Contributors
- Contributors
John C. Pierce, Washington State University at Vancouver
John Pierce is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and research professor in political science at Washington State University at Vancouver. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles exploring the knowledge and cultural foundations of environmental-policy preferences, including Critical Masses: Citizen Responses to the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Production in the United States and Russia (1999). His current research considers the relationship of social capital and resilience in the American urban context. He can be reached at <jcpierce@ku.edu>.
Brent S. Steel, Oregon State University
Brent Steel is a professor of political science and director of the Master of Public Policy program at Oregon State University. He is co-author of numerous books, including State and Local Government: Prospects for Sustainability (forthcoming). His current research concerns the role of science and scientists in the environmental-policy process and the social acceptability of renewable-energy sources.
Christopher A. Simon, University of Utah
Christopher Simon is a professor of political science and director of the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Utah. He is the author of Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility (2007).
Rebecca L. Warner, Oregon State University
Rebecca Warner is the vice provost for academic affairs and international programs at Oregon State University. Her research interests include research methods and statistics, gender policy, and the sociology of science and the environment. She co-authored the article "Gender Differences in Support for Scientific Involvement in U.S. Environmental Policy" in Science, Technology, and Human Values (2010).
Stacey Swearingen White, University of Kansas
Stacey Swearingen White is an associate professor of urban planning at the University of Kansas, where she also serves as the associate director of the environmental studies program and director of academic programs for the Center for Sustainability. Her research and publishing focuses on environmental-planning and -policy issues, with [End Page 346] special emphasis on the adoption and diffusion of environmental innovations at the local-government level. She can be reached at <slsweari@ku.edu>.
J. Christopher Brown, University of Kansas
Christopher Brown is an associate professor of geography and environmental studies and director of the environmental studies program. His research focuses on the human and environmental dynamics of development in the Amazon of Brazil, with publications spanning fields of biogeography, development studies, political science, and land-change science.
Janew. Gibson, University of Kansas
Jane Gibson is an associate professor and acting chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Her research and publishing focuses on issues at the interface of economic and environmental phenomena.
Eric Hanley, University of Kansas
Eric Hanley is the associate director of the Center for Global and International Studies and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. His current research focuses on the social and economic drivers of greenhouse-gas emissions, and the impact of governmental policies on such emissions. His publications have appeared in numerous journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Theory and Society.
Dietrich H. Earnhart, University of Kansas
Dietrich Earnhart is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas, as well as the director of the Center for Environmental Policy at the Institute for Policy and Social Research. His research interests center on environmental-economic issues that involve legal dimensions, such as optimal strategies for enforcing environmental-protection laws, the effects of regulation factors on corporate environmental performance, and the effects of ownership structure on air emissions in transition economics.
Petri Paju, University of Turku, Finland
Petri Paju is a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Academy of Finland and works at the University of Turku, in the Department of Cultural History. His current research project examines IBM's many roles in cold war Europe. He is the co-editor of History of Nordic Computing 2 (2009). He can be reached at <petpaju@utu.fi>.
Helena Durnová, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Helena Durnová earned her Ph.D. in the history of mathematics from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and teaches mathematics at Brno University of...
