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  • Contributors

• Geir Hønneland is a senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has published several books and articles on the management of natural resources and the environment in the European Arctic, most recently Russia and the West: Environmental Co-operation and Conflict (forthcoming). His articles have appeared in such journals as Acta Sociologica, Cooperation and Conflict, Europe-Asia Studies, Human Organization, Ocean Development & International Law, Post-Soviet Geography & Economics and Society and Natural Resources.

• Nayna Jhaveri is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. Her primary research interest concerns how the contradictory relationship between the need to reduce environmentally-significant consumption and the pursuit of after-Fordist globalizing strategies by the United States has been addressed by the state through both environmental security frameworks as well as neoliberal regulatory modalities in the post-Cold War period. She has publications forthcoming in Environment and Planning A, and Political Geography.

• Anne-Kristin Jørgensen is a research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, currently (2002-04) on leave as fisheries attache at the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. She has co-authored several books and articles on the management of natural resources and the environment in the European Arctic. Her articles have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Marine Policy, Polar Geography and Post-Soviet Geography & Economics.

• Jon Mulberg is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Leicester, UK. His interests include political economy and the philosophy and methodology of economics. His previous publications include Social Limits to Economic Theory (1995). He was a commissioning editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. He is also the author of Figuring Figures, a textbook on data analysis with an accompanying website and software.

• Yael Parag is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is writing a dissertation on the formation of environmental public policy in Israel.

• Thomas Princen is Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan (USA), where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment. He is co-editor, with Michael Maniates and Ken Conca, of Confronting Consumption (2002), coauthor with Matthias [End Page iii] Finger, of Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global (1994) and author of Intermediaries in International Conflict (1995). He is completing a book entitled The Logic of Sufficiency: Management and Self-Management in an Ecologically Constrained World.

• Paul F. Steinberg is a Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research explores the institutional dimensions of global biodiversity conservation and the politics of environmental policymaking in developing countries. His book Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries received the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award. He co-authored the World Development Report 2003 and is currently writing a book on environmental foreign policy in developing countries.

• Peter Stoett teaches International Relations at Concordia University, Montreal, with focus on environmental and human rights issues. He has recently co-authored, with O. P. Dwivedi, P. Kyba, and R. Thiessen, Sustainable Development and Canada (2001), authored Human and Global Security: An Exploration of Terms (2000) and co-authored, with Eric Laferriere, IR Theory and Ecological Thought (1999).

• Paul Wapner is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Global Environmental Policy Program in the School of International Service at American University in Washington DC. He is the author of Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (1996) and co-editor of Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations (2000).

• Erika Weinthal is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. She is author of State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic Politics and International Politics in Central Asia (2002). She has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Environment and Development, and Europe-Asia Studies. [End Page iv]

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