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First Sustainability Transition and
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UNAM/CRIM and AFES-PRESS

Towards a Fourth Sustainability Revolution and
Sustainable Peace:

Visions and Strategies for Long Term Transformative Change to
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

10-13 September 2012, in Morelos, Mexico

 

Biographies of Participants

Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser (Mexico)
EDUCATION
Certificat d’ Études Français, Université de Genève, Switzerland, 1964;
M. A. in Anthropology, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1970;
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1975.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Researcher-Lecturer, El Colegio de México, 1972-85; Academic Co-ordinator, Department of Sociology, El Colegio de México, 1975-77; Researcher-Consultant, International Labour Organization, 1979-81; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, 1982; Director, National Museum of Popular Cultures, 1985-88; President, Mexican Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists, 1985-88; Professor-Researcher, Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 1988-91; Director, Institute of Anthropological Research, (UNAM), 1991-94; Secretary, Mexican Academy of Science, 1992-94; Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO, 1994-98; Professor, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, National University of Mexico, 1999-.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founder, Rural Women Promoter’s Network, 1988; Member, Joint Latin-American Committee, Social Science Research Council (U.S.A.), 1987-90; Steering Committee, Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN), 1985-89; Secretary, Mexican Academy of Science, 1992-94; President, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), 1988-93; Steering Committee "Overcoming Hunger in the 1990's", 1990-93; Executive Committee, Society for International Development, 1991-92; Vice-President, ISSC, 1992-94; Board of Trustees, CIESIN, 1993-96; Member of Executive Committee, Latin American Studies Association-LASA 1994-96; Advisory Board, Human Development Report, UNDP, 1997-2004 ; Member of Board on Sustainable Development, (BSD) of National Research Council, USA 1996-2000; Advisory Committee on the Environment, International Council of Scientific Unions (ACE-ICSU) 1996-2001; Member of the Advisory Group on Social Affairs for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, 1997; Member of Jury for Prize on International Scientific Cooperation, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1998-to date; Vice-President for Science, International Social Science Council, 1998-2000; Member of UNDP Advisory Group on Global Initiatives 1999 ; Member of International Advisory Council for the United Nations History Project 2000-; Chair, Committee on Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Mexican Council for the Reform of the State, 2001; Member of Advisory Council, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, 2002- ; Member of Expert Group for the International Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2001-2003; Consultant for the Program “World Cultures” of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 2004; Coordinator, Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program on “Mexican Transition: culture, migration, gender and violence” 2003-2006 at the Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research; Advisory Board, UNDP Human Development Report 2004 on Cultural Freedom in a World of Diversity”; Member, Governing Board, Mexican Council to Prevent Discrimination, 2002- ;Coordinator, Manual on Social Practices, Rituals and Festivities, for UNESCO, 2003-2004; Re-elected President of the International Social Sciences Council, 2005-2008 in Beijing, China; member Core Cultural Group, Global Economic Forum of Davos, 2004- ; award from Municipal Government of Zacualpan, Morelos, Mexico, for activities to conserve intangible cultural heritage, 2004; creation of Lourdes Arizpe Award on Anthropology, Environment and Policy given at the American Anthropological Association meetings, 2004- ;

Address: Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, CRIM (Multidisciplinary Research Regional Center), Coordinación de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
E-Mail: <arizpel@correo.crim.unam.mx>
Phone: +52-777-317-0550

 

Steffen Bauer (Germany) is a Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn and a research assistant to the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) since 2006. He is a political scientist at the DIE’s department “Environmental Policy and Management of Natural Resources” with a focus on international organization and global environmental governance. He is also the Science and Technology Correspondent of Germany to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Recent research interests include security and development implications of climate change, the relevance of international secretariats in global environmental governance, and adaptation to climate change and desertification with a regional focus on Sub-Sahara Africa. He has published inter alia in: Climate and Development, Global Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Environment and Development and in the Review of International Organizations and has been a reviewer for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook as well as a host of academic journals including Climate Policy, Land Degradation and Development, International Environmental Agreements and Global Environmental Politics. He is co-editor of Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa: New Boundaries for Development (with Imme Scholz, Earthscan 2010), and of A World Environment Organization: Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance? (with Frank Biermann, Ashgate 2005), and one of the lead authors of Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies (edited by Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner, MIT Press 2009).

