Co-ordinators

The Stockholm Environment Institute bridges science and policy in the field of environment and development at local, national, regional and global scales. The SEI leads development of the Vulnerability Network:

Lilla Nygatan, 1
Box 2142,
S-103 14 Stockholm,
Sweden
Tel:+46 8 412 1400
Fax:+46 8 723 0348

The Vulnerability Network and Observatory is co-ordinated by the SEI's Risk, Livelihoods and Vulnerability Programme, with support from the SEI/Sida Poverty & Vulnerability programme. The lead contacts are Tom Downing in the Oxford office ( tomdowning.sei@gmail.com) and Frank Thomalla and Fiona Miller in the Stockholm centre ( Frank.Thomalla@sei.se, Fiona.Miller@sei.se).

Other lead contacts in the SEI are Bill Dougherty and Annette Huber-Lee in the Boston centre (billd@tellus.org, annette.huberlee@sei.se), Kirstin Dow at the University of South Carolina (kdow@sc.edu), Vikrom Mathur in the Bangkok office (vikrom.mathur@sei.se), John Soussan and Stacey Noel in the York centre (JS47@york.ac.uk, stacey.noel@sei.se) and Gina Ziervogel at the University of Cape Town (gina@egs.uct.ac.za).

Sponsors

The Vulnerability Network is a collaboration among leading independent organizations concerned with poverty, vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods, global change and natural hazards. If you would like to be involved in developing this site and vulnerability research and applications, please get in touch with any of the coordinators.

Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) Contact info@sida.se http://www.sida.se

The development of the Vulnerability Network has been supported by the Poverty and Vulnerability project of Swedish development cooperation (SIDA). The overall goal of Swedish development cooperation is to raise the standard of living of poor people in the world.

International Institute for Environment and Development Coordinator: Saleemul Huq saleemul.huq@iied.org http://www.iied.org

IIED promotes sustainable patterns of world development, including vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination.

International Geographical Union Task Force on Vulnerability (the Task Force web site is under development) Coordinator: Colin Polsky colin_polsky@harvard.edu (soon to be at Clark University) http://www.igu-net.org/

The Task Force coordinates and promotes vulnerability research within the discipline of Geography, and links Geographers with other disciplines, international efforts and policy communities.