Sara R. Curran,^* Maria C. Cruz<sup>**


*</sup>Sara Curran is assistant professor of sociology and director of undergraduate studies in sociology at Princeton University. She researches population and environment issues, globalization, gender and family demography, migration, and Thailand. Dr. Curran received her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MS from North Carolina State and BS in natural resources from University of Michigan. Her address: 153 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. curran@Princeton.edu
^**Maria Cruz in senior social scientist of the GEF Secretariat. Her areas of expertise cover social assessment, participatory rural appraisal, social analysis, community approaches to biodiversity conservation and forest management, population, poverty, and environment and water resources management. She has more than 25 years of experience applying her expertise to international development programs and projects. As a consultant with the Population Reference Bureau she worked on the issues of population pressure, poverty, and forest degradation. Dr. Cruz was the lead author in a book on population, environment, and economic issues published by the World Resources Institute. Her work on population and environment includes publications for UNEP, UN Population Division, and numerous published books and journal articles. She organized the graduate program on environmental studies at the University of the Philippines and was a policy-making member of the Philippine governmentís cabinet coordinating committee for integrated rural development projects. Her address: The World Bank, Global Environment Facility, MSN, 1818 H Street NW, Room G-034, Washington, DC 20433, USA. mcruz3@worldbank.org