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About the Authors
WILLIAM EASTERLING (Chair) is a member of the
Department of Geography and the Earth System Science Center at the
Pennsylvania State University. Formally trained as a geographer, he
has published widely on issues of seasonal-to-interannual climate
variability, climate change impacts on agriculture, leading climate
indicators of ecological and social impact, and land use change
interactions with the carbon cycle. His current research focuses on
underlying theoretical explanation of cross-scale determinants of
land use change. He is the former acting director of the National
Institute for Global Environmental Change and currently is the
convening lead author for the chapter on Agriculture and Food
Security in the upcoming Third Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has also held
positions in agricultural meteorology at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and in the Climate Resources Program at Resources
for the Future, Inc. He has B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
PAUL R. EPSTEIN is on the faculty of Harvard Medical
School and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and is a
member of the HSPH Working Group on Emerging Diseases. Previously,
he worked in medical teaching and research capacities in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America. He has coordinated and coedited an
eight-part series on Health and Climate Change for The
Lancet and is a principal core author for Human Health and
Climate Change, a publication produced by a panel on health
impacts of climate change supported by the World Health
Organization, the World
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About the Authors
WILLIAM EASTERLING (Chair) is a member of the
Department of Geography and the Earth System Science Center at the
Pennsylvania State University. Formally trained as a geographer, he
has published widely on issues of seasonal-to-interannual climate
variability, climate change impacts on agriculture, leading climate
indicators of ecological and social impact, and land use change
interactions with the carbon cycle. His current research focuses on
underlying theoretical explanation of cross-scale determinants of
land use change. He is the former acting director of the National
Institute for Global Environmental Change and currently is the
convening lead author for the chapter on Agriculture and Food
Security in the upcoming Third Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has also held
positions in agricultural meteorology at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and in the Climate Resources Program at Resources
for the Future, Inc. He has B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
PAUL R. EPSTEIN is on the faculty of Harvard Medical
School and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and is a
member of the HSPH Working Group on Emerging Diseases. Previously,
he worked in medical teaching and research capacities in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America. He has coordinated and coedited an
eight-part series on Health and Climate Change for The
Lancet and is a principal core author for Human Health and
Climate Change, a publication produced by a panel on health
impacts of climate change supported by the World Health
Organization, the World
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Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Environmental
Program, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He
currently is coordinating an integrated assessment of disease
events along the East Coast of North America, the Gulf of Mexico,
and the Caribbean. He is a member of the Health of the Oceans
module of the Global Ocean Observing System. He has a B.A. from
Cornell University, an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, and an M.P.H. in tropical public health from the Harvard
School of Public Health.
KATHLEEN GALVIN is associate professor in the Department
of Anthropology and senior research scientist at the Natural
Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. Trained
as a biological anthropologist, she has published on issues of
African pastoral adaptation, health, nutrition, and strategies of
coping with climate variability. Her current research explores the
effects of climate variability on land use in southern Africa and
in the U.S. Great Plains. She is also investigating strategies for
balancing pastoral food security, biological conservation, and
ecosystem integrity in East Africa with use of an integrated
modeling and assessment system. She was a member of a National
Research Council group that assessed research needs and modes of
support for the human dimensions of global change. She has B.A. and
M.A. degrees from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. from the
State University of New York, Binghamton.
DIANA LIVERMAN is currently director of the Latin
American Studies Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson,
where she is also associated with the Department of Geography, the
Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, and the Udall Center for
Studies in Public Policy. Trained as a geographer, she has
published widely on drought, climate impacts, resource management,
and environmental policy. Her current research examines the social
causes and consequences of global and regional environmental
change, especially the impacts of climate change and variability on
water resources and agriculture in the Americas and the social
causes of land use and cover change in Mexico. She previously
served as chair of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on
the Human Dimensions of Global Change and is the cochair of the
Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter American Institute for
Global Change. She has a B.A. from the University of London, an
M.A. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from the
University of California, Los Angeles, all in geography.
