and practice. Since 1991 he has been Professor of Economics at the Université de Paris-Sud. He lives in Paris and travels widely in Africa and Europe, where he has contributed significantly to international networks of critical reflection about the ideological underpinnings and ethnocentrism of "development" as a Western cultural program. Recent works including L'Occidentalisation du Monde (1989, English translation as The Westernisation of the World, also translated in several other languages), La Planète des Naufragés (1991, English translation as In the Wake of the Grand Society) and L'Autre Afrique (1998) focus particularly on the phenomenon of the "informal economy" in African societies and the lessons that might be drawn for hopes of humane societies outside of or "after" Western modernity.")
cnt(A4699,"Satoko Mori is associate professor of international relations at Meisei University, Japan. She received her MA degree from Carleton University, Canada, and her doctorate from Niigata University, Japan. She is the author of NGOs and Global Environmental Governance (1999) in the Japanese version.")
cnt(A4698,"Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her most recent books are Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press 1999) and Globalization and its Discontents (New York: New Press 1998). The Global City is coming out in a new updated edition in 2001. Her edited book Cities and Their Cross-border Networks will appear in 2001 with Routledge. Her books have been translated into ten languages. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project and is the chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC. She is currently completing a five-year research project "Governance and Accountability in the Global Economy."")
cnt(A4697,"Sarita Albagli, Brazilian, Sociologist and Doctor in Geography. Senior researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (IBICT) of Ministry of Science and Technology. Associated researcher of the Research Network on Innovative and Productive Local Systems, Institute of Economy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Teaches at the Post-Graduation Programme in Information Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Has been working on environment, science and technology policy issues. Among other publications, the author of Geopolitcs of Biodiversity (1998). Brasília, IBAMA.")
cnt(A4696,"Sanjeev Gupta is Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before joining the IMF, he was Secretary of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He has also been Lecturer at Panjab University, Fellow at the Kiel Institute of World Economics and Professor at the Administrative Staff College of India. His recent books include "Economic Policy and Equity" (1999, IMF), edited with Vito Tanzi and Ke-young Chu, and "Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance" (2002, IMF), edited with George Abed. In addition, he has authored or co-authored over 60 papers on fiscal, international finance, and economic development issues that have been published in journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Development Economics, Defence and Peace Economics, Energy Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. Mr. Gupta holds B.A. degrees from Delhi and Oxford; M.A. from the University of New Brunswick; and a Ph.D. in economics from the Simon Fraser University.")
cnt(A4695,"Sandra Rothboeck, worked at the International Labor Office (ILO) in New Delhi on the Employment Policy and Labor Market Analysis from 1998 to 2001. She has post-graduate qualifications in social sciences. During the period 1995 to1998, she was teaching and researching on labor market mobility and technical change with a focus on the late development, at the Sociological Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.")
cnt(A4694,"Sanda Kaufman is Professor of Planning and Public Administration at Cleveland State University's (CSU) Levin College of Urban Affairs. She teaches quantitative reasoning, conflict management and strategic planning. She received CSU's Distinguished Teacher Award in 1999. She holds degrees in architecture and planning (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) and public policy analysis (Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management). Her expertise is in negotiations and intervention in public, organizational, and environmental conflicts. She has planned and facilitated public meetings for a consensus-building process ranking Northeast Ohio's environmental risks. She has trained Cleveland Housing Court mediators and has facilitated community meetings. Currently, she is co-facilitating with the Consensus Building Institute an EPA pilot project to reduce the risks from air toxics in two Cleveland neighborhoods. For the past two years she has been part of a multi-university research consortium exploring the role of framing in intractable environmental disputes. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER), the Journal of Architecture Planning and Research, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Negotiation Journal, Fractals, and the International Journal for Conflict Management (IJCM). Sanda Kaufman is a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (on whose board she serves), the Urban Affairs Association, the International Association for People-Environment Studies, and the International Association for Conflict Management (on whose board she served). She is member of the editorial boards of JPER, the Conflict Resolution Quarterly, and IJCM, for which she is book reviews editor.")
cnt(A4693,"Samuel Thirion is an agronomist and doctor in Economics, with 25 years of experience in more than 30 different countries. He is director of the Lisbon-based INDE (Intercooperação e Desenvolvimento) development agency. Since 1995 he has been the thematic coordinator for rural development methodology in the LEADER II European Observatory, contributing to seminars and publications, and he is now also head of the LEADER co-ordinating unit in Portugal.")
cnt(A4692,"Dr. Samia Gamati has been working in the field of environmental biochemical bioengineering since she received her Ph.D. degree in 1988. Following her post-doctoral fellowship at the Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal, National Research Council Canada, she joined the environmental biotechnology department at that Institute. She is adjunct associate professor at Concordia University, Montreal, teaching and supervising student research studies in the Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering department. She also works in the environmental engineering industry as R & D manager at Sodexen Group, Montreal.")
cnt(A4691,"Salvatore Madrau received his degree in agricultural science. He is an Associate Professor of Geopedology, and researcher of the NRD (Nucleo Ricerca Desertificazione - Desertification Research Group) of the University of Sassari (Italy). He is an expert in soil genesis and cartography with particular reference to the soil/landscape relationship. His recent studies are mainly related to land suitability and capability evaluation. Dr. Salvatore is also a member of the Italian National Society of Soil Science, the Italian National Society of Pedology, and the International Union of Soil Science. He is the author of more than 50 publications.")
cnt(A4690,"Sajal Chattopadhyay is a senior service fellow at the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC. His area of specialization is health economics. He has worked on a wide range of topics in this area including economics of nursing home care in Connecticut, determinants of health expenditures in the U.S., and sources of health insurance in the U.S. and their implications for public health programs. He has previously published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Health Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Currently, he is working on the economic issues related to cancer prevention and control in the U.S. Examples of his recent work include the cost effectiveness of new pap screening technologies, direct costs of treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer, and economic barriers to preventive cancer screenings, besides cost and efficiency analyses of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. Prior to joining CDC, the author served as a faculty at the Department of Economics, University of Connecticut.")
cnt(A4689,"Sachiko Ishizaka graduated in biology from University of Tokyo in 1984, and further studied International Relations at Yale University obtaining an MA in 1991. From 1985, she has been working in the Science and Technology Agency of the government of Japan, engaged in policy-making in earth, nuclear and biological sciences; also, involved in establishing new initiatives for international S&T collaboration such as Human Frontier Science Program. Between 1996 and 2000, she was a project Coordinator of the OECD Global Science Forum. Currently she is the Science Program Officer with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, engaged in planning, coordinating and implementation of international scientific programs.")
cnt(A4688,"S. Z. Gu is a professor in the Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, P.R. China. His research interests include agricultural economics, resources economics, and regional development. His positions in research organizations are Deputy Secretary General of the Association of Sustainable Agriculture, China Society of Agronomy, and Deputy Secretary General of the Committee of Sustainable Agriculture, for the China Research Society of Sustainable Development")
cnt(A4687,"S.K. Wong, B.Sc. (Surveying), Ph.D, PFM Dr. S.K. Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Facility Management. His current research interests include property price dynamics, real estate futures, facility management and performance benchmarking. In 2004, he received The University of Hong Kong Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award.")
cnt(A4686,"Rybalsky Nikolay Grigorjevich is a Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor, and academician of Russian Ecological Academy. He is a specialist in the biology of soils, biotechnology, science of theory and practice of patenting and protection of copyright, and ecological safety.He is the author of more than 130 scientific works devoted to different problems of ecology and nature management. He was leader or participant in the development and realization of state scientific technical programs: "Ecology of Russia" (1991-1992), "Conversion to Ecology" (1991-1993), and "Ecological Safety of Russia" (1993-1995). He is the leader of the "Biological Diversity" Section within the framework of State Scientific Technical Program. 1970-1975: student of Moscow State University after M.V. Lomonosov. 1975-1980: post-graduated education in Moscow State University. 1981-1990: senior researcher, leader of Sector for biotechnology and ecology, All-Union Scientific Research Institute of State Patent Expertise, State Committee for Inventions. 1991: head of Major Department of Nature, Ministry of Nature USSR 1992-1994: Deputy Minister of Ecology of Russia 1994-1997: General Director of Russian Ecological Federal Information Service, Ministry of Nature of Russia Since 1997: Director of National Information Agency "Natural Resources", Ministry of Nature Resources, RF. Director of National Selected Center INFOTERRA UNEP Deputy editor-in-chief of magazine "Use and Conservation of Natural Resources of Russia" Member of editorial board "Regional Ecology" magazine Editor-in-chief of newspaper "Natural Resources Gazette".")
cnt(A4685,"Ruth T. Buys is Principle Advisor for Systems and Software Engineering at CMS Information Services, Inc. She supports the DoD/CIO office on software issues related to software best practices, measures and software standards policy within the Department of Defense (DoD). Her accomplishments include preparation of a program managers guide to software development, work on the specification for the DoD software core measures, and implementation of the core software measures pilot project. Prior to joining CMS Information Services, Ms Buys was a Research Associate Professor in the School for Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. There she taught decision support, application design and development, requirements definition, and object-oriented analysis and design methodology. At George Mason, she was a consultant to the federal government and private corporations on requirements analysis, configuration management, quality assurance, and project management, as well as process improvement. She has facilitated group meetings, including working sessions, and policy and planning activities using the automated group decision-support process Group Systems software at the US Army War College. Ms Buys has held technical and management positions at the MITRE Corporation, Booz, Allen and Hamilton, the Association of American Railroads, the Battelle Memorial Institute, and the American Public Health Association. She has taught graduate courses at Marymount and Drexel universities, including requirements analysis and design methods and database management. Her PhD is from Drexel University in Information Science and Technology. In addition she has an MBA from George Washington University and her undergraduate degree is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms Buys is a member of the Beta Phi Mu International Information Science Honor Society and a member of the Measurement Working Group of INCOSE, ASQ, and IEEE. She has authored chapters for technical books, articles for refereed professional journals, and contributed to conference and workshop publications.")
cnt(A4684,"Professor Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz is the director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of General Ecology (IKAOe) at the University of Berne, Switzerland. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Berne (1973), and after a career in Developmental Psychology she has specialized also in Environmental Psychology and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. From 1982 through 1992 she was a clinical and research psychologist at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Berne. She has been a full professor at the University of Berne since 1992. Since 1993 she has been directing interdisciplinary research compounds within the Swiss Priority Program "Environment."")
cnt(A4683,"Ruediger Wink, born 1965, Doctor of Economic Sciences, is research fellow at the Ruhr Research Institute for Innovation and Regional Policy in Bochum, Germany, and the Scientific Advisory Council of Federal German Government to Global Change. His basic research topics refer to regional, labor market and global environmental policy as well as evolutionary institutional economics and interdisciplinary approaches of policy learning. In his habilitation, Dr. Wink connects concepts of intergenerational efficiency in different disciplines-philosophy, economics, and political science-to present a scientific framework for evaluating political strategies in the field of genetic engineering.")
cnt(A4682,"Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubbers (born May 1939 in Rotterdam) attended the Canisius College in Nijmegen and studied Economics at the Netherlands School of Economics (the predecessor of the University of Rotterdam). As suggested by the title of his 1962 thesis, "The influence of differing productivity trends in various countries on the current account of the balance of payments," his main interest was in monetary affairs. He originally planned an academic career, but was compelled by family circumstances to join the management of Lubbers'' Construction Workshops and Machinery Fabricators, Hollandia B.V. In 1964 he became Chairman of the Young Christian Employers Association, later becoming Chairman of the Catholic Association of Metalwork Employers and a member of the board of the Netherlands Christian Employers Federation. From 11 May 1973 to 19 December 1977 he was Minister for Economic Affairs in the Den Uyl-government as a member of the Catholic People''s Party (KVP). He chose to return to Parliament on the formation of the Van Agt-government in 1977, becoming Senior Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal CDA), the Alliance between the KVP and the other two main denominational parties. In the autumn of 1978 he became Parliamentary Leader of the Alliance. From 4 November 1982 to 14 July 1986 and from 14 July 1986 to 7 November 1989 he was Prime Minister of the first and second Lubbers-government CDA-VVD alliances. On the latter date he was reappointed as Prime Minister to lead the third Lubbers-government, a CDA-PvdA alliance. On 22 August 1994 Prime Minister Lubbers finished his political career; since March 2001 Prof. Lubbers has assumed the functions of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.")
cnt(A4681,"Roshan Ouseph graduated from the University of Texas with highest honors in 2000. He is currently a master's candidate at the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, with a specialization in global health. Mr. Ouseph's previous work has included research on the Kerala State health transition and nongovernmental HIV/AIDS initiatives in southern and eastern Africa. He has also conducted substantial research on the United Nations system interaction with the private, for-profit sector, in collaboration with the Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health (Geneva). Mr. Ouseph participated in the drafting of this article while working as an intern at the WHO/Tobacco Free Initiative.")
cnt(A4680,"Rosalind Hursthouse did her undergraduate degree and M.A. in philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and then proceeded to the B.Phil. and D.Phil. at Oxford University, U.K. While writing her doctoral thesis, she tutored for six years at Corpus Christi College, and then moved to the Open University where she remained very happily for the next 25 years. In her time at Oxford, she worked with Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot, who remain powerful influences in her work to this day. Led and inspired by them, she became interested in virtue ethics early in her career, and a series of articles in that area culminated in On Virtue Ethics (Oxford University Press, 1999). She has recently returned to her roots and a chair at the University of Auckland, where she is head of the Philosophy Department.")
cnt(A4679,"Ronald Rousseau is professor at the KHBO, Department of Industrial Sciences and Technology, and guest professor at the Antwerp University (UA), School for Library and Information science. He has written numerous articles dealing with citation analysis, research evaluation, informetric models, information retrieval, library management, Internet-related research, applications in ecology, and undergraduate mathematics. He is a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and an active member of ISSI. He has received the Prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences, as well as the 2001 Derek de Solla Price award.")
cnt(A4678,"Ron Smith was born in London in 1946 and is Professor of Applied Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. He has published extensively on econometrics and defence economics.")
cnt(A4677,"Ron J. Neller is an associate professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and concurrently a docenti in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Turku University in Finland. Since 1980, he has held teaching and research positions in environmental sciences at Griffith University (Australia), the University of New England (Australia), Turku University (Finland), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. Dr. Neller obtained his doctorate in fluvial geomorphology in 1984, focusing on the management of urban impacts on river systems. While a recognized and published expert in this field, Dr. Neller has more recently broadened his research to whole catchment (watershed) management in coastal environments, with particular emphasis on land-use impacts, erosion and sedimentation, and coastal environmental reconstruction. He is currently researching sustainable land management practices in acid sulfate coastal environments and is evaluating in-stream technologies for sediment control in rivers.")
cnt(A4676,"Roland Waast is a senior researcher at IRD (Institut de Recherches pour le Développement, France). He holds an engineering diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and graduated in sociology from La Sorbonne University, Paris. As a sociologist, he spent numerous years in developing countries (particularly Madagascar and Algeria). He has been head of the Department of "Development Strategies" at IRD, and is a member of several scientific Commissions on S&T policies as well as a former member of the French High Council for Science and Technology. He is currently a member of the French Commission for UNESCO. He has set up a research team specializing in the Sociology of the Sciences at IRD fifteen years ago, and an international network (ALFONSO) dealing with the same topics in developing countries (main nodes in India, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Algeria and South Africa). He is the founder and co-director of the Journal Science, Technology and Society. He has authored numerous papers in French and International Journals, collaborates to the World Science Report (Unesco), and completed various research projects for the European Commission. He is the Series Editor of Les sciences hors d'Occident au 20° siècle/Science beyond the Metropolis" (IRD-UNESCO: 7 volumes). He recently published (in collaboration): Scientific Communities in the Developing World, and Les Sciences au Sud: état des lieux. During the two last years, he organized an extensive survey of the state of the sciences in Africa, and is now working out the results.")
cnt(A4675,"Rodiney de Arruda Mauro, B.Sc. Biology, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). M.Sc. Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wildlife, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). D.Sc. Tropical Ecology, Universidad de Los Andes (ULA, Mérida, Venezuela). Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency (Embrapa) since 1989, working on ecology, conservation and management of wildlife.")
cnt(A4674,"Rodger D. Schwass is Professor Emeritus & Senior Scholar, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. He has been Dean of the Faculty (1976-1982) and Director of York International (1982-1984). Since 1976 he has worked with Eric Trist and others to adapt search conferences to environmental and resource management and planning. He has facilitated more than 70 strategic planning/search conferences on environmental and sustainable development issues in Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan and Indonesia. Most have led to long-term activities aimed at sustainable development. As part of this activity, he worked with IUCN on the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy from 1986 to 1994 and with the Canadian Partner Organization to the Pakistan Environment Program until 2002.")
cnt(A4673,"Robindra Nath Basu Ph.D., M.Sc., B.E. E., M.I. Inf. Sc., M.I.E.E.E., PEng. Robin Basu is a polyglot scientist and professional engineer from Calcutta, India, with three decades of wide band experience of energy-related research and development and also design of energy systems on earth and in space. As a highvoltage engineer, in his early twenties he was involved in design of power transmission lines when he pioneered the application of aluminium alloys for lighter line hardware and insulator fittings. Later at C.A. Parsons' works in England, he developed test methods for quality control of large turbo-alternators and transformers. In this context, he patented a method of detection and location of partial discharges in insulation by combination of electronic and ultrasonic signals. This was followed by his study of EMC/EMI of different switchgear at Elliott Automation also in U.K. He pursued these studies also in Germany where he worked for Siemens and Fichtners. He was also used as a liaison person on overseas projects because of his linguistic skills. As a result, he worked on power station projects in several countries He participated as a volunteer in planning the North South Dialogue under Dr Willie Brandt, the Nobel-Laureate. In the sixties, he became the technical director of a multidisciplinary company called Technoimpex Ltd. Its main purpose was to transfer beneficial technologies to developing countries in exchange for the country's cash crops like jute, coffee etc. The company was successful in helping new industries in several countries. In 1976, Robin came to Canada as a consultant and decided to stay. He worked as a maintenance consultant and systems designer for various concerns ranging from automobiles to zoological gardens. In 1980 he joined Montreal Engineering as a senior engineer in the design team of Sheerness and other power stations. He led the magnetic induction study of the Calgary LRT. In 1984 he started a Solar Energy Research project at the University of Calgary Under this project, the properties and uses of solar energy in various forms were studied. Robin developed courses on Renewable Energies and lectured at the university and abroad. Lecturing comes easily to him because he has been a teacher, on the side, right from his graduate days. His research at the university has been accredited by UNESCO in Paris and recorded in the database for Energy Information Sources and Research Centers. He is recognized by IEEE as PV specialist and a consultant in EEHS (Energy Environment Health & Safety). He has reported his work on various fields in 30 papers at conferences and journals. He has contributed to books and was an editor of Science Abstracts at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, for five years. As a founding member of the Institute of Information Science (I. Inf. Sc.), he has analyzed and abstracted many patents and papers from German, and French into English databases. As president of the SPHERE GROUP of organizations, he advises architects, Governments, industries, cities and NGOs directly and via UN Centre for Technology Transfer. He was a UN-accredited observer at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. He is an active supporter of UNICEF and other international organizations promoting Sustainable Development.")
cnt(A4672,"Roberto E. Lopez-Martinez is currently researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National University of Mexico and visiting lecturer of science and technology policy at the Metropolitan University of Mexico City. He is an Industrial Designer from the Universidad Iberoamericana and obtained an M.Sc. on Technical Change and Industrial Strategy at the University of Manchester. From 1979 to 1985 he founded and directed a multidisciplinary master degree program of Product Development at the Metropolitan University. He has been Vice-Principal of the Centre for Technological Innovation and Executive Liaison Officer of the Institute of Engineering, both at the National University of Mexico. He has published several articles and contributions for books on management of technology and science and technology policy. He has carried out diverse consulting activities for universities, as well as public and private organizations in Mexico and Latin America.")
cnt(A4671,"Roberta Sassatelli teaches sociology, cultural sociology and consumer studies at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and the University of Bologna (Italy). Her research focuses on the historical development of consumer societies and the theory of consumer action, with a particular interest in the contested development of the notion of the consumer as against notions such as citizen or person. She has done research on the commercialization of sport and in particular on the way the fitness movement has been variously appropriated as a leisure pursuit. She is currently the Italian Scientist in Charge of an EU project on trust in food and she continues her work on how European consumers are responding to the food crisis and articulating notions of typicality and quality. In addition to her two monograph "Anatomy of the Gym", il Mulino, 2000 and "Consumption, Culture and Society", il Mulino 2004), she is the author of numerous articles in books and international journals such as Acta Sociologica, Body and Society, Journal of Material Culture, European Societies, etc.")
cnt(A4670,"Robert V. Bartlett is an associate professor of political science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, where he teaches comparative and international environmental policy and global green politics. He earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from Indiana University. Professor Bartlett has published numerous articles and book chapters on environmental policy and politics, including co-authoring "The theory of environmental impact assessment: implicit models of policy making" in Policy and Politics (1999) with Priya A. Kurian and "Toward environmental democracy: rationality, reason, and deliberation" in the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (2001) with Walter F. Baber. He is the author or editor of seven books on environmental policy, including co-editing Environmental Policy: Transnational Issues and National Trends (1997) with Lynton K. Caldwell. Professor Bartlett has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Canterbury and Lincoln University in New Zealand (1990) and at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (1999).")
cnt(A4669,"Robert M. Cutler was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science. He has held research and teaching positions at major universities in the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Russia, including Columbia University, the University of Geneva, and Moscow University. Specializing in the interdisciplinary international affairs of Europe and Eurasia, he has published widely in the most highly regarded professional journals of his fields in Europe and North America. Writing in several languages, he also contributes to the mass media and policy reviews, as well as having a significant on-line presence. He has engaged in consulting in organizational design and analysis under complexity, including institutional learning and the management of information, especially in cross-cultural contexts. His interdisciplinary expertise covers several areas of geographical specialization. In particular, his geographic expertise includes Europe (various regional specialties under the EU/NATO area as well as institutional studies), Russia (spanning the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation), and Central Eurasia (especially the South Caucasus and Central and Southwest Asia). He has extensive practical experience in Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals and the former Soviet area. His disciplinary expertise includes international relations theory and political economy, organizational and decision-making analysis, theoretical and empirical work on human information processing, and also international institutions and regimes. Topics of special interest include Caspian-region energy development and ethnic conflict, and the design of institutions for cooperative security. Other special subjects include the political thought of nineteenth-century revolutionary Russia, with special attention to anarchism; and mathematical topics ranging through proof theory, combinatorics and number theory.")
cnt(A4668,"Originally trained as a physicist, Robert Lowe is Head of the Buildings and Sustainability Group at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is also a member of the FMNectar consortium which is supporting the development of UK energy efficiency standards over the next five years. His publications range from energy and environmental policy through impacts of climate change to the effects of airtightness in dwellings. He has directed numerous laboratory, field and desk studies relating to the energy performance of housing and is currently leading a collaborative project to evaluate an enhanced energy performance standard for new UK housing. He is a member of the editorial board of Building Research & Information and recently guest edited a special issue on adapting to Climate Change. Lowe was appointed to a personal chair in 2001.")
cnt(A4667,"Dr. Robert K. Logan. Dr. Logan obtained his B.S. from M.I.T. in 1961 and his Ph.D. also from M.I.T. in 1965. He spent two years at U. of Illinois as a research associate and came to U. of Toronto in 1967. He is an Associate Professor of Physics. He is a member of the board of the McLuhan Program at U of T. He is cross-appointed to the Curriculum Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where he conducts research in computer applications in education and the social impacts of technology and communications. He is a senior fellow at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University where he teaches and conducts research in the area of the cross impact of science and the environment. He is an active member of the Pugwash movement. He was a policy advisor to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and has edited two collections of essays on Canadian politics, The Way Ahead for Canada; and Canada's Third Option. Dr. Logan is the author of three books on communications cum linguistics: The Alphabet Effect (Wm. Morrow, 1986) and The Fifth Language (Stoddart, 1995). His latest book, which is an update of The Fifth Language, is The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age (Stoddart Press, Toronto, May 2000). He is the author of numerous articles and studies in many fields including physics, education, communications, science popularization, politics and peace studies. His current research foci are knowledge management and the origins of speech using a chaos theory perspective. Three books are in preparation: The Collaborative Organization The Extended Mind: the Origins of Language, Thought and Homo Sapiens The second edition of The Alphabet Effect.")
cnt(A4666,"P.G. Vijaya Sherry Chand is on the faculty of the Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation (RJMCEI) of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. After obtaining a postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, in 1982, Vijaya Sherry Chand worked for 11 years in development action, joined the RJMCEI as a fellow in 1993, and obtained a Ph.D. in education from Gujarat University in 1996. Dr. Vijaya Sherry Chand's research interests lie in areas of education and sustainable development, including strategies for sustainable rural development, management of natural resources and knowledge, conservation and use of biodiversity, and farmers' innovations. With Sasi Misra, Dr. Vijaya Sherry Chand was coeditor of Institution Building: An International Perspective on Management Education (New Delhi: Macmillan India, 1999).")
cnt(A4665,"Dr Owen Crankshaw is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Cape Town. Prior to this appointment, he was a senior researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. He has also lectured at the University of Natal, University of the Witwatersrand, and the London School of Economics. His research interest is in the changing patterns of social inequality in South Africa. Specifically, he has published on racial inequality in the labor market, urbanization, squatting, and neighborhood change. His study of Race, Class, and the Changing Division of Labor under Apartheid was recently published by Routledge. He has also co-authored a book with Jo Beall and Susan Parnell entitled Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg. He is currently writing a book on class formation and settlement among urban Africans during the apartheid period.")
cnt(A4664,"Ouyang Zhiyuan PhD, was born in 1947. He is Professor of Department of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Secretary-General of the Research Center for China's Population, Environment and Development, Renmin University of China, and Director of the China Society of Studies in Dialectics of Nature. He has been a Member of the China Committee for Green Labeling, and Executive Chief Editor of Research Report on Chinese Social Development by Renmin University of China (1994 to 1995, and 1996 to 1997 respectively).")
cnt(A4663,"Dr. Ottorino Cosivi qualified in veterinary medicine at Parma University, Italy, and has a postgraduate degree in tropical veterinary medicine from Edinburgh University, Scotland. Dr. Cosivi has been working with NGOs and academic institutions in Latin America and as a practitioner in Europe. He joined the World Health Organization in 1993 working on bacterial zoonoses and from 1997 has also been working on the public health implications of biological and chemical weapons. Dr. Cosivi is the secretary of the international group of experts working on the second edition of the publication Public Health Response of Biological and Chemical Weapons: WHO Response and is the project leader for preparedness to deliberate epidemics in the Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance of Response at WHO headquarters.")
cnt(A4662,"Professor Ortwin Renn is chair of the Board of Directors at the Center of Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg and directs one of the four Center's departments entitled: Technology, Society, and Environmental Economics. He also serves as chair of Environmental Sociology at the University of Stuttgart. His current research includes regional concepts of sustainable development, environmental economics and sociology, citizen participation, attitudes towards technology, and social movements. Renn is the author/coauthor or editor/coeditor of 17 books and more than 150 articles in journals or chapters in books. He serves on several national and international advisory boards and is a member of Germany's Federal Government's Advisory Council for Global Change (WBGU).")
cnt(A4661,"Oran R. Young is the author or co-author of over 20 books and numerous scholarly articles. Dr. Young is Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, and Director of the Institute on International Environmental Governance at Dartmouth College in the United States. He is also Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Dr. Young served for 6 years as the founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States and is now chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. In addition, he served for 6 years as vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee and is currently a leader in the development of a decentralized University of the Arctic. Dr. Young's scientific work encompasses both basic research, focusing on collective choice and social institutions and applied research dealing with issues pertaining to international environmental governance and to the Arctic as an international region. Among his recent books are: Governance in World Affairs; Creating Regimes: Arctic Accords and International Governance; International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society; Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North, and International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment.")
cnt(A4660,"Mr. Onno Kuik studied economics at the Agricultural University of Wageningen. In 1984 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics in Wageningen. In 1985, he joined the Institute for Environmental Studies of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is project leader and researcher within the program International Environmental Economics within the Department of Economics and Social Sciences. His main interests are international trade and the environment, the monetary valuation of environmental change, market-based instruments of (international) environmental policy, and economic aspects of interactions between agriculture and the environment. He has published many articles and research memoranda. Articles have appeared in journals such as Environmental and Resource Economics and European Review of Agricultural Economics.")
cnt(A4659,"Olga I. Malikova was born in 1967. She graduated from the Moscow State University, named after M.V. Lomonosov, Economics Department in 1989. She obtained her Ph.D. (Economics) in 1992. Her thesis was devoted to the problems of upgrading funding and management systems for the environmental complex of the region. Science 1992 she has worked at the Academy of the State Service under the President of the Russian Federation. He scientific interests incorporate economics theory issues (macroeconomics), and economic aspects of efficient environmental management and protection.")
cnt(A4658,"Oleg Stepanovich Kolbasov, born April 11, 1927, in Cheboksary, Russia, died on January 30, 2000. Academic Achievements: Graduate of the All-Union Institute of Law, Vilnius, Lithuania (1946-1952); Ph.D. Equivalent (1955), Candidate of Juridical Science; SJD Equivalent (1968)-Doctor of Juridical Science; Honorary Doctor of Law Degree, Pace University, NY, USA (1990); Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991); Academician of the International Academy of Informatization, Russia (1994); Academician of the Russian Academy of Water Economy, (1994); Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, (1996). Governmental positions: Vice-Minister, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (1991-1994); Deputy Director, Institute of State Law, Russian Academy of Sciences (1987-1991); Head, Department of Environmental Law, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences (1965-1987); Chief Research Expert Institute of State and Law (1995-2000). Other positions: Vice-Chairman, All Russian Nature Conservation Society (1962-2000); Member for the USSR Commission for UNEP (1975-1977); President, Russian Society of Animal Protection (1988-2000); Member, Vice-Chairman of the Commission on Environmental Law, IUCN (1966-2000). Publications: over 300.")
