Contributors
- Contributors
W. Neil Adger is Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He leads the research program on adaptation in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is a member of the Resilience Alliance. His latest book is Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance (2009).
Jon Barnett is Reader and Associate Professor in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an Australian Research Council Fellow and recently published Climate Change and Small Island States: Power, Knowledge and the South Pacific (2010).
F. S. "Terry" Chapin III is Professor in the Department of Biology and Wildlife and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska, US. He has researched and written widely on Arctic ecosystem and social-ecological resilience. He is a Member of the Resilience Alliance and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Heidi Ellemor teaches and researches natural hazards and cultural geography in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Adam Harmes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political and Economic Wealth of Nations (2001); and The Return of the State: Protestors, Power-Brokers and the New Global Compromise (2004). His current research projects include investor environmentalism as well as the competition between neoliberalism and social democracy in multilevel governance.
Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. His most recent books include Global Finance in Crisis (2010); and The Future of the Dollar (2009). He is also co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in Money.
Jonas Meckling is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also a Research Fellow with the Global Governance Project (http://www.glogov.org). He specializes in business in global environmental politics, international climate politics and carbon markets. His most recent publications include "Sectoral Approaches for a Post-2012 Climate Regime: A Taxonomy" (Climate Policy 9 (6), 2009, with Gu Yoon Chung) and "Corporate Policy Preferences in the EU and the US: Emissions [End Page iii] Trading as the Climate Compromise?" (Carbon & Climate Law Review 2 (2), 2008). He has just completed a book on business coalitions and the global rise of carbon trading.
Michael MacLeod is Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Fox University in Oregon, USA. His research examines the emergence and influence of investor networks as agents of global change, and he investigates the role of religion in international business and globalization. Recent publications include "Private Governance and Climate Change" (St Anthony's International Review, 5 (2) 2010), "Emerging Investor Networks and the Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility" (The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 34, 2009) and "Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics" (Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 37 (3) 2009).
Simon Nicholson is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University. His research interests include the global politics of food and agriculture and the governance of emerging technologies.
Jacob Park is an Associate Professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability at Green Mountain College in Vermont, USA. His research focuses on a wide range of business, environment, and society issues, including climate change, global environmental governance and corporate social responsibility. Recent publications include the article, "When Not Every Response to Climate Change is a Good One: Defining Criteria for Sustainable Adaptation" (Climate and Development Journal, Forthcoming), and the book, The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability (2008), co-edited with Ken Conca and Matthias Finger.
Jason Thistlethwaite is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the University of Waterloo, a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and Balsillie Fellow. He completed his master's degree in political science at the University of Western Ontario. His research is focused on explaining the politics and strategy behind the banking, insurance and accounting sectors' responses to climate change. He also researches international financial regulatory reform and global climate change politics...