DENNIS S. MILETI is professor and chair of the Department
of Sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Research and
Applications Informa-
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tion Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author
of over 100 publications and most of these focus on societal
aspects of emergency preparedness and natural and technological
hazards mitigation. He has served as chairman of the Committee on
Natural Disasters in the National Research Council, as a member of
the Advisory Board on Research to the U.S. Geological Survey, and
as the chair of the Board of Visitors to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's Emergency Management Institute. He has a
variety of practical experiences related to hazards mitigation and
preparedness, including serving as a consultant to develop
emergency response plans for nuclear power plants, and he has been
a staff member of the California Seismic Safety Commission. He has
a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. from
California State University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Colorado, Boulder.
KATHLEEN MILLER is currently the interim head of the
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research, where she has worked since 1985. She conducts
research on the socioeconomic impacts of climate variability and
climate change, focusing particularly on impacts as mediated
through human management of natural resource systems. Her published
work includes papers on water resources, fisheries, agriculture,
and energy demand. Her current work deals with assessment of
climate impacts in North America and climatic aspects of natural
resource management. In recent work, she has examined the effects
of climatic variations on the international management of Pacific
salmon resources, the potential impacts of climate variability and
climate change on water resources in the western United States, and
the possible impacts of climate change on U.S.-Canadian
transboundary water management. She has a B.A. in anthropology and
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of
Washington.
FRANKLIN W. NUTTER is the president of the Reinsurance
Association of America in Washington, D.C. The association has been
instrumental in advocating an appropriate private-public
arrangement in financing and mitigating natural catastrophe losses.
He also served as the president of the Alliance of American
Insurers and chair of the Natural Disaster Coalition, an effort to
address how the United States pays natural disaster-related costs.
He has a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
MARK R. ROSENZWEIG is professor of economics and chair of
the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He
was formerly on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and
Yale University and served as director of research for the U.S.
Select Commission on
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Immigration and Refugee Policy in 1979-1980 and co-director of
the Economic Development Center at the University of Minnesota from
1982 to 1990. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
He has published numerous articles on human capital and population
in both the United States and in low-income countries, with
particular attention to the interaction between households and the
environment in rural areas. A fellow of the Econometric Society, he
is the coeditor of the Handbook on Population and Family
Economics and serves as editor or on the editorial board of a
number of scholarly journals. He was a member of the National
Research Council's Panel on Immigration Statistics in 1983-1985 and
is a member of the Council's Committee on the Human Dimensions of
Global Change.
EDWARD SARACHIK is professor of atmospheric sciences and
adjunct professor of oceanography at the University of Washington.
His major interests are the mechanisms and predictability of
short-term climate variations, especially the El
Niño/Southern Oscillation, and the mechanisms and
predictability of longer-term variability of the earth's climate,
especially the ocean's role in such variability. He has served as
chair of the National Research Council's Advisory Panel for the
TOGA Program and as a member of its Climate Research Committee,
Panel for Decadal to Centennial Climate Variability, and Committee
on Global Change Research. He also serves on the International
CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group of the World Climate Research
Programme. He has a B.S. from Queens College of the City University
of New York and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis
University.
PAUL C. STERN is study director of the Panel on Human
Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability and its
parent Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change at the
National Research Council; research professor of sociology at
George Mason University; and president of the Social and
Environmental Research Institute. In his major research area, the
human dimensions of environmental problems, he has written numerous
scholarly articles, coedited Energy Use: The Human Dimension
and Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human
Dimensions, and coauthored the textbook Environmental
Problems and Human Behavior. He is a fellow of the American
Psychological Association and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He has also authored a textbook on social
science research methods and coedited several books on
international conflict issues. He has a B.A. from Amherst College
and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from Clark University.
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ELKE WEBER is a professor of psychology and of management
and human resources at the Ohio State University. Her work is at
the intersection of psychology and economics and examines the
influence of individual and cultural differences in perceptions and
values on decision making. To this end, she uses an eclectic set of
research methods that range from the experimentally informed
axiomatic modeling of risk and risky choice to field studies. She
has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, has taught in both psychology
departments (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and business
schools (University of Chicago; Otto Beisheim School of Corporate
Management, Germany), and spent a year at the Center for Advanced
Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is
currently the president of the Society for Judgment and Decision
Making and associate editor for the journal Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition, she serves
on three other journal editorial boards, on the executive councils
of the Decision Analysis Society and the Society for Mathematical
Psychology, and on a MacArthur Foundation panel.
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