Acknowledgments
This book was prepared by a team led by Kathy MacKinnon (task team leader), assisted by Valerie Hickey and Junu Shrestha (Biodiversity Team, Environment Department), with substantial material on adaptation from Walter Vergara (Latin America and the Caribbean Region), and contributions from Marjory-Anne Bromhead, Christophe Crepin, Karsten Ferrugiel, and Gayatri Kanungo (Africa Region); Emilia Battaglini, Maurizio Guadagni, and Karin Shepardson (Europe and Central Asia Region); Joe Leitmann and Tony Whitten (East Asia and Pacific Region); Enos Esikuri, Marea Hatziolos, Claudia Sobrevila, and Klas Sander (Environment Department); Gunars Platais, Adriana Moreira, Stefano Pagiola, Juan Pablo Ruiz, and Jocelyne Albert (Latin America and the Caribbean Region); Kanta Kumari Rigaud (Middle East and North Africa Region); Richard Damania and Malcolm Jansen (South Asia Region); Rafik Hirji (Water Unit of the Energy, Transport, and Water Department); Stephen Ling (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery Division); and Sachiko Morita and Charles di Leva (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development and International Law). Thanks are due to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) regional coordinators and to Steve Gorman and the GEF Anchor Team for support and advice with regard to the GEF portfolios. The team is also grateful for the helpful comments provided on various versions of the draft publication by peer reviewers Tony Whitten, Adriana Moreira, Ian Noble, and Erick Fernandes as well as Rafik Hirji and Sandy Chang. This publication and other publications about the Bank’s work on biodiversity are available online at http://www.worldbank.org/biodiversity.
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