cnt(A4657,"Professor Oleg I. Larichev received his Candidat Degree in Optimal Control Theory in 1965 and his Doctor Degree in Decision Making in 1975 from Institute for Control and Management Problems, Moscow. His fields of interest are Decision Making, Artificial Intelligence, Multicriteria Mathematical Programming, and Psychological Problems of Decision Making. He is Professor of Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (Technical University). He is Head of Department in the Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences. He published 8 books (two in English) and 180 papers. In the field of Decision Making, HE developed new methodology for the construction of decision methods and decision support systems having psychological and mathematical foundation-Verbal Decision Analysis. In the field of Artificial Intelligence, he proposed a new approach to the study and exact imitation of experts' knowledge and to the construction of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In 1991 Prof. O. Larichev was elected as Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences and in 1997-as a Full Member of the Academy. He received the Gold Medal from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.")
cnt(A4656,"Oleg B. Utkin was born in 1946 in Russia. In 1964 he entered the department of Biophysics of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. In six years he graduated from this Institute. In 1970 Oleg Utkin worked as an employee in the Ministry of Public Health of the USSR. From 1971 to 1972 he was an employee in the Ministry of Foreign affairs of the USSR. Since 1973 till 1993 Utkin worked as an employee in various divisions in the Ministry of defense (USSR, Russia). In 1978 he received the candidate's degree. His Ph.D thesis was titled "US federal legislation on new drugs evaluation". His monograph "Main statements of new drugs approvement system in USSR and foreign countries" was published in 1982. Since 1994 Utkin is a businessman, founder and president of Russian consulting company "Global S. Consulting". The company has been consulting many big commercial companies as its client's (energetical, financial, transport ect.). During this period of time he has been actively doing his scientific works in the economic and business spheres. He published more than 50 scientific papers (himself and with his co-authors), including the monograph: "Economical and mathematical methods of making optimal decisions by oil companies".")
cnt(A4655,"Norbert Anwander teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, where he is associated with the Ethics Centre. His interests lie primarily in ethical theory, practical rationality, and political philosophy. He has co-authored a book on gene patents and is currently working on a research project on incommensurable values.")
cnt(A4654,"Nor Azam Ramli is a lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He graduated from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, but went to the University of Wales, United Kingdom, to read for an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and an M.Phil in Air Pollution. He is currently pursuing his PhD in PM10 from traffic emission in developing townships. Although he remains interested in Environmental Impact Assessment, his simultaneous concerns are emissions from motor vehicles and human based activities which have been the major sources of pollution and play significant roles in deteriorating life quality. He is also interested in long-term changes in urban air pollution and its effects on health and building damage. His work in material damage by air pollutants has not been restricted to outdoor environments. He has written several papers on air pollution from various sources and the effect of inadequate EIA on air quality in Malaysia and Wales. He is a member of the Aerosol Society of the UK.")
cnt(A4653,"Nikolai P. Laverov was born on January 12 1930 in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia in a peasant family. He received his M.Sc. from Moscow Institute of Non-ferrous Metals and Gold (1954), and his Ph.D. from the same institute in 1958. From 1958 to 1965 he worked as Director in the Central-Asian Geological Station of the Institute of Ore Deposits Geology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1965 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Research Organization Department in the USSR Ministry of Geology and in 1972 Chief of the Research Organization Department in the USSR Ministry of Geology. From 1983 to 1987 he worked as the first vice-rector of Academy of National Economy of the USSR Council of Ministers. In 1987 he was elected the President of the Kirghiz Academy of Sciences. He was appointed the Deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, chairman of the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology in 1989, and since 1991 he has been the Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. N. P. Laverov is the author and co-author of more than 250 scientific publications including twenty monographs. Many of his works have been published in Germany, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Cuba, China, and other countries. He is the well-known leader of the scientific school of Russian geologists. A new approach to radiogeological studies was pioneered and headed by N. P. Laverov in 1990. The fundamental principle of these studies lies in the use of protective properties of the geological environment to prevent pollution of the ecosphere by radionuclides. The studies embraced the general problem of radioactive waste disposal in the Earth's crust.")
cnt(A4652,"Nikolai Genov born in 1946, he received his Dr. phil. from the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 1975, and Dr. sc. from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986, where he is currently professor of sociology. He is Head of the Department of Global and Regional Development. His research fields include social theory, social change and development, perception, assessment and management of social risks. He has authored and edited 32 books and about 200 articles published in 23countries. Major publications are Rationality and Sociology, National Traditions in Sociology, Internationalizations of Sociology, The United States at the End of the XXth Century, The Rise of the Dragon, Sociology, Managing Transformations in Eastern Europe. He has been a visiting scholar or lecturer at the Free University and Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany), Moscow University (Moscow, Russia), University of California (Berkeley, USA), Korea University (Seoul, Korea), University of Lund (Sweden), Central European University (Warsaw, Poland), National Council of Research (Rome, Italy) among others. He has been International Consulting Editor of American Journal of Sociology, member of the Editorial Board of Current Sociology, member of the Board of Directors of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences (the Vienna Centre), Vice-President of the Intergovernmental Committee of the UNESCO Programme, Management of Social Transformation, editor of the UNDP Human Development Reports for Bulgaria, and organiser of international scientific projects of UNESCO, UNDP, the European Union and other organizations. Currently, he is Vice-President of the International Social Science Council, and Vice-President of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria.")
cnt(A4651,"Prof. Nikita Fedorovichc Glazovsky was born on August 17, 1946 in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). He is a citizen of Russia, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and Deputy Director of the Institute of RAS. N. F. Glazovsky is one of the leading Russian geographers, a world famous scientist, a specialist on environment protection, sustainable development, use of natural resources and geochemistry of landscapes. He is the author of over 200 published works, including monographs. N. F. Glazovsky was a Deputy Minister of Ecology, Russian Federation, a Chairman of Council of Ecological Foundation of Russian Federation, a member of the Higher Ecological Council, and a member of the Advisory Committee, Institute of World Resources (Washington). He is also a Regional Director of the International Program "Leadership for Environment and Development". In 2000 he was elected the Vice-President, International Geographical Union World.")
cnt(A4650,"Nigel Dower is a senior lecturer in philosophy in University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Since the early 1980s, Dr. Dower's research and teaching interests have focused on the ethics of international relations, development and the environment, and related issues. His publications include World Poverty Challenge and Response (1983), World Ethics-The New Agenda (1998), and Introduction to Global Citizenship (2003). Dr. Dower has edited Ethics and Environmental Responsibility (1989) and the Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics and co-edited Global Citizenship A Critical Reader (2002). He is currently president of the International Development Ethics Association.")
cnt(A4649,"Nicolai Nicolaevich Gritsenko, Rector of Academy of Labor and Social Relations since 1986. Doctor of Science in Economy, professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, full member of Academy of Social Sciences and International Academy of Informatization. President of section of social-labor relations of International Academy of Informatization. Member of Presidium of the Council of Rectors of Moscow and Moscow Region. Born in June 11, 1929 in Voronezh of the Sumsk Region in Ukraine. In 1958 graduated from Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. Worked at the enterprises of Donbass and Ural. Was elected Chairman of the Commission of Council of the Union of Supreme Soviet of the USSR for labor, prices and social policy. Famous scientist in social-labor relations. An author of more than 200 scientific papers. Made a great contribution to the scientific development of social protection, employment, educational right of citizens, social partnership. Awarded with orders of Labor Red Banner, Friendship of Nations, "Badge of Honor," "For the Merits before Motherland," of IV degree, with six medals and honored marks of many scientific associations.")
cnt(A4648,"Nick Bailey BA (Cambridge), MPhil (Glasgow) is a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. His main research interests cover various aspects of urban change and policy. He was heavily involved in the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Cities Research Programme for four years, as a lead researcher on the Department's Integrative Case Study of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He has also worked on a European Commission-funded study of regional planning and collaboration in Central Scotland. He is the author of numerous publications on urban economic performance, financial services, labour markets, urban policy and housing renewal. He is currently carrying out research into the quality of public services in deprived and non-deprived urban neighbourhoods. He is also leading a Scottish Executive-funded study to develop a long-term strategy to measure deprivation in Scotland.")
cnt(A4647,"Nicholas Sinclair-Brown is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge.")
cnt(A4646,"Nicholas S. Vonortas is currently the director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy graduate program and the deputy director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor of the Department of Economics at the same University. Nick Vonortas holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in Economics from New York University (US), an M.A. in Economic Development from Leicester University (UK), and a BA in Economics from the University of Athens (Greece). Professor Vonortas' teaching and research interests are in industrial organization, in the economics of technological change, and in science and technology policy. He specializes on strategic partnerships, technology transfer, technology and competition policy, and the appraisal of the economic returns of R&D programs. He has published extensively on these topics. Dr Vonortas is currently working on projects relating to intellectual property rights protection mechanisms in research joint ventures, the performance of research partnerships, the optimal exploitation of technology options through strategic industry networks, the knowledge based economy, and mechanisms of and policy for innovation-related knowledge flows affecting European industry. Professor Vonortas has been a visiting professor at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), and the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). In addition, he has served as a consultant to many government agencies in the United States and the European Union and to several international organizations.")
cnt(A4645,"Nicholas N. Olenev is Senior Scientist at the Department of Mathematical Modeling of Economic Systems, Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CC RAS), Senior Scientist at Joint Supercomputer Center, Moscow, Russia, Docent at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he teaches parallel programming by message passing interface, Docent of mathematics at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, where he teaches mathematical modeling for economic and ecological systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the CC RAS, 1993. He previously occupied permanent positions at Department of Economic and Mathematical Methods for Poultry Industry of Scientific and Research Organization "Complex," Moscow Region, where he was a leader of team that constructed a logistical system for drafting of poultry deliveries. He was a visitor at the Central and East European Economic Research Center, Warsaw University, where he studied dynamics of employment structure in transition economy and constructed a production function of skilled and unskilled labor for Russian non-growing economy. He has constructed and studied numerous models of transition economy and models of economy and environment interaction. His main interests are in the field of mathematical modeling of economic structures for various branches of national economy, constructing of network ecological demographical economic simulation games for several countries, developing models for study ecological consequences of economic growth.")
cnt(A4644,"Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh Minh, a Vietnamese national, is a doctoral candidate at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand. Her doctoral research is an exploration of how Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be utilized for improving Urban Environmental Management (UEM) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Earlier on she received a Master's degree in regional planning jointly offered by the University of Dortmund (Germany) and the Asian Institute of Technology and a Diploma in Economics of Transportation Engineering from Moscow Transport University. Ms. Nguyen works as a Deputy Manager for the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam where she has been working since 1984. In the year 2000, Ms. Nguyen won a prestigious fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University (UNU/IAS). She spent ten months at UNU/IAS as a PhD fellow in 2000/2001 furthering her doctoral research. Ms. Nguyen's research interests include; Urban Infrastructure Development, Urban Environmental Management and Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of the Foreign Direct Investment.")
cnt(A4643,"Nevin Shaw is President of Export Growth Pathfinders, a non-governmental organization dealing with issues of trade and sustainable development for a variety of clients. He has been Senior Policy Advisor to the Canadian Secretariat under the Agreement of Internal Trade, and Executive Fellow for the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Prior to that he held a number of positions with the Government of Canada, including trade negotiator. He was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania. "I believe that business faces unprecedented opportunities to be an agent of positive social, economic, ecological and spiritual transformations, if it can find a robust framework."")
cnt(A4642,"Neva R. Goodwin is Co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE), a research institute which she helped to found at Tufts University. An economist, she is the author or editor of a dozen books and numerous articles dealing with the interactions among economic forces, human goals, and the natural world. She is active in a variety of attempts to systematize and institutionalize an economic theory that will have more relevance to real world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm; for example, the difference between increasing well-being and increasing consumption is an economic, ecological, moral and philosophical distinction that is too often ignored in mainstream economics. Dr. Goodwin is Series Editor for two publication series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World (University of Michigan Press) and Frontier Issues in Economic Thought (Island Press). She is also lead author for an introductory textbook, Microeconomics in Context, which has been written for use, initially, in Russia, and will also be adapted for other countries. Her current work focuses on ways of encouraging large firms to recognize social and ecological health as major, long-term corporate goals. Dr Goodwin holds a bachelors degree in English literature from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D in Economics from Boston University. She is married to the historian Bruce Mazlish and has two adult children, David and Miranda Kaiser. In the 1970s and early 1980s she worked on issues of housing, environment and design, assisting R. Buckminster Fuller to establish the Design Science Institute. Other associations have included nine years as Vice-chair of the board of College of the Atlantic, and membership on a number of not-for-profit boards, including CERES, the International Center for Research on Women, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development.")
cnt(A4641,"Neil E. Harrison was born and educated in England. He studied in the United States, where he has earned a doctorate in International Studies from the University of Denver. In his graduate work he concentrated on development and technology studies, and his dissertation compared the formation of national policies on climate change in ten countries and the effect of those positions on the international negotiations. Dr Harrison researches local and national strategies and policies for sustainable development, and the formation and effect of international institutions for environmental conservation. In his book Constructing Sustainable Development (2000) he showed how current thinking about sustainable development is, at best, incomplete and often dangerously misguided, and how effective integrated strategies for sustainable development can only be developed out of agent-based models of social systems. He has published many technical papers, articles, and chapters on sustainable development, the uses of technological innovation in sustainable development, and the interplay of science and politics in the formation of international institutions for climate change mitigation. He has several research projects in progress. He is preparing a book that uses agent-based models to define corporate strategies and government policies to allow firms to be profitable in competitive markets, while aiding the process of sustainable development. He also is co-editing a book of case studies on the interaction of science and politics in international environmental issues, and editing a book on how agent-based theories can improve understanding in international relations and global studies. Both edited texts are scheduled for publication in 2003. Several articles and invited chapters on environment and development, and the international politics of climate change, are in various stages in the publication process. Future research plans include further investigation into the uses of technological innovation in sustainable development. He has taught at three universities, most recently at the University of Wyoming. He also is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Institute, a non-profit institution that researches and advises on strategies and policies for sustainable development. Dr Harrison has consulted on many issues in Europe and North America and has traveled or worked in nearly forty countries on four continents.")
cnt(A4640,"Neha Khanna was born in New Delhi, India. For the first few years of her life she traveled the length and breadth of the country with her parents, moving to a new location every few months. She finally settled in New Delhi, where her family continues to live. Neha took her first economics class in grade eight, and never looked back. After graduating from high school, she joined St. Stephens College, Delhi University, to pursue a B.A. in Economics. She moved on to obtain a Masters in the same subject from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. For the next two years she worked as a Research Associate with a group of social and physical scientists at the Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi. It was here that her interest in the economics of environmental and resource issues was initiated. She obtained a Ph.D. in Resource and Environmental Economics from Cornell University in January, 1998. Her dissertation is titled "Global Warming, Energy Use, and Economic Growth". She is currently Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research focuses on the relationship between economic growth and climate change, resource depletion, and air pollution, as well as the socio-economic implications of voluntary pollution prevention programs.")
cnt(A4639,"Naxhelli Ruiz is a Cultural Anthropologist through the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and Master in Regional Studies through the Institute Jose Maria Mora. Her work has been in the field of cultural and social change in rural areas in the state of Queretaro, in Central Mexico. Her main interest is the study of activities like migration, tertiary specialization in rural areas and tourism, which result in new forms of rurality and new social actors in spaces customarily defined only by their agrarian activities and their traditional cultural expressions. She is also developing a project about theory, methodology and models of regional analysis applied in Anthropology.")
cnt(A4638,"Nataliya M. Murashova was born in 1973. She graduated from D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (Ecology Department) in 1996. In the period 1996 to 1999 she was a post-graduate student of the Industrial Ecology Department of the Mendeleyev University. She carried out her thesis work under E.V. Yurtov's supervision. N.M. Murashova was granted a Ph.D. in Chemistry by the Thesis Committee of D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in June 2000. Her scientific work is concerned with investigation of structurization of surfactants in liquid systems. At present she works as Assistant Professor in the Industrial Ecology Department of Mendeleyev University.")
cnt(A4637,"Natalia Mikhailovna Rimashevskaya was born in Moscow in March 1932. She graduated from the Moscow State University, Law Department (1956) and the Moscow Finance Institute (1958). She holds scientific degrees of Candidate of Economics (1962) and Doctor of Economics (1972). Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003). Professional career: 1958-1960 Researcher, 1960-1967 Head of Laboratory at the Institute for Labor Research; 1967-1988 Head of Department at the Central Economic Mathematics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1988, Director of the Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor at the High School of Economics. Editor in Chief of the quarterly journal Population and Yearbook Russia, Socio-Demographic Situation. Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1992) and International Academy of Informatization (1993). Vice-President of the International Social Science Council, Member of the Evaluation Committee on Population and Society at IIASA, Member of EAPS. Her research activities are focused on social demography, quality of life, poverty and social exclusion, social protection under transition, family and gender issues. She is the author and editor of over 300 publications. The recent publications: Person and Reforms: the Secrets of Survival. Moscow: ISESP RAS, 2003 (in Russian): Russia: 10 Years of Reforms. Socio-Demographic Situation (ed.) Moscow: ISESP RAS, 2002 (in Russian); Social exclusion in Russia/ Politiques socials en France et en Russie. Paris: INED, 2001 (in French and Russian); Woman, Man, Family in Russia (ed.). Moscow: ISESP RAS, 2001 (in Russian).")
cnt(A4636,"Narayan Gopalkrishnan is a lecturer in social and community studies at University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He holds a number of qualifications from India including a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Administration. Mr. Gopalkrishnan has also completed a Certificate in Energy, Environment and Renewable Sources, jointly offered by the United Nations University in Tokyo, University of Delaware, and TATA Institute. He is currently exploring Ph.D. options in relation to a comparative study of nongovernmental organizations in India and Australia. Until 1998, Mr. Gopalkrishnan lived in India where he held key positions in the private sector and the community development sector. He was last employed in India as a project manager of Gram Vikas, a large community development agency working with rural and tribal people in the state of Orissa. Mr. Gopalkrishnan's research and publication interests relate to economic rationalism, globalization, and its impact on communities; strategic participation methods for communities as a means of empowerment; development of sustainable communities; micro-credit and means of economic self-sufficiency; multiculturalism; and issues relating to indigenous people.")
cnt(A4635,"Naomi J. Caiden is Chair and Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles. Professor Caiden's research and teaching interests are focused on public budgeting and public administration. Her path-breaking book (with Aaron Wildavsky), Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries (Transaction, 1980), related context and process to explain why officials in poor countries employed strategies in budgeting that ran counter to accepted wisdom of consultants. For six years, she was the editor of Public Budgeting and Finance, the leading United States journal in public budgeting. She has written numerous articles on United States and comparative budgeting, and has worked as a consultant with the World Bank and United Nations on various aspects of public administration. Most recently, she has been involved in revising editions of Aaron Wildavsky's classic, The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (5th edition, New York: Longman, 2004).")
cnt(A4634,"Dr. Naohiro Ogawa is deputy director of the Nihon University Population Research Institute in Tokyo and professor of economics at Nihon University, Tokyo. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. degree in economics at the University of Hawaii and has served on various committees of the International Union of the Scientific Study on Population (IUSSP), as member of the World Health Organization's Steering Committee on Human Reproduction, and as associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics. Dr. Ogawa is currently a member of the Council on the Social Security Program of the Government of Japan, member of the Committee on Population Age Structure and Public Policy, IUSSP, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, council member of the Population Association of Japan, and chairman of the Committee on International Exchange Program, Population Association of Japan.")
cnt(A4633,"Naim Kapucu is affiliated with the Department of Public Administration, College of Health and Public Affaires at the University of Central Florida. He holds Ph.D. from Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, 2003, the Master of Public Management (MPM), from Carnegie Mellon University, 1997, an MS in Public Administration from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994, and a BS in Political Science and Public Administration from the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, 1992. His areas of expertise include Nonprofit Management, Comparative Public Policy and Management, Strategic Alliances, and Organizational Social Capital.")
cnt(A4632,"Nadia Boschi, Ph.D., Architect, is Professor of Building Construction and coordinator of the MS in Architecture/Construction Management option at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research interests focus on building performance evaluation for the provision of healthy and safe environments in new and historic buildings. She has conducted extensive research to enhance education in the field of Indoor Air Sciences in terms of paradigms, international harmonization of curricula and delivery systems using interactive multimedia tools in support of distance based teaching. Her research has been supported by a number of private and public entities among those NATO, European Union, US EPA and the Italian Government. She is author of 3 books chapters, 14 peer reviewed papers and editor of 2 books. She is a member of ISIAQ Board of Directors, a member of ASHRAE and a registered architect in Italy since 1988.")
cnt(A4631,"N. M. To Mr. N. M. To, M.A.Sc., P.Eng, Research Associate, University of Calgary. Mr. To has over ten years of experience in the Oil Industry in Calgary, Alberta. He has authored and co-authored many conference and journal papers in the Environmental, Borehole Mining and Offshore Engineering areas.")
cnt(A4630,"Myrian de Moura Abdon, B.Sc. Marine Biology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). M.Sc. Remote Sensing, Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE). Doctoral student of Environmental Engineering Sciences (Evaluation of Environmental Impact), Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Researcher at the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE) since 1978, working on remote sensing of natural resources and floodplains.")
cnt(A4629,"Muhong Wang is associate professor of management science in the Frank Sobey Faculty of Commerce at Saint Mary's University. She earned her B.A.Sc. in mechanical engineering in 1976, and M.A.Sc. in information and control engineering in 1981, both from Xian Jiaotong University in China. She received her Ph.D. in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1988. She has been teaching in the area of decision science in Saint Mary's University since 1990. Her research interests are applied game theory and conflict analysis, and she has published articles in various journals including Information and Decision Technologies, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Behavioral Science, and Environmental Management.")
cnt(A4628,"Mouchang Yu, born in 1935, got his bachelor's degree from Wuhan University in 1962 and his master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Since then, he has worked on natural dialectics in the Institute of Philosophy. Professor Yu is currently a professor, doctoral supervisor, and president of the Chinese Society for Environmental Ethics.")
cnt(A4627,"Monica Santoro is a research assistent at the Department of Sociology and Social research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She has collaborate to research projects on youth behavior, attitude toward risk, and, more recently, on the relationships between parents and adult children living together.")
cnt(A4626,"Dr. Mohamed Hamza is an independent development consultant. He is currently an advisor to the United Nations Mine Action Program in Afghanistan on management training, development and capacity building of the indigenous Afghani NGOs working under the UN umbrella. Dr. Hamza is also a visiting fellow at Cranfield University, UK, and a research associate of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford. Following a long career as a development practitioner and an extensive experience with international development organizations-World Bank/UNDP, USAID, and the Near East Foundation-Dr. Hamza taught, conducted and supervised research at the Disaster Management Centre, Cranfield University and, prior to that, in the School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University. He provided expertise covering areas such as: Globalization, development and structural factors in risk and vulnerability; the impact of the wider development context on disaster management and intervention; rapid urbanization in the developing world and increased risk; structural adjustment and issues of preparedness and mitigation; participatory techniques in assessment and appraisal and the politics of community involvement in risk reduction. Dr. Hamza has provided consultancy in Sudan, Jordan, India, Eritrea, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt. Dr. Hamza's academic research concentrates on three areas, and has produced a series of publications. The first is the increased disaster vulnerability of urban areas in the developing world due to forces created by structural adjustment and economic globalization. The second is the impact of the political economy, foreign aid, and the more recent economic reform and structural adjustment program on shelter policies in the Third World. The third area is land development and infrastructure provision for low-income group housing needs, in the context of the recent shift towards market-oriented provision and enablement.")
cnt(A4625,"Ming-xing Wang is a professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research interests include Sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, carbon cycle modeling and climate change due to the increase of greenhouse gases. Professor Wang has achieved many scientific research results in the fields of atmospheric aerosols, acid rain, and climate changes due to the increase of atmospheric trace gases, published more than 140 papers in Chinese and international journals, and given lots of presentations at international conferences. He is of great attainments in atmospheric sciences and is one of the well-known atmospheric chemists in China today. He has been teaching a degree course "Atmospheric Chemistry" at the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China since 1985. Some of his publications are as fellows:")
cnt(A4624,"Mimi Louise Groenbech has a Master's degree in Economics from the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. She has been researching on the topics of foreign direct investment, technology transfer and home country measures for a number of years. She has been a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. She has also worked at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is presently employed at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and is working in Asmara, Eritrea.")
cnt(A4623,"Mr. Millens Mufwaya is from Zambia. He holds a BSc in Agriculture and a Masters degree in Human Ecology at the Free University of Brussels. Currently, he lectures at the Natural Resources Development College, Lusaka, Zambia.")
cnt(A4622,"Milan Jamriska is a Research Associate at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, currently conducting research in the area of air filtration devices. He completed his university degree at the Faculty of Physical and Nuclear Engineering, Czech Technical Universities, Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1986. During 1986-1989 he worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Science in research on semiconductors. In 2001 he completed his PhD study 'The effect of ventilation and filtration on reduction of indoor exposure to submicrometer pollutant particles', for which he received several prestigious awards from QUT and Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand. He has participated in four International Conferences and is author of over 40 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. Dr Jamriska is a member of the International Society of the Indoor Air Quality and Climate and Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand.")
cnt(A4621,"Mikhail Il'ich Shatunovsky was born in Kharkov, in June 1938. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1960. He has the following scientific degrees: Candidate of Biological Sciences, Moscow State University (1963); Doctor of Biological sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Ecology (1979); Professor of Ichthyology (1982). He worked as a post-graduate of the Department of Ichthyology of Moscow State University (1960-1963); Junior Scientific Researcher (1963); Senior Scientific Researcher, All-Union Institute of Fishery and Oceanography, Moscow (1967-1969), Head of the Laboratory of Fish Physiology, All-Union Institute of Fishery and Oceanography, Moscow (1970-1977). His present positions are Head of the Laboratory of Ecology of Lower Vertebrates (since 1997) in A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also took part in different spheres of social activities: Member of the Program Committee of the 9th International Ecological Congress (1986); member of the Praesidium of Russian Ichthyological Commission (1986); member of the Bureau of the Council on problems of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology (Russian Academy of Sciences) (1982); Supervisor of project Overall Strategy of Ichthyofauna in Extreme Conditions of Moscow Megalopolis, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Journal of Ichthyology (Russia) (1983); member, Editorial Committee Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii (Poland) (1991); member, Editorial Committee on Topics in Species of Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Countries, Moscow, Nauka Press; member, Editorial Committee of Journal of Ecology (Ekaterinburg) (1990), Editor-in-chief Russian Journal of Aquatic Ecology (1992). He is the author of the following publications: Four books in Russian: Ecological Aspects of Metabolism of Marine Fishes (1980); Ecology and Physiology of Young Sturgeons (with A.D. Gershanovich and V.A. Pegasov) (1987); Fishes of Moscow District (with E.N. Ognev. L.I. Sokolov and E.N. Tsepkin) (1988), Dictionary of Animal Names in Five Languages. Fishes, (with Y.S. Reshetnikov, A.N. Kotlyar, and T.S. Rass) (1989), and more than 190 articles and chapters in books on fish ecology and physiology. The scope of his scientific interests is physiology of fishes; riverine fish communities; aquaculture; aquatic biological resources, and biodiversity.")
cnt(A4620,"Mikhail G. Zavelsky is Doctor of Economic Science, Professor, Head of Laboratory "Systems Analysis of Information Providing of Economy State Control" of the Institute for Systems Analysis (Russian Academy of Sciences); has the Chair of Economics and Finances of Moscow Institute of Economics, Law and Political Sciences; is International Informatization Academy to UNO member, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) member, Editoral Board of Journal "Economics and Mathematical Methods" (Moscow, Russia) member; has participated as an expert of the State Council of Ministers and the Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies in a number of the method and project appraisals, in particular efficiency assessment, in different Russian regions and sectors of the national economy; is author of 8 books and more than 210 articles on the theory, mathematical modeling, systems analysis, forecasting, planning, programming, and regulation of economy, industrial, regional and social development, innovations, institutional change, according of different economic interests. Among these are the following: 1. Optimization of Branch Planning at Industry (1967, in Russian), Moscow: Ekonomika. 2. Optimal Planning at a Firm (1970, in Russian), Moscow: Nauka. 3. System of Optimal Long-Term Planning of National Economy (1975, in Russian), Moscow: Nauka (together with Danilov-Danilyan V.I.). 4. Economic Interests and Federalism: Coming to an Agreement and Translating into Reality (1996, in Russian), Moscow: Editorial URSS (together with Petrosyants V.Z.). 5. Economy and Sociology of Labour (1998, in Russian), Moscow: Catallaxy. 6. On the System Reform of Economic Management in the Transition Period, New York: Journal "Matekon", 1996, Vol.31, No.4.")
cnt(A4619,"Mikhail Afanasievich Krykin, born in 1948. Graduated Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1972. Ph.D. 1978, Chemical Physics, the Institute of Physical Chemistry RAS, Moscow. Dr.Sci. 1991, Physical Chemistry, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow. Since 1991 till 1994 head of the Membrane Technology Laboratory, "Sovintech" concern. Since 1994 till 1996 Director of insurance company. Graduated Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship in 1996. Since 1996 Vice President of the Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship, Moscow. Business experience: global management, technology development. Scientific experience: polymer physics, radio-spectroscopy. Married, two children.")
