The authors would like to thank the Government of Finland for its contribution to the FAO-supported project “Forestry Programme for Early Rehabilitation in Asian Tsunami Affected Countries,” which provided funding for this work, and would also like to thank Thomas Enters, Mette Loyche-Wilkie, Susan Braatz, Peter Holmgren, Serena Fortuna, Doug Kneeland, Shingo Shibaba and Patrick Durst for providing comments on drafts of the report. Thanks are also due to Paul Stansell of Pelamis Wave Power, Edinburgh, Scotland, Nobuo Shuto and Fumihiko Imamura of Tohoku University, Japan and Kenji Harada of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI), Japan.
Photo credits:
Susan Braatz, FAO (Cover); Jeremy Broadhead, FAO (Page 6, 24); Hugh Davies, University of PNG; Image bank: NOAA-NGDC, Colorado (Page 23); J.K. Patterson Edward, Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute, Tamil Nadu, India (Page 17); Hiroshi Hiraoka, FAO (Page vi); Fumihiko Imamura Tohoku University, Japan (Page 5,11); Hiroyuki Kameda, Kyoto University, and National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan (Page 26); Norio Tanaka of Saitama University, Japan (Page 13).
Layout & design: Somchai Singsa and Chanida Chavanich