Address: Dr. Steffen Bauer, German Development Institute (DIE), Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Email: <steffen.bauer@die-gdi.de>.
Website: >http://www.die-gdi.de>.

 

Hans Günter Brauch (Germany): Dr. phil. habil, Adj. Prof. (Privatdozent) at the Faculty of Political Science and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin; since 2005 senior fellow at the Institute on Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University (UNU-EHS) in Bonn; since 1987 chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS). He is the editor of the Hexagon Book Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP) with Springer-Verlag, He was guest professor of international relations at the universities of Frankfurt on Main, Leipzig and Greifswald and at the teachers training college in Erfurt. From 1976-1989 he was research associate at Heidelberg and Stuttgart universities, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford University and he was also teaching at the universities of Darmstadt, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Heidelberg. In 2010 he is teaching at the Free University of Berlin, at SciencePo (Paris), the European Peace University (EPU, Schlaining, Austria), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and at the Institute of Occidental Studies, National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia.

Publications: He has published 72 books, studies and research reports, 144 book chapters more than 81 articles in journals on security, armament, climate, energy and migration policies and on Mediterranean issues in English and German; 21 book chapters and journal articles were published in 10 other languages, in Spanish, Greek , French, in Danish, Finnish, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbocroatian and in Turkish; more than 130 internet publications of keynote speeches and conference presentations in German, English and Spanish. His monographs include: (co-author with H. v.d. Graaf, J. Grin, W. Smit): Militärtechnikfolgenabschätzung und präventive Rüstungskontrolle, 1997; Klimapolitik der Schwellenstaaten Südkorea, Mexiko und Brasilien; Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union. Umwelt- und Energiepolitik der Tschechischen Republik, 2000. Books in English: (co-ed. with D.L. Clark): Decisionmaking for Arms Limitation - Assessments and Prospects, 1983; (ed.): Star Wars and European Defence - Implications for Europe: Perceptions and Assessments, 1987; (co-author with R. Bulkeley): The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and World Security, 1988; (ed.): Military Technology, Armaments Dynamics and Disarmament, 1989; (co-ed. with R. Kennedy): Alternative Conventional Defense Postures in the European Theater, Vol. 1: The Military Balance and Domestic Constraints, 1990; Vol. 2: Political Change in Europe: Military Strategy and Technology, 1992; Vol. 3: Military Alternatives for Europe after the Cold War, 1993; (co-ed. with H.J. v.d. Graaf, J. Grin; W. Smit): Controlling the Development and Spread of Military Technology, 1992; (co-ed. A. Marquina): Confidence Building and Partnership in the Western Mediterranean. Tasks for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Avoidance, 1994; Energy Policy in North Africa (1950-2050). From Hydrocarbon to Renewables, 1997; (co-ed. with A. Marquina, A. Biad): Euro-Mediterranean Partnership for the 21st Century, 2000; (co-ed. with A. Marquina): Political Stability and Energy Cooperation in the Mediterranean (2000); Liberalisation of the Energy Market for Electricity and Gas in the European Union: a Survey and implications for the Czech Republic, 2002; (co-ed. with P. Liotta, A, Marquina, P. Rogers, M. Selim): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean. Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts, 2003; Environmental Dimension of Human Security: Freedom from Hazard Impact, 2005; Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in Environmental and Human Security, 2005; (co-ed. with Ú. Oswald Spring, C. Mesjasz, J. Grin, P. Dunay, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, P. Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta): Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century, 2008; (co-ed. with Ú. Oswald Spring, J. Grin, C. Mesjasz, P. Kameri-Mbote, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, H. Krummenacher): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (2009); (co-ed. with Ú. Oswald Spring): Reconceptualizar la Seguridad en el Siglo XXI (2009); (co-author with Ú. Oswald Spring: Securitizing the Ground – Grounding Security and: Seguritizar la Tierra - Aterrizar la Seguridad (Bonn: UNCCD, 2009); (Guest co-edit. with Ú. Oswald Spring and M. Aydin of a special issue of: Uluslararasi Iliskiler / International Relations, 5,18, Summer Special Issue on “Security” (2009): (co-edit. with Ú. Oswald Spring, C. Tsardanidis and Y. Kinnas: Greek translations of 7 chapters, vol. 3: Globalization and Environmental Challenges, in: Agora, Spring 2010; (co-edit. with Ú. Oswald Spring, C. Tsardanidis and Y. Kinnas): Greek translations of chapters, vol. 4: Facing Global Environmental Change, in: Agora, Summer 2010; Climate Change and Mediterranean Security: International, National, Environmental and Human Security Impacts for the Euro-Mediterranean Region during the 21st Century - Proposals and Perspectives. Papers IEMed No. 9 (Barcelona: IEMed, 2010).

