1. Dr. Elisabeth Corell is a Wallenberg Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. In 1999, she completed her PhD dissertation The Negotiable Desert: Expert Knowledge in the Negotiations of the Convention to Combat Desertificationat Linköping University, Sweden. For this research she attended all CCD negotiating sessions from 1993 to 1997. Her field is international relations and her research interests include the relationship between science and politics in international environmental decision-making, expert knowledge, sustainable development in developing countries, and the translation of global agreements to local action.
2. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: Text with Annexes (Nairobi: UNEP, 1994), hereinafter eferred to here as the CCD.
3. CCD, Article 1(a).
4. F. Cardy (1997), “Foreword”, pp. v–vi in N. J. Middleton and D. S. G. Thomas (eds),World Atlas of Desertification (2nd ed.), (London: Arnold Publishers and UNEP).
5. M. K. Tolba, (1992), “Preface”, p. iv in Middleton & Thomas (1992), World Atlas of Desertification.