cnt(A4618,"Mike Robinson has 20 years of career experience as an applied anthropologist, non-governmental organization (NGO) leader, and mediator, drawing on his studies in anthropology and law at the University of British Columbia and University College, Oxford. A Rhodes scholar, Mr. Robinson has worked for the Canadian Northern Pipeline Agency, Petro-Canada, Polar Gas and The Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. At present Mr. Robinson serves as the chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission, the federal representative for exploratory discussions on Treaty 7, adjunct professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design, and executive director of The Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. His most recent publications involve the socio-legal aspects of consultation with First Nations, cultural land use and occupancy mapping in Canada, and the introduction of the co-management concept to Russia. His new book (co-authored with Karim-Aly Kassam) is entitled Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika, and was published in November 1998. Mr. Robinson is married to Lynn Webster, Partner, Cohos Evamy and Associates Architects, and is father to Lancelot and Caitlin. The Robinson/Webster family enjoys wilderness camping vacations, cross-country skiing in the Canadian Rockies, and a broad range of community volunteer commitments.")
cnt(A4617,"Mika Mannermaa, born in Turku, Finland, in 1957, is Doctor of Science (economics, managerial mathematics and statistics) from Turku School of Economics (1991). He has held several positions as a researcher, mainly in the Academy of Finland, and also acted as a futures consultant in several companies, municipalities, and ministries and for the government and the Parliament of Finland. His research areas include theory and methodology of futures research, paradigms in futures research, futures barometers, the relations between humanity and nature, the future of highly developed countries (knowledge-intensive society), and the role of citizens' movements in shaping the future. Mannermaa is the author or coauthor of 200 reports, books, and articles in the fields mentioned above. He has also been a regular columnist in Helsingin Sanomat (leading daily newspaper in Finland). Mannermaa has participated in about 500 future-oriented conferences, seminars, and other meetings (more than 50 of them have been international), and given more than 400 presentations concerning futures studies. He has also been a member of the Council of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies and a member of the Council of the World Futures Studies Federation. He is also a professional member of the World Future Society. He was the chairman of the Delegation of the Green Party in Finland in 1995-1997.")
cnt(A4616,"Dr. Midori Aoyagi-Usui is a senior researcher of the Social and Environmental Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies. She graduated from Kyoto University, where she studied Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Faculty of Agriculture. She received a Doctor of Agriculture from Kyoto University in 1992, after she joined the National Institute for Environmental Studies. Since 1993, she has been a member of the Global Environmental Survey project and from 1997, a member of the executive committee for the project.")
cnt(A4615,"Michelle L. Bell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Her dissertation involves the integration of meteorological and air pollution modeling systems with public health research to estimate the human health impacts from changes in emissions or climate. She earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and an M.S. from Stanford University in 1994, both in environmental engineering. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Ms. Bell worked as an environmental policy analyst at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developing environmental policy and guidance for DOE, EPA, and other federal agencies. Other recent work includes a re-analysis of the health impacts of the London Fog of 1952, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, and an evaluation of multi-criteria methods in the integrated assessment of climate change policy, published in the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.")
cnt(A4614,"Michele Greco, an attorney, is currently undertaking research in the Department of Philosophy of Law, Law School, Università Cattolica, in Milano, Italy, and teaches institutional law in the Department of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, Università Cattolica in Brescia. He is member of the ecology and territory working group for the Italian Supreme Court, and coordinator of the human rights and the environment project for Amnesty International, Italy Section. Dr. Greco has also been writing and editing for the journal La Nuova Ecologia. He has written numerous articles and books, edited Diritti umani e ambiente. Giustizia e sicurezza nella questione ecologica (2000), and is currently writing a book called Gli eroi dell"ambiente for Sistemi editoriali, Milano.")
cnt(A4613,"Michel Huysseune is a researcher of the "Vakgroep Politieke Wetenschappen" at the "Vrije Universiteit Brussel" (Belgium), with a focus on the study of nationalism. He has recently obtained a Ph.D. in Political Sciences with a dissertation: An Analysis of the Relation between Research in the Social Sciences and Nation-Building Discourses: the Case of the Lega Nord in Italy.")
cnt(A4612,"Michal Lyons is an architect, planner and human geographer, who trained and practiced in Israel, England and the United States, and has worked internationally primarily in housing development. Her research has focused on the comparative spatial analysis of development trends. She is well known for her work on migration and the urban economies of England and Wales, which has been ranked "outstanding" twice. Since 1996 she has led studies of participatory development across South Africa, focusing on changing norms of governance and their influence on public participation and empowerment in local economic development. Current work includes a comparative analysis of the formation and transformation of social capital in local economic development. She directs the Urban and Peri-Urban Research Unit, with current research and consultancy projects in Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil.")
cnt(A4611,"Michail G. Berengarten was born in Izhevsk, Russia in 1946. From 1964 to 1975 he was a student, post graduate, and then research engineer at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology after D.I. Mendeleyev. He investigated the mechanism of ammonia synthesis catalysts promoting action. In 1973 he was awarded the degree of candidate of science. From 1975 he has worked at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering - MIChM (now called the Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering) -- as assistant, senior lecturer, and professor. He has investigated the sphere of industrial chemistry, environment protection, industrial ecology, and methodical problems of learning in technical universities. He is the author of the textbook Basic Chemical Engineering with Practical Application (Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1988), and over 80 other books, papers and patents. From 1994 to 1999 he worked as the International UNESCO Chair in Ecological Clean Engineering. From 1999 he has been the Vice-Rector of Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering and Head of the Industrial Ecology Department.")
cnt(A4610,"Michael Veseth is Professor of Economics and Director of the International Political Economy Program, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA. He is author of numerous books and articles, including, Selling Globalization (Lynne Reinner, 1998), and co-authored with David Balaam, Introduction to International Political Economy (Prentice-Hall, 2001).")
cnt(A4609,"Michael Thompson is a social anthropologist (B.Sc., London; B.Litt., Oxford; Ph.D., London). He has studied some exotic "tribes," e.g., the experts who build computer models of the world's energy systems; the scientists who develop new household products for the Anglo-Dutch multinational, Unilever, and the engineers who try to assess the risks inherent in the technology for liquefying and transporting natural gas, to mention only three. Though the subject matter is highly specialized, the persistent contentions within each of these tribes-over what is technically possible, socially acceptable and morally justifiable-is deeply political. Hence his current focus: the democratization of decision processes that, because of their high scientific content, have tended to be seen as merely technical.")
cnt(A4608,"Michael R. Berthold received his Diploma and Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe. From fall 1997 until early 2000 he was a Research Fellow at the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in 1991/92 and at Sydney University in 1994 and worked as a Research Engineer at Intel Corp., Santa Clara in 1993. He is currently Director of Data Analysis at Tripos' Research Center in the Bay Area. Dr. Bertholds research interests include Soft Computing, Machine Learning, Visualization, and Intelligent Data Analysis. He has been involved in the organization of the Series of International Symposia on Intelligent Data Analysis and has edited - together with David J. Hand - the textbook "Intelligent Data Analysis: An Introduction" (Springer Verlag).")
cnt(A4607,"Michael J. Radzicki is an Associate Professor of Economics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame and his training in system dynamics modeling from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Radzicki's research areas include economic methodology and macroeconomic dynamics, and he is currently developing a system dynamics model of the United States economy based on post-Keynesian economic theory. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Issues, the System Dynamics Review, and the Systems Thinker, and as both vice president and secretary of the System Dynamics Society. In addition to his work in economics and system dynamics, Professor Radzicki is an avid long distance runner, motorcyclist, and a black belt instructor in Shaolin Kempo Karate.")
cnt(A4606,"Michael Graham Fry is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Southern California. His most recent book is The North Pacific Triangle: The United States, Japan and Canada at Century's End (University of Toronto Press, 1998). His forthcoming book is And Fortune Fled: Lloyd George and Foreign Policy, 1916-1922.")
cnt(A4605,"Michael G. Dalton is Assistant Professor of Ecological Economics at California State University, Monterey Bay. His research includes fisheries economics, energy economics, and climate change.")
cnt(A4604,"Michael Finus, born 1965, is assistant professor in environmental economics at the University of Hagen. He holds a PhD in Economics (University of Hagen), a Master in Agricultural Economics (University of Giessen) and an Advanced Studies Certificate (Institute of World Economics, Kiel).")
cnt(A4603,"Michael D. Kaplowitz holds a BSc degree in Industrial Economics from Union College (NY) and a JD from Duke University School of Law. After practicing law in New York City he returned to school and received an MA degree in Latin American Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D in Resource Economics from Michigan State University. Since 1997 he has been on the faculty in the Department of Resource Development at Michigan State University where he is presently Assistant Professor in Environmental Law and Policy. Since 1997, he has also been an adjunct professor at the Michigan State University Detroit College of Law.")
cnt(A4602,"Michael D. Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also Professor of Political Science, Professor of Policy Studies in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, and Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences, all at UCLA. In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Milken Institute in Santa Monica and the Gorbachev Foundation of North America in Boston. He has been a member of the UCLA faculty since 1963, teaching courses in economic theory, econometrics, mathematical economics, international relations, and health economics. Intriligator is the author of more than 200 journal articles and other publications in the areas of economic theory and mathematical economics, econometrics, health economics, reform of the Russian economy, and strategy and arms control, his principal research fields. He is the author of Mathematical Optimization and Economic Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1971, also translated into Spanish and Russian) and of Econometric Models, Techniques, and Applications (Prentice-Hall, 1978, also translated into Greek and Spanish; second edition, with Ronald G. Bodkin and Cheng Hsiao, 1996) and co-author, with Donald E. Yett, Leonard Drabek and Larry J. Kimbell, of A Forecasting and Policy Simulation Model of the Health Care Sector (Lexington Books, 1978). He is coeditor, with Kenneth J. Arrow, of the Handbook of Mathematical Economics (North-Holland, 1981, 1982, 1985); coeditor, with Zvi Griliches, of the Handbook of Econometrics (North-Holland, 1982, 1983, 1986); coeditor, with Bernard Brodie and Roman Kolkowicz, of National Security and International Stability (Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain, 1983); coeditor, with Dagobert L. Brito and Adele E. Wick, of Strategies for Managing Nuclear Proliferation (Lexington Books, 1983); and coeditor, with Urs Luterbacher, of Cooperative Models in International Relations Research (Kluwer, 1994). Dr. Intriligator is Vice Chair and a member of the Board of Directors of Economists Allied for Arms Reductions and was President of the Peace Science Society (International) in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). He was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999 and an AAAS Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001.")
cnt(A4601,"Michael Cohen is the Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York. He worked at the World Bank from 1972 to 1999 as Chief of the Urban Development Division, and Senior Advisor to the Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has published widely on urban and development issues.")
cnt(A4600,"Michael C. Pugh is Reader in International Relations and Director of the International Studies Research Centre, University of Plymouth, UK. He is the editor of the quarterly journal International Peacekeeping (London: Frank Cass) and of the Cass Peacekeeping book series. He was awarded his PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK and has a BA and MA (Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was a lecturer at the University of Southampton (1980-1994)., He also edited European Security Towards 2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992) and Maritime Security and Peacekeeping (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994). In 1994-1995 he was an Economic and Social Research Council Senior Research Fellow conducting research on peacekeeping and humanitarianism. He currently directs the Plymouth Peacebuilding Project, which examines the ownership of peacebuilding in Croatia and Bosnia. In 1999 he was Senior Resarch Fellow at the Western European Institute for Security Studies in Paris conducting research on Mediterranean boat people and European maritime cooperation. This was published as Mediterranean Boat People: European Maritime Cooperation (Paris: WEU Institute for Security Studies, 2000). 1999-2000 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute researching the political economy of transition in South-east Europe. He has published on peacekeeping, humantiarian emergencies, management of refugees, the lead agency concept in humanitarian assistance, civil-military relations in international interventions and peacekeeping in the Mediterranean. His latest edited book is Regeneration of War-torn Societies, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000). He is a core group member of the International Peace Academy (New York) project on the UN, NATO and other Regional Organisations.")
cnt(A4599,"Mercedes Pardo is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Carlos III at Madrid (Spain). Her field of expertise is Environmental Sociology. She is the President of the Spanish Research Committee on Global Change.")
cnt(A4598,"Medard Gabel is the cofounder and Executive Director of World Game Institute, Inc., (WGI), a twenty-six-year-old independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit research and education organization. Inspired by the pioneering work of Buckminster Fuller, the Institute is today an officially sanctioned Non-Governmental Organization of the United Nations. The World Game Institute is both a think tank concerned with the processes of globalization, global resources, human trends and needs as well as a developer of innovative and experiential educational products and programs. As director of research at WGI, Gabel has written numerous reports and books about the state of the world. Among these are four books on global problems, planning methodology, and the US food system. His book, Energy, Earth and Everyone (Anchor Books/Doubleday), the first edition of which was published in 1975, was the world's first comprehensive inventory of the entire planet's renewable energy resources; it also presented a series of regional plans and a global plan for phasing out nuclear and fossil energy use and making the transition to a renewable-energy-based hydrogen economy that reduced global warming. Ho-Ping: Food for Everyone (Anchor Books/Doubleday) was the first comprehensive inventory of the entire planet's food production capacities and presented the possibilities for sustainable agriculture to meet the growing food needs of the entire world; it also contained a series of regional plans and a global plan for phasing in a sustainable food system that eliminated famine, hunger, and malnutrition. Empty Breadbasket (Rodale Press) was an investigation of the US food system, its vulnerabilities, strengths, and what the consumer, farmer, city, state, and federal government could do to increase the sustainability and quality of America's food supply. All of these books were reviewed favorably, sold out their printings and were used as supplementary texts in numerous colleges. Mr. Gabel has also published many articles on African agricultural systems, food, energy, and planning in a variety of journals, magazines, and books. Mr. Gabel has also directed the development of three computer software applications-an interactive atlas program called Global Recall, a statistical database program called Global Data Manager, (the latest version of which contains the world's largest collection of socioeconomic and environmental statistical indicators ever collected), and the Internet-based global simulation NetWorld Game (which is the world's first Internet-based interactive global problem-solving tool). Mr. Gabel has been a consultant to the US State Department, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, USAID, the governments of Tanzania, Costa Rica, and The Netherlands, and the Governor's Energy Council of Pennsylvania. He has lectured and given workshops at more than one hundred universities, including Harvard Business School, Yale, Princeton, and the Universities of Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Southern California. Mr. Gabel regularly designs and conducts workshops on globalization for executives from Motorola in their Global Institute for Managers and for various divisions of General Motors, including GM Mexico, GMIO, GMNAO, GM Delphi, GM Powertrain, and GM Public Policy Center. He has also designed and delivered similar programs to executives or government leaders at the United Nations, the World Bank, the US Congress, The Japan Junior Chamber of Commerce, YPO, and at IBM, British Airways, DuPont, Cigna, Astra-Merck, Chase Manhattan, AT&T, MasterCard, Rohm and Haas, American Express, BellSouth, CompuServe, Batelle, ChemAbstracts, OCLC, Detroit Edison, and more than 20 other corporations.")
cnt(A4597,"Mayeul Kauffmann teaches economics at Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble. He has PhD in International Economics. He is a member of the CESICE (Center for studies on international security and European cooperations). His main researches are in the fields of peace and defence economics and of econometric analyses that are usefull to it.")
cnt(A4596,"Max Boisot is Professor of Strategic Management at E.S.A.D.E. in Barcelona, Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Associate Fellow at Templeton College, Oxford. He holds an MSc in Management from M.I.T. as well as a doctorate in technology transfer from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London University. From 1984 to 1989 he was dean and director of the China-EC Management Program, the first MBA programme to be run in the People's Republic of China in Beijing. The program has today evolved into the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Since 1994 he has set up the Euro-Arab Management School in Granada, Spain, for the EU Commission. Max Boisot has carried out consultancy and training assignments for a number of multinational firms -- BP exploration, GEC-Alsthom, Thomson CFS, UBS, are the most recent ones -- in the field of international management and technology strategy. His current research into knowledge management and competence building is being conducted at the Wharton School, where he is a visiting research fellow. In addition to his China experience, Max Boisot has taught in Japan, the US, Hong Kong, South East Asia, the Middle East, Russia and France. He is the author of Information and Organizations, (1987, Harper Collins), Information Space: a framework for analyzing learning in organizations, institutions, and cultures (1995, Routledge), and Knowledge Assets : Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy (1998, Oxford University Press)")
cnt(A4595,"Maureen K. Porter is an Assistant Professor of educational anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research, service-learning work, and teaching center on transformations through situated learning in communities of practice. She continues to lead service-learning courses that connect undergraduate, graduate, staff, and faculty in innovative ways and create meaningful, reciprocal ties with others in the global village.")
cnt(A4594,"Dr. Matthias Ruth is the Director of the Environmental Policy Program at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy. His research focuses on dynamic modeling of nonrenewable and renewable resource use, industrial and infrastructure systems analysis, and environmental economics and policy. Over the last decade, Professor Ruth has published 5 books and approximately 50 papers and book chapters in the scientific literature. He collaborates extensively with scientists and policymakers in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa. Professor Ruth's recent interdisciplinary research projects include an assessment of impacts of climate change policies on selected industries, their technology choice, resource use and emissions, and an integrated assessment of climate change impacts on infrastructure systems and services with specific focus on the Boston Metropolitan Area. The former project is targeted towards an identification of "smart" industrial, energy and climate change policies-policies that promote significant efficiency improvements in industry without jeopardizing economic performance. The latter project involves collaboration with more than 20 researchers from the social and engineering sciences, planners, policymakers, and the public, with the goal of generating consensus about mitigation and adaptation strategies to address climate change in an urban context. Professor Ruth teaches nationally and internationally courses and seminars on economic geography, microeconomics and policy analysis, ecological economics, industrial ecology and dynamic modeling at the undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. levels, and on occasion conducts short courses for decision-makers in industry and policy.")
cnt(A4593,"Mats Benner is a Docent in sociology. He is presently an Associate Professor at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests are in research organization and management, as well as science and technology policy. Among his recent publications are "Institutionalizing the triple helix: research funding and norms in the academic system" (2000) Research Policy 2, 291-301 (with Ulf Sandström), and "Inertia and Change in the Scandinavian Public Sector Research Systems: the Case of Biotechnology " (2000) Science and Public Policy 27 (6), 443-454 (with Ulf Sandström).")
cnt(A4592,"Dr. Matthias Ruth is the Director of the Environmental Policy Program at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy. His research focuses on dynamic modeling of non-renewable and renewable resource use, industrial and infrastructure systems analysis, and environmental economics and policy. Over the last decade, Professor Ruth has published five books and approximately 50 papers and book chapters in the scientific literature. He collaborates extensively with scientists and policy makers in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa. Professor Ruth's most recent interdisciplinary research projects include an assessment of impacts of climate change policies on selected industries, their technology choice, resource use and emissions, and an integrated assessment of climate change impacts on infrastructure systems and services with specific focus on the Boston Metropolitan Area. The former project is targeted towards an identification of "smart" industrial, energy and climate change policies-policies that promote significant efficiency improvements in industry without jeopardizing economic performance. The latter project involves collaboration with more than 20 researchers from the social and engineering sciences, planners, policy makers and the public with the goal of generating consensus about mitigation and adaptation strategies to address climate change in an urban context. Professor Ruth teaches nationally and internationally, courses and seminars on economic geography, microeconomics and policy analysis, ecological economics, industrial ecology and dynamic modeling at the undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. levels, and on occasion conducts short courses for decision-makers in industry and policy.")
cnt(A4591,"Massimo d'Angelo graduated in Forestry, and is an adjunct Professor of Forest Biometry, and researcher of the NRD (Nucleo Ricerca Desertificazione - Desertification Research Group) of the University of Sassari (Italy). Currently he is also an Officer at the Ente Foreste della Sardegna (Regional Forestry Agency of Sardinia). He has 15 years of experience in remote sensing applications for land evaluation and management, and is the author of more than 50 publications.")
cnt(A4590,"Mason Simon A. M.Sc. Environmental Science, ETH Zurich. Trained as mediator in the Modular Mediation Course of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA/COPRET/INMEDIO). Research assistant at the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, ETH Zurich, in the "Environmental Change and Conflict Transformation" Project of the NCCR North South. PhD thesis on environment and cooperation in the Nile Basin.")
cnt(A4589,"Dr. Masato Ikegami is a professor at Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his master's degree in Agriculture and Biological Sciences at Osaka Prefecture University, Japan and Ph.D. in Plant Pathology in University of Adelaide, Australia. He joined Department of Molecular Biology and virus Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois and then NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture in 1983 as a lecturer in Biotechnology, becoming an associate professor in 1986, and then professor in 1989. He joined Tohoku University as a professor of Plant Pathology in 2002.")
cnt(A4588,"Masahiro Takahashi is a Research Associate/Project Manager at the Environmental Education of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). He is currently working on institutionalization of environmental education in Northeast Asian countries. He got his M.A. (Edu.) from Saitama University Graduate School of Education, Japan. His specialty is in the historical movement of environmental education in Japan.")
cnt(A4587,"Masahiro Onishi, born in 1976, is a son of Akira ONISHI and research fellow of The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering. He got Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus. Kanagawa-ken , Japan. He is interested in designing innovative electric vehicles, in particular, to reduce global warming gas and the sustainable development of the global economy. He has collaborated with the UNESCO-EOLSS project by assisting his father in his work as an Honorary Theme Editor. It is worth noting that Japan is widely known in the field of pioneering research and development of electric vehicles. By the middle of the 21st century, it is reasonably expected that electric vehicles, including hybrid cars, will replace the present internal combustion engine vehicles. He is working for not only designing innovative electric vehicles, but also developing driver assist systems, in particular, for elderly persons. In the developed countries, it is seen that aging society has already come to a considerable size. This is why he has made greater efforts to design innovative vehicles for safety of human life in the sustainable development of our global society.")
cnt(A4586,"Masaharu Fukue has B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in civil engineering from Tokai University, Japan and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He joined a consultant firm for a short period and then moved to Tokai University. He has given courses in geoenvironmental engineering, hydrospheric environment, shipboard oceanographic laboratory and submarine geotechnology. He is a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, International Society for Terrain-Vehicle System, Japanese Society for Civil Engineers, The Japanese Geotechnical Society and The Japan Society of Waste Management Experts. He served as a chief editor for Japanese Standards for Soil Testing Methods and for "Japanese Standards for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Investigation Methods. He also served as a director of the Standard Division and a member of the Board of Directors, of the Japanese Geotechnical Society. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the American journal "Marine Georesources and Geotechnology". He is currently a chair of the Organizing Committee of 3rd International Symposium on Contaminated Sediments, sponsored by ASTM, ISCS2006-Shizuoka, Japan. He is also an advocate and a promoter of "Annual Symposium on Sea and Living Things and Rehabilitation of Coastal Environment, Japan". He has sponsored Marine Geoenvironmental Research Association in Japan. He invented a filtration system for seawater using a 2500 ton large barge and performed a field experiment using the system for seawater purification in a small bay. He has published more than 300 scientific papers on qualities of seawater, sediments and soils.")
cnt(A4585,"Martin Shaw (1947-), who previously held a chair of sociology at Hull University, has been Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, England, since 1995. His books include Theory of the Global State (2000), Civil Society and Media in Global Crises (1996), Global Society and International Relations (1994) and Post-Military Society (1991). He edits the critical social science portal www.theglobalsite.ac.uk and a personal website at www.martinshaw.org. Email: m.shaw@sussex.ac.uk.")
cnt(A4584,"Martin Paul O'Connor is from Christchurch, New Zealand, and studied physics and humanities in his native country and in Paris. After completing his Ph.D. in economics (Time and Environment) at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, he was for several years a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Auckland before taking up a professorial position at the University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) in Paris, in 1995. He has research degrees in physics, sociology and economics, and specializes in interdisciplinary work in ecological economics theory, development theory, environmental policy and social sciences epistemology. In New Zealand during the 1980s he was active in a range of critical and consulting studies including public policy, environmental and social impact assessments, energy and banking sector studies, in parallel to academic teaching and writing. Since 1995, as Project Manager at the C3ED (Centre d´Economie et d´Ethique pour l´Environnement et le Développement) research institute, he has participated in numerous French and European studies in the environmental valuation, green accounting, scenario studies, integrated assessment, risk and water governance fields. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards for the journals Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS) and Environmental Values, and currently edits the interdisciplinary International Journal of Water (IJW), published by Inderscience. With colleagues he is active in the development of international teaching networks, notably through the 3E-SDP (European Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development Policy) program including North-South cooperation.")
cnt(A4583,"Martin Medina received his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Yale University and his Master's of Science from the University of North Carolina. He has collaborated with non-governmental organizations, governments, and private, academic, and international organizations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. His areas of interest are waste management, sanitation, and industrial ecology. He has received numerous grants and awards, such as a finalist award in the Bremen Partnership Award, a finalist award in the Global Development Research Medal Award, and second place in the Global Development Outstanding Research Award in 2002. He has published widely on community-based solid waste management systems in the developing world. He is currently professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in Tijuana, Mexico.")
cnt(A4582,"Dr. Martin F. Price is Director of the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College, UK, and an academic partner of the developing University of the Highlands and Islands, UK. His research focuses on the interactions of resident and visiting people with mountain environments, and policies for the management of these environments. He has published numerous papers on these topics, and on the human dimensions of environmental change. He is author of Mountain Research in Europe (UNESCO and Parthenon, 1995), and editor of books including Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development: A State-of-knowledge Report for 2000 (CAB International, 2000), People and Tourism in Fragile Environments (John Wiley, 1996), and Mountain Environments and Geographic Information Systems (Taylor and Francis, 1994). He is chairman of the Royal Geographical Society's Mountain Research Group, the Board of the European Mountain Forum, and the Committee of Management of the Mount Everest Foundation, and Vice-Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institut de la Montagne, Chambéry, France.")
cnt(A4581,"Marni Berg is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University. She has written several articles on environmental activism and environmental protection in Hungary. She is currently doing research on the impact of EU accession and of external sources on environmental policy in Hungary. Future plans include research in the Czech Republic and Slovenia, as well as a continuation of work in Hungary with regard to state-society relations and the rebirth of civil society. She is interested in evaluating the democratization process in these countries through the examination of public participation in voluntary associations, and whether or not these associations have access to policy makers and the ability to influence policy outcomes.")
cnt(A4580,"Markus Amann obtained his Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1991. He was a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) from 19851991, and since 1991 he has been the Leader of the Transboundary Air Pollution Project.")
cnt(A4579,"Dr Mark Whitehead is a lecturer in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Mark's research focuses on the links between nature, the environment and social change, with particular emphasis on the role of environmental processes within urban development. His PhD, which he completed in 2000, looked at urban-based environmental groups in the UK. Subsequent to his PhD, Mark has carried out research looking at the links between urban development and environmental protest in Central and Eastern Europe. This project was financed and supported by the Royal Geographical (with the Institute of British Geographers). More recently Mark has been involved in series of projects looking at health policy and the links between health and the environment throughout Wales.")
cnt(A4578,"Mark Peterson majored in environmental science with a minor in chemistry at the University of Calgary. His primary area of interest focuses on the effects of industrial pollutants on terrestrial biological systems. Mark is currently employed in the private sector researching the impact of contaminants on the environment.")
cnt(A4577,"Mark Paich has over 25 years of experience in building dynamic business models. He has a BA in political economy from Colorado College, an MA in economics from the University of Colorado, and a PHD in system dynamics from MIT. Mark's specialty is the dynamics of new industry creation and he has worked extensively in telematics (GM Onstar system), Digital radio (XM and WorldSpace), fuel cell and hybrid vehicles (GM), and various pharmaceutical products. Selected clients include General Motors, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and the Department of Defense. Mark was senior specialist at McKinsey & Co. from 1998-2001. A number of his consulting projects are described in John Sterman's book Business Dynamics. Mark taught economics, finance, and business strategy at Colorado College for 25 years and is a frequent guest lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In 2000, Mark and his co-authors from GM placed second in the 2001 Edelman competition for the best work in operations research and management science.")
cnt(A4576,"Mark L. Seasons is an Assistant Professor with the School of Planning, University of Waterloo. He joined the University in 1998 following twenty years of professional planning experience in Alberta, Ontario and New Zealand. Mark holds the degrees of Master of Environmental Design in Planning from the University of Calgary, and a PhD in Regional Planning and Resource Development from the University of Waterloo. He was President of the Canadian Institute of Planners (2000-2001), and he is a member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute, the Canadian Evaluation Society, and the Canadian Regional Science Association.")
cnt(A4575,"Professor Mark Goodwin is Director of the Centre for Policy Research and Evaluation, and Professor of Human Geography, in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has a particular research interest in issues of local and regional governance, and has directed research projects on this theme for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the National Assembly for Wales as well as for a number of Development Agencies, TECs and Local Authorities. He is currently directing research projects on "Economic Governance under Devolution" for the Economic and Social Research Council, and on "Community Involvement in Rural Health Care" for the National Assembly for Wales. He has published widely on the themes of regulation and governance, including a recent book, Partnership Working in Rural Regeneration, for The Policy Press and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.")
cnt(A4574,"Mark de Haan obtained his masters degree in economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, his main subjects being macroeconomics and environmental sciences. In 1992, he started his professional career at Statistics Netherlands with the development of the National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA), an environmental information system that has been adopted by many other countries. He has published articles on environmental accounting, integrated economic and environmental analysis, and on the incorporation of environmental issues into macroeconomic models. He also contributed to the revision of a statistical handbook on integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA 2000). Currently, he is employed in the research department of the Division of Macroeconomic Statistics and Dissemination of Statistics Netherlands, where he is responsible for research in national accounts methodology and satellite accounting.")
cnt(A4573,"Mark A. Drumbl, assistant professor, Washington & Lee University, School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, USA; B.A. 1989 McGill University; M.A. 1992 Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris/McGill University; J.D. 1994 University of Toronto; LL.M. 1998 Columbia University.")
