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Kenneth Broad, an environmental anthropologist, is an associate professor of marine affairs and policy at the University of Miami. He also directs the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and is codirector of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, based at Columbia University. Broad's work focuses on the use and misuse of scientific information, with a focus on natural resource management. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999.

Anthony Hall is reader in social policy and development at the London School of Economics. He has carried out extensive research and consultancy in the Brazilian Amazon on issues of deforestation, sustainable development, and emerging REDD+ activities, as well as on the impacts of conditional cash transfers. From 2003 to 2005 he worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., as senior social development specialist for Latin America. His recent books include Global Impact, Local Action: New Environmental Policy in Latin America (2005), Social Policy for Development (2004), Amazonia at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Sustainable Development (2000) and Sustaining Amazonia: Grassroots Action for Productive Conservation (1997). Social Development and Climate Change in Latin America is forthcoming in 2012 (Edward Elgar). His recent articles have been published in Development and Change (2008) and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2008).

José Ramón Jouve-Martín is associate professor of Spanish American colonial literature in the Department of Hispanic Studies at McGill University. His main area of interest is Latin American colonial literature and the intersection of history, memory, and literature. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and the Fulbright Program, among others. He is the author of Esclavos de la ciudad letrada: Esclavitud, escritura y colonialismo en Lima, 1650-1700 (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005) and coeditor of La constitución del Barroco hispano-transatlántico (special issue of Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 33, no. 1 [2008]). His work has appeared in Colonial Latin American Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Hispanófila.

Stuart McCook is an associate professor of history and associate dean of arts at the University of Guelph. He received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 1996. He is the author of States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1780-1940. His current research explores the global environmental history of tropical crops, especially coffee. He is writing a book on the global history of the coffee rust, to be published by Ohio University Press. He has published articles on the topic in the Journal of Global History, Varia Historia, and Revista de Historia (Costa Rica).

Ben Orlove received his BA in anthropology from Harvard University and his MA and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He [End Page 215] has conducted extensive fieldwork in Peru and Bolivia, with shorter field projects in Brazil and Mexico, and in Africa and Australia as well. His work has centered on economic and environmental issues, with particular attention in recent years to climate variability and climate change. He is professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he is also a senior research scientist in the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and associate director of the Master's Program in Climate and Society. In addition to his academic articles and books in anthropology, policy studies, and environmental sciences, he has published a memoir and a book of nature writing.

Guillermo Podestá is a research professor at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Originally trained in agronomy, Podestá has recently become involved in studies of climate variability related to the El Niño-La Niña Southern Oscillation, and applications of seasonal-to-interannual climate predictions to enhance decision making in climate-sensitive sectors of society such as agriculture. Podestá's interests also include satellite remote sensing of ocean dynamics using sea...

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