Contributors
- Contributors
Jörg Balsiger is Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the University of Geneva and at the Institute for Environmental Decisions of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He is the author of Uphill Struggles: The Politics of Sustainable Mountain Development in Switzerland and California (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009); coeditor, with Bernard Debarbieux, of Regional Environmental Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Theoretical Issues, Comparative Designs (Elsevier, 2011); and of several published articles on international and regional environmental governance.
J. Samuel Barkin is Associate Professor of Global Governance in the Mc-Cormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston. His recent publications include Realist Constructivism: Re-thinking International Relations Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Saving Global Fishers: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability, coauthored with Elizabeth R. DeSombre (MIT Press, forthcoming).
Ken Conca is Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University, where he directs the Global Environmental Politics Program. His research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, environment-conflict-peace linkages, the UN system, and the politics of water. He is the author/editor of several books on international environmental politics, including Governing Water, Confronting Consumption, Environmental Peacemaking, The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance, and the teaching anthology Green Planet Blues. He is a two-time recipient of the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs. He is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding.
Bernard Debarbieux is Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has previously held appointments at several universities in France and North America. His empirical research addresses regional planning and environmental management, especially in mountain regions, while his theoretical work focuses on the territorial dimension of collective identities and the concept of representation in geographical knowledge. An English translation of his most recent book, Les Faiseurs de Montagne, written with Gilles Rudaz, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. [End Page iii]
Lorraine Elliott is Professor of International Relations in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. She currently directs the Transnational Environmental Crime project under a grant from the Australian Research Council. Her publications include two editions of Global Environmental Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998 and 2004) and Comparative Environmental Regionalism (Routledge, 2011; co-edited with Shaun Breslin).
Andreas Klinke is Associate Professor in Environmental Policy at the Environmental Policy Institute at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