cnt(A4572,"Dr. Maristela Monteiro is the coordinator of the unit on Management of Substance Dependence of the Mental Health and Substance Dependence Department at the World Health Organization. She has been working for over eight years in WHO in the area of alcohol and drug abuse epidemiology and treatment, capacity building for the evaluation of treatment, prevention of alcohol and other drug related problems. This includes Dr. Monteiro's work as part of the WHO Task Force on Alcohol Policy. She is coordinating several multinational projects, including those in the areas of neuroscience of addiction, alcohol and injuries, alcohol epidemiology, brief interventions for drug and alcohol problems, health consequences of amphetamine type stimulants, evaluation of substitution treatment, injection drug use, and prevention of HIV among drug users. Dr. Monteiro is a medical doctor with a Ph.D. in psychopharmacology and postdoctoral research training at the University of California, San Diego. She is an associate professor of psychopharmacology at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil (on leave of absence), and has undertaken research on biological markers of alcohol abuse and dependence. Dr. Monteiro is the author of over 80 publications in peer reviewed journals and books.")
cnt(A4571,"Marisa I. Carmona was educated in Chile. She acquired practical experience in policy making, planning and building when she was head of the office for Human Settlements in the Ministry of Housing in Chile. Since 1974 she has been teaching at the Delft University of Technology and has gained experience in project formulation and project assessment, especially concerned with land, housing and infrastructure in Africa and Latin America. Her doctoral research dealt with a Decision Support System for Urban Restructuring in the framework of the sustainable city approach. She is Associated Professor at the Faculty of Architecture Delft, and coordinate the Studio Globalisation and the International Research Network IBIS "Globalisation, Urban Form and Governance". She is member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations/Habitat: Global Research Network in Human Settlements.")
cnt(A4570,"Marion Maddox has completed a Ph.D. in theology from University of Flinders, Australia (1992), and a second Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of New South Wales, Australia (2000). She has published widely on the intersections of religion and politics, including For God and Country: Religious Dynamics in Australian Federal Politics (2001). Dr. Maddox is currently senior lecturer in religious studies at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.")
cnt(A4569,"Dr. Mario Coyula-Cowley is an architect, urban designer, and author. He is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Architecture, José A. Echeverría University Center (CUJAE) and also a consultant and former director of the Group for the Integral Development of Havana. Along with these positions he was also the former director of the School of Architecture, CUJAE; of the Architecture and Urbanism department of Havana City; and first president of Havana´s Landmarks Commission. In 2001 he received the National Prize of Architecture and the National Habitat Prize in 2004. He was the co-author of two contest-winning monuments, both receiving in 1990 the SIARIN prize, "30 Years of Cuban Revolutionary Architecture." He co-authored the book Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis that received the American Library Association's Choice prize for Outstanding Academic Books, and authored and co-authored five others books, along with more than 175 essays, articles, and reviews in 16 Cuban and 23 foreign journals. He is a member of the editorial boards of Arquitectura y Urbanismo and Revista Bimestre Cubana (both published in Havana) and Topos (Belo Horizonte). Dr. Coyula has also lectured and taught workshops and short courses in Latin America, Europe and the US. He is a Fellow of the Special Interests Group on the Urban Settlements Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of an international research group on architecture and infrastructures (GRAI) based in Paris-Versailles. He has been working since 2000 in urban design studios with the Harvard Graduate School of Design and in 2002 he was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor there. He is a member of the National Council of the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists, the head of the jury for docent categories at the Faculty of Architecture, and a member of other academic, scientific and artistic committees and commissions, including the Cuban Academy of Sciences.")
cnt(A4568,"Mario Cogoy studied philosophy, sociology, and economics at the Universities of Pisa, Freiburg, and Frankfurt. Previously Professor for Sociology at the University of Frankfurt. Since 1988 Professor for International Economics at the University of Trieste. Visiting Professor in Leuven and Graz. Research activities for ENEA (Rome) on rational energy use and energy conservation. Research interests in Environmental and Resource Economics, in the Economics of Consumption and in Materials Flow Analysis.")
cnt(A4567,"Marie-France Jarret is assistant professor in economics at the University of Maine, France. She teaches development economics, international trade and European integration thought in graduate and postgraduate programs. She obtained a Master of Economics degree at Grenoble-II University and a Ph.D. at the same university, after two years spent at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She also taught at the University of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, from 1979 to 1991. She has written books on economics and public economics, and papers on economic development in academic reviews. She is carrying out research as an associate member of the Centre d'économie et d'éthique pour l'environnement et le développement (C3ED), France.")
cnt(A4566,"Mariachiara Tallacchini teaches science, technology and the law in the Law Faculty at the Catholic University of Piacenza, Italy, and bioethics in the Faculty of Biotechnology at the State University of Milan, Italy. In 1997, she took part in the European Technological Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States (TACIS) program in Kyrgyzstan. She collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office in Rome on environment and health. In 2000, Dr. Tallacchini was appointed as a representative for the U.N. of Geneva in the Working Group on Responsibilities and Liabilities for the Revision of the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Water Convention and the UNECE Accident Convention. She has been a fellow at Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), working on the constitutional implications of technological change. Dr. Tallacchini is the author and/or editor of several books on the environment, biotechnology, and the law, including Law for Nature (1996); Land Ethics (1998); Biotechnology and Informed Consent (1999); A Legal Code for Animals (2001); and Science and Law: The Relationship among Institutions, Experts and the Public in Biotechnology (2001). Dr. Tallacchini has also published more than 70 articles.")
cnt(A4565,"Maria Choy joined the Land Transport Authority of Singapore as its Director of Policy when it was formed in 1997. Since graduating from the University of Singapore in 1973, she served in the Administrative Service of Singapore from 1973 to 1997 and was involved in policy reviews, development and implementation in various ministries, namely the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Communications. She now holds the appointment of the Director of the Vehicle & Transit Licensing Division in the Land Transport Authority.")
cnt(A4564,"Marcus Stewen, born 1969, economist (Dipl. Volkswirt). He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany, as well as at the University of Glasgow; PhD in Economics. His research emphases are environmental economics, environmental policy, the economics of material flows and environment and distribution. He is currently working at the KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) in the field of development economics and financial cooperation.")
cnt(A4563,"Marcus Bussey is a teacher and musician, and has written numerous articles and reviews on futures, futures education, holistic education, neo-humanist education, artistic practice, culture, history, Montessori education, and cognitive theory.")
cnt(A4562,"Marco Antonio Placido de Almeida is a Civil Engineer, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of School of Civil Engineering and School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo. He completed his PhD in civil engineering at the Escola Politecnica of the University of Sao Paulo, USP. With Werna; Abiko, et al., he co-edited "Pluralismo na Habitação" (2000, Annablume), a case study from many new models of housing offering in Brasil. Professor Almeida's research purposes are focused in slums and upgraded slums. His interests also include environmental engineering and urbanism.")
cnt(A4561,"Marc A. Williams is Professor of International Relations, School of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has also taught at the University of Sussex, and the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University. He has published books on the Third World in international politics, international economic organizations, and social movements and world politics. His recent publications have focused on global environmental politics, and the political economy of the world trading system.")
cnt(A4560,"Manuel Winograd, has a Masters degree in Population Biology from Paris-7 University (France), a specialization degree in Environmental Sciences from the National Engineer School (Paris, France) and a PhD degree in Tropical Ecology from Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France). He was research fellow at the Institute of International Vegetation Map (Toulouse, France), associated researcher in the Ecological Systems Analysis Group at Fundacion Bariloche (Bariloche, Argentina) and international fellow at the World Resources Institute (Washignton, D.C., USA). He is currently senior researcher in the Land Use Unit at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Cali, Colombia) and visiting scientist at the Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developement (CIRAD, Montpellier, France). He served as consultant for many international, regional and national institutions among others the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program, the Inter-American Institute for Agriculture Cooperation, the United Nations Development Program the World Resources Institute and the Organization of American States. He was coordinator of different projects on sustainability indicators, rural development and environmental assessment in Latin America. He is author and co-author of different books; chapters, scientific articles and information products on sustainability and environmental indicators, decision-making tools and information, land use models and scenarios, rural development and agriculture and environmental assessment and monitoring. He developed the first series of CD-ROMs to use indicators and develop information for the Latin American region.")
cnt(A4559,"Manuel V. Heitor is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Technical University of Lisbon). Heitor has also served as the Deputy-President of IST for the period 1993-1998. He is the director of the IST´s M.Sc. Program on Engineering Policy and Management of Technology, which he launched in 1998. He is co-founder and current director of the IST´s Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research. In 1999, he was appointed as the National Coordinator of the Evaluation of Research Units by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology, and coordinated the evaluation of the Mechanical Engineering panel in 1996. He is co-editor of several books (Combusting Flow Diagnostics, published in 1992 by Kluwer Academic, and Unsteady Combustion, published by Kluwer Academic in 1996) and is the author of several scientific papers in the area of experimental combustion and related energy aspects. Since 1986, he has been a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conferences on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics. He is co-author of New Ideas for the University (in Portuguese), published in 1998 by IST Press. He is also co-editor of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century, published in 1999 by QUORUM Publishing. His current interests include the management of technology and the development of engineering and innovation policies. Since 1995, he has been a Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute, Innovation, Creativity and Capital, at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, and has also been a member of the Advisory Board of Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He has co-ordinated the Organizing Committee of the series of International Conferences on Technology Policy and Innovation, which have been organized annually since 1997. He can be reached at the address given at the beginning of this article. His e-mail address is: mheitor@dem.ist.utl.pt")
cnt(A4558,"Mannes Poel is faculty member of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Utrecht. After his Ph.D. he was visitor at MIT. His current research interests are design and verification of neural networks and AI-systems.")
cnt(A4557,"Mammo Muchie is a visting professor at the Centre for Development and International Relations, Aalborg University. He is Ethiopian but has worked in various universities in the UK, Holland and Denmark. He specialises in science, technology for development, development theory, environment and development and African systems of innovation. He has published regularly in NewAfrican, searching for new theories and approaches to bring about rapid development in Africa using emancipatory research methodologies to produce the concept of emancipated Africa.")
cnt(A4556,"Maia An is an International Fellow of the American Association of University Women. She studies social implications of technology transfer in countries in transition at Drexel University. Her research focuses on the role of women in technology advancement. She worked as a program coordinator at the Civil Society Development Foundation in Budapest, Hungary. She completed her MSc in environmental sciences and policy at the Central European University and holds a BA in Agricultural Management from the Agrarian Academy in Kyrgyz Republic. Her graduation thesis analyzed the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environments of countries in transition. She has also published a paper on FDI in the mining industry in cooperation with the CEE Bankwatch. Her interests include economics of development, environmental policy, strategic environmental impact assessment, and public policy.")
cnt(A4555,"Maguoqing (male) is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University.")
cnt(A4554,"Macrin Gabriel Desa was born in Romania in 1974. He completed his secondary education in Bucharest. In 1993 he was admitted to the Aerospace Engineering Institute from Bucharest, and graduated in 1998, with specialization in avionics. However, from his second year of study he became an active member of an environmental organization, Ecosens, where he soon become project coordinator for an international initiative dealing with the environmental implications of projects financed by International Financial Institutions in Romania. He completed his education with a one year Master degree in sustainable ecology, a program of the University of Bucharest. In 1999 he received a grant from Open Society Institute for a second masters degree in "Environmental Sciences and Policy". After completing his studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, he returned to Romania where he holds different management positions, as a director of a small fine art transport company, and as an industrial organizer at Michelin Romania.")
cnt(A4553,"M. Shimizu started his research work in the Fisheries course of the Biological Division of the Postgraduate School of University of Tokyo, in the field of marine radioecology, particularly on the uptake, accumulation and loss of radionuclides in marine organisms. After finishing the course in 1963, he obtained a position in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, first as Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor and finally Professor (he retired in 1996). In his research, the target was gradually expanded to include not only radionuclides but also heavy metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons such as PCBs. Meanwhile from around 1970, he started a study on pollution of Tokyo Bay and pursued the relationship between environmental changes and fisheries resources. Analyses of fisheries statistics and field survey were carried out, including experimental trawls, to obtain information on the distribution of bay organisms. Shimizu has attended many international scientific meetings. He was a member of CRESP (Co-ordinate Research and Environmental Surveillance Programme related to Sea Disposal of Radioactive Wastes) of OECD/NEA from 1986 to 1996, as the representative of Japan and the leader of the Biology Task Group from 1987 to 1991. He also joined the Committee of Marine Environmental Quality of North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) and was a member for seven years since 1993 as a Japanese delegate. At present he is a member of the Central Environment Council (Ministry of Environment) and also of many other committees on marine environmental issues of national and local governments.")
cnt(A4552,"Pasquale M. Sgro is Professor of Economics at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has held numerous teaching and research positions at universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas. His research interests are in the areas of international trade and economic development where he has published a number of books and numerous journal articles. He is founding co-editor of the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, published by Routledge (UK).")
cnt(A4551,"M. R. Bhagavan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Before joining the SEI, he was working as a Senior Research Adviser in the Science, Technology and Industrialisation Section of the Division for Research Cooperation (SAREC) in the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). He is a policy researcher, of many years standing, in technology and energy policies in the context of developing countries, in particular Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. While at Sida/SAREC, he initiated and looked after, inter alia, large research cooperation programmes in Asia and Africa. M. R. Bhagavan took a doctorate degree in physics from the University of Munich. He worked for ten years as a university teacher in physics and mathematics in the universities of Manchester and London, before switching to development studies in the areas of science, technology and industrialisation, which he taught for several years in the universities at Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and Lusaka in Zambia. He spent a year as an energy policy expert in Luanda in Angola, appointed by the European Economic Commission /EEC (now the European Union/EU), Brussels, to assist the energy secretariat of the Southern African Development Cooperation Conference/SADCC (now the Southern African Development Community/SADC). Dr. Bhagavan has spent brief periods as a visiting researcher and professor in research institutions in Western Europe and India. He has worked as a consultant to ILO, UNCTAD, UNIDO and WIDER/UNU.")
cnt(A4550,"M.P. Eppling has been a scientific technical writer and editor for many years, a student in the graduate Department of Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and a research associate of Prof. Archer's.")
cnt(A4549,"M. Gamini Dissanayake Dr. Dissanayake obtained his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Environmental Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 1977 and 1981 respectively. Since then he has worked for a number of institutions and universities including United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), University of Calgary, University of Paraiba, Brazil and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). His research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and management. Currently he is attached to a private sector environmental management company in Calgary, Canada.")
cnt(A4548,"M. C. Patricia Morales studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and Goethe University in Frankfurt. She obtained her Ph.D in 1996 at the University of Buenos Aires with her thesis "Derechos humanos y etica de la responsabilidad solidaria." As assistant to Prof. Ruud Lubbers for Human Rights at Tilburg University (1998-2000), she became involved in the Earth Charter process, participating in the research program and the organzation of conferences. They worked on a Glossary on Global Principles for the Earth Charter (www.globalize.org) among other activities. She is Academic Coordinator of the Earth Charter at Globus Institute at Tilburg University and Cedar International. She is editor of Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Global Interdependence (1994), Towards Global Human Rights (1996), and Pueblos indigenas, derechos humanos e interdependencia global (2000).")
cnt(A4547,"Lynton Keith Caldwell (M.A. Harvard University, 1938; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1943) is Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Emeritus Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, USA. He has pursued a broad and varied agenda of scholarship and public service. His first book, The Administrative Theories of Hamilton and Jefferson (1944), has twice been reprinted (1966 and 1986). Since the early 1960s his interests have been concentrated in public policy for science, technology, and the environment. He has combined academic activities with extensive involvement in public affairs, primarily at national and international levels, including assignments with the United Nations and UNESCO. He was one of the principal drafters of the United States National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Thus, he is able to bring direct contact with the world of governmental and international affairs into his teaching, research, and published work. Caldwell has authored 12 books, in excess of 250 articles in refereed journals, and numerous reports and reviews for public and international agencies. His published work may be found in as many as nineteen different languages. Recent books include The National Environmental Policy Act: Agenda for the Future (1999); International Environmental Policy (3rd rev. edn. 1996); with Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Policy for Land: Law and Ethics (1993); Between Two Worlds: Science, the Environment Movement, and Policy Choice (1990); Biocracy: Public Policy and the Life Sciences (1987); Science and the National Environmental Policy Act (1982); and In Defense of Earth (1972). An anthology of his pioneering articles on Environment as a Focus for Public Policy (1995) was selected for the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Books from the American Library Association.")
cnt(A4546,"Lydia Krüger (MA politics, MA sociology) is a Ph.D. student at the University of Trier and works at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Trier. Her fields of research are development theory, sociology of money and finance.")
cnt(A4545,"Luisa Leonini is professor of sociology at Milan State University, Italy. She is chair of the M A in Communication and Society at the Faculty of Political Science. Professor Leonini's research and teaching interests are focoused in a number of areas. One is consumption with particoular interest in gender and sub-cultural differences in patterns of consumption and life styles. A second area of interest is the globalization of markets and the consequences on individuals everyday life in contemporary multiethnic societies. She has written several books and articles on these subjects.")
cnt(A4544,"Luis Enrique Sánchez graduated in Mining Engineering (in 1980) and in Geography (in 1984) both from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. After working for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, he under-took postgraduate studies in Mining in the École des Mines de Nancy, France and received his Ph.D. in the Economics of Natural Resources and Development from the École des Mines de Paris, France, in 1989. His thesis dealt with the roles of environmental impact assessment of mining projects. Having worked as an environmental consultant in São Paulo, he joined the Department of Mining Engineering of the Escola Politécnica, University of São Paulo, in 1990, teaching environmental planning and management. In 1996-7 he worked as invited lecturer with the Department of Geography, University of Montreal, Canada. Professor Sánchez has published papers on subjects such as the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment, corporate strategies to tackle sustainable development challenges, environmental indicators, environmental liabilities, contaminated soils, caves and karst environments, the environmental impacts of mining, and acid mining drainage. He authored a book on environmental liabilities arising from decommissioning industrial plants (published in Portuguese in 2001 by the University of São Paulo Press, Edusp). He lectured at the UNESCO short courses on Geological Aspects of Environmental Protection, held at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1995 and 2000, and wrote several chapters of the companion book (in Spanish). He is a member of national and international professional organizations, including the International Association of Impact Assessment, where he acted as director from 1998 to 2001. He is also a fellow of Lead - Leadership for Sustainable Development. As a caver and environmental activist he participated in several campaigns in Brazil in the late 1970s and early 1980s.")
cnt(A4543,"Luis A. Camacho completed his M.A. at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and his Ph.D. at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1973. He was a full-time professor at the University of Costa Rica from 1972 to 2002. After retiring, he has continued as an ad honorem professor at that university. Dr. Camacho has authored several books including Introducción a la lógica, Lógica Simbólica Básica, Filosofía para la Educación Diversificada, Cultura y Desarrollo, Ciencia,Tecnología en el Subdesarrollo. He has also written over 30 articles on logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and the relation between science, technology, and development. Dr. Camacho is the president of the Costa Rican Philosophical Association and a founding member of the International Development Ethics Association.")
cnt(A4542,"Lucy Law Webster is Senior Fellow of the Institute for Global Policy and the UN NGO representative of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR) where she is also a member of the Board of Directors. From 1981 to 1995 she worked in various parts of the United Nations secretariat. She was an information consultant in UNICEF, UNDP and UNEP and then Special Assistant to the Secretary General of the Second World Conference to Combat Racism. From 1988 until her UN retirement she was a Political Affairs Officer serving as Assistant Secretary of the First Committee of the General Assembly, as Secretary of the UN Disarmament Commission Working Group on Science and Technology for Disarmament and Development, as Editor of two UN publications concerning disarmament, and as the press and NGO liaison officer for the 1990 and the 1995 NPT Review Conferences. After leaving the UN Secretariat she worked as a staff director of ECAAR. Prior to joining the UN secretariat she worked in international opinion and marketing research based in London England and as an honorary officer of the World Federalist Movement. She has a BA degree in Political Science from Wellesley College, an MSc in International Relations from Long Island University and is currently a student in the Economics Department of the Graduate Faculty of the New School University in New York City.")
cnt(A4541,"Lu Yao. Female. Born in 1972. Ph. D. Associate Professor at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Graduated form China Agriculture University, majored in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD). Main research field includes: resources and environmental economics, non-point sources pollution (NPSP).")
cnt(A4540,"Lu Longhua was born in December 1942, in Shanghai city, P. R. China. He is a Chinese national. He is presently Professor of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Director of Polar Meteorology Research Laboratory (PMRL), CAMS, and a member of the academic committee in CAMS. From 1960 to 1965 he attended at the Department of Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology (NIM). From 1965 to 1979 he was Researcher at Academy of Meteorological Science ,State Meteorological Administration . 1979 to 1985:Lecturer in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Meteorology at Academy of Meteorological Science. 1985 to 1987: visiting scholar in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Meteorology and Mathematics and its application in weather and climate research at Atmospheric Science Department, Colorado State University and Meteorological Department, Wisconsin University, USA. 1987 to present: Director of Polar Meteorology Research Laboratory (PMRL), CAMS. 1988 to 1989: The Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHNARE V ). 1987 to 1997: Associate Professor in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Meteorology and Polar meteorology and global change at CAMS . 1997 to present: Professor in Polar meteorology and global change, Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Meteorology, Atmospheric boundary layer and Atmospheric environment at CAMS. 1999 to 2000: The Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHNARE XVI ). Focus of past and present research work: major research works include Tibetan Plateau Meteorology, Antarctic Expedition, Polar meteorology and global change, and mathematics and its application in weather and climate research. More than 160 academic papers have been published.")
cnt(A4539,"Louise K. Comfort is a Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her teaching areas are organizational theory, information technology for public management, and policy design. She has done field research on organizational response and information processes in disaster operations following 14 earthquakes in 10 nations. She holds degrees in political science from Macalester College (BA); University of California, Berkeley (MA), and Yale University (PhD). She is the author of Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response. 1999. New York: Pergamon Press.")
cnt(A4538,"Lorna M Wilson is a graduate in International Relations from the University of Aberdeen.")
cnt(A4537,"Lorenza Saitta is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Avanzate (DI.S.T.A) of the University Amedeo Avogadro, an offspring of the University of Torino recently founded in Estern Piemonte (Italy). She started her research activity in Pattern Recognition, moving soon to AI, specifically in the area of Fuzzy Logic for Expert Systems. In 1984 she started working in Machine Learning, thus initiating the reaserch in the field in Italy. Herfirst interests have been in inductive symbolic approaches. In this period, she and her research group developed the systems ML-SMART and RIGEL, which learn first-order logic concept descriptions, and have been applied to real-world industrial problems. Later, she worked on the integration of different learning strategies, involving more complex reasoning schemes, such as deduction and abduction Of this period is the implementation of the system WHY, which exploits examples and a causal model of the domain to acquire and revise first-order logic based diagnostic knowledge. More recently, she became interested in Genetic Algorithms (system REGAL) and in Cognitive Sciences. She is an Action Editor for the Machine Learning Journal, the Convener of the Research Technical Committee of the CEE founded Network Excellence for Machine Learning and Co-Director of the European Science Foundation project on Learning in Humans and Machines. She has also been responsible of, or participated to, several European Research projects. She gave an invited survey on Machine Learning at ECAI-92, and has been Invited Speaker to the Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-93), the European Conf. on Machine Learning (ECML-94), the Int. Workshop in Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-94) and the Int. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (1994) and will give an invited talk at the 3rd Multistrategy Learning Workshop (1996). She authored (or edited) three books and more than 100 papers in journals, books and international conferences. She is (or has been) member of various journals Editorial Board and of many International Conferences Program Committees, as, for instance, the Machine Learning Conference 1992, 1993, 1994, the European Machine Learning Conference 1991, 1993, 1994, and ECAI-92. She has been Co-Chairperson of the Int. Conf. on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty (IPMU-88) and of the Int. Symposium of Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS-88). She has also been Chairperson of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-96).")
cnt(A4536,"Loong Wong is a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle. Australia. He has taught and at universities in Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia, and has also worked in industry as General Manager for an Asiaweek top 500 firm. He has also worked for an e-commerce firm in Sydney and developed a number of key strategic projects for various multinational firms. His research interests cover a wide range of academic disciplines and he has published studies on social change in Asia-Pacific countries, the internet and social change, government policies on the Internet, critical studies of culture and its relationships with international management and more recently on corporate governance in developing economies, including China. He is currently working on a project on e-commerce practices in Australia and also undertaking s a systematic study of the discursive impact of Chinese management.")
cnt(A4535,"Longjun Ci, a professor, is an expert in Landscape Ecology and Combating Desertification. She graduated from postgraduate class in Beijing Forestry University in 1958 and got her Ph.D. from Cornell University, USA in 1991. At present she works in the State Forestry Administration as Director-General of the National Bureau to Combat Desertification and Vice-President of Chinese Academy of Forestry. She also holds many concurrent posts, such as professor and supervisor of Ph. D students of Beijing Forestry University, Vice-President of Chinese Landscape Ecology Society, etc. Ms. Ci has been engaged in combating desertification for over 40 years and has taken part in many important scientific surveys, researches and establishment of experimental stations, and has led and completed ten major research projects. Three books and more than 40 papers were published abroad and at home.")
cnt(A4534,"Loet Leydesdorff reads Science and Technology Dynamics at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous articles and books in the area of technological development. His books include The Challenge of Scientometrics: The Development, Measurement, and Self-Organization of Scientific Communications (2001), A Sociological Theory of Communication: the self-organization of the knowledge-based society (2001) Universities and the global knowledge economy: a triple helix of university - industry - government relations, with Henry Etkowitz, (1997) and Evolutionary economics and chaos theory: new directions in technology studies, with Peter van den Besselaar (1994).")
cnt(A4533,"Lloyd Jensen is a professor emeritus of political science at Temple University and a professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He holds three degrees-B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.-from the University of Michigan, and has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Kentucky, and Northwestern University. Among his publications are several books, including Return from the Nuclear Brink, Bargaining for National Security, Explaining Foreign Policy, and Global Challenge, the last of which was co-authored with Lynn H. Miller. He has published numerous articles dealing with questions of war and peace, in journals such as International Negotiation, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Peace Research Reviews.")
cnt(A4532,"Lloyd J. Dumas is Professor of Political Economy and Economics at the University of Texas in Dallas. Trained both as an economist and an engineer, his areas of expertise include: national and international security; human fallibility, terrorism and technological disaster; the economics of military spending; and economic transition and development. He has published more than 100 works in 11 languages in books and journals of economics, engineering, sociology, history, public policy, military studies and peace science, as well as such periodicals as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Science, Technology Review and Defense News. His sixth book, Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies, was published by St. Martin's Press (December 1999). Dumas has spoken at nearly 200 conferences and special lectures since 1980, addressed the United Nations, testified at government hearings, and discussed the policy implications of his work on more than 200 TV and radio programs in the U.S., former Soviet Union, Canada, Europe and the Pacific. He served as Vice Chair of the Texas Governor's Taskforce on Economic Transition, and as consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratories. In 1999 he co-organized (with Ali Mazrui) an International Conference on Peacekeeping, Development and Demilitarization in Africa, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace.")
cnt(A4531,"Prof.ing. Livio de Santoli Born in Caracas, 7-1-1956 Mechanical Engineer, Università di Roma (110/110), 1982 Chartered Engineer, Rome, n. 13052, 1983 Full Professor, Università di Roma La Sapienza. Courses of Building Services at Architecture School of University of Rome La Sapienza and Building Services in Historic Buildings at Post-graduated School "Restoration of Monuments", University La Sapienza, Roma REHVA VicePresident (Federation of European Heating and Air Conditioning Associations). Chairman of REHVA Technical Committee Member of International Advisory Board of Building Services Engineering Research & Technology (UK) Chairman of Sottocomitato n.5 UNI-CTI Comitato Termotecnico Italiano (Standards for Building Services in Italy) Member of IAQ Commission in Ministry of Public Health Author of some 80 papers and four books for University: La Progettazione degli Impianti Tecnici, Masson, 1995 La Qualità dell'Aria negli Ambienti Interni: Strategie e Soluzioni; Collana AiCARR, 1998 Fisica Tecnica Ambientale, Volume Secondo: Trasmissione del Calore, CEA Editrice, 1999 Fisica Tecnica Ambientale, Volume Terzo: Benessere termico, acustico, luminoso, CEA Editrice, 2000 Author of Enciclopedya UTET on Architectonic Restoration, Voll. V e VI, 2001")
cnt(A4530,"Lisa Dale is pursuing her Ph.D. in environmental policy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her research focuses on forest policy and community forestry in Ethiopia.")
cnt(A4529,"Lisa B. Bingham is Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service and Director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana. A graduate of Smith College (A.B. magna cum laude with high honors in Greek 1976) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with high honors 1979), she practiced labor and employment law for ten years and was a partner in the law firm of Shipman and Goodwin, of Hartford Connecticut. She joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1989 as a lecturer at the School of Law. In 1992, she joined the faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Professor Bingham co-founded the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute in 1997. The Institute is supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and conducts applied research and program evaluation on mediation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution. Professor Bingham is director of the National REDRESSÔ Evaluation Project for the United States Postal Service, a research project on transformative mediation of employment discrimination disputes. She has also served as a consultant on evaluating conflict resolution systems to the National Institutes of Health, the United States Air Force, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and the United States Department of Agriculture. Professor Bingham is a member of the labor arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and a member of the National Employment ADR Task Force of the American Arbitration Association. A winner of three teaching awards and four peer-reviewed awards for her research, she has published over twenty articles and book chapters. Her work appears in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, Industrial Relations, McGeorge Law Review, Labor Law Journal, Arbitration Journal, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, and the International Journal of Conflict Management, among others.")
