Acknowledgements This book emerged from the results of an expert group meeting held in at El Colegio de México in Mexico City, October 2010, entitled “Population Dynamics and Climate Change II: Building for Adaptation.” The meeting was organized by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, IIED, the International Institute for Environment and Development and El Colegio de México. Support and contributions were provided by a wide range of international and national institutions, including UN-HABITAT, IOM, UNDP, ECLAC, UNIFEM, Population Division, UN/DESA, UNITAR, World Bank, Mexico’s Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consejo Nacional de Población, Instituto Nacional de Ecología, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, and the Sociedad Mexicana de Demografía. This book has been realized with the support of the Government of Luxembourg through the project on Demographic Evolutions. We would like to thank Phyllis Brachman for editorial work that significantly improved each of the papers and the book as a whole. Guillermina Herrera of El Colegio de México provided extensive support in the organization of the meeting in 2010, and Madeleine Sacco provided invaluable administrative assistance in the preparation of the book.
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