Address: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach, Germany.
Email: <brauch@afes-press.de>.
Website: < http://www.afes-press.de> and <http://www.afes-press-books.de/>.

 

Simon Dalby, Professor Dr., is now CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a faculty member in Wilfrid Laurier University in, Waterloo, Ontario. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Victoria and holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. From 1993 to 2012 he was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research work concerns critical geopolitics, environmental security and political ecology and increasingly how all these matters link up with contemporary discussions of empire, and modes of urban consumption in the metropoles of the global economy. He is coeditor of Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge 1998), The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge 1998, 2006), the journal Geopolitics, and author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990), Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009). His articles have appeared in diverse scholarly journals including Alternatives, Antipode, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Geopolitics, Global Environmental Politics, Intelligence and National Security, Political Geography, Society and Space, Studies in Political Economy and International Politics.

Address: Prof. Dr. Simon Dalby, CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Email: <sdalby@gmail.com>.
Website: < >.

 

Estrada Villanueva, Ariana, MSc, CIDHEM, Ph D candidate; Email: e.ariana@gmail.com She holds a Master in Studies on Population and Regional Development at the Faculty of Architecture of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos and the Regional Centre of Multidisciplinary Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and her BE in Social Anthropology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Ixtapalapa. Presently she is doing her PhD at the Centre of Research and Teaching in Humanities of the State of Morelos (CIDHEM) in Social Anthropology. She received a scholarship for a course of “Local Development” from the Delnet program of the International Centre of Formation of ILO, a diploma course on professional research and development (2005-2006); methodology of rural development from the Ministry of Development in Mexico (SEDESOL), 2004 and a training in Research for Market and Local Finances in 2003.
Her professional experiences are at CRIM-UNAM in the project of “Gender vulnerability in environmental migrants”, at Red Maseual Tomin S. C. a study of market and development of the position in the North of the State of Guerrero; with CIESAS and GITPA-IWGIA France a study about “Remittances and uses of indigenous collectives in Mexico and Guatemala and was responsible of a Credit Union for a Social Sector in Mexico City.
She has published “Las remesas y sus usos en colectividades indígenas de México y Guatemala. Estudios de caso acerca de las formas limitadas de gobernanza económica actual” in: Pueblos indígenas y gobernanza económica pública y privada en Latinoamérica. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. GITPA-IWGIA France, July 2009: 226-257 and “Jóvenes y gobernabilidad en comunidades transnacionales, estudio de un caso: Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca”, in: En Marcha, Realidad Municipal De Oaxaca, vol. 6, no. 46, Oaxaca de Juárez, January 2003: 16-17. She won the second Prize with her essay on “migration and labor rights in the municipality of Atlautla in the State of Mexico in 2008.

