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Executive editor
Victoria Dompka Markham
Director, Center for Environment
and Population (CEP)
Senior AAAS advisor
Richard W. Getzinger, PhD
Director, AAAS International
Programs Directorate
Principal contributors
Paul Harrison
Fred Pearce
Principal researcher
Lars Bromley
Other contributors
Philip Lightowlers
Maggie Thurgood
Project editor
Helen de Mattos
Research editors
Jane Lyons
Christine Hawkins
Research assistants
Carrie Miller
Liz Dew
Reviewers
Gayl D. Ness, Professor Emeritus of
Sociology, University of Michigan
(UM), and Director, UM Population
Environment Dynamics Project
Geoffrey Lean, international
environmental writer and journalistCase studies
L.J. Gorenflo, The Nature
Conservancy
Holly Strand, World Wildlife Fund
Cartography and diagrams
Lars Bromley
David Burles
Simon Blyth
Design
Price Watkins
Web design
Graham Barden
Consultants
Uwe Deichmann
Prashant Hedao
Prepared in cooperation with the
AAAS International Directorate by
Banson
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Cambridge CB1 2BH
bart@ourplanet.com
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© 2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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