List of Contributors

Christine Auclair
Urban Indicators Programme of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya. Developing policy-sensitive indicators for urban development. Working on capacity-building for use of indicators in policy development at the national and local levels.

Jan Bakkes
Head, UNEP Collaborating Centre for Assessment, Reporting and Forecasting, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands. Integrated assessment at national, regional and global levels. Main activity: contribution to the Global Environment Outlook report.

Peter Bartelmus
Chief of the Environment, Energy and Industry Statistics Branch of the United Nations Statistics Division, New York. His research interest is the interface between statistics, statistical analysis and policy formulation in the area of environment and development.

Ralf Behrensmeier
Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany. He develops input-output modelling extended by material flow indicators related to economic driving forces. 

Antony Berger 
International Union of Geological Sciences, Canada. Developing landscape indicators with emphasis on rapid environmental change.

David Berry
Executive Director, Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators (SDI Group), Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President. The SDI Group includes about 14 Federal Departments building to a consensus on a process and list of sample indicators for the United States that can be used as a tool to raise awareness and policy relevance of sustainable development issues and information.

Suzanne Billharz
SCOPE Officer for the project on Indicators of Sustainable Development and Director of the Center for Clean Air Policy programme in Prague. Coordinated the SCOPE ISD project 1994-1997, which has served as a global forum for ISD development.

Hartmut Bossel
Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany. Developed systems approach for deriving complete sets of indicators of sustainable development based on orientation theory for viable systems. Applications are made to future path studies and comparative assessments.

David Briggs
Research Director and Professor at the Nene Centre for Research in the UK. A specialist in Geographic Information Systems, he has contributed to research in the field of geographical linkages of environmental exposures and health effects.

Lino Briguglio
Director of the Islands and Small States Institute at the Foundation for International Studies of the University of Malta. His interest relates to island economies and he has been instrumental in the conceptual and statistical development of the Economic Vulnerability Index.

Stefan Bringezu
Senior researcher at the Department for Material Flows and Structural Change, Wuppertal Institute, Germany. Developing indicators of sustainable development based on material flow accounts for national economies, regions and cities with special regard to transregional 'rucksack' flows.

Birgitte Bryld
Associate Expert in Environmental Economics in the UN Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development/Human Development, Institutions and Technology Branch. Since July 1996 working on the implementation of the CSD Work Programme on Indicators of Sustainable Development.

Candido A. Cabrido, Jr.
Chief Technical Advisor, Integrated Environmental Management for Sustainable Development (IEMSD) Programme, Foreign-Assisted Project Office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Philippines. Developing ISDs for community based and resource based development projects. Also involved in the formulation of ISDs at the national and local government levels with emphasis on population - resources - environment interactions.

Carlos Corvalán
Scientist, Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Coordinator of the Health and Environment Analysis for Decision-making (HEADLAMP) project. Developing environmental health indicators for the national and local levels.

Arthur Lyon Dahl
UN System-wide Earthwatch Coordination Unit, United Nations Environment Programme, Switzerland. Stimulating and coordinating work on indicators of environment and sustainable development and other information for decision-making.

Fernando Vasconcelos de Araujo
Secretary of Environment, Department of Environment Management at the Ministry of Environment, Water Resources and the Legal Amazon, Brazil. Manager of the project Environmental Indicators for Sustainable Development.

Jeremy Eade
Geography, GIS and database specialist in CIAT/UNEP Project, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. Developing georeferenced environmental and sustainability indicators and interfaces.

Marina Fischer- Kowalski
Vienna University, Insitute of Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education, department of social ecology. Focusing on society - nature exchanges (socio-economic metabolism, colonizing strategies) and environmental information systems.

Helmut Forstner
Research and Publications Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria. Working on indicators of industrial development, with special emphasis on sustainability issues.

Gilberto C. Gallopín
Ecological Systems Analyst. Land Management, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. Exploring complex systems theories for agroecosystem research and researching theoretical aspects of sustainability indicators.