 

John Grin (Netherlands) is Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam. A physicist by training, his main interest throughout his career has been political judgment of and governance over socio-technological development, empirically focusing on military technology and security policy; agriculture, water management and biomedical technology. He co-established and is co-director of the transdisciplinary Dutch Knowledge Network for System Innovations and Transitions (KSI; <www.ksinetwork.nl>), in which some hundred researchers of ten different universities co-operate on major changes towards a sustainable society. From 2006-2009, he was scientific director of the Amsterdam School for Social science Research (ASSR; at: <www.assr.nl>). He co-edited special issues of the journals Policy Sciences (vol 43[2009] no. 4) and Research Policy (vol. 39 [2010] no. 4) on transitions, and he published (co-authored with Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot: Transitions to Sustainable Development. New Directions in the Study of Long term Structural Change (New York: Routledge, 2010). Earlier books include: Military-technological choices and political implications. Command and control in established NATO posture and a non-provocative defence (Amsterdam: VU University Press -New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990); (co-ed. with Wim A. Smit, Lev Voronkov): Military-technological innovation and stability in a changing world. Politically assessing and influencing weapon innovation and military research and development (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1992); (co-ed. with Hans Günter Brauch, Henny van der Graaf, Wim Smit): Controlling the Development and Spread of Military Technology (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1992); (co-author with Hans Günter Brauch, Henk van de Graaf, Wim Smit): Militärtechnikfolgenabschätzung und Präventive Rüstungskontrolle. Institutionen, Verfahren und Instrumente (Münster: LIT, 1997); (co-author with Henk van de Graaf, Rob Hoppe): Technology assessment through interaction: A guide (Den Haag: SDU, 1997); (co-ed. with Armin Grunwald): Vision Assessment: Shaping Technology in 21st century society. Towards a repertoire for Technology Assessment (Heidelberg: Springer, 2000); (co-ed. with Wytske Versteeg and Maarten Hajer): Meervoudige democratie – ervaringen met vernieuwend bestuur (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006) and (co-author with Arienne van Staveren) Werken aan systeeminnovaties (Assen: van Grocum, 2007); (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch, U. Oswald Spring, C. Mesjasz, P. Dunay, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, P. Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta, 2008): Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century (Heidelberg – Berlin: Springer); (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch, Ú. Oswald Spring, C. Mesjasz, P. Kameri-Mbote, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, H. Krummenacher, 2009): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (Heidelberg – Berlin: Springer).

Address: Prof. Dr. John Grin, Dept. of Political Science, University of Amsterdam OZ Achterburgwal 237, 1012 DL Amsterdam, Netherlands.
E-mail: <j.grin@uva.nl>.
Website: <http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.grin/>.

 

