Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

Juha I. UittoJuha Uitto is the Director, Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). His career has combined positions in international organizations and academia, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations University (UNU), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Nordic Africa Institute. He is Visiting Professor at Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, and has held short-term visiting positions at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, in 2005 and 2013. His research interests pertain to assessing and measuring the effects and impact of environmental interventions, and he has written extensively on topics related to environment-poverty linkages, natural resources management, environmental hazards, and evaluation. A geographer by training, he holds a PhD from the University of Lund and MSc from Helsinki University. Rajib ShawRajib Shaw is a Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. He worked closely with the local communities, NGOs, governments and international organization, including United Nations, especially in the Asian countries.  He is currently the Chair of the United Nations Asia Regional Task Force for Urban Risk Reduction, and the President of Asian University Network of Environment and Disaster Management (AUEDM). His research interests are: community based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He has published several books in the field of disaster and environmental management. He is also the Chief Editor of Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management.