cnt(A4528,"Liping Fang received a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, China, and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Fang is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada., and director of Ryerson's School of Industrial Engineering. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. Dr. Fang has actively carried out research and consulting activities in the areas of industrial engineering, engineering management, systems engineering, and decision making, particularly in interactive decision making, multiple criteria decision making, and decision support systems. He co-authored a book on interactive decision making and is the co-editor of a book on environmental management. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetcs,i a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), as well as a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).")
cnt(A4527,"Lijin Sun, Senior Scientist , Professor, State Environmental Protection Adminstration.")
cnt(A4526,"Lifeng Li graduated from Shandong Normal University in 1995 and is currently a PhD candidate in the Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In recent years, he has been working on exploitation and utilization of natural resources, regional sustainable development and indicator systems for sustainable development.")
cnt(A4525,"Dr. Lidia Morawska is a Professor at the School of Physical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia and Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT. She conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment with a specific focus on fine and ultra fine particles. Dr Morawska received her doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, Poland for research on radon and its progeny. Prior to joining QUT she spent a number of years in Canada working first at McMaster University in Hamilton as a Fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and later at the University of Toronto. Dr Morawska is an author of over eighty journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. She has also been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national and international professional bodies and has been acting as an adviser to the World Health Organization. She is currently the President of the International Society of the Indoor Air Quality and Climate.")
cnt(A4524,"Liang Luohui is an Academic Programme Officer of the Environment and Sustainable Development Programme at United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. He has a Master of Science degree from the Institute of Geography, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Geography, Peking University, and a Graduate Diploma from the School of Urban and Regional Planning, at the University of the Philippines. He was also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen from 1995-1996. He served in Yunnan Provincial Department of Land Resources in Kunming, China from 1987 to 1998. His current work focuses on research and capacity-building for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes.")
cnt(A4523,"Li Yong-Ping was born in 1963, obtained his degrees of M.A. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Demography at the University of California at Berkeley in 1986 and 1990 respectively. He was once a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1994 and in Indiana University in 1997. He is now a professor in Peking University.")
cnt(A4522,"Professor Levan E. Mindeli (b. 1939) is Director of the Centre for Science Research and Statistics, of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation/Russian Academy of Sciences. Educated at Moscow Mining Institute (Master degree in Mining Engineering, 1962). Candidate of Science degree in Economics (Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, 1970). Doctor of Science degree in Economics (Moscow State University, 1992). Professor of Economics (Centre for Science Research and Statistics, 1993). Membership in the Russian Engineering Academy and the Methodological Council of the Russian Statistical Agency. Author of more than 200 publications, including: Statistics of S&T Personnel in Russia (OECD, Paris, 1992), Science and Technology in Russia (Moscow, 1992), Science Development in Russia (Moscow, 1993), Modern Trends in Science Policy in Russia (Goeteborg, 1995), Science and Technology Indicators in the CIS (Moscow, 1996), R&D Institutions of Russia (Moscow, 1996), Russia in the International Science and Technology Complex (Moscow, 1996), Methods of Government Regulation of International S&T Links (Moscow, 1997), Modern Issues of Russian Science and Innovation Policy, in: Herald of the Ministry of Science and Technology, No. 1 (Moscow, 1998).")
cnt(A4521,"Lester R. Kurtz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches peace and conflict studies, comparative sociology of religion, and both western and nonwestern social theory. He was previously director of Religious Studies at Texas and holds a Master's in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He is the editor of a 3-volume Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (Academic Press), co-editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell's), and The Web of Violence (U. of Illinois Press) as well as author of books and articles including Gods in the Global Village (Pine Forge/Sage), The Politics of Heresy (U. of California Press), and The Nuclear Cage (Prentice-Hall). He is currently working on a book on Gandhi's legacies and is working on a documentary film, "Peaceful Warriors," with James Otis, narrated by Martin Sheen. He has lectured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America and is the past chair of the Peace Studies Association as well as the Peace and War Section of the American Sociological Association.")
cnt(A4520,"Leslie A. Martin, Development Systems Modeler, Millennium Institute, is personally devoted to the use of computer simulation tools for studying the complex dynamic systems associated with poverty alleviation and sustainable development. At the Millennium Institute, she incorporates poverty alleviation features and environmental feedback into the Institute's Threshold 21 national sustainable development model. Before joining the Institute, Ms. Martin led a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, developing an Internet correspondence course in system dynamics modeling. She also worked for three years on the MIT System Dynamics in Education Project (SDEP) where she contributed to a series of self-study guides. Previously, Ms. Martin was a consultant to the U.S. West telephone company where she developed policy recommendations based on her model of deregulation of the telecommunications industry. She has written several technical papers on simulation software, generic model structures, model behavior, and sensitivity analyses. Ms. Martin holds a bachelor's degree from MIT in applied mathematics and economics. She grew up in both the United States and in France and is fluent in both French and English. Her interests include sailing, backpacking, reading, and languages.")
cnt(A4519,"Leonardo Alvarez Córdova (studied Public Administration at Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, has a Master in Public Policy form Duke University and) is a Ph. D. candidate in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a Scholar at Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico City and at the Center of US-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego. Currently, he works as an external consultant for Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Mexico City.")
cnt(A4518,"Leonardas Rinkevicius is the head of the Department of Sociology at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. He has been involved in environmental policy, politics and sociology research since 1988, and has an extensive record of involvement in different research activities and policy-making bodies. Professor Rinkevicius has published widely on the issues of environmental policy, risk society, environmental movements, diffusion of innovations, public participation, inter-institutional tensions and learning. He has been an expert, lead-researcher and consultant for such organizations as the World Bank, European Commission, World Health Organization, Regional Environment Center, etc. He is a board member of the research committee No. 24 "Environment and Society" of the International Sociological Association, a Vice-president of the Lithuanian Sociological Association, a board member of the international Greening of Industry Network, and other organizations.")
cnt(A4517,"Len Gertler is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo and formerly (1990-2001) a Vice Chair, Environmental Review Tribunal, Ontario. He was founding Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Waterloo (1969); and, in his professional practice, has held the positions of Director, Edmonton District Planning Commission in Alberta; Deputy Commissioner of Planning, City of Toronto, Ontario; and Director General, Research, Ministry of State for Urban Affairs, Canada. His research undertakings have included: Coordinator, Niagara Escarpment Study for the Government of Ontario; the Mactaquac Regional Development Plan, New Brunswick; and Coordinator, Technological Change and Human Settlements for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. His international work, in the fields of regional planning and environmental management, extending intermittently from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, has included assignments in West Java, Bali, Yogyakarta and Sulawesi in Indonesia; Jamaica; Japan; and Uzbekistan. He is the author of books and chapters in books on the themes of Cities, in Canada and internationally; Planning, Urban and Regional; Environment and Development; Information Technology and Human Settlements; Habitat and Land; and Cultural Heritage and Tourism.")
cnt(A4516,"Lee W. Wagenhals is a Research Associate Professor with the Center of Excellence Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is currently the acting director of the System Architectures Laboratory. His degrees include a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University (1965), an M.Sc. from the Air Force Institute of Technology (1971), and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University (2000). He joined George Mason University in 1992, where he has worked on a variety of research tasks related to the design, analysis, and evaluation of architectures of Department of Defense information systems. He teaches graduate and undergraduate system engineering courses at George Mason University and short courses on C4ISR architectures, sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). Dr. Wagenhals has over 20 years of experience with the USAF, where he served on several assignments in both the operations and the research and development of C3 systems. Dr. Wagenhals's research interests include the design and evaluation of C3 operational and system architectures and the integration of Bayesian network and discrete event system modeling technologies to support the temporal evaluation of courses of action in complex geopolitical/military situations.")
cnt(A4515,"Dr. Lee W. McKnight is Associate Professor of International Communication and Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Lee is also a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was founder of the Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence. Dr. McKnight is also President of Marengo Research LLC, an international consultancy.")
cnt(A4514,"Ms. Le Xuan Quynh obtained her Master degree in Human Ecology in 2004 from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) after she had obtained her first degree of Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences in 1999 from Vietnam National University in Hanoi, Vietnam. She has working experience in biodiversity conservation with several non-governmental organisations and international non-governmental organisations in Vietnam.")
cnt(A4513,"Professor Dr. Lawrence Wai-chung Lai is Reader in economics, law and planning with the Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong. Professionally, he is a member of Royal Australian Planning Institute, Hong Kong Institute of Planners, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management, World Society for EKISTICS. With government and consultancy experience in the arena of planning and environmental protection, his research interest is in the economics of planning, heritage conservation and sustainable development.")
cnt(A4512,"Lawrence R. Klein was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). He has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for 33 years, and now is Benjamin Franklin Professor, emeritus. Professor Klein is an econometrician and constructed several models of the US and various other countries. At Pennsylvania he founded Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates and was a principal investigator of Project LINK, which combined models from countries throughout the world for studying international trade, payments, and global economic activity. He served as President of many learned societies, edited scholarly journals, and advised governments in matters of economic policy. In 1976 he coordinated Jimmy Carter's economic taskforce in successful campaign for Presidency of the US. In 1980 he was the Nobel Laureate in Economics.")
cnt(A4511,"Lawrence C. Nkemdirim, Ph.D. (University of London, England), is Professor of Climatology and Hydrology at the University of Calgary, Canada. He acts as a consultant to governments and industry on the environment and has served on commissions and working groups on the environment at levels ranging from local to international. He holds the chair of the Commission on Climatology of the International Geographical Union.")
cnt(A4510,"Lawrence Busch is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State University. He is co-author or coeditor of Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies (Blackwell, 1991); From Columbus to Conagra: The Globalization of Agriculture (Kansas, 1994); and Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context (Nebraska, 1995) as well as more than 100 other publications. He is past president of the Rural Sociological Society and past president of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. Dr. Busch's interests include biotechnology policy, food and agricultural standards, agricultural science and technology policy, higher education in agriculture, and public participation in the policy process.")
cnt(A4509,"Laurel Sefton MacDowell is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Toronto, with a PhD (1979) from the University of Toronto, and an M.Sc.(econ.) from the London School of Economics (1970). She teaches Canadian history, specializes in Canadian labor history and industrial relations, and North American environmental history. She is the author of Remember Kirkland Lake: The Gold Miners' Strike 1941-42 (1983, second edition 2001) and Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J.L. Cohen (2001), a leading labor lawyer in the 1930s and 1940s. She has published numerous articles including "The Formation of the Canadian Labor Relations System During World War Two", Labor/Le Travailleur, v.3, 1978, which has been reprinted frequently, and most recently in 1995, and "Greening the Workplace: Unions and the Environment" in L. Sandberg and S. Srlin, (eds.) Sustainability: The Challenge, Montreal, 1998.")
cnt(A4508,"Laura Sartori has a PhD in sociology and social research. She teaches at the University of Bologna in the Department of Communication and is a fellow researcher at the Istituto Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy. She is currently working on the social consequences of the Internet, focusing in particular on the issues of the digital divide and digital inequalities in a comparative perspective. She is also involved in projects regarding crime, disorder and fear of crime and, more generally, the theme of social capital and local development.")
cnt(A4507,"Dr. Lata Gangadharan completed her Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Since then she has been employed at the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, where she is a senior lecturer. Her main research areas are environmental economics and experimental economics. She has published many papers in these areas in referred journals. Her work is recognized internationally. She often serves as an expert on committees involved with environmental issues. She was invited to present a paper in a workshop on global warming, organized by UNESCO in Milan. She is currently involved in designing markets in pollution in the state of Victoria in Australia.")
cnt(A4506,"Lars Mølhave. Master of Science (Experimental Atomic Physics and Chemistry), Ph.D. in Public Health, and D.Ms. (Doctor of Medical Sciences, Doctoral Thesis), is an associate professor at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University, where he is head of the Air Pollution Unit, which investigates human reaction to air pollution in occupational and non-occupational environments. The key words of this research are: controlled experiments in climate chambers and field investigations, theoretical modeling, investigation of human subjects, (normal subjects, workers, allergic or asthmatic persons), investigation of human reactions (objective eye, lung, neurologic or skin effects and subjective sensory effects), investigation of exposures (airborne exposure to particles or vapors of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) thermal exposures) and technical innovations (exposure generations, source control, emission models, ventilation, building materials, exposure measurements). Lars Molhave has received the following research awards: National Research Foundation, Research Associate; R.G. Nevin's Physiology and Human Environment Award for Significant Accomplishment in Man's Response to the Environment, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers) USA; the Environmental Protection Agency's (US EPA) Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards within the category of health effects. He also has the following scientific and technical duties: member of the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA); elected international trustee of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ); editorial advisory committee of the journal, Indoor Air, and is research consultant to eight national and six international organizations. His list of publications includes 62 internationally peer-reviewed research publications and journals; 11 peer reviewed chapters for international textbooks, and 151 other publications.")
cnt(A4505,"Lars Magnusson has held the chair in Economic History at the University of Uppsala since 1992. He has written extensively on general Swedish and international economic history, especially on industrialization and the history of economic ideas. He is currently also research director at the National Institute for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden where he directs projects on the rise of the new economy and its effect on the labor market. His works include Mercantilism: the shaping of an Economic Language (Routledge 1994) and An Economic History of Sweden (Routledge 2000).")
cnt(A4504,"Larissa Muller recently completed her PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. She is a frequent consultant on economic and environmental development projects in Thailand. She is also a member of the Stanford research team studying peri-urbanization dynamics in East Asian cities. Her research interests include comparative urbanization dynamics and service economies, with a focus on East Asia.")
cnt(A4503,"Larin I.K. was born in 1935, May 30, in Moscow Region, USSR. After graduation from secondary school he entered Moscow State University, Department of Physics, and graduated in 1959. Then he took a junior research post at the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Semenovs Institute), Moscow. He received his Ph.D. in 1971 and D.Sc. in 1991. From 1979 until the present he has been head of Laboratory of Chemical Physics of the Atmosphere in the Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow. Professional Activities: - A member of International CODATA Task Group on Chemical Kinetics (1978-1982); - Deputy Chairmen of National Council on Atmospheric Chemistry of the Russian (Soviet) Geophysical Committee (since 1987); - A member of Commission on Chemistry of Ozone Friendly Freons of Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991); - A member of editorial board of the Journal of Ecological Chemistry (Russ. and Engl.), since 1992. Larin is married,with one daughter.")
cnt(A4502,"Dr. Lal C. Wadhwa is the Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at James Cook University in Australia. He holds undergraduate qualifications in Science and Civil Engineering and a Master and Doctorate in Systems Engineering and Management. He has thirty years of teaching experience in Australia, USA, Canada, Thailand and India. He has authored almost 100 research papers and edited/authored seven books. Dr. Wadhwa's research interests are in the areas of highway safety, sustainable transportation, engineering management and modeling and simulation. He is the coordinator of the Master of Engineering Management program at James Cook University. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and a Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, USA.")
cnt(A4501,"Mr. L. K. Li was working with the former Ministry of Forestry of the Peoples Republic of China (now the State Forestry Administration) in the period from August 1959 to February 1998 as ordinary staff, Division Chief of International Programs, Deputy Director-General of Department of International Relations and Chief Adviser for International Cooperation, respectively. Since March 1998 when he retired, Mr. Li has been invited by Chinese Academy of Forestry as an Advisor. He is a senior advisor for Wetlands International, China. Mr. L.K. Li is a Commissioner of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development.")
cnt(A4500,"L. Douglas Kiel is Professor of Public Administration and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. Kiel's areas of expertise include the managerial and social implications of complexity and quality and productivity improvement. Professor Kiel's published works in the field of complexity are cited in more than fifty academic journals ranging across fields as diverse as public administration, policy studies, economics, and psychology. His book, Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government: A New Paradigm for Change, Innovation and Organizational Renewal (1994), received the 1994-5 best book award from the Public and Non-Profit Sector division of the Academy of Management. His 1993 Public Administration Review article, "Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis: Assessing Systems Concepts in a Government Agency," was reprinted in Shafritz and Ott's edited book, Classics of Organization Theory (1996). He has also edited two books, Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications (University of Michigan, 1996) and Nonlinear Dynamics, Complexity and Public Policy (Nova Science, 2000). He is a co-editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled, Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modeling (2002). He has served as a management consultant to a variety of government and business organizations.")
cnt(A4499,"L. Anders Sandberg is Associate Professor and Ph.D. Program and Admissions Coordinator in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. He holds a B.A. Honours in Geography from Simon Fraser University, an M.A. in Geography from the University of Victoria, and a Ph.D. in Geography from McGill University. He joined the Faculty in 1994 and teaches environmental politics and resource management. He has previously held teaching and research positions at Dawson College in Montreal, Trent University in Peterborough, and Dalhousie and Saint Mary's Universities in Halifax. His research focuses on forest, environmental and conservation history, as well as resource conflict in the forest and aggregate industries in Canada and the Nordic countries. He has written numerous articles in professional journals such as Acadiensis, Antipode, Business Strategy and the Environment, Canadian Geographer, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Environmental History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Labour/Le Travail, Prairie Forum, and Progress in Human Geography. He has also edited Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1992), co-edited (with Sverker Sörlin), Sustainability - The Challenge: People, Power, and the Environment (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1998), and co-authored (with Peter Clancy) Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000). In 2002, he was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant entitled "Unlikely Allies: Citizen Planning and Environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine" with Professors Gerda Wekerle and Liette Gilbert. The project's aim is to chronicle the emergence of citizen movements and environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine at the northern edge of Toronto. He makes his home in downtown Toronto where he enjoys walking and learning about local history.")
cnt(A4498,"Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh, Ph.D. is a senior Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana. Until recently he was a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management of the University of Ghana, where he was teaching since 1993. His teaching and research interests include environmental policy and politics, environmental problems in the Third World, sustainable cities, and urban governance. He was educated in both Ghana and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration. His Ph.D. thesis, Private Sector Participation in Solid Waste Management in Accra, Ghana, seeks to explain whether contracting out of public services in particular, and privatisation in general, is a viable solution to the related problems of government inefficiency, ineffectiveness and growth. His most recent publications include: "Compliance and Enforcement in Environmental Management: A Case of Mining in Ghana," Journal of Environmental Practice, 5(2):154-165 (2003). "Enhancing Environmental Management through Capacity Building," Journal of Management Studies, Volume 17:51-75 (2002). "Environmental Legislation in Ghana: Quantitative Comparison between Military and Civilian Regimes," Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, 21(1):1-9 (2001). "Intergovernmental Relations and Environmental Management in Ghana," GIMPA Journal of Leadership, Management and Administration, 1(1):67-81 (2001). The under-listed articles have also been accepted for publication: "The New Public Management: The Experience of Ghana," GIMPA Journal of Leadership, Management and Administration, (Forthcoming). "The Fourth Republican Constitution of Ghana and Sustainable Development," Legon Journal of International Affairs (LEJIA) (October, 2004). "Managing the environment in a decade of administrative reforms in Ghana," International Journal of Public Sector Management, (October 2004). His vision is to see the promotion and the translation of the key elements of sustainable development into a global reality.")
cnt(A4497,"Kurt Thurmaier is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Public Policy & Administration Program at Iowa State Unversity. Areas of special interest to him include state and local public budgeting and finance and intergovernmental relations, in which he has done extensive research, publication and teaching. He also teaches applied statistical methods, comparative public administration, and introductory public administration. His career includes four years in the Wisconsin State Budget Office as a budget and management analyst, a Fulbright Scholarship at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, consultant work with Polish local governments through the International City/County Management Association, and consultant work on US city-county consolidation efforts. In addition to numerous articles, his books include Policy and Politics in State Budgeting and Case Studies of City-County Consolidations: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape.")
cnt(A4496,"Kurt R. Spillmann has been full Professor of Security Studies and Conflict Research at the ETH Zurich and was given the title of Professor of Modern History, especially American History, at the University of Zurich. He retired on October 1, 2002. He studied history in Zurich, Rome, and New Haven (Yale University). He has been a research fellow at Yale University, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington D.C.), at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University (Washington D.C.), and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He founded the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research in 1986, and the Center for International Studies in 1997.")
cnt(A4495,"Kunmin Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1963, and completed his postgraduate training in Tsinghua University in 1966 (at that time there was no degrees in the People's Republic of China). Then he became a teacher in the same university and occupied the position of vice dean of the Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Environmental Engineering. Professor Zhang was appointed vice president of the National Training College of Environmental Management in 1985. From 1988 to 1998, he was deputy administrator of the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA). He currently holds the positions of secretary general of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), senior advisor of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), vice president of the China Sustainable Development Association, honorary chair of the Environmental Literature Association, professor with Peking University, Tsinghua University, China People's University, Nanjing University, etc. Professor Zhang has compiled nine books, translated or collated 11 books, and published over 90 papers. His Introduction to Sustainable Development won the Eleventh China Books Award and the State Environmental Protection Science Award.")
cnt(A4494,"Kuiyi Zhao, Professor, Tutor of Doctorate, was born in 1937, and graduated in Biology in the Northeast Normal University in 1962. From 1984 to 1986 he studied in the Department of Peatland Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland. From April to October 1992, he was a visiting researcher with the Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. From 1962 to the present he has been working at the Changchun Institute of Geography (CIG), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Director, Department of Wetland Research, CIG from 1992 to 1997. He is a Member of the Commission for Wetland Research Center, CAS, and a Member of the Council of the Chinese Ecology Association. He has been employed in mire wetland ecology for over 38 years and led more than ten major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Fund for Natural Sciences, including Sanjiang Plain Mire Wasteland Resource Investigation, and the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Science Investigation. He has been trained to supervise master students and doctorate students. He has published over fifty articles and taken part in compiling works, such as: "Mires of China" (Editor in Chief), "Wetland Vegetation in China" (Vice-Editor in Chief), "Vegetation of China", "Vegetation of China," "Impact on Mire Environment of the Largest Forest Fire in the Da Xingan Mountains" (Editor in Chief) and "Study of Wetlands in China" (Vice-Editor in Chief), etc. He won the Chinese Academy of Sciences Advanced Science and Technology Special Prize and Second Prize, the Zhu Kezhen Field Science Work Prize, and the State Council Special Allowance.")
cnt(A4493,"Kristian Søby Kristensen, born 1976, holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, and is currently working on his thesis. Since 2001 he has been employed at The Danish Institute of International Affairs as a research assistant and has worked primarily in the Security and Defence Studies Division at the Institute.")
cnt(A4492,"Krishna R. Pattipati received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1975, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1977 and 1980, respectively. From 1980-86 he was employed by ALPHATECH, Inc., Burlington, MA. Since 1986, he has been with the University of Connecticut, where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests are in the areas of adaptive organizations for dynamic and uncertain environments, multi-user detection in wireless communications, signal processing and diagnosis techniques for power quality monitoring, multi-object tracking, and scheduling of parallelizable tasks on multi-processor systems. Dr. Pattipati has published over 230 articles, primarily in the application of systems theory and optimization (continuous and discrete) techniques to large-scale systems. He has served as a consultant to Alphatech, Inc. and IBM Research and Development, and is a cofounder of Qualtech Systems, Inc., a small business specializing in advanced integrated diagnostics software tools. Dr. Pattipati was selected by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society as the Outstanding Young Engineer of 1984, and received the Centennial Key to the Future award. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1995 for his contributions to discrete-optimization algorithms for large-scale systems and team decision making. Dr. Pattipati has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on SMC: Part B- Cybernetics during 1998-2001, Vice-President for Technical Activities of the IEEE SMC Society (1998-1999), and as Vice-President for Conferences and Meetings of the IEEE SMC Society (2000-2001). He was co-recipient of the Andrew P. Sage award for the Best SMC Transactions Paper for 1999, Barry Carlton award for the Best AES Transactions Paper for 2000, and the 2002 NASA Space Act Award for "A Comprehensive Toolset for Model-based Health Monitoring and Diagnosis". He also won the best technical paper awards at the 1985, 1990, 1994 and 2002 IEEE AUTOTEST Conferences, and at the 1997 Command and Control Conference.")
cnt(A4491,"Krishna K. Tummala is Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Public Administration, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-4030, USA. He specializes in Comparative Administration, Public Budgeting and Public Personnel Management. His books during the last few years include:Public Administration/Policy ,ed.( forthcoming); Comparative Bureaucratic Systems. ed., (2003); Public Administration India (1996). He also edited two symposia on behalf of SICA (Section on International and Comparative Administration, American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in 1998 and 1999). Over forty-five articles of his appeared in journals such as: Asian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration Review; Asian Profile;International Journal of Political Science; International Issues; Indian Political Science Journal; Public Budgeting & Financial Management; Asian Survey; International Journal of Public Administration; Administrative Change; Public Personnel Management; Public Budgeting & Finance; Indian Journal of Public Administration; Southern Review of Public Administration; Congressional Record- Senate; Politics, Administration and Change. Apart from his several publications, he was Chair, Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA) of the American Society for Pubic Administration (ASPA), Chair of the Kansas Chapter of ASPA, Senior Fulbright Fellow, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He served on the Editorial Board of PAR. He won the first prize in an international essay contest on "Reservations in the Indian Public Service," held by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Government of India, and received the "Public Administrator of the year, 2001" award from the Kansas chapter of ASPA. He served as a member of the National Council of ASPA, and the Executive Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). He is Vice President (President-elect) of the Public Administration national honor society, Pi Alpha Alpha.")
cnt(A4490,"Krishna Behari Misra has held the position of a full professor since 1976, and is with the Reliability Engineering Center, which was founded by him, and where a master's degree program in "reliability engineering" was conceptualized and started for the first time in India. This center is at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he also served as Dean, Institute Planing and Development. He has been Director of NERIST (1995-1998), and Director-grade-Scientist at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur (1992-1994). He worked in Germany at GRS-Garching, Technical University-Munich, RWTH-Aachen, Kernforschungszentrum-Karlsruhe, and visited several European countries and the US, on invitation. He has published over 175 papers in international journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Microelectronics and Reliability, International Journal of System Science, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, etc. He has served on editorial boards of several international journals. He authored an 889-page book "Reliability Analysis and Prediction: A Methodology Oriented Treatment," published by Elsevier Science Publishers, in 1992. In 1993 and 1995, he edited a 715-page book, New Trends in System Reliability Evaluation, published by Elsevier, and an 853-page book, Clean Production: Environmental and Economic Perspectives, published by Springer Verlag. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers, Indian Academy of Sciences, IETE (India), IE (India) and SaRS (UK), and is the recipient of Lal C. Verman Award in 1983 "for his pioneering work in Reliability Engineering in the country" and of a plaque in 1995, from the IEEE Reliability Engineering Society of US in 1992 "in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding contributions to the field of Reliability." He is Chairman of the LTDC-3 Committee of Indian Bureau of Standards. He served as a member of the Environmental Appraisal Committee (for nuclear power plants in India) and as Convener of the NCST working group on Reliability Engineering in India, set up by DST, Government of India.")
cnt(A4489,"Dr. Koyu Furusawa is professor of ecological economics at Kokugakuin University in Japan. He received his masters degree and Ph.D. in Agronomics at Kyoto University in Japan. He is greatly concerned about the global environmental issues, especially about the sustainable development from community level to the global level, and takes part in some NGO activities. He is studying interdisciplinary field in wide perspective, such as "ecological space project (a joint study on global equity, equal access to resources and environment)", trade and environment issues, international cooperation on sustainable development (related with Official Development Assistance) and social studies on ecology movements and socio-cultural paradigm and so on. He attended the NGO forum in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Earth Summit in 1992 and Johannesburg Summit in 2002. He is a director "JACSES: Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society", an environmental NGO (JACSES; http://www.jacses.org/en/index.html) and also a board member of "JANIC: Japanese NGO center for International Cooperation.")
cnt(A4488,"Koïchiro Matsuura of Japan was appointed on 12 November 1999 to serve as Director-General of UNESCO. Mr Matsuura, born in Tokyo in 1937, has served as Japan's Ambassador to France since 1994. He was educated at the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo and at the Faculty of Economics of Haverford College (Pennsylvania, USA) and began his diplomatic career in 1959. Posts held by Mr. Matsuura include those of Director-General of the Economic Co-operation Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1988); Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990); and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. He also served as the Chairperson of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee for the year ending November 1999.")
cnt(A4487,"Dr. Koh Ai Tee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. Her academic interests include technology transfer and absorption, foreign direct investments and host country conditions. She has published in international journals and presented papers at international conferences on these topics.")
cnt(A4486,"Kliment N. Trubetskoy, Dr. Sc. (Eng.), professor, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), member of the RAS Presidium, Director of the RAS Research Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources, a researcher of the Earth's mineral wealth and ecologist, the author of 400 works published in Russia and abroad, including 40 monographs and 55 patents, a winner of the USSR and Russian State Prizes and an awardee of N. V. Melnikov Commemorative Gold Medal of the RAS. The professor has elaborated scientific grounds for a new insight into the modern contents of mining sciences as a body of knowledge about laws and methods of the controlled technogenic transformation of the Earth's bowels. He has also identified scientific grounds for the development of high resource-saving (resource-reproducing) surface mining technologies. Rather great is his contribution to the development and commercial application of novel mining equipment and technogenic primary material processing and utilization technologies. His fruitful efforts in environmental control research are highly appreciated. K.N. Trubetskoy heads a leading research school for comprehensive exploitation and conservation of mineral reserves and resources supported by the Government. The professor has trained 26 doctors of science. For many years he has been a deputy academician-secretary of the RAS Division of geology, geochemistry, geophysics and mining sciences. Great are his efforts aimed at the co-ordination of geosciences research in Russia. Prof. Trubetskoy is a deputy Chairman of the Geosciences Section of the Committee on State Prizes with the RF President, deputy Editor-in-Chief and a member of the editorial board of well-known scientific Russian magazines. In 1997, for his activity as a member (since 1992) of the International Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress (IOC WMC) Prof. Trubetskoy was awarded Krupinsky Commemorative Medal, the highest WMC award.")
