About the Authors Deborah Balk is Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY)’s Baruch School of Public Affairs and the CUNY Graduate Center (in the Sociology and Economics Programs) and Associate Director of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. Her expertise lies in spatial demography and the integration of earth and social science data and methods to address interdisciplinary policy questions. Her current research focus is on urbanization, population, poverty, and environmental interactions (such as climate change). She has co-authored numerous papers on population and climate change, including a recent one on city population forecasts and water scarcity. David Dodman is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) where he is team leader for institutional objectives on ‘Cities and Climate Change’ and ‘Research Quality’. He is the author of more than thirty journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of ‘Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk’ (Kingston, UWI Press) and ‘Adapting Cities to Climate Change: understanding and addressing the development challenge’ (London, Earthscan). He is a College Teaching Fellow at University College London, and a Lead Author on the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Regina Fuchs is a research scholar at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), as well as a Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Economics and Business (WU) in Vienna, Austria, where she was awarded a doctorate in the fall of 2012. Her research is focused on household demography and the demographic transition in developing countries. Boris Graizbord is National Program Director for LEAD Mexico. Before joining LEAD, he served twice as academic coordinator for the Master’s programme in urban development at El Colegio de México. Since 1979, he has been a research professor at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de México; lecturer in the post-graduate division in the faculty of architecture at Mexico’s National University (UNAM); and, since 1992, lecturer in the Master’s programme in Regional Studies at Instituto Mora. He also teaches full and short courses in other academic institutions, including the University of Southern California, University of Pennsylvania and the New School University in New York. José Miguel Guzmán is the Chief of the Population and Development Branch of UNFPA. He holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Montreal, Canada. He works on a wide range of issues related to population and development, including climate change, urbanization, ageing, fertility transition, child and maternal mortality and health, gender, international migration, poverty, natural disaster impacts and surveys/ census and information systems. xii
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