Dr. des. Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves, Research Fellow/Project Director of the Natural Edge Project who teaches at the universities of Adelaide and Curtin in Australia and a co-author of the report Factor 5 will address the question of a transformation of the global economy by an 80% improvement of resource efficiency.
Charlie Hargroves is the co-founder and Director of The Natural Edge Project (TNEP), an Australian based Sustainable Development research collaboration. Charlie and the TNEP team have developed a number of internationally renowned books on sustainable development, including contributions from the likes of Alan AtKisson, Amory Lovins, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Gro Brundtland, Jeffery Sachs, Leo Jensen, R. K. Pachauri, and William McDonough.
Charlie is a graduate in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Adelaide and is currently completing a PhD in Sustainable Industry Policy with Professor Peter Newman at Curtin University. Charlie spent 12 months on secondment as the CEO of Natural Capitalism Inc, Colorado, and represents the team as an Associate Member of the Club of Rome.
The teams flagship collaborative book, ‘The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century’ (Earthscan 2005), was awarded the Australian Banksia Award for Environmental Leadership, Education and Training. Building on from this work the team delivered two online open access books, 'Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering' (Earthscan 2008), and 'Energy Transformed: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation' and is currently working on an update of ‘Factor 4’, co-authored with Ernst von Weizsäcker, and a response to the Brundtland Commission’s report ‘Our Common Future’ .
Charlie and the team from TNEP have developed a range of projects focused on education, strategy and policy for sustainable development, including working with international partners such as UNESCO, UNEP, Wuppertal Institute, World Federation of Engineering Organisations, Chicago Climate Exchange, World Technopolis Association, Chicago Manufacturing Centre, and Rocky Mountain Institute. The teams Australian partners include Griffith Univeristy, ANU, CSIRO, Engineers Australia, Purves Environmental Fund, Townsville City Council, National Framework for Energy Efficiency, HP, UniSA, KBR, VicUrban, Hatch, RMIT, QUT, and the Queensland EPA Sustainable Industries Division. Charlie is in the final stages of completing his PhD with Curtin University under the supervision of Professor Peter Newman on the topic of 'Carbon Structural Adjustment'.

Address:
E-mail: < >.
Website: < >.

 

Prof. Dr. Roeland J. in’t Veld, Professor of Governance and Sustainability, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands; professor of Public Administration, University of the Dutch Antilles. Prof. Dr. In’t Veld is professor at the Open University of the Netherlands, Professor of Good Governance at the University of the Netherlands Antilles and lector in Democracy. Furthermore, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of Netherlands Knowledge and and Commissioner for IBM The Netherlands, HSK Group and President Commissioner of Prorail. Roel in ’t Veld has editorial responsibility for a wide range of publications, including works on process management and the Handbook on ‘Corporate Governance’.In the past Roel in ’t Veld was Chair of the Advisory Council for Research on Spatial Planning, Nature and the Environment in the Hague and has held such positions as Director-General for Higher Education and Scientific Research at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Secretary of State for Education and Science and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the IB Group. He was also Dean of the Netherlands School for Public Administration, Rector of SIOO, the Interuniversity Centre for Development in the field of Organisation and Change Management.

Address:
E-mail: < >.
Website: < >.

 

Czeslaw Mesjasz (Poland): Dr habil., Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland. His research interests include applications of systems approach in management and in international relations, game theory, conflict resolution and negotiation, corporate governance and the links between economics, finance and security. In 1992-1996 he was the convener of the Defence and Disarmament Commission of IPRA (International Peace Research Association). In 1991-1992 he received a NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship. In 1992-1993 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Research in Copenhagen (later COPRI). He published some 180 works – two books in Polish, papers and book chapters in Polish and in English on management and international security. His major works in the fields associated with peace and security studies are: “Applications of Systems Modelling in Peace Research”, in: Journal of Peace Research, 25,3, 1988; “Eastern Post-Cold War Peace Dividend: A Preliminary Typology of Components”, in: Møller, Bjørn; Voronkov, Lev (Eds.): Defence Doctrines and Conversion (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996): 123-133; “Reorganization of Commercial Debt: Negotiations between Poland and the London Club (1981-1994)”, in: Kremenyuk, Victor A.; Sjöstedt, Gunnar (Eds.): International Economic Negotiation: Models versus Reality (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2000): 149-174; “Economic and Financial Globalisation: Its Consequences for Security In the Early 21st Century”, in: Brauch, H.G; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, A.; Rogers, P. F.; El-Sayed Selim, M. (Eds): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean. Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer, 2003): 289-300; (co-author with Rogowski, Wojciech): “A Survey of Definitions of Financial Stability”, in: Mieczysław, Dobija; Martin Susan (Eds.): General Accounting Theory. Towards Balanced Development (Cracow: Cracow University of Economics, 2005): 437-465; (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch, U. Oswald Spring, J .Grin, P. Dunay, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, P. Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta, 2008): Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century; (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch, Ú. Oswald Spring, J. Grin, P. Kameri-Mbote, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, H. Krummenacher, 2009): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts; “Complexity of Social Systems”, in: Acta Physica Polonica A, 4, 117 (2010).