Isabelle Guinomet
Agricultural engineer, post graduate study in Economic and Social Sciences of the European Union. Developing ISD for economic, social, environmental and institutional areas at the Environmental Unit of EUROSTAT.

Edgar E. Gutiérrez-Espeleta
Professor at the School of Statistics and Director of the Development Observatory, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica. Developing quantitative information indicators and indices for the decision-making process on national and regional development.

Jochen Jesinghaus
Economist and engineer, project manager at EUROSTAT. Developing the European Commission's Environmental Pressure Indices.

Helmut Haberl
Institute of Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education, Department of Social Ecology and Austrian Institute of Applied Ecology, Vienna. Working on the inter-relations of societies and nature with a focus on the socio-economic colonization of nature and questions related to energy and the environment.

Peter Hardi
Director of the Measurement and Indicators Program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Canada. He leads field projects in Canada and in Mexico to develop community based indicators to measure performance in sustainable development. He edits a series of case studies to illustrate guidelines for measurement.

Walter J. Hecq
Director, Centre for Economics and Social Studies on the Environment, Free University of Brussels. His team is currently involved in programs on ISD assessment for Belgium, metadatabase on-line for ISDs and on sustainable mobility.

Anne Kerr
Manager at the Indicators and Assessment Office, Ecosystem Science Directorate, Environmental Conservation Service, Environment Canada. Responsible for Canada's National Environmental Indicators Program which is developing and reporting on national environment-related indicators in the context of sustainable development.

Tord Kjellström
Director, Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Developing indicators with special emphasis on the environment and health links.

Sindre Langaas
Geography, UNEP/GRID -Arendal, Norway/Sweden. Project manager, responsible for various environmental information management projects in the trans-boundary Baltic Sea region utilizing INTERNET and GIS as key tools.

Gao Li
Center for Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China. He has been engaged in research on sustainable development indicators with special emphasis on sustainable development indicators for cities.

Myriam Linster
OECD, State of the Environment Division, Environment Directorate, Paris. Her area of work is the development, measurement, and publication of indicators for use in OECD's environmental performance reviews, with a focus on environment-economy interactions.

Matthias K. B. Lüdeke
Senior Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany. Trained in theoretical physics and sociology, he has worked mainly in the fields of global carbon cycling and global vegetation modelling. Working on the PIK core project, QUESTIONS, on earth systems dynamics and sustainability.

Monica Luxem
Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development/Human Development, Institutions and Technology Branch. In 1996, the official CSD delegate of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany.

Terry McKinley
Poverty specialist for the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support of UNDP and formerly a staff member of the Human Development Report Office. Developed the Capability Poverty Measure for the 1996 Human Development Report and is continuing work on poverty measures and their link to sustainability measures.

Alex MacGillivray
Indicators Programme, New Economics Foundation, London, UK. Working on innovative indicators at the local, national and international levels, with a wide range of partners.

Ed Mayo
Director of the New Economics Foundation, London, UK. He is working in particular on community economics indicators and issues surrounding the debate on valuation of domestic and voluntary labor.

Duncan McLaren
Head, Sustainable Development Unit, Friends of the Earth, England and UK offices. His recent work has focused on the interactions between environment, health and jobs.

Bedrich Moldan
Director of the Charles University's Center for the Environment, Prague, Czech Republic. Head of the SCOPE Indicators project, and managing a few other projects from different environmental fields. Among other positions, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Regional Environmental Center in Budapest.

Chris Morrey
Indicators Working Group Secretariat, Environment Protection Statistics and Information Management Division, Department of Environment, United Kingdom. Responsible for the publication of Indicators of Sustainable Development for the United Kingdom.

Lars Fogh Mortensen
Economist, Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Environment and Energy. Responsible for environmental indicators, state of the environment reporting and OECD environmental performance reviews. Focal point on indicators in the Secretariat of the UN CSD in 1994-1996.

