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About the Authors
consultant. A physicist by education, his experience is with multinational private sector investments across a multitude of sectors including power generation, transport, heavy industry, and commodities trading. Since 2003, he has been working as an international consultant in rural development and natural resource management, with an emphasis on all aspects of training for natural resource and land management. Brent B. Boehlert is Senior Associate at Industrial Economics, Incorporated, an international consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is trained as an agricultural economist and water resources engineer, and is an expert on climate change impact and adaptation assessment, with a particular focus in the water and agriculture sectors. His recently published research includes estimation of the economic costs of adapting to climate change, the impact of climate change on global agricultural water availability with implications for food security, effects of climate change on drought risk, and forecasts of hydroindicators for climate change impacts on thousands of global water basins. Kenneth M. Strze˛pek is Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder; and Senior Research Associate at United Nations University—World Institute for Development Economics Research. He has spent 30 years as a researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental, and economic systems, primarily related to water resource planning and management, river basin planning, and modeling of agricultural, environmental, and water resource systems. He has developed several modeling tools to facilitate decision making for water resources in light of climate change and climate variability. He has also participated as an author of several products for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is currently a lead author for the Fifth Assessment’s chapter on “Key Economic Sectors and Services,” set for release in 2014.
Reducing the Vulnerability of Azerbaijan’s Agricultural Systems to Climate Change http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0184-6