Address: Assoc. Prof. Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow University of Economics, Pl-31-510 Kraków, ul Rakowicka 27, Poland.
Email: <mesjaszc@uek.krakow.pl>.
Website: http://cel.uek.krakow.pl/moodle/course/view.php?id=1046.

 

Karen O’Brien, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo and she works on global change issues such as climate change, globalization, vulnerability, adaptation, and human security. She is particularly interested in how societies both create and respond to change. She was Chair of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project of IHDP, and leads the PLAN project on Responding to Climate Change: The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway, which is a social-science based project that examines climate change adaptation as a social process. Her research focuses on how integral theory and integral approaches to sustainability can contribute to a better understanding of both the problems and solutions associated with climate change. She explores the ways that environmental changes interact with other global processes to influence equity, resilience and sustainability, and how interacting processes can be used to create positive transformations, including sustainable adaptation. She is also interested in how values, beliefs and worldviews influence the capacity to respond to change, and what this means for individuals and communities faced with complex and interacting changes. Overall, my research emphasizes the need to frame environmental issues in a much broader context, i.e., to consider them as social, developmental and ethical issues that have implications for human security and well-being.
Her publications include three books: Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures (co-authored with Robin Leichenko; Oxford 2008); Coping with Climate Variability: User Responses to Seasonal Forecasts in Southern Africa (co-edited with Coleen Vogel, Ashgate, 2003), and Sacrificing the Forest: Environmental and Social Struggles in Chiapas (Westview, 1998), and as well as articles published in Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. She was also a lead author for IPCC Working Group II on the Fourth Assessment Report’s Chapter 17: Assessments of Adaptation Practices, Options, Constraints and Capacity. (Click here to download my CV) She is Recipient of the Association of American Geographer’s 2008 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. Coping With Climate Variability

Address: Department of of Sociology and Human Geography, Postboks 1096 Blindern 0317 OSLO, Norway
Email: <karen.obrien@sosgeo.uio.no>.
Website: < http://folk.uio.no/karenob/index.html>

 

