C. Emdad Haque is Professor and former Director of the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of numerous books and research articles on environmental health, environmental hazards, infectious diseases, and social epidemiology. His works include Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Publishers, 1997), and Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters: International Perspectives (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer 2005).