George Martine is a Canadian sociologist and demographer who has spent most of his professional life working on social development issues in Latin America, especially in Brazil. He has written extensively on social, demographic and environmental topics. Mr. Martine authored UNFPA’s path-breaking The State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth. He is currently Technical Director of Dhemos Consulting, an independent firm that provides support mostly to international organizations on socioeconomic, demographic and environmental issues. Mr. Martine previously served as President of the Brazilian Population Association; Director of UNFPA’s Country Support Team for Latin America; Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development; Director of a Brazilian NGO on population and environment; and coordinator of several United Nations projects in social development. Dunstan Matekenya is the head of the GIS Section of Malawi’s National Statistical Office. His current work focuses on spatial data for the 2008 census, and he is leading in planning the 2018 census mapping. He is also a part-time consultant in GIS and remote sensing. Mr. Matekenya has an M.Sc. in Geospatial Science. Gordon McGranahan is Principal Researcher in the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He works on a range of urban environmental issues, with an emphasis on addressing poverty and environmental problems in and around the home, and on understanding how the critical scale of urban environmental burdens changes as cities become wealthier. Publications include: The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities (Earthscan, 2001); the urban systems chapter of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005); “The Rising Tide: Assessing the Risks of Climate Change and Human Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones” (Environment and Urbanization, 2007); and “Evolving Urban Health Risks: Housing, Water and Sanitation, and Climate Change” (In: The Urban Transformation: Health, Shelter and Climate Change, Earthscan, 2012). David Mkwambisi is an environment and development expert with a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Environment and Development from the Universities of Leeds and East Anglia (United Kingdom), respectively. He is currently working as a Lecturer in Environment and Development Studies at Bunda College, University of Malawi. He is also a regional expert providing technical advice to government negotiators at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on agriculture and climate change within SADC and COMESA countries. Thomas Munthali manages the Population and Development Programme for UNFPAMalawi, where he is the focal point on climate change and natural resource management. He is also the outcome leader for population and sustainable development for the United Nations (Malawi) under the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (20122016). He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Leeds and is the immediate past President of the Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA). He previously worked with the Government of Malawi as an economist in the Ministry of Economic abo ut t h e aut h o rs
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