cnt(A4485,"Klaus Toepfer is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi. He was born in 1938 in Waldenburg/Silesia, and is married with three children. He graduated in 1964 from the University of Munster with a Diploma in Economics. From 1965 to 1971 he was Assistant to Professor Schneider, Director of Economic Research at the Central Institute for Regional Planning, University of Munster, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1968. From 1970-1971, he was Head of the Economics Department at the Central Institute for Regional Planning in Munster; from 1971-198, Head of the Department for Planning and Information in the State Chancellery of Saarland. In 1972 he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Germany, and from 1977-1979 was District Chairman of the CDU in Saarbrucken. From 1978-1979 he was full Professor at the University of Hanover; from 1978-1985, he served as State Secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Environment of Rhineland-Palatinate; from 1985-1986, he was Associate Lecturer in environmental and resource economics at the University of Mainz; from 1985-1987, Minister for Environment and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate; and from 1987-1994 as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Between 1990 and 1998, Klaus Toepfer was a Member of the German Bundestag; he also served as Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (1994-1995), and as Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, and Coordinator for the Transfer of the Parliament and Federal Government to Berlin and Compensation for the Bonn Region (1994-1998). Since 1998 he has been United Nations Under Secretary-General and Executive-Director of UNEP.")
cnt(A4484,"Klaus Hubacek is a researcher and instructor in the Ecological Economics program at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy. He has been affiliated with the Land Use Change project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, since June 1999. He has a Ph.D. in Ecological Economics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy. From 1991 to 1996, he worked as a member of the faculty at the department of Environmental Economics and Management at the University of Economics and Business Administration (W.U.) in Vienna. Klaus taught a number of courses in Environmental Economics and was a visiting scholar or instructor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the University of Economics in Budapest, the University of National and World Economics in Sofia, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Technology in Vienna. He has conducted studies for a number of public agencies and published on topics such as energy, appropriate technology, biodiversity, and land-use change.")
cnt(A4483,"Kim J. Vicente received his PhD (1991) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, and founding director of the Cognitive Engineering Laboratory there. Kim serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics, Human Factors, and Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, and on the Committee for Human Factors of the U. S. National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences. Kim is the recipient of several research awards, including the Premier's Research Excellence Award, valued at $100,000. He has authored or co-authored over 60 journal articles, and over 75 refereed conference papers. He is the author of Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-based Work, published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in 1999.")
cnt(A4482,"Khan Rahi is the Coordinator of the Loka Institute's Community Research Network (CRN) project. Khan is a community based researcher and community development organizer in human services and race relations. He has worked with community-based organizations and a cross-section of institutions within the human services field in North America. Mr. Rahi has conducted several action research projects and organizational reviews dealing with different aspects of access and equity problems affecting diverse immigrant communities. A particular focus of Khan's work has been the analysis of partnership and coalition-building initiatives. Khan is also a non-governmental organization representative (NGO) in the International Metropolis Project which is a network of 20 countries and six international organizations that share perspectives on immigration policy by means of applied academic research. He is a member of the Management Board and Chairs the Community Partnership Council of the Centre Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement-Toronto Metropolis Centre. He has held a number of community advisory positions at all levels of government and public institutions and special purpose bodies, including the Task Force on Community Access And Equity, City of Toronto (1999-00). Board Member, Custody Review Board (Young Offenders) Government of Ontario. Khan Rahi is an Afghan-Canadian residing in Toronto, Ontario. He has an M.A. in Sociology, University of Manitoba, Canada B.A. in Sociology, University of Lethbridge/American University of Beirut.")
cnt(A4481,"Khalid Saeed chairs the Social Science and Policy Studies department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US. He holds a dual Ph.D. in System Dynamics and Economic Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is widely recognized for his work on computer modeling and experimental analysis of developmental, organizational, and governance-related problems. He has written two books and numerous articles on sustainable development and system dynamics modeling. Dr. Saeed received the Jay Wright Forrester Award for his work on sustainable development in 1995.")
cnt(A4480,"Kevin V. Ozgercin is Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. From 1998 to 2002 he was Research Associate at the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies and editorial assistant for Comparative Politics and Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations. He is currently a Fulbright/Swiss Government scholar in Switzerland, where he is conducting archival research on the Bank for International Settlements in Basle. His research interests include international financial institutions, globalization and global financial governance.")
cnt(A4479,"Kevin J. Dooley, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management at the School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. Following undergraduate and graduate work in industrial engineering, he received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He holds concurrent appointments at ASU, at the School of Health Administration and Policy, and is a member of the core faculty in the Supply Chain Management PhD Program. His research interests are in quality, chaos and complexity, new product development, knowledge management and organization, and manufacturing systems. He is a co-author of the book, Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research, published by Oxford in 2000. He holds numerous awards, and is the current (2002) President of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences.")
cnt(A4478,"Kevin Avruch is professor of anthropology, faculty member of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a senior fellow in the Program for Peacekeeping Policy, School of Public Policy, at George Mason University. Educated at the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego, his books include American Immigrants in Israel: Social Identities and Change (1981), Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1991/1998, coeditor), Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government (1997, coeditor), Culture and Conflict Resolution (1998), and Information Campaigns for Peace Operations (1999). He was a 1996-1997 fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the United States Institute of Peace.")
cnt(A4477,"Kenneth L. Nichols is associate professor of public policy and administration at the University of Maine. He is in the Department of Public Administration, since 1996. Education Professor Nichols earned his D.P.A. from George Mason University in 1993. He earned his M.P.A. from George Mason in 1983 and his B.A. cum laude in English Language and Literature from Weber State University in 1968. Professor Nichols co-edited Enterprise Government: Franchising and Cross-Servicing for Administrative Support, and his articles have appeared in popular as well as professional publications, including the Journal of Public Affairs Education, Public Administration Quarterly, Public Voices, and the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. His forthcoming textbook is The Unreal Administrator: Lessons and Challenges from Poems, Novels, Movies, Television and Other Stuff. Professor Nichols has been an adjunct instructor at George Mason University and, earlier, at the University of North Florida. Service Professor Nichols is former director of graduate programs for the University's Department of Public Administration and former chair of the Orono Public Library Board of Trustees. He is actively involved with the American Society for Public Administration and the World Future Society. Formerly with the Internal Revenue Service, his professional work as a carer civil servant centered on emerging and innovative aspects of organizational activity. His responsibilities at the IRS included budget planning and program analysis, trend assessment and strategic planning, quality management, legislation development and implementation, information systems design, and large-scale organization reengineering.")
cnt(A4476,"Kennedy Lawson Smith is one of the nation's foremost experts on downtown revitalization. After graduate school in architecture, she took a strange turn and became the downtown manager in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she created a retail market analysis methodology specifically for historic and traditional commercial districts. She joined the staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center in 1985 and has served as its director since 1991. She has written numerous books and articles on the economic dynamics of downtowns and is a popular international speaker on main street development issues. She is a member of the board of the League of Historic American Theaters.")
cnt(A4475,"Ken G. Willis is Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle. After initially undertaking research on migration and labour mobility, and regional development policies, his interest moved to environmental issues in the 1980s. Since then he has undertaken extensive research on the appraisal and valuation of environmental projects and policies. His expertise embraces environmental benefit estimation techniques (travel-cost models, hedonic price models, contingent valuation methods, stated preference or conjoint analysis methods, and contingent ranking techniques); and environmental cost assessment studies (averting and preventative expenditure, and replacement cost techniques). He has directed and worked upon numerous research projects using these techniques for government organizations, international development agencies, and various private companies. This research has encompassed environmental projects and policies covering a wide variety of issues from air pollution, bathing water, biodiversity, architectural conservation areas, cultural and archaeological heritage, earthquake risk mitigation, electricity supply interruptions, environmentally sensitive areas, fishing, forests, green belts, historic buildings, recreation values of canals, rivers, etc., landscape, low flow alleviation in rivers, property attributes, quarries, sites of special scientific interest, various town planning policies, traffic calming schemes, utility networks, waiting time for social housing, waste disposal, water quality, and wildlife conservation. Although most of his research has been concentrated in Europe, he has experience working on a number of environmental economics projects in Ghana, India, Iran and Malaysia. He has published a large number of articles in a variety of economic and environmental journals; and is the author of Economic Valuation of the Environment (with Guy Garrod) and the editor of a two volume set on Environmental Valuation (with Ken Button and Peter Nijkamp) both published in 1999 by Edward Elgar in Cheltenham.")
cnt(A4474,"Keith W. Hipel is Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Hipel thoroughly enjoys teaching, and is a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award. His major research interests are the development and application of conflict resolution and time series analysis techniques from a systems design engineering perspective. The main application areas of these decision technologies are water resources management, hydrology, environmental engineering, and sustainable development. Dr. Hipel is the author/co-author of four books, nine edited books, and more than 130 journal papers. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), and the American Water Resources Association (FAWRA). Dr. Hipel is also a recipient of the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, the Outstanding Contribution Award from the IEEE SMC Society, and the W. R. Boggess Award from AWRA. He has held a Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship, Monbusho Kyoto University Visiting Professor Position, Stanley Vineberg Memorial Visiting Professorship, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Research Fellowship, and Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship. He is also a professional engineer and has carried out consulting activities with engineering firms, government agencies, and utilities in many countries. Finally, he is an associate editor of six international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, as well as Group Decision and Negotiation.")
cnt(A4473,"Associate Professor Keith Trace has a B.A. (Hons.) from Nottingham University, an M.A. (Economics) from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. He is employed as associate professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. Teaching interests include courses entitled The International Economy since 1945, Business in Asia, and Economic Development of Asia. He has also taught economics and business strategy courses for the Monash and Monash Mt. Eliza MBA programs. Keith Trace's research interests include transport economics and Asian economies and his expertise in shipping and ports is internationally recognized. His publications include articles, books, and conference papers on the globalization of the container shipping market, trade in shipping services, shipping policy in the ASEAN countries and Australia, the Australian National Line, the trans-Tasman shipping trade, and the Alice Springs-Darwin rail line. He has recently completed entries on the IMF and the WTO for Fitzroy Dearborn's Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, and was program adviser for the "Living with Globalisation" and "Managing Globalisation" programs in the ABC Radio National/Monash University Money, Markets and the Economy radio series. Keith Trace was seconded to the Productivity Commission in 1999/2000, working on its inquiry into Part X of the Trade Practices Act. Recent consultancies include a study of the impact of maritime policy reforms for APEC, together with a follow-up study of the benefits of maritime transport liberalization for the Department of Transport and Regional Services, as well as advising the ACCC in its investigation of shipper complaints relating to the Trade Facilitation Agreement operating in the Australia-Southeast Asian trade. In April/May 2001, Keith Trace visited China as a member of the PRC 2020 Project.")
cnt(A4472,"Keith M Melton is the founding and current Director of the Institute for Sustainable Business, a research and consultancy unit of the Nottingham Business School (at Nottingham Trent University in England) where he has taught for more than 20 years. His research interests have focused on issues associated with environmental management, especially associated with supply chain management including a recent study investigating the greening of Supply Chain Management amongst the top 500 UK businesses. He has also undertaken significant studies into Strategic Policy issues in environmental management and has authored or co-authored more than twenty refereed conference papers, and consultancy reports on the interaction of business and the environment. He is actively engaged in promoting greater corporate social responsibility and social inclusion through the development of social enterprises, often through chairing conferences on eco-management and corporate consulting.")
cnt(A4471,"Keith Hartley is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Defence Economics, University of York, UK. He is a defence economist with interests in procurement policy, defence industries, alliances, arms exports and conflict. He is founding editor of the journal, Defence and Peace Economics and has been consultant to the UN, EC and various UK Government Departments. Recent publications include (with Todd Sandler) Political Economy of NATO, CUP, 1995; Economics of Defence (eds), Elgar, 2001; and Economics of Conflict (eds), Elgar, 2003(forthcoming).")
cnt(A4470,"Keishi Tanimoto received his B.Eng., Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. Dr. Tanimoto is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Systems Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan. Dr. Tanimoto has actively carried out research and consulting activities in the areas of social system engineering, conflict analysis, and decision making, particularly in interactive decision making and decision support systems. Dr. Tanimoto is a member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), and Operations Research Society of Japan. In 1995, he received JSCE Research Awards for his application of game theory to cost allocation in water resources development.")
cnt(A4469,"Katsuya Fukuoka, born 18 May 1930 in Japan, received his education from the Department of Agriculture and Forest Science, University of Tokyo, taking a Ph.D. in Evaluation of Forest Resources and Accounting Systems of Forest Management. He has taught at the University of Yamagata (1966-1972), the Metropolitan University of Tokyo (1973-1989), the University of Tokyo (1978-1990), the University of Nagoya (1981-2000), Rissho University (1972-2001), and Waseda University (1998-2001). In addition, he has served as the Dean of Faculty of Economics (1989-2000), and Chairman of the Committee of Postgraduate Economics, Rissho University (1989-2000). He has been appointed to the Committee Staff of Development of Water Resources to the Minister of Management of Land (1987-1999); to the Committee Staff of Earth Environmental Research (Japan Science Council, 1994-2000); to the Special Committee Staff to the Minister of Science and Technology (1991-1992); to the Committee Staff of Food Problems to the Prime Minister (1995-1996); to the Committee Staff of Environmental Support to the Developing Countries to the Minister of Environmental Affairs; and to the Committee Staff for Evaluation of Technology to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (1996-2001). He has also been elected as the President of the Japanese Regional Science Association (1998-2000), and as President of the Foundation for Earth Environment (1996-).")
cnt(A4468,"Kathryn Herr is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests include youth studies and the development of societal institutions that promote and support youth growth and development.")
cnt(A4467,"Kathryn G. Denhardt, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. She coordinates the Organizational Leadership area of specialization for the Masters in Public Administration Program. Her teaching and research interests include administrative ethics, performance management, and civic engagement. She works extensively with citizen groups and with practitioners in the public and nonprofit sectors, particularly in the areas of facilitating multi-stakeholder decisions that are collaborative, democratic, and ethical..")
cnt(A4466,"Kathleen Baker was born and brought up in India (1950-1960), but she emigrated to England for secondary education. 1971: Graduated from King's College London BSc, Hons in Geography, class IIi. 1975: Successful defence of PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Subject of thesis concerned the impact of Green Revolution technology on six villages of Bulandshahr District, Uttar Pradesh, North India. 1979- 2001: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Geography, SOAS, University of London. 2001 - present: Senior Lecturer in Department of Geography at King's College London. Her specialist areas of study are agricultural change and development in the tropics, agro-ecology, and political ecology. She has worked extensively on West Africa, especially Gambia, Senegal and Mali, and on India, and has conducted extensive primary fieldwork in these areas. She is especially interested in smallholder farming and in the ways in which smallholder farmers adapt to changing circumstances, both natural and human-induced. She is currently re-visiting villages she studied in India for her PhD to investigate the impact of 30+ years of Green Revolution technology. Recent publications: Baker, Kathleen M and; Edmonds, Richard Louis (2004) Transfer of Taiwanese ideas and technology to The Gambia, West Africa: a viable approach to rural development? The Geographical Journal, 170 (3), 189-211. She is married with two children. Jewitt, Sarah and Baker, Kathleen (forthcoming) (2005) Spatial agendas for decision-making in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh: the influence of place, class and caste on women's role in environmental management, in S. Raju (ed.) Gendered Geographies: Interrogating Place and Space in South Asia. Delhi: OUP. Baker, K. (2002) Rural development, Study Guide for the BA and Diploma in Geography, University of London, External Programme. London: University of London Press. Baker, K. (2000) Indigenous land management in West Africa: an environmental balncing act. Oxford: OUP. Baker, K. (2000) Ecological possibilities and political constraints: adjustments of farming to protracted drought by women and men in the Western Division of The Gambia. Chapter 7 in P. Stott and S. Sullivan (eds.) Political ecology: Science, myth and power. London: Arnold. Articles submitted for publication: Baker, K. and Jewitt, S. (2004). Evaluating thirty-five years of Green Revolution technology in villages of Bulandshahr District, western UP, North India. Submitted to Journal of Development Studies. (Accepted subject to minor changes). Jewitt, S. and Baker, K.M. (2004). The Green Revolution re-assessed: Insider perspectives on agrarian change in Bulandshahr District, Western Uttar Pradesh, India. Submitted to Geoforum Baker, K.M. and Coulter, A.S. (2005). Terror and tourism: and the problems of sustaining beach vendors' livelihoods in Bali's uncertain environment. Submitted to Journal of Sustainable Tourism Development.")
cnt(A4465,"Kathinka Evers completed her Ph.D. in science and logic at the University of Lund, Sweden, Balliol College, Oxford University, and the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. She was a visiting lecturer at various Chinese universities in 1992, a research fellow and visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, associate fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, research fellow at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, and visiting professor on the Chair Condorcet at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Dr. Evers has completed postgraduate courses in theory of science and ethics at the Norwegian University for Sports and Physical Education, Oslo. Between 1997 and 2002, she has been focusing on her position as executive director for the Standing Committee on Responsibility and Ethics in Science (SCRES), established by the International Council for Science (ICSU). Her present position, since 2003, is research director at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Currently, Dr. Evers' main areas of research are bioethics such as cloning and genetically modified organisms, ethical and philosophical issues in the brain sciences, sociopolitical responsibility of science, and the formulation of international ethical guidelines for science.")
cnt(A4464,"Kathia Monard is a doctoral student in the Social and Comparative Analysis of Education program in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She worked in Ecuador as a service-learning program coordinator. Her dissertation focuses on the ways in which international service-learning programs can nurture sensibilities of care, justice, and reciprocity.")
cnt(A4463,"Karl W. Steininger received his education in Economics and Computer Science at the University of Vienna and UC Berkeley. In research he specialized in environmental, and ecological economics, and in international trade. Since 1999 he has been Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria. Further he is a member of the Austrian National Global Change Committee and chairs the Human Dimensions Programme for Austria. He is a lecturer at the Vienna based University of Life Sciences. Previously he held positions in the World Bank (Environment Department) and at the University of Trieste, Italy (Guest Professor on Trade and Environment).")
cnt(A4462,"Karl M. Wiig focuses on management of knowledge at the organizational level. He has authored four books and over 40 articles on knowledge management, is co-founder of the International Knowledge Management Network, and has served as keynote speaker on six continents. He works extensively with client organizations in building internal knowledge management capabilities by focusing on business-related issues with senior management; tactical approaches and solutions with middle management; and hands-on methods and techniques with professional knowledge practitioners. Mr. Wiig holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Case Institute of Technology, was Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence and of Systems and Policy Analysis at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and served as a management consulting partner with Coopers & Lybrand. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America and other reference works.")
cnt(A4461,"Karen Coelho is a Research Associate at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a background in development studies and several years' experience working with and consulting for NGOs in Asian countries. Her areas of scholarship include the anthropology of development, critical perspectives on neoliberal reforms in the state sector, the anthropology of urban infrastructure services, and gender issues in public policy. She is the author of FAO monographs on gender and agricultural policy, and the co-author of a book on the history of cooperatives in India.")
cnt(A4460,"Kara Lindaman is Assistant Professor of Political Science/Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Concentrating in areas of social and morality policy, she teaches courses in policy, public administration, health policy and administration and ethnic and racial politics. Her research includes the morality of gambling and fiscal federalism domestically and comparatively. Currently she is surveying and researching rural school districts experiencing enrollment and budgeting changes.")
cnt(A4459,"Kangsheng Zhang, Professor. He graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages in 1976. He was engaged in research on environmental information in the Institute of Environmental Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences during the period of 1976~1986. Since 1987, he has made researches on eco-environmental information in the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now Executive Director of China National Focal Point for Global Environmental Information Exchange Network (INFOTERRA), the United Nations Environment Program, and Director of Documentation & Information Center of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.")
cnt(A4458,"Kamaljit S. Bawa is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He has worked in conservation biology for the last thirty years in Central America and South Asia. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers in professional journals and has edited several monographs and books. He has been a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment. He is the editor in chief of Conservation and Society, a recently launched interdisciplinary journal on conservation; he also serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is, or has been, a member of several national and international advisory panels, and is Past President of the Association for Tropical Biology. He is a member of the board of several foundations, and also the founder-trustee of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). ATREE is a non-governmental organisation devoted to research, action, and education, with units in Bangalore and Bagdogra, India, that respectively focus on two global hotspots of biodiversity: the Western Ghats and the Eastern Himalayas.")
cnt(A4457,"K.W. Chau, B.Sc. (Building Studies), B. Building, Ph.D, FRICS, FHKIS, FCIOB Professor Chau is the Chair Professor of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong. He was also the president of the International Real Estate Society (2000-01) and first president of the Asian Real Estate Society (1996-7). He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Surveyors, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and Chartered Institute of Builders. He is a member of the Appeal Tribunal Panel (Buildings) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 1999, he received The University of Hong Kong Outstanding Young Researcher Award and the International Real Estate Society Achievement Award in recognition of his achievements in real estate research. In 2004, he was awarded The University of Hong Kong Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award. Professor Chau's main areas of research are real estate investment, real estate finance and economics, construction economics, building performance assessment and performance of the real estate and construction sectors. Most of his works are empirical studies with implications for researchers, policy makers, developers and investors. He has published and presented more than 200 technical / academic papers and reports. Professor Chau also serves on the editorial boards of 10 international peer-reviewed academic journals.")
cnt(A4456,"K. Ravi Srinivas works as a software professional and is completing his Ph.D. at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. His Ph.D. research concerns biodiversity and intellectual property rights. Mr. Srinivas has contributed articles/reviews to Economic and Political Weekly, Science and Public Policy, Environmental Politics, Agriculture and Human Values, and the International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics. His articles cover the impacts of biotechnology, science, and technology, environment and development, and popular culture. Mr. Srinivas was a peer reviewer on the Global Biodiversity Assessment Project. He was a visiting scholar at the Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, on a Fulbright Fellowship. At present, he is a visiting scholar at the Law School, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.")
cnt(A4455,"K. J. Holsti: Professor Holsti is UBC Killam Professor Emeritus (at the University of British Columbia, Canada) and one of Canada's leading scholars of international relations, having been President of both the Canadian Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. Holsti teaches international relations and theories of international relations at graduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests over the last several years have focused upon the changing nature of international conflict and the dilemmas of its management and control. His two most recent books are Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648-1989 and War, the State, and the State of War, both of which are published by Cambridge University Press.")
cnt(A4454,"Jyrki Luukkanen has a Dr. tech. in systems theory and is working as a senior researcher at the University of Tampere, Finald, Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy. His main areas of research have been energy and climate policy. He has been developing different modeling approaches to deal with energy use and emissions. His energy and environmental policy studies have covered local, national and international level and main interest in the case studies has been in Finland, Europe and developing countries. He has been a leader of several national and international research projects from the late 1970s. He has held teaching positions as an acting professor of environmental policy and assistant professor of systems theory.")
cnt(A4453,"Jurgen Brauer is professor of economics at Augusta State Universitys College of Business Administration (Georgia, USA). He is vice-chair of the board of directors of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, a US-based group of economists, and serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed journals Defence and Peace Economics (UK) and Nacao e Defesa (Portugal). He is widely published on the economics of military affairs, arms production, arms trade, disarmament, conflict, and peace. He has published several edited books, most recently with Prof. J. Paul Dunne ("Arming the South," Palgrave, 2002 and "Arms Trade and Economic Development," Routledge, 2004). Two monographs - on the environmental effects of war and on the economics of military history - are forthcoming.")
cnt(A4452,"Jun Peng graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and received a master's in engineering from the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University. Jun Peng now works in the State Environmental Protection Administration.")
cnt(A4451,"Jun Goshima Graduated from Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan, in 2000 with the degree of M.D. Okinawa Nambu Tokushukai Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, April~ November 2000~ National Transitional Intern at United States Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, April 2001 ~ March 2002 Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, April 2002 to present")
cnt(A4450,"Július Oszlányi is director of the Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Forestry and Wood Processing, Zvolen, Slovakia, and also studied Law at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia . His preferred fields of work are: ecology of forest ecosystems, consequences of anthropogenic impact on ecosystems, renaturation of ecosystems, biodiversity, nature protection, and biosphere reserves. He has written 9 scientific monographs and more than 100 scientific articles (both in journals and proceedings). He is the national coordinator and representative of Slovakia in the subcommission "Environmental and Sustainable Development" of the 5th Framework Programme of the EU, and chairman of the Slovak National Committee for the "Man and the Biosphere Programme"(UNESCO). He is a member of the Slovak Commission for UNESCO and the Slovak Ecologist Society, and an Evaluator of scientific projects for the EU.")
cnt(A4449,"Dr. Juha I. Uitto is the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for Global Environment Facility (GEF) at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York, USA. He is also a Councilor of the American Geographical Society (AGS), and past Board Director of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and the World Seismic Safety Initiative (WSSI). Prior to joining UNDP in 2002, he worked with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (1984-1987), Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (1988-1989), United Nations University (UNU) (1990-1999) and GEF (1999-2002). Dr. Uitto specializes in project and program management, monitoring and evaluation in the fields of environment and sustainable development. He has research and project experience in over twenty countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Uitto is the author and/or editor of twelve books and monographs, including 'Water Wars? Geographical Perspectives' (a special issue of The Geographical Journal, 2002; with Aaron Wolf), Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins (UNU Press, 2001; with Asit Biswas), Water for Urban Areas: Challenges and Prospects (UNU Press, 2000; with Asit Biswas), and The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: Sustainable Management of Changing Environments (UNU Press, 1995; with Toshie Nishizawa). He has published some twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Applied Geography, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Environmental Hazards, The Geographical Journal, and Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, as well as book chapters, articles in encyclopedias, conference proceedings, professional and general journals. Dr. Uitto has served as visiting lecturer and given seminars and guest lectures in several universities in the United States, Japan and Europe. He holds an MSc degree in geography from the University of Helsinki in his native Finland, and PhD in social and economic geography from the University of Lund in Sweden.")
cnt(A4448,"Judith Grummon Nelson is a consultant to NGOs and INGOs, and a Certified Fund Raising Executive by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (US). She has presented and facilitated seminars and training sessions for not-for-profit organizations in the US and in Brazil, Egypt, Estonia, Guam, Lithuania, Romania, Saipan, and Thailand. She has presented and facilitated seminars and training sessions in the US for NGO leaders from Croatia and India and many other countries. She studied at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received a B.A magna cum laude from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC.")
cnt(A4447,"Judith A. Cherni is currently a Fellow Research Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology in Imperial College London. She has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and published book chapters and articles on the subject of globalization, modern risks, and local change. Her recent book Economic Growth versus the Environment. The Politics of Wealth, Health and Air Pollution (2002, Macmillan) raises questions about the politics of air pollution and ill-health from a multidisciplinary perspective in developed economies. She has written on the globality of environmental hazards and is also working on the issue of energy and sustainability in poor rural areas in developing countries.")
cnt(A4446,"Juan Espinosa de los Monteros. Born in Madrid (Spain) on June 1, 1938. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry granted by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and a postdoctoral research career at the University of Sheffield United Kingdom). He is a Research Associate Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas - CSIC (National Research Council of Spain), now in the Unidad de Polticas Comparadas, Grupo Ciencia, Tecnologa y Sociedad, Alfonso XII, 18, 28014 Madrid (Spain). From 1982 to 1992, he served different managerial positions in the Spanish R&D Administration as Responsible for Management of several R&D Programs: Acuaculture and New Materials at the Interministerial Committee of Science and Technology (CICYT); and manager in charge of R&D Programs at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Ministry of Health and Consumption Affairs of Spain). He is now involved in the analysis and evaluation of scientific and technological policies with special emphasis on the problems of R&D programs and their relationships with regional and international policies. He has published a series of articles on evaluation of public R&D policies and programs in national and international journals (Science and Public Policy, Research Evaluation, Medicina Clnica....). He is the author or co-author of a series of books, among them: Evaluacin de las actividades de investigacin y desarrollo tecnolgico en acuicultura en el periodo 1982-1997. Tomo I, Directorio de publicaciones de investigadores espaoles en acuicultura. Tomo II (Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentacin, Centro de Publicaciones).")
cnt(A4445,"Joseph L. Scarpaci is Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. He has conducted eighty-four months of field research in Latin America in which forty-three visits to Cuba have been made since 1990. Along with Mario Coyula and Roberto Segre, he is the co-author of Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis (2002), recipient of a Choice Academic Book Award. He has authored seven books and over sixty articles and book chapters on Latin American urbanization, social policy, and historic preservation. His recent book, Barrios and Plazas: Globalization and Heritage Tourism in the Latin American Centro Histórico (2005, University of Arizona Press) assesses how globalization is transforming heritage tourism in Spanish American historic neighborhoods. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Fulbright, and the Social Science Research Council. In 2004 the Conference of Latinamericanist Geographers awarded him the Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award. That same year Virginia Tech named him the recipient of the Almuni Award for Excellence in International Programs.")
cnt(A4444,"Joseph A. Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. He has taught at the University of New Mexico and currently directs the Cultural Heritage Research Project, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Research on the evolution of sociocultural complexity led to the publication of his book The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988). In addition to authoring many articles and monographs, he is co-editor of the books Evolving Complexity and Environmental Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest (1996) and The Way The Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action (2000). Dr. Tainter's work has been used in the United Nations Environment Programme (Kenya), the European Joint Commission and the National Nutrition Institute (Italy), the Beijer Institute (Sweden), the Center for International Forestry Research (Indonesia), as well as throughout the United States and Canada. He has been invited to present his research to the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and the International Society for Ecological Economics. Dr. Tainter's biography is included in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.")
cnt(A4443,"Jose Vazquez is a researcher and instructor in the Ecological Economics program at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy. Since 1998 he has been a visiting lecturer at the State University of New York at Albany. Jose received the Lincoln Institute of Land Use Fellowship in 1998 to study watershed development and tourism in the Lake George watershed region in New York. He has presented results from this and other similar studies at several academic and professional conferences. His main research interests are income distribution, tourism development, and land-use change.")
