Contributors
- Contributors
Ali Mohamed Al-Damkhi is Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at the State of Kuwait’s Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET). In 1991 he was appointed to the ministerial committee formed by the Kuwaiti Cabinet to address the oil fires catastrophe after the liberation of Kuwait. His research focuses on environmental ethics and environmental impact assessment studies.
Rana Abdullah Al-Fares is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the College of Engineering & Petroluem, Kuwait University. In 2008 she was appointed as the Assistant Vice President for planning current campuses. Her research focuses on geo-environmental and geo-technical aspects for waste and landfill systems and in-situ testing.
Frank Biermann is Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is also Director-general of the Netherlands Research School for the Socio-economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE); Director of the Global Governance Project, a network of twelve European research institutions (glogov.org); and Chair of the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year global research program under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. His most recent publications are Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation (ed. with P. Pattberg and F. Zelli, 2010); Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies (ed. with B. Siebenhüner, 2009); and International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance (ed. with B. Siebenhüner and A. Schreyögg, 2009).
Ingrid Boas is a political scientist with the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on climate governance, in particular global adaptation governance, and participatory practices in Dutch water management. She is the coordinator of the Climate Refugee Policy Forum of the EU-based Global Governance Project; coordinator of the Amsterdam-based research activities of the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year global research program under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change; and manager of [End Page iii] the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
Iosif Botetzagias is Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Policy, Centre for Environmental Policy and Strategic Environmental Management, University of the Aegean, Greece. His recent publications include “The Influence of Social Capital on Environmental Policy Instruments,” (with N. Jones, C. Sophoulis, T. Iosifides, and K. Evaggelinos, Environmental Politics 18 (4) 2009); and “Green Party Factionalism: The Case of the Ecologists-Alternatives of Greece,” (with J. Karamichas, South European Society and Politics 8 (3) 2003).
Liam Campling is a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. His research focus is on the historical constitution of and contemporary dynamics in commodity production-consumption relations. His empirical work is on the global tuna industry and the political economy of development in small island developing states.
Brett Clark is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. He is the author, along with John Bellamy Foster and Richard York, of Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (Monthly Review Press, 2008). His recent publications include: “Carbon Metabolism: Global Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Biospheric Rift,” coauthored with Richard York, Theory and Society (2005); and “Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift: Unequal Exchange and the Guano/Nitrates Trade,” co-authored with John Bellamy Foster, International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2009).
Elizabeth Havice is an Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Environmental Security and Resource Politics at Colorado College and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on the political economy of natural resource regulation, production and consumption in global systems.
Maria Ivanova is Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy at The College of William and Mary and Director of the Global Environmental Governance (GEG) Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She holds a PhD in international environmental policy from Yale University. Her research focuses on global environmental governance, the effectiveness of the United Nations, and the role...