John C. O'Connor
Knowledge-broker for sustainable development with special emphasis on matching buyers and sellers of solutions. In 1995, Senior Advisor in the World Bank's Environment Department and main author of Monitoring Environmental Progress.

Jonathan Parker
Following completion of a doctorate on environmental reporting and indices at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1991, he has worked for the European Commission in DG XI (Environment), EUROSTAT and DG XII (Research), where he has followed developments on ISDs.

Harald Payer
Economist, Department of Social Ecology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education, Austria. Focusing on industrial ecology, environmental accounting and policy.

Gerhard Petschel-Held
Senior Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany. Head of the core project, QUESTIONS, dealing with syndromes of global change and the transition to sustainability.

Robert Prescott-Allen
Independent consultant specializing in the assessment of sustainable development, PADATA, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Author of The Wellbeing of Nations, developer of the Barometer of Sustainability, and co-developer of a method of systems assessment for IUCN and IDRC.

Hidely Grassi Rizzo
Secretary of Environment, Department of Environment Management at the Ministry of Environment, Water Resources and the Legal Amazon, Brazil. Coordinating an ISD project at a national level including the testing phase within the DPCSD Work Program.

Ian D. Rutherford
Research Manager for the Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, Ottawa, Canada, and former Director-General of State of the Environment Reporting Directorate (SOED) of Environment Canada. SOED develops and publishes national environmental indicators for Canada and a series of reports on the state of Canada's environment.

Helmut Schütz
Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany. He works on material flow accounting on the national level for the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union. He develops material flow based indicators in the context of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.

Alessandra Sensi
Political scientist, Master degree in Economics of Energy and Environment. Coordinator of the Sectoral Infrastructure Projects and editor of the related volume at the Environmental Unit of EUROSTAT.

Joachim H. Spangenberg
Senior Fellow at the Division for Material Flows and Structural Change, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany. Coordinator of the Sustainable Societies Research Group. Developing a coherent set of strategic sustainabillity indicators for the macro and the micro level and their application in sustainability management in politics and business, as well as in macro-economic modeling.

Jaroslav Šolc
Environmental Department, Institute of Municipal Information of the City of Prague, Czech Republic. Working on the Environmental Information System for Prague. Using and applying environmental databases, statistics and GIS. Publication of yearbooks, maps.

Jacques Theys
French Institute for the Environment, France. Author of the Chapter 4 contribution on ISDs in France.

Jeff Tschirley
Sustainable Development Department, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy. Using indicators as components in country level work that is focused on environmental information systems for sustainable agriculture, and decision-support software for environmental impact assessment of agriculture development projects.

Sebastiaan van Esch
Department for Environmental Assessment, National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands. Developing indicators of effects on ecosystems and public health, and responsible for the yearly update of the environmental indicators for the Environmental Programme of the Ministry of Environment since 1996.

Cecilia Weckstrom
Creative director, Rescue Mission: Planet Earth, Helsinki, Finland. Involved in developing indicators for young people, emphasizing equal youth-adult partnerships as the basis for successful youth empowerment for action in pursuit of sustainable development.

Manuel Winograd
Coordinator of the CIAT-UNEP project on Environmental and Sustainability Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean. Developing and using indicators and GIS tools for policy-making at different scales (global, regional, national and local) and levels (ecological and administrative).

Guo Xiaomin
Deputy Director General, Department of Planning and Finance, National Environment Protection Agency, China. He has been engaged in environmental planning management and sustainable development indicators research with special emphasis on environment and environment-economy links.

Bernardo Zentilli
Consultant in Forestry. Former Director of Chilean National Parks and staff member of FAO (Environment Unit), IUCN (Regional Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean), UNEP (Forests and Mountain Ecosystems). Forest Advisor to the UNCED Secretariat and Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification. Coordinator of the Swiss-Peruvian Initiative on Forests.

Frederick Zimmerman
Information Scientist/Associate Staff Attorney for the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). He is the Task Manager for the Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service.