cnt(A4442,"José M. Echavarren is a postdoctoral researcher at the Public University of Navarra (Spain). His field of expertise is Sociology of Space and Environmental Sociology.")
cnt(A4441,"Jos Verbeek is employed at the World Bank, Washington, DC, US, as a Country Economist for Latvia and Lithuania in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Unit in Europe and Central Asia (1999present). He was an Economist with the Development Data Group (19921998), Co-chairperson of the thematic group on macro modeling, i.e. Tools for Economic Analysis, and Operational work; (FY97FY98): Introduced RMSM-X to the creditworthiness department of the Japanese Export Import bank, Trained staff of the Asian Development Bank in macro modeling using the RMSM-X framework, Provided technical assistance to the National Planning Commission of Namibia and the Economic Policy department of the Ministry of Finance of Mongolia, Lecturer in the EDI course Macroeconomic management: New methods and current policy issues, Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Research Assistant (19881992), involved in conducting research on growth theory and teaching introductory mathematical economics He was educated at Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Ph.D. in Economics, 1993, and Drs. (MA) in Economics, 1987, concentration in general economic (growth) theory. Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US, Summer 1992. Publications include: Disequilibrium Growth Theory, Gower Publishing Group, Avebury Monograph Series, England (1993), co-author with Ch. van Marrewijk; Essays on Economic Growth Theory, Doctoral Dissertation, Thesis Publishing Co., The Netherlands (1993); The World Bank's Unified Survey projections: How accurate are they? An ex-post evaluation of FY91FY97; World Bank PRE Working Paper no. 2071, (1999); A Two-sector Disequilibrium Growth Model, European Journal of Political Economy (1994), Vol. 10, with Charles van Marrewijk; Measuring Debt Servicing Capacity, Chapter 9 in External Debt Management (1994), ed. Th. M. Klein, World Bank Technical Paper number 245, Washington DC, US, co-author Th. M. Klein; Pollution, Abatement and Endogenous Growth: Is Growth Bad for the Environment?, World Bank PRE Working Paper no. 1151, (1993), with F. van der Ploeg and Ch. van Marrewijk; Disequilibrium Growth Theory in an International Perspective, Oxford Economic Papers (1993), Vol. 45, with Ch. van Marrewijk; Sector-Specific Capital, "Bang-Bang" Investment and The Filippov Solution, Journal of Economics (1993), Vol. 57, with Ch. van Marrewijk; On Opulence Driven Poverty Traps, Journal of Population Economics, (1993), Vol. 6, with Ch. van Marrewijk; Growth, Budget Deficits and Fiscal Policies in an Overlapping Generations Model, Journal of Economics, (1991), Vol. 53, with Ch. van Marrewijk. Dr. Verbeek is married to Vildan Demiraydin and is the proud father of two sons: Jens Eren and Erkin Emiel.")
cnt(A4440,"Jörg Fliege obtained PhD in mathematics from the University of Dortmund in 1997. After a visit to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, he spent one year on a "Research in Brussels" project entitled "Dispersion Simulation for Modelling Polluting Facilities". His research interests include vector optimization, locational analysis, and interior point methods for nonlinear problems. His teaching at the University of Dortmund includes lectures in nonlinear programming and interior-point methods as well as mathematics courses for engineers. Dr. Fliege was Laureate at the ESI XII --- Twelfth EURO Summer Institute on Locational Analysis and is the 1997 winner of the bi-annual dissertation prize "Best Dissertation on Location-Related Research" of SOLA (Section on Locational Analysis) within INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences).")
cnt(A4439,"Jordy Micheli is professor and researcher at the Department of Economics, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM- A), in Mexico City. He is an Industrial Enginner and Master of Economics, from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. Before moving to that university, in 1997, he was under-director of Technological Modernization at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), during 1990-1996, and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) during 1980-1990. He is also journalist and consultant. His research and consulting has focused on tecnological innovation and competences , management and organization , and construction of the environmental market. Professor Micheli is author of three books and numerous articles about those topics.")
cnt(A4438,"Joost N. Kok is professor at Leiden University. He has worked at the Free University in Amsterdam, at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, at Utrecht University, and at the bo Akademi University (Finland). Currently, he is the head of the group Algorithms and Foundations of Programming, and Director of Computer Science Education at Leiden University. He is currently the President of the Dutch/Belgium AI society, docent at the computer science department of the bo Akademi University, advisor at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, and member of the editorial board of Fundamenta Informaticae, associate editor of Natural Computing journal, and editor of the Series on Natural Computing of Springer Verlag. His research is concentrated around the topics of co-ordination, optimization and data mining. Co-ordination. Software systems are difficult to maintain due to their inherent complexity. Co-ordination of components in Software Systems studies how complex systems can be constructed from components using a clear distinction between individual components and their co-ordinated interaction. Optimization. Many problems can be described as an optimization problem in which, within certain constraints, optimal values have to be found for the variables. The techniques that are used are stemming from Simulated Evolution, in particular from Evolutionary Computation. Research is being done on the development of new algorithms, on the applicability on benchmark problems and on concrete "real-life" cases. Data Mining. Data Mining looks for hidden patterns in large amounts of data. The focus is on association rules and on techniques from the area of Natural Computation.")
cnt(A4437,"Dr. Jong-Jin Kim is an associate professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. The principal theme of his research and scholarly work is to explore architectural ramifications of technological innovation and environmental conservation. He teaches and conducts research on sustainable design and building intelligence. His research work on building technology spans three continents. In the late 1970s, he worked on developing a building energy analysis model for passive solar buildings at the University of Texas at Austin Numerical Simulation Laboratory. In the 1980s, he worked on the research staff at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in Architecture. He has gained international recognition through his work on computer modeling of radiation flux exchange. In 1985, Dr. Kim served as a visiting academic to the University of Strathclyde, and collaborated with European researchers for the EEC Building Research Consortium. From 1989 to 1994, he served as a US representative to the International Energy Agency Task XII group. In January 1994, he served as the chair of the 1994 ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in North America) Technology Conference under a theme "Design and Technological Innovation for the Environment." He has published, and given many lectures internationally, on sustainable design and building intelligence. In the 1990s, at the University of Michigan, he developed the "Architectural Compendium for Environmental Education (ACEE)," which is one of the first educational resources for teaching sustainable design in architecture. This compendium is being disseminated among architectural educators in the United States. His article entitled "Intelligent Building Systems" was featured on McGraw Hills Time Saver Standards. Dr. Kim has collaborated with many local and international architectural firms on award winning green building projects. In 1997, the Korean Institute of Energy Research, in the design and construction of the first green office building in Korea, invited him to be the "green-building" consultant. In 2001, he constructed a mock-up building called "Smart Building Module," which is a full-scale experimental facility to showcase and conduct studies on advanced building control technologies. Currently, he is writing a book entitled Building Intelligence: Building Technology of the Future.")
cnt(A4436,"Jonathan M. Harris (Director, Theory and Education Program, Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute) holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He is the author of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). He is co-editor of the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought volumes A Survey of Sustainable Development, A Survey of Ecological Economics, and Human Well-Being and Economic Goals. He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions; author of "World Agriculture and the Environment"; and co-author of environmental teaching modules in microeconomics and macroeconomics. Dr. Harris has served as Adjunct Associate Professor of International Economics at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and as consultant and lecturer at the Brown University Watson Institute International Scholars of the Environment Program and the University of the Middle East.")
cnt(A4435,"Jonathan Chan is an assistant professor in the Religion and Philosophy Department and a research fellow of the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is currently an editor of the International Journal of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy of Medicine (formerly the Chinese & International Philosophy of Medicine). He has published on applied ethics, political philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and the history of logic in a Chinese context.")
cnt(A4434,"Dr. Jon Shaw is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen. Following a doctorate on railway privatization, Dr. Shaw has published widely on issues of transport policy.")
cnt(A4433,"Jon D. Stanford has a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, England. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute of Australia. A specialist in monetary and financial economics, he has published Money, Banking and Economic Activity, John Wiley, 1973, which has also been published in Spanish-and Portuguese-language editions; (with T.G. Beale) The Law and Economics of Financial Institutions in Australia, Butterworths, 1995, and Financial Institutions in Halsburys Laws of Australia, 1997. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.")
cnt(A4432,"Jon D. Erickson is an Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environmental Program at the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT, USA), where he teaches ecological economics. He holds a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management, and M.S. and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics from Cornell University. Past positions include Assistant Professor of Economics at Rensslear Polytechnic Institute, statistics lecturer at Cornell University, visiting lecturer at the University of Agriculture in Slovakia, consultant to Sandia National Laboratories, and a research specialist to the U.S. Agency for International Development. His current research interests include ecological-economic modeling, the dynamics of forest economies, land-use sustainability, and community geographical information system development. Other interests include renewable energy technology, regional development, and international energy and greenhouse gas policy. He has published in each of these areas, including recent papers in Science, Ecological Economics, Climatic Change, and Land Economics. His current research program supports the University of Vermonts interdisciplinary program in natural resources and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, including funded research on integrated watershed-economy modeling in the Adirondack Mountain and Hudson Valley regions of New York State, and the Green Mountains of Vermont. He is a founding member and past president of the Adirondack Research Consortium, an organization created to foster and report research to inform policy-making and community planning in the region. In this capacity, he works to bridge the gap between information producers and users, cross disciplinary boundaries in the holistic study of a region, and integrate local knowledge and priorities into a community-driven research process. He is also active in the U.S. and International Societies for Ecological Economics, most recently chairing the biennial meeting of the USSEE in Saratoga Springs, NY.")
cnt(A4431,"Jon Burchell is a lecturer in Politics at Liverpool John Moores University. His research interests include green parties, new social movements and EU Environmental Politics. He has published in West European Politics, Environmental Politics and Scandinavian Political Studies. He is author of 'Transformations in Green Parties' (Earthscan) and co-author of 'The Greening of the EU' (Sheffield Academic Press) with Simon Lightfoot.")
cnt(A4430,"Prof. Dr. John-Jules Ch. Meyer is head of the Intelligent Systems Group of the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, and currently research director of this institute and vice-dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at this university. He holds a MSc in Mathematics from Leyden University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University Amsterdam on a thesis, entitled "Programming Calculi Based on Fixed Point Transformations", on the semantics of programming languages. From 1985 to 1993 he was successively an assistent, associate and full professor at the Computer Science Department of the Free University Amsterdam, the last on a chair "Logic for Distributed Systems and Artificial Intelligence". From 1989 to 1993 he was also a (part-time) full professor of Theoretical Computer Science at Nijmegen University. Since 1993 he has been a (full) professor at Utrecht University. Furthermore, he is currently the scientific director of the Dutch Graduate School in Information and Knowledge-based Systems (SIKS), chairman of the Dutch Association of Logic and Philosophy of Science, member of the boards of the Dutch National Platform for Computer Science Research and the Dutch Association of Theoretical Computer Science. His research interests include artificial intelligence, agent technology, cognitive robotics, applied logic, and semantics of programming languages. He has published over 150 papers on these subjects in international journals and conference proceedings. He is an editor of the Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logic(s), Data and Knowledge Engineering, and the Journal of Intelligent Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. He has co-authored and co-edited several books on agent technology, deontic logic, epistemic logic and nonmonotonic reasoning. He has been a member of over 100 (national and international) PhD committees in the area of computer science and AI, at which he acted 19 times as a promotor.")
cnt(A4429,"John M. Gowdy is Professor of Economics and Director of the Ph.D. program in Ecological Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA. He has been a Fulbright scholar in Vienna, Austria, and a visiting scholar at the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the University of Queensland, Australia; Tokushima University and Doshisha University, Japan; and the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of over 100 academic papers and eight books, including (with Carl McDaniel) Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature (University of California Press, 2000), Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader in HunterGatherer Economics and the Environment (Island Press, 1998), and (with Sabine OHara) Economic Theory for Environmentalists (St Lucie Press, 1995) His articles have appeared in Ecological Economics, Environment and Planning, Land Economics, The Journal of Regional Science, Structural Change and Economic Development, and the Review of Income and Wealth. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Ecological Economics, Environmental Ethics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and Environment and Planning. He is the current President of the US Society for Ecological Economics. Professor Gowdys current research includes the following: economic valuation of biodiversity and environmental theory and policy, economic anthropology, evolutionary models of economic change, and regional sustainable economic development using social accounting matrices. His current work in regional sustainable development is funded by the Hudson River Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Center for Economic Growth of the Rockefeller Institute. The Hudson River Project is a pilot program constructing an integrated assessment model of the interactions between economic change, land use change, and ecosystem integrity in a tributary of the Hudson River. Professor Gowdy is also involved in a sustainable development project in the rural village of Umuluwe in south-eastern Nigeria, where he is investigating the inter-related issues of climate change, globalization, and poverty.")
cnt(A4428,"John L. Robinson studied mathematics and physics at Auckland University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When he was a scientist with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research his study of the 1972 report to the Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth, took him into the interdisciplinary arena of futures research. In New Zealand and Europe, John's work included contracts with OECD Interfutures and several United Nations Agencies. He studied sociology, demographics, economics, history and other subjects which provided the theoretical base for more detailed scenarios of long-term trends. The interest in long-term trends subsequently waned in New Zealand with the disappearance of The Commission for the Future, and John's employment has focused on Maori statistics and analyses. His interest in futures has continued with the publication of three books and a number of articles.")
cnt(A4427,"John Kendall received his B.Sc. in Physics, his M. Sc. in Electron Physics and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering all from the University of Birmingham in the U.K. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, and a Professional Engineer of Alberta. He has published extensively and has written three books and holds two patents. He recently stepped down as Dean of Science at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada., where he is now Professor of Computer Science.")
cnt(A4426,"John K. C. Kingston is a Senior Informatics Research Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI), which is a part of Centre for Information Systems and their Applications, an institute within the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. After graduating from the University of Durham with a B.Sc (Hons) in Psychology, he completed a Master of Science in Knowledge Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh in 1986. In his 15 years at AIAI, John has been involved in AI work with various companies and organizations, ranging from the UK Health and Safety Executive to the US Air Force and from Unilever to the University of Edinburgh. The key to the success of John's work has been his use and application of the CommonKADS methodology for knowledge analysis and KBS design. Recently, John's interests have moved to applying a generalised version of the CommonKADS approach (known as multi-perspective modelling) to knowledge management, via the capture and effective representation of corporate knowledge assets. John's research interests include techniques for capturing knowledge and modelling knowledge, methods for distributing knowledge (particularly intelligent Internet-based software), and the development of real-world applications which verify and exemplify all the aforementioned techniques.")
cnt(A4425,"Dr. John Hadjinicolaou has been working in the field of environmental engineering since he received his Ph.D. degree in 1983. He was a visiting research fellow for two years in Environment Canada and for eight years a senior Research Associate at the Geo-environmental section of the Geotechnical Research Centre of McGill University. Since 1983 he is teaching at McGill University in the area of Environmental Engineering and since 1999 also at Concordia University at the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering as an Adjunct Associate Professor.")
cnt(A4424,"John Godfrey, a member of the Consumer Committee of the UK's Food Standards Agency is Vice-Chairman of the Consumers in Europe Group and a Director of European Research into Consumer Affairs (ERICA). His main research has been on the ethology, genetics and evolution of populations of the rodent Clethrionomys in the universities of Oxford (where he was Royal Society's Stothert Research Fellow and lecturer at Brasenose College), and Edinburgh (where he was Lecturer in Zoology and then University Fellow). He worked on the genetic effects of ionizing radiation on populations of mice for the Medical Research Council. He is a Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, of the Consumer Panel of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, of the Ionizing Radiations Advisory Committee of the Health and Safety Commission, of the Food Standards Agency's Stakeholder Group in its Review of BSE Controls, and of the European Commission's Advisory Committees on Fisheries and Aquaculture, and on Agricultural Product Health and Safety. He is Spokesman for Action Programme for the Citizens of Europe, founding member of the Permanent Forum for Civil Society, and on the committee of the Standing Conference on Food and Low Income. He jointly organized an EC-US conference on Biotechnology and the Food Supply for DG XII. He was a participant in the UK Foreign Office conferences: Sustainable Oceans in the Twenty First Century; Revision of the Common Agricultural Policy; Next Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations; Europe After 2000; Governance of the Oceans; Preparing for Earth Summit III; and Enlarging the European Union: How well are we preparing for a new Europe?, at the College of Europe, Warsaw. He lectured on GM foods and the consumer at Al-Balqua' University, Jordan, gave evidence to the House of Lords on the European Food Authority. His recent publications include contributions to the National Consumer Council's Agricultural Policy, Production Systems and the Consumer Interest, "BSE-where are we now?" in Consumer Policy Review, and Europe for Everyone: the social dimension of the EU and the present Inter-Governmental Conference, published by the Federal Trust, and short contributions in Nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, The Times Literary Supplement and The Lancet.")
cnt(A4423,"Professor John Farrington holds a Personal Chair in the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen. His particular research interests focus on rural transport and accessibility, and he has been heavily involved in policy-related research in Scotland, the UK, and the EU. He has coordinated a major EU research project on Environmental Transport Policies and Rural Development, and is a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the US Transportation Research Board.")
cnt(A4422,"John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT's System Dynamics Group. His research includes systems thinking and organizational learning, computer simulation of corporate strategy, and the theory of nonlinear dynamics. Author of many scholarly and popular articles on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today, including the book Modeling for Organizational Learning, and the award-winning textbook Business Dynamics, he has presented his work before corporate, financial, and government audiences worldwide. Prof. Sterman's research centers on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He has pioneered the development of "management flight simulators" of corporate and economic systems. These flight simulators are now used by corporations and universities around the world. His recent research ranges from the dynamics of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable improvement programs to experimental studies assessing public understanding of global climate change. Prof. Sterman has twice been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics, won the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper of the year published in the California Management Review (with Nelson Repenning), has five times won awards for teaching excellence from the students of the Sloan School, and was named one of the Sloan School's "Outstanding Faculty" by the 2001 Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. He has been featured on public television's News Hour, National Public Radio's Marketplace, CBC television, Fortune, the Financial Times, Business Week; and many other newspapers and journals for his research work and innovative use of interactive simulations in management education and corporate problem solving.")
cnt(A4421,"John Blair has an honours degree in Geography from Durham University, UK, a Master of Environmental Planning degree from Arizona State University, USA (December 1994), and a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning, also from ASU (January, 2002). He is currently a research associate with the Centre for a Sustainable Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is currently working on a project examining housing affordability in relation to sustainability and whether pursuing sustainability impedes or helps the affordability goal. John has worked on sustainability in a practical way including a team-based project designing two sustainable neighborhoods in Phoenix, Arizona. He has worked with state of the environment reports and community indicator programs (CIPs), in the latter case compiling new performance measuring systems as well as evaluating their ability to measure sustainability and their effectiveness in urban governance. John has had considerable experience as an urban and environmental planner with government agencies in New South Wales and with several planning consultants in Arizona, USA.")
cnt(A4420,"John Avery graduated from MIT with a BSc degree in physics and was later awarded his MSc at the University of Chicago. After working at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England, and spending summers in the laboratory of Professor Albert Szent-Gyorgyi at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, he lectured at the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh University. He was awarded his PhD and DIC in chemistry at Imperial College, London, in 1965 and he remained there until 1973 lecturing in theoretical chemistry. He now holds the post of Associate Professor at the H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen. Between 1969 and 1980 he served as managing editor of the Journal of Bioenergetics, and he is the author of The Quantum Theory of Atoms, Molecules and Photons} (McGraw-Hill, 1972, Editorial Alhambra, Madrid, 1975), Creation and Annihilation Operators (McGraw-Hill, 1976), Hyperspherical Harmonics, Applications in Quantum Theory, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989), Progress, Poverty and Population (Frank Cass, 1997), Science and Society (HCØ Tryk, 1998), and Hyperspherical Harmonics and Generalized Sturmians (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999). He is a foreign member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters, and is the contact person for Denmark for the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.")
cnt(A4419,"John A. Vincent was born in London in 1947 and educated at Eltham Green Comprehensive. He trained in Social Anthropology, taking a degree in the School of African and Asian Studies at Sussex University. Wrote his Ph.D. and subsequently published on the rural family farmers of the Val d'Aosta in the Italian Alps. Having worked as a social worker and community development worker, he has spent his academic career teaching and researching at Exeter University. He developed his interests in Third World Studies and rural development and has conducted research and written about alpine Italy, Kashmir, Uganda and Bosnia. Over the last fifteen years he has concentrated in studying and writing about cultural gerontology. He was an elected member of Devon County Council from 1981 to 1989 and pursued his concerns over provision for the elderly. He has conducted empirical research into private residential care for older people in Devon (UK); conducted fieldwork in written on comparative sociology of ageing in Bosnia and Britain; researched the politics of old age in the UK and written on old age and globalisation. His major books on old age are Inequality and Old Age (UCL Press 1995) and Politics, Power and Old Age (Open University Press 1999), Politics and Old Age (Ashgate 2001) and Old Age (Routledge 2003).")
cnt(A4418,"John A. Rohr is professor of public administration at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy. He has lectured extensively on the relationship between constitutions and administration throughout the United States and in seven other nations abroad. He is the author of seven books including Founding Republics in France and America: A study in Constitutional Governance (University Press of Kansas, 1995). In 1990, he spent nine months in Paris as a senior Fulbright research scholar. During the academic year 1998-99, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington where he continued his studies in comparative constitutional law.")
cnt(A4417,"Johannes Cornelis van Weenen is professor in Sustainable Product Development at the University of Amsterdam where he has worked since 1976. He was appointed in 1999. In 1990 he obtained a Ph.D. in technical sciences at Delft Technical University. The subject of his thesis was waste prevention theory and practice. He set up and coordinated a EUREKA-Ecodesign Working Group and organized several international ecodesign workshops from 1990 to 1995. In 1988 he published a book on the environmental aspects of advanced materials. In 1993 he was invited by the UNEP-IE/PAC to organize a working group on products-the UNEP-Working Group on Sustainable Product Development (UNEP-WG-SPD). In 1994 he was appointed director of the UNEP-WG-SPD International Centre, at the University of Amsterdam. In 1997 he edited a book on an EU-project concerning ecodesign in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)-Life Cycle Design. A Manual for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Since 1998 he has been involved in the establishment of a new Expert Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Amsterdam. In May 2000 he joined the research Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) of the University of Amsterdam.. A recent study dealt with Renewable Material Resource Systems central to sustainable product development and sustainable consumption in developing countries. His consultancy is called IDEA-International Design and Environment Activities. IDEA-studies published by the European Foundation in Dublin concern design for sustainable development "concepts and ideas," and "guides and manuals," followed in 1999 by the study "practical examples of SMEs," on sustainable enterprises and in 2000, jointly with EDEN, "crops for sustainable enterprise." From the outset Hans van Weenen was involved in the concept development of the first sustainable elementary school of the Netherlands, "De Sokkerwei" in Castricum. In 2000 he was involved in the building process as sustainable building advisor.")
cnt(A4416,"Johan Eyckmans studied economics at the University of Antwerp and obtained a Ph.D. in environmental economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Since 1998, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders and guest professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven campus Kortrijk. His research interests are the economics of climate change, general equilibrium modelling, game theory, mechanism design and normative economic theory.")
cnt(A4415,"Dr. Joel Tickner is research assistant professor in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is also principal investigator at the Lowell Center For Sustainable Production. His training is in toxics chemicals policy, epidemiology, risk assessment, and pollution prevention. He has served as advisor and researcher for several government agencies, non-profit environmental groups, and trade unions both in the U.S. and abroad during the mid to late 1990s. He was co-coordinator of the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle and co-editor of the book Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle. His book Precaution, Environmental Science, and Preventive Public Policy was published by Island Press in 2002. He has lectured, spoken at conferences, and published for several years on the topics of pollution prevention, risk assessment, toxic chemicals policy, and uncertainty and the precautionary principle. He holds an M.Sc. in environmental studies from the University of Montana and a D.Sc. from the Department of Work Environment at University of Massachusetts Lowell. For three years he was an Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellow.")
cnt(A4414,"João dos Santos Vila da Silva, Lic. Mathematics, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). M.Sc. Remote Sensing, Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE). Doctoral student of Planning and Sustainable Rural Development, Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP). Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency (Embrapa) since 1982, working on geotechnologies, evaluation of remote sensing data, environmental mapping and planning.")
cnt(A4413,"Joanne van Selm is lecturer in international relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. She conducts research at the University's Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies and the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. Dr. van Selm is coeditor of the Journal of Refugee Studies (OUP) and her publications include Kosovo's Refugees in the European Union (ed.) (London: Pinter, 2000) and Refugee Protection in Europe: Lessons of the Yugoslav Crisis (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998), as well as numerous articles. She is visiting scholar (2000-2001) at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration.")
cnt(A4412,"Joan Martinez-Alier is Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He is founding member of the International Society for Ecological Economics and member of the Scientific Committee, European Environment Agency. He is Author of "Ecological Economics: Energy, Society and Environment" (Oxford, 1987) and "Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South" (London and Delhi, 1997). He is editor of the Journal "Ecologia Politica". His next book, on Ecological Conflicts and Valuation, will be published in 2002")
cnt(A4411,"Jo Beall is a reader in Development Studies at the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) at the London School of Economics (LSE) where she directs the Development Management Programme. She is a specialist on urban social development, urban services and urban governance and has researched these issues in South Asia and South Africa. She is co-author of Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg, published by Earthscan and editor of A City for All: Valuing Difference and Working with Diversity. She is currently actively involved in research with the Crisis States Programme based in the Development Research Centre at the LSE where she is investigating local and metropolitan government as a site of state stabilization in conflict situations, with a focus on KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.")
cnt(A4410,"Jiufang Lu is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, where he studied and from which he graduated. Professor Lu is doing research and teaching in the field of chemical engineering thermodynamics, solvent extraction chemistry, and nuclear chemistry.")
cnt(A4409,"Jisong Wu is director-general of the Department of Water Resources and Hydrology, Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China. He was also vice chairman of the sixth World Conference of Science Parks (Australia, 1998), a professor at Northern Communication University, and has a doctorate in technology economy. He has been a counselor for the Chinese delegation to UNESCO and visited more than 50 countries and regions, accumulating plentiful knowledge and experience in the environment and natural resources. He was the first person to introduce the concept of the knowledge economy to China, and has published several books and more than 100 articles in English, French, and Chinese about scientific research, management, and the knowledge economy. Dr Wu's main Publications are Comparing the Expertise for Decision Making and Management of R&D between Developing and Developed Countries (in English; UNESCO, 1986); Where Does the Information Highway Go? (Chinese Railway Press, 1994); New Cells of 21st Century Society: Science Parks (Shanghai Science and Education Press, 1995); The World Through Chinese Eyes: 50 Countries and Regions I Have Visited (4 volumes; Beijing Science and Technology Press, 1998); New Trends of the 21st Century Society: The Knowledge Economy (Beijing Science and Technology Press, 1998); and The Knowledge Economy: Theory, Practice, and Application (Beijing Science and Technology Press, 1999). Since 1986, Dr Wu has published more than 100 articles about the intelligence economy, the knowledge economy, and hi-tech industrialization in major publications throughout the world, 14 of these articles in Beijing-based newspaper The People's Daily.")
cnt(A4408,"Jinhai Dong was born in July 1937 in Shandong Province. He graduated from Biology Department, Shandong University in 1962, and was a visiting scholar in the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada from 1981-1984. During 1987-1995, he was deputy-director of the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of the Shandong Zoology Society, Fisheries Society and Society of Oceanolgy and Limnology, associate chief editor of " Studia Marine Sinica", member of Shandong Science Committee, "Oceanology and Limnology" Editing Committee and International Marine Mammal Society. He used to be a member of the National Academic Committee for South Pole Investigation and headed the biology group. His research fields include biology and population dynamics of marine mammals, existing natural resource investigation and stock assessment, artificial breeding and investigation of mammals of polar regions. His research achievements filled several domestic research gaps, and laid important groundwork for the study of marine mammals. Up to now, more than 40 research papers on mammals have been published. He pushed the study of marine mammals to a higher level by developing the Science of Resource Protection and Resources Management Ecology, on the basis of morphology and classification studies. He developed new methods and ideas (stock assessment, statistical methods , a potential new subspecies presented for the first time, etc.). Since 1994, through a co-operation agreement on studying the Bowhead Whale with USA, he has filled another research gap in China, and greatly promoted study of marine mammals around the world.")
cnt(A4407,"Jing Ma, is an engineering assistant. he graduated from Hehai University majoring in water resources planning and utilization. His specialities are water resources planning, water engineering economic analysis, water supply and demand analysis, macro-economic analysis, etc. He has acted as a main member in many projects such as Water Resources Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection in North-west China (State-key Project in the Ninth Five-year Plan, MST), Water Resources Plan of Dashahe River Basin Dalian, Liaoning Province, and Water Resources Assessment and Development Planning of Anyang, Henan Province. He has also acted as an assistant international consultant in international projects aided by WB, and ADB. The projects included China Water Action Plan (WB), and Strategic Options for the Water Sector of PRC (TA2817, ADB).")
cnt(A4406,"Jill Chopyak is currently the Executive Director of the Loka Institute, a national non-profit organization working to bring a community voice into research, science and technology decision-making. Her background is in international trade issues, sustainable agriculture and international environmental policy. Previous to her work at Loka, Jill worked in Washington, DC for Redefining Progress, where she conducted research on a variety of topics, including: the federal statistical system, global climate change, and economic mechanisms to encourage the transfer of low-emission technologies from industrialized to developing countries. From 1992-1994, Jill worked in southern Italy where she founded a one-year, sustainable land management program for young people. As an intern at UNICEF in Geneva, Switzerland in 1989, Jill conducted research on the effects of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment policies on Latin American children. Her publications include The Great Data Paradox: Threats to the Integrity of the Federal Data System in the Information Age, The Micro Effects of Macro Policies: GATT and Vermont Agriculture, and Community-Based Research: Research for Action. Jill holds a BA in Global Issues and an MA in International and Intercultural Management from the School for International Training, and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Other Economic Summit (TOES/US).")
cnt(A4405,"Jiantao Zheng graduated in 1997 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, with a Bachelor of Engineering, and is currently a candidate for a master's degree in management science and engineering at Tsinghua University. His research area is energy systems engineering, sustainable development strategy, and energy economics.")
cnt(A4404,"Jianfa Shen is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from East China Normal University in Shanghai in 1983 and 1986 respectively and his Ph.D. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) in 1994. He is a member of the Hong Kong Geographical Association, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers and its Study Group on Population Geography and Study Group on Quantitative Methods, correspondent members of the Commission on Modelling Geographical Systems, Commission on Population and the Environment, and the Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow of the International Geographical Union. Dr. Shen's research interests focus on spatial population modeling, migration analysis, urban and regional development. He is currently engaged in several research projects including Urbanization and Governance in Zhujiang Delta funded by the research grant council of Hong Kong. His recent publications include Internal migration and regional population dynamics in China (Progress in Planning, 1996) and Modelling regional population growth in China (with Nigel Spence, Mathematical Population Studies, 1997), and Population and development challenges in China (The Geographical Journal, 1998).")
cnt(A4403,"Jiahua Pan, born in 1957 in Hubei, China, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1992. Dr. Pan worked as a researcher in the Institute of Economics of the Hubei Academy of Social Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics in Beijing, professor of economics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, senior programme officer and adviser on energy and environment, UNDP China Office, and economist and deputy head of the Technical Support Unit of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation. His major areas of interest are environmental and resource economics, economics of sustainable development, and economic aspects of energy and climate change and he has published extensively in the above areas, both in English and in Chinese. Dr. Pan has also acted as adviser to government agencies in China and international and nongovernmental organizations, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Ford Foundation.")
cnt(A4402,"Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh is professor of environmental economics (since 1997) in the Department of Spatial Economics at the Free University in Amsterdam, and professor of 'Nature, water and space' in the University's Institute for Environmental Studies. He is an elected fellow of the Tinbergen Institute Research School (since 1994). He has a Master's degree in econometrics with a specialization in operations research from the University of Tilburg (1988), and a PhD degree in economics from the Free University (1991). His research interests cover environmental economics, evolutionary economics and spatial economics. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Ecological Economics, Regional Environmental Change, Dutch Journal of Environmental Science (Milieu), International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, and International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology. He is editor of the Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 79 chapters). He is chairman of the advisory committee for social, economic, spatial and environmental research (ESR-NWO), and a member of the program committee "Biodiversity", both under auspices of the Dutch National Science Foundation. In addition, he is a member of the Dutch committee on Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zones (LOICZ, under auspices of IGBP), and an advisory committee of various Dutch ministries on "Ethics and Social Aspects of Genetic Modification" (COGEM). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). He is the author or editor of 8 books and has written more than 50 articles in journals, as well as many articles in edited volumes. In 2002 he received the prestigious Royal/Shell Prize (100,000 Euro) for his work on integrated economic-environmental modelling.")
cnt(A4401,"Jennifer Krausnick is a student in the Master of Arts in Public Policy program at the University at Albany. Before joining the program, Ms. Krausnick was a technical writer and editor.")
cnt(A4400,"Jeffrey Waincymer is Professor of Law and Director of Research in the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published books in the field of WTO litigation, international trade law, international commercial arbitration, and taxation. In addition to teaching and researching in the fields of international economic law, arbitration, and taxation, he has been a consultant to government on related law reform measures and has acted as a panelist on an intergovernmental World Trade Organization dispute. In addition he is currently Chair of the International Trade and Business Committee of the Law Council of Australia.")
cnt(A4399,"Jeffrey W. J. Harrod is an academic, writer, and consultant living in the Netherlands. He has a law degree from University of London, UK, specializing in international law, an MA in international relations from Lehigh University, US, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has taught international political economy at the University of West Indies, University of London, the University of Southern California, the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam. Apart from articles and chapters in books he is author of Trade Union Foreign Policy (Macmillan, l972), Power, Production and the Unprotected Worker, (Columbia University Press, l987), Labour and Third World Debt (ICEF, Brussels 1992) and has edited with N. Schrijver The UN Under Attack (Gower, 1988) and with S. Frenkel Industrialisation and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries (Cornell University Press, 1995). He served three years at a UN-associated research institute and seven years as permanent publication and research consultant for an international trade union. His current research interests are in global social policy, critical realism, and changing structures of global governance and the power of multinational corporations. He is professor emeritus from the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and is currently teaching at the University of Amsterdam at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences.")
cnt(A4398,"Jeffrey Stephen Miller is Research Associate with the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, US. His interdisciplinary science and policy research centers on public affairs at local, national, and international levels. Miller has attempted to balance his public and academic life, writing for journals, participating in academic conferences, and working in politics. He seeks to use his past professional experience as a policy analyst and coordinator of human development assistance to integrate practical and theoretical knowledge for improvement in the human and natural condition. He is presently working with Lynton Caldwell on a forthcoming book.")
cnt(A4397,"Jeffrey Goldstein is Associate Professor in the School of Business of Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, USA, where he has taught since 1989. Dr. Goldstein has also taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, NYU, and Cornell. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in the application of chaos and complexity theories to organizations. His book, The Unshackled Organization: Facing the Challenge of Unpredictability Through Spontaneous Reorganization, was touted by Industry Week as a "fascinating vision." His work has been profiled in many publications including: Scientific American; The Scientist; Issues and Observations (from the Center for Creative Leadership); Contemporary Psychologist; The Hartford Courant; and Emergence: A Journal on Complexity in Organizations and Management. Dr. Goldstein is also the co-author of two video-based training programs on workplace diversity: Brainwaves: New Patterns in a Diverse Workplace and Bridges: Skills for Managing a Diverse Workforce. He has over 70 articles in academic and professional journals. Prof. Goldstein has consulted to many public and private organizations. In addition, he has given presentations at universities around the world including: Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia; Harvard; University of Pennsylvania; University of California at Berkeley; Johns Hopkins; University of Tel-Aviv; University of Pavia - Italy; University of Toronto; University of Quebec at Hull; Creighton University; Miami University - Oxford, Ohio; Springfield College; Marist College; and Boston University.")
cnt(A4396,"Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. He obtained his B.A. in Economics (1976) from Washington State University, M.A. in Economics (1978) from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in Economics (1982) from Stanford University. He has been a professor at Washington State University since 1981 where he teaches undergraduate and graduate microeconomic theory as well as environmental and natural resource economics. He served as graduate program director from 1990 to 1994. He spent one academic year (1985-1986) as a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington and one year as a Gilbert F. White Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington DC, USA. His research focus is on natural resource economics, including natural resource scarcity and the environmental impacts of natural resource use. His work has appeared in the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and other journals. He has served on the editorial boards of The Energy Journal, Revista Mexicana de Economia y Finanzas (Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance), and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He also has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1991-1992).")
cnt(A4395,"Jeannie Grussendorf received her Ph.D. in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK in 1998. Her research focuses on both international relations and conflict resolution theories in assessing peacemaking possibilities in the post-Cold War world. She is currently project director for the "Students for Peace" research project into moral disengagement at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health.")
cnt(A4394,"Jean-Jacques Salomon is honorary professor of Technology and Society and director of the Research Center Science, Technology and Society at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, France. He was graduated from the Sorbonne in philosophy and anthropology, where he obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy and history of science. From 1963 to 1983 he created and directed the Science and Technology Policy Division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He has founded and chaired the International Council for Science Policy Studies attached to the ICSU network, presided the Standing Committee for Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (Strasbourg) and more recently the Collège de la Prévention des Risques Technologiques attached to the Prime Minister offfice in France. He was invited professor at MIT, Harvard, Montreal University, Sao Paulo Institute for Advanced Study and is fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK, and member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Among many publications and contributions, his major books are Science and Politics (MIT Press, 1973), Mirages of development (Lynne Rienner, Boulron/London, 1989), Science, War and Peace (Economica, Paris, 1989), The Uncertain Quest (UNU, Tokyo-Paris-NewYork), Le destin technologique (Balland/Gallimard, 1991), Survivre à la science: Une certaine idée du futur Albin Michel, Paris, 1999) and Le scientifique et le guerrier (Belin, Paris, 2001).")
cnt(A4393,"Jean Ruffier is a CNRS researcher, Director of Centre Franco-Chinois de Sociologie de l'Industrie et des Technologies (Lyon and Guangzhou), founder of INIDET, a network including researchers from Europe, Latin America and China. His main topics are productive efficiency, technology management, technology transfer, risk management and sustainable development. His main operative way uses mainly small international teams to study factories all over the world. He tries to explain why some factories survive, and why others no. He built a diagnosis tool in order to assert the ability of factories to face the future shocks, detect bleak points in the use of complex productive equipment, as bleak points in the ability to get strategic information where it is needed to take good decisions.")
cnt(A4392,"Professor Jay W. Forrester received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1939 and an M.Sc. from MIT in 1945 and has been awarded honorary doctorates from nine universities. Before creating the field of system dynamics in the 1950s, Professor Forrester was a pioneer in the early development of digital computers and invented the random-access, coincident-current magnetic storage memory. He directed the System Dynamics Program at the MIT Sloan School of Management until 1989 and has written numerous articles and books on the theory and practice of system dynamics. Jay Forrester has been recently applying system dynamics to understanding economic behavior. He is also developing materials for system dynamics as a foundation for a new kind of education, for kindergarten through grade 12. His honors include: Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal from the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (1969); Medal of Honor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1972); National Inventors Hall of Fame (1979); James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award, MIT (1987), and National Medal of Technology (1989).")
cnt(A4391,"Javier Delgado-Campos is a Researcher at the Institute of Geography, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Originally trained as an Architect he came into the field of Geography through the analysis of spaces. His main interest is related to the Rural-Urban relationship, the importance of which seems to be increasing in countries like Mexico, where many social problems emerge as the country becomes urbanized without an equivalent socioeconomic development. He also leads a Seminar on The City-Region Relationship and a course on The Management of Urban and Rural Spaces in the Program of Master and Doctor Degree in Geography at the UNAM.")
cnt(A4390,"Javier Aracil was born in Alcoy, Spain, in 1941. He is currently Professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Automatic Control and Director of the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, both at the University of Seville (Spain). His research interest are in the areas of theory and philosophy of dynamical systems modeling and control, with emphasis on the application of qualitative methods (bifurcations, qualitative change, chaos,...) to system dynamics models and to control systems. He received the 1986 Jay W. Forrester Award for his contributions to this research area. He has also been awarded by the 1991 Premio Andalucía de Investigación. He is the author (or co-author) of six books and of numerous papers, and a Member of the Spanish Academy of Engineering.")
cnt(A4389,"Jason F. Shogren is the Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, and is a professor of economics at the University of Wyoming. His research focuses on the behavioral underpinnings of private choice and public policy, especially for environmental and natural resources. Before returning to his alma mater, he taught at Iowa State and Yale. In 1997, Shogren served as the senior economist for environmental and natural resource policy on the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House. Currently, he serves on the Environmental Economics Science Advisory Board for the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Governor Geringer recently appointed him to Wyoming's Environmental Quality Council. Shogren is also on the advisory committee for Enlibra, the Western Governors Association's new doctrine for environmental management. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Recent publications include Environmental Economics (Oxford University Press, 1997), Private Property and the Endangered Species Act (University of Texas Press, 1999); Endangered Species Protection in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2001); and papers on risk, conflict, cooperation, valuation, environmental policy, and experimental economics. The American Association of Agricultural Economics selected his essay with J. Tschirhart on the Endangered Species Act at 25 as the Best Choices Article for 1999.")
cnt(A4388,"Dr. Jarrod Wiener (B.A. Political Science, UPEI; M.A. International Relations, Kent; LL.M. International European and Commercial Law, Kent; Ph.D. International Relations, Kent) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and founding Director of the Brussels School of International Studies. He was from 1995-6 an elected member of the Executive Committee of the British International Studies Association, and he is currently a member of the International Studies Association and the Academic Council on the United Nations System. Dr Wiener's research interests include globalization, international political economy, and global governance. His publications include his monographs: Globalization and the Harmonization of Law (Pinter, 1999), and Making Rules in the Uruguay Round of the GATT (Ashgate, 1995). His journal articles include: "Globalisation and disciplinary neo-liberal governance," Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2001); "Money laundering: trans-national criminals, globalisation, and the forces of 'redomestication'," Journal of Money Laundering Control (Vol.1, No.1, 1996). His contributions to edited volumes include a chapter on international legal harmonization in Stuart Nagel (ed.), Multinational Policy Towards Peace, Prosperity, and Democracy (Rowman Littlefield, forth-coming, 2002); and a contribution on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the World Encyclopedia of Peace, edited by former UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar.")
cnt(A4387,"Jari Kaivo-oja, MSc (Econ), Lic.(Reg.Sc.), was born in Finland and graduated from the University of Tampere in Finland in 1990. During 1990-1991 he carried out an international research project concerning energy sector project evaluation (CBA) systems and practices in Tanzania. Between 1991-1994 Kaivo-oja was a project coordinator of a "Demonstration Project for Sustainable Development" in the South-Savo region in Finland. At the University of Tampere in the Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy, he also performed a master thesis "TQM System for Environmental Programme Evaluation" (1995). He defended his Lic. Thesis "Essays in Sustainable Social and Regional Development Planning: Futures Approach" in 1998. Since 1996 he has been a staff researcher at the Finland Futures Research Center (FFRC), at Turku School of Economics and Business Administration. He is the author/co-author of over 110 articles and research reports. His research interests are connected to sustainable information society topics and the use of foresight methods in environmental and socioeconomic policy analysis and management. He has consulted various public and private organizations and made policy analyses for various ministries in Finland. Currently, Kaivo-oja is researcher of Academy of Finland for the socioeconomic part of a large-scale study in the years 1999-2001, in which comprehensive, long-range scenarios are built for Finland according to IPCC model framework. His job at the FINSKEN-project (a part of Finnish Global Change Research Program, FIGARE-program, URL: http://figare.utu.fi/) is combining socioeconomic models and climate change models, and building coherent, long-range, and scenario-based evaluation frameworks (IA-frameworks) for country-level environmental and infrastructure policy analysis. He is also a staff researcher at the EU's Terra2000 research program, which evaluates long-run futures scenarios for Europe and world economy, in the years 2001-2003.")
cnt(A4386,"Jane M. Russell is a senior researcher at the University Centre for Library Research (CUIB) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and professor of the postgraduate programme in Library and Information Science in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the same university. Her specialist field is the production, communication and impact of research in Latin America. She is a member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and of the Latin American Network for Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT), and also of the editorial committees of the journals "Scientometrics" and "Cybermetrics".")
cnt(A4385,"Jan Treur received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Logic in 1976 from Utrecht University. Since 1986 he works in Artificial Intelligence, from 1990 as a full profesor and head of the Department of Artifial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In the 1990s he headed a research programme on compositional design of knowledge-based systems. In the most recent five years this research programme has focussed on the design and analysis of agent systems and their applications to information agents and Electronic Commerce. Moreover, he addressed the use of agent systems in Biology, Cognitive Science and Social Sciences. From 2001 he has a part-time professorship at the Department of Philosophy in Utrecht. His current research interests include agent systems and their behavioural dynamics, biological, cognitive and social modelling, and philosophy of mind.")
cnt(A4384,"Dr. Jan Sundell received a Master of Science of Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1969. He received his doctoral in Medical Sciences at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1994. Between 1969-1978, Dr. Sundell was with the National Board of Urban Planning and Building, Stockholm, responsible for building codes on ventilation, and indoor climate. He was then responsible for legislation on indoor climate and ventilation at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of Sweden. During the last 15 years he has conducted large epidemiological field studies on asthma and the home environment of children, and on SBS among office workers. Dr. Sundell has been also involved in Governmental inquiries in Sweden on Allergies, and Environments and Health, and has acted as chairman of Nordic and European interdisciplinary scientific reviews on indoor air and health, regarding VOC/health, Pets/allergies, Dampness/health, Ventilation/health, Indoor Particles/health, and Breastfeeding/allergies. He is expert advisor at the National Institute of Public Health, Stockholm on indoor environments and health. He received the Nordic INDOOR CLIMATE Award 1995, and the SCANVAC Prize 1999. Dr. Sundell is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Indoor Air..")
cnt(A4383,"Jan Roelof de Pijper studied English Language and Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where I received my Master's degree in 1976. After teaching English for a year at a secondary school, he did a PhD project at the IPO, then still Institute for Perception Research, from 1976-1980. From 1980-1984 he again worked as a secondary-school teacher. In 1983, he received a PhD degree from Utrecht University on a thesis entitled Modelling British English Intonation: An analysis-by-resynthesis of British English intonation. In 1984, he accepted a position as assistant professor, again at the IPO, now IPO, Center for User-System Interaction, where he still works today. The larger part of his scientific career has been devoted to the study of prosodic phenomena in speech, with an emphasis on models of intonation and on phrasing, i.e., how prosody is used to mark boundaries in speech. Later, the focus shifted to implementing and improving the speech output component of applications, in particular automatic information providing systems. In this context, he has worked with word concatenation in combination with prosodic postprocessing, phrase concatenation, and diphone-based speech synthesis.")
cnt(A4382,"Jan Marie Fritz, Ph.D., C.C.S., is a professor of planning and health policy in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati (USA). She also is affiliated with the university's program in Women's Studies and the Department of Sociology. Professor Fritz, a Certified Clinical Sociologist, is the author of more than 80 publications in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Her most recent work is an article on mediation theory (in French), a chapter on the history of clinical sociology (in English) and a co-edited volume on mediation in 8 countries (in Italian). Dr. Fritz is a past president of the Sociological Practice Association and chair of the sociological practice section of the American Sociological Association. She is vice president of the sociotechnics-sociological practice division of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and a past president of the clinical sociology division of the ISA. Professor Fritz was a member of the executive board of the ISA for 8 years and the ISA's representative to the United Nations for 4 years. She currently is a member of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She is a mediator for the U.S. Postal Service, a regional office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and special education cases for the Ohio Department of Education.")
cnt(A4381,"Prof. Jan Holm Ingemann was born in 1955 and is a graduate in economics with a Ph.D. in agricultural economics and policy. He is associate professor and research coordinator at the Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is cofounder and former head of the department. His research is primarily related to interdisciplinary studies of the interaction between agricultural systems and social (institutional and structural) frames in industrial and postindustrial society. Further he is engaged in multidisciplinary research related to "ecological experiment areas" where certain communities through social experiments search for knowledge and experience concerning the adequate design of general institutional and structural frames to encourage sustainable production and reproduction. Ingemann is advisor to various governmental and nongovernmental institutions as regards structural and institutional evolution, and design related to sustainable systems for the production and consumption of food. He is attached to The European Inter-University Association on Society, Science and Technology (ESST).")
cnt(A4380,"Jamie Schwartz was born in Los Angeles, California on November 27, 1973. She attended San Diego State University, receiving her Bachelor's degree in Social Science with an Environmental Emphasis in 1996. With a growing awareness of environmental problems in the world and realizing that the law was an avenue of social change, she decided to attend Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. Receiving her Juris Doctor in May of 2000, she subsequently passed the California State Bar Exam and was sworn into practice on December 4, 2001. Now a licensed attorney at law she lives and works in San Diego, California.")
cnt(A4379,"James Wasley is an Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, teaching architectural design and environmental technology. His research and professional work concerns the practice of integrative, ecologically informed design, and the interrelations in practice between energy efficiency, resource conservation and human health. He is the co-author with David Rousseau of the general audience book Healthy By Design: Building and Remodeling Solutions for Creating Healthy Homes (1999, Hartley and Marks), a book documenting houses built by and for people with extreme chemical sensitivities. He is currently serving as the president of the Society of Building Science Educators and the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance: an Affiliate of the United States Green Building Council, working to promote broader awareness of these issues.")
cnt(A4378,"Dr James M. Tien received the BEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1966 and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering and Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1967, 1970, and 1972, respectively. He has had extensive experience in both industry and academia. He has been a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories (1966-1969), a Project Director at the Rand Corporation (1970-1973), and a Principal and Vice President of Structured Decisions Corporation (1974-present). He joined the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1977, became its Acting Chair (1986-1987), served as the founding Chair (1988-present) of a unique, interdisciplinary Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, and twice was appointed Acting Dean of Engineering (1992-1994, 1998-1999). Dr. Tien's areas of research interest include the development and application of computer and systems analysis techniques to public information and decision systems. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). He has published extensively, with over 200 publications to his credit. He has received over two dozen teaching and professional honors, including being elected a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the prestigious Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award. Dr. Tien is also an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.")
cnt(A4377,"James L. Melsa, a distinguished scholar, an award-winning educator, and a visionary corporate leader, Dr. James L. Melsa has served as dean of the Iowa State University College of Engineering since 1995. Previously, he spent 11 years at Tellabs Inc., Lisle, Ill., including appointments as vice president of strategic planning and advanced technology, vice president of research and development, and vice president of strategic quality and process management. Melsa also was on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame for 11 years, serving as professor and chair of the electrical engineering department. He also has worked on the faculties at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and the University of Arizona, Tucson. During his years as an academic, Melsa conducted significant research on control and estimation theory, speech encoding, and digital signal processing; directed 20 masters theses and 16 Ph.D. dissertations; earned recognition as one of the nation's outstanding electrical engineering professors; and authored or co-authored 116 publications and 12 books, including Linear Control Systems, a classic text used around the world. He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 1978 and received that group's Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He has previously served as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and President of Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical and computer engineering honorary. He has an extensive record of service to national and international groups, including the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association (current trustee), the Iowa Business Council (current deputy), and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (past member of the Board of Examiners and current member of the Board of Overseers). Melsa received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State (1960) and his M.S. (1962), and Ph.D. (1965) degrees from the University of Arizona, Tucson.")
cnt(A4376,"James K. Galbraith is Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, the University of Texas at Austin. He is presently national chairman of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), an international association of professional economists concerned with peace and security issues. He is also a Senior Scholar with the Jerome Levy Economics Institute and Director of the University of Texas Inequality Project. Professor Galbraith holds degrees from Harvard and Yale (Ph.D. in Economics, 1981). He studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at Kings College, Cambridge in 19745, and then served on the staff of the US Congress, including as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee in 19812. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1985. His book, Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay, was reissued in paperback in 2000 by the University of Chicago Press. Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View, co-edited with Maureen Berner, was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press. Visit the University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) website at http://utip.gov.utexas.edu for current research and an archive of published writings, and the ECAAR website at www.ecaar.org for the work of ECAAR.")
cnt(A4375,"James K. Doyle is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He earned his Ph D. in Social Psychology, with a minor in Cognitive Psychology, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he conducted research on risk perception at the Center for Research on Judgment and Decision Making, Institute of Cognitive Science. His work has appeared in Risk Analysis, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the System Dynamics Review, among other journals. His current research interests focus on the interface between psychology and system dynamics, in particular mental models theory and measurement, knowledge elicitation for model building, and evaluation of efforts to improve thinking and learning about complex systems. Dr. Doyle is a member of the American Psychological Society, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the System Dynamics Society and is an associate editor of the System Dynamics Review.")
cnt(A4374,"James Gustave Speth is dean and professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development at Yale University. He was previously administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and Chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was: founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, and senior attorney and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Throughout his career he provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development, and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation's Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America's Barbara Swain Award for Honor, the Keystone Center's National Leadership Award, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, the 1998 Leadership Award of the Alliance for United Nations Development Programmes, and the Ordre National du Lion of Senegal.")
cnt(A4373,"James E. Nickum is currently professor in international relations and Chair of the Department of International Studies at Tokyo Jogakkan College. He has worked on various problems of governance of water resources in China for over three decades, beginning with his 1974 doctoral thesis in economics at the University of California, Berkeley on the role of the people's commune system in mobilizing labor for water works. He was a member of the pioneering U.S. Water Resources Delegation to China in 1974, and prepared the subsequent report of its findings. In 1980, he participated in a month-long United Nations University (UNU) study mission on the environmental effects of proposed south-to-north water transfers, intended to relieve growing water shortages in the cities of north China. With Zuo Dakang, Asit Biswas and Liu Changming, he co-edited the UNU book (Long Distance Water Transfer in China [Dublin: Tycooly International, 1983]) resulting from this mission and related seminars. He lived in Beijing in 1984 as a visiting researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 1986-1988 as country program officer for Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development. From then until he moved to Japan in 1996, he was a senior fellow in the Program on Environment at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he developed a project on problems of inter-sectoral water conflict in Asia due to urbanization. He has taught at a number of universities, including Cornell and the University of Tokyo. He has participated in numerous projects on China's water by United Nations organizations, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank.")
cnt(A4372,"James D. Palmer, Professor Emeritus, Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, received the BSEE in 1955 and an MSEE in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley, CA and the PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1963 from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. He has served as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Oklahoma, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of Science and Engineering of Union College, Schenectady, NY and President of Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO. He was the founding Administrator (Assistant Secretary), Research and Special Programs Administration, the United States Department of Transportation. He served as Vice President of Research and Development, Mechanical Technology, Inc., Latham, NY and Executive Vice President, JJ Henry Co, New York and Moorestown, NJ. He was the first holder of the BDM International Chair in Information Technology at George Mason University where he held the positions of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Acting Dean of the School of Information Technology and Engineering, and Chair, Systems Engineering Department. He has been co-author of three books and more than 100 papers in the areas of systems engineering, software systems engineering, and user needs and requirements. He received the degree Doctor of Public Service, honoris causa, from Regis University, Denver, CO. He is listed in many bibliographical reference works including Who's Who in America, American Men and Women of Science, and Who's Who in the West. He has received many honors including Outstanding Service Awards for contributions as President from the Systems Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society of the IEEE, the Joseph P. Wohl Outstanding Career Award from SMC, the Millennium Medal for Outstanding Achievements and Contributions from the IEEE, and the Outstanding Public Service Medal and Award from the United States Coast Guard for service as member and Chair of the United States Coast Guard Academy Advisory Committee (Board of Visitors).")
cnt(A4371,"James Busumtwi-Sam is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University (SFU). He specializes in International Relations and Comparative International Development. He has published articles in journals and books on the politics of development finance and the role of international financial institutions; the politics of macroeconomic policy reform and financial liberalization in developing countries; international organizations and regional security; the political economy of conflict and peacebuilding in Africa; and on human security. He is co-editor of Turbulence and New Directions in Global Political Economy (Palgrave, 2002) and Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (Kluwer, 2002). His current research focuses on the institutional bases of collective action in a number of areas in contemporary world politics.")
cnt(A4370,"Jacques Gaillard is presently Acting Director of the International Foundation for Science (IFS) in Stockholm, on secondment from the French Research Institute for Development (IRD, formerly ORSTOM). A trained agricultural engineer with a Doctorate in Science, Technology and Society (STS), he published over 30 papers, 6 books as author and 6 books as editor in the field of Science, Technology and Society. His recent books include: Scientific Communities in the Developing World, co-edited with V.V. Krishna and R. Waast (New Delhi: Sage, 1997), International Migration of the Highly Qualified: a Bibliographic and Conceptual Itinerary, co-authored with Anne Marie Gaillard (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1998), La coopération scientifique et technique avec les Pays du Sud. Peut-on partager la science? (Paris: Karthala, 1999) and Les enjeux des migrations scientifiques internationales. De la quête du savoir à la circulation des compétences, co-authored with Anne Marie Gaillard (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999).")
cnt(A4369,"Jacques Fontanel is Director, Ple dEtude des Politiques Sociales et Economiques, Professor of Economics and Deputy-Prsident (in charge of International Affairs) of the University Pierre Mendes France of Grenoble (France). He has published or edited many books on Disarmament, Defence and Peace Economics such as "Les dpenses militaires et le dsarmement" (1995, Publisud), "Economistes de la paix" (1993, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble) and "Civilisations, globalisation, guerre. Discours dconomistes" (2003, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble), with the collaboration of L. Klein, A. Sen and J.K. Galbraith. A second area of his research is public economics, with the publication of "Analyse conomique de lEtat" (LHarmattan, 2001) and "Les liaisons dangereuses entre lEtat et lconomie russes (with I. Samson, LHarmattan, 2003). A third focus is on economic globalization and international hierarchy.")
cnt(A4368,"Dr. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer is a professor in the Department of Political Science and an adjunct member of the faculty of the Center for Environmental Science and Education at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, US. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds a Masters' degree in political science from San Jose State University, San Jose, California. Prior to teaching at Northern Arizona University, Professor Switzer taught at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California and at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, where she also served as chair of the department. In addition to her academic experience, she has served in a number of positions in the public and private sectors. Dr. Switzer served as an environmental specialist for Southern California Edison in Rosemead, California, and in the Public Affairs office of the South Coast Air Quality Management District. She was the founder and coordinator of the Child Abuse Recognition Program for the Office of the District Attorney in Riverside, California, and as the coordinator of the Victim-Witness Advocacy Program in the Office of the San Bernardino County (California) District Attorney. She has also served as the field representative for a member of the California State Legislature, and as a partner in The Imagination Group, a public affairs consulting firm. She is the author of three editions of Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions (2000); Green Backlash: The History and Politics of Environmental Opposition in the U.S. (1997); The Play of Power: An Introduction to American Government (1995), and numerous journal articles and chapters related to public policy and administration. Dr. Switzer is currently conducting research on the implementation of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.")
cnt(A4367,"In July 1998, Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel was nominated Director of the Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Mrs. Aloisi de Larderel joined UNEP in March 1987, as Director of the Industry and Environment Center, with the mandate of bringing together in