Úrsula Oswald Spring (Mexico), full time Professor/Researcher at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Regional Multidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM), national coordinator of water research for the National Council of Science and Technology (RETAC-CONACYT), and first MunichRe Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at the United National University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) for 2005-2009. She was the founding Secretary General of El Colegio de Tlaxcala; General Attorney of Ecology in the State of Morelos (1992-1994) and National Delegate of the Federal General Attorney of Environment from 1994-1995. As Minister of Ecological Development in the State of Morelos (1994-1998) she planted over 30 million trees, promoted environmental education from childhood on and produced drinking water for the whole population with a reduction of 65% in infant mortality due to water-born illnesses. Between 1998 and 2000, she was President of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) and later General Secretary of the Latin-American Council for Peace Research (2002-2006). She studied medicine, clinical psychology, anthropology, ecology, classical and modern languages and obtained her Ph.D from the University of Zürich (1978). For her scientific work she received the Price Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2005), the Environmental Merit in Tlaxcala, Mexico (2005, 2006); the Price of Development of the UN in Geneva. She was recognized as Women Academic in UNAM (1990 and 2000); and Women of the Year (2000). She works on nonviolence and sustainable agriculture with groups of peasants and women and is the representative for Latin American of Diverse Women for Diversity. She has written 45 books and more than 328 scientific articles and book chapters on sustainability, water, gender, development, poverty, drug consumption, brain damage due to under-nourishment, peasantry, social vulnerability, genetic modified organisms, bioethics and human, gender and environmental security, peace and conflict resolution, democracy and conflict negotiation. Among her major publications are: (co-author with R. Strahm): Why we are so poor? (translated into 17 languages, 1.5 million copies); Unterentwicklung als Folge von Abhängigkeit (Berne: Lang, 1978); Mercado y Dependencia (México, D.F.: Ed. Nueva Imagen, 1979); Piedras en el Surco (México, D.F.: UAM-X, 1983); Campesinos Protagonistas de su Historia: la Coalición de los Ejidos Colectivos de los Valles del Yaqui y Mayo, una Salida a la Cultura de la Pobreza (México, D.F.: UAM-X, 1986); Estrategias de Supervivencia en la Ciudad de México (Cuernavaca: CRIM/UNAM, 1991); Fuenteovejuna o Caos Ecológico (Cuernavaca: CRIM/UNAM, 1999); (ed.): Peace Studies from a Global Perspective: Human Needs in a Cooperative World (New Delhi: Mbooks, 2000); (co-author with M. Salinas): Gestión de Paz, Democracia y Seguridad en América Latina (México, D.F.: UNAM-CRIM/Coltlax, Böll, 2002); (ed.): El recurso agua en el Alto Balsas (México, D.F.: IGF, CRIM/UNAM, 2003); (Ed.): Soberanía y Desarrollo Regional. El México que queremos (México, D.F.: UNAM, 2003); (ed.): Resolución noviolenta de conflictos en sociedades indígenas y minorías (México, D.F.: CLAIP, IPRA & Böll Fundation, COLTLAX, 2004); El valor del agua: una visión socioeconómica de un Conflicto Ambiental (COLTLAX, CONACYT, 2005); (ed.): International Security, Peace, Development, and Environment, Book 39: Encyclopaedia on Life Support Systems (Paris: UNESCO - EOLSS, UK, online); Gender and Disasters (Bonn: UNU-EHS, 2008); (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch, C. Mesjasz, J. Grin, P. Dunay, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, P. Kameri-Mbote, P.H. Liotta): Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century, 2008; (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch, J. Grin, C. Mesjasz, P. Kameri-Mbote, N. Chadha Behera, B. Chourou, H. Krummenacher): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (2009); (co-ed. with H.G. Brauch): Reconceptualizar la Seguridad en el Siglo XXI (2009); (co-author with H.G. Brauch: Securitizing the Ground – Grounding Security and: Seguritizar la Tierra - Aterrizar la Seguridad (Bonn: UNCCD, 2009); (Guest co-edit. with H.G. Brauch and M. Aydin of a special issue of: Uluslararasi Iliskiler / International Relations, 5,18, Summer Special Issue on “Security” (2009): (co-edit. with H.G. Brauch, C. Tsardanidis and Y. Kinnas: Greek translations of 7 chapters, vol. 3: Globalization and Environmental Challenges, in: Agora, Spring 2010; (co-edit. with H.G. Brauch, C. Tsardanidis and Y. Kinnas): Greek translations of chapters, vol. 4: Facing Global Environmental Change, in: Agora, Summer 2010; (co-author with I. Sánchez et al., 2010): “Forced migration due to climate change”; in: Journal of International Migration; (co-authored with F. Flores et al.): Migración Forzada, Sequía, Género y Vulnerabilidad Social (Cuernavaca: CRIM-DGAPA-UNAM); (co-ed. with I. Sánchez et al.): Investigación del agua en México (Cuernavaca: CRIM-UNAM-CONACYT); (ed.): Water Research in Mexico. Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy (Berlin: Springer, 2011).

Address: Prof. Dr. Úrsula Oswald Spring, Priv. Río Bravo Núm. 1, Col. Vistahermosa, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 62290 México.
Email: <uoswald@gmail.com> and <uoswald @servidor.unam.mx>.
Website: <http://www.afes-press.de/html/download_oswald.html>.

 

Jürgen Scheffran (Germany) is Professor at the Institute for Geography and head of the Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) in the KlimaCampus Excellence Initiative of Hamburg University, Germany. Until summer 2009 he held positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): in the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, the Departments of Political Science and Atmospheric Sciences, and the Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research. After his PhD in physics at Marburg University he worked at Technical University of Darmstadt, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and as Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). His research and teaching interests include: energy security, climate change and sustainable development; complex systems analysis and modelling; technology assessment and international security. He served as advisor to the United Nations, the Technology Assessment Bureau of the German Parliament, the Federal Environmental Agency, and he took part in the German delegation to the climate negotiations in New Delhi in 2002 (COP-8). Recent projects include CLISEC, the ConflictSpace project, the Renewable Energy Initiative and related projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Energy Biosciences Institute and the Environmental Council at UIUC. He is co-editor of the INESAP Information Bulletin, and of the journal Global Responsibility and Wissenschaft und Frieden. Recent books include: (co-ed. with Khanna, M.; Zilberman, D.): Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer, 2010); (co.ed. with Kropp, J.): Advanced Methods for Decision Making and Risk Management in Sustainability Science (New York: Nova Science, 2007); (co-authors Datan, M., Hill, F., Ware, A.) Securing Our Survival (Cambridge: IPPNW, 2007): (co-ed. with Billari, F., Fent, T., Prskawetz, A.); Agent-Based Computational Modelling in Demography, Economic and Environmental Sciences” (Heidelber-Berlin: Springer/Physica, 2006).

Address: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), Institut für Geographie, KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg, Zentrum für Marine und Atmosphärenwissenschaften, Bundesstrasse 53, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.
E-Mail: <juergen.scheffran@zmaw.de>.
Web: <http://clisec.zmaw.de; http://www.uni-hamburg.de/geographie/personal/professoren/scheffran/index.html>.

 

Serrano Oswald, Serena Eréndira, Dr., is an academic, lecturer, clinical therapist and specialized consultant. Currently, she holds a postdoctoral research fellowship in “Gender and Sociology” at the Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She belongs to the “Program of Equity and Gender” where she has collaborated since the year 2003. She is also founder and Academic Secretary of the Centre for Political and Social Studies (CEPS). As a therapist, she sees individuals, couples and families both in Mexico City and Cuernavaca. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (Institute of Anthropological Research; UNAM), an MSc in Social Psychology (London School of Economics and Political Science; University of London), a master’s in Systemic Family Therapy and a professional diploma in Therapy for Couples (CRISOL Institute), and a BA Hons in Political Studies and History (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). She also has a professional diploma in translation and interpreting (DPSI, Institute of Linguists; English and Spanish), and works with nine languages academically. She lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate level in psychology, social sciences and humanities in public and private universities (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM; Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, UAEM; University of the Valley of Mexico, UVM; Crisol Institute; Centre for Political and Social Studies, CEPS; Centre for Superior Naval Studies, CESNAV) and has led and worked in research projects for the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). As specialized consultant at Scientific Innovation and Marketing (SIM), she has led national projects for the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on reproduction, women and vulnerable sectors. She has more than thirty peer reviewed publications on gender, social representations, identities, peace, motherhood, regional development and migration. She has been organizer and has participated in over 67 national and 40 international congresses. She is candidate to the National System of Researchers (SNI). An active feminist and leader of young people from civil society, she is founder of the NGOs Beenguna Bee AC and Tierra Joven AC. She has actively engaged in peace negotiations and peace and security debates at the Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP), and is currently vice-president of the Mexican Association of Regional Development (AMECIDER).

Address: Asociación Mexicana de Ciencias para el Desarrollo Regional AMECIDER, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas IIEc, Circuito Mario de la Cueva, Ciudad de la Investigación en Humanidades, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 04510, México DF.
E-Mail: <sesohi@hotmail.com>

 

Velázquez Gutierréz, Prof. Dr. Margarita, Director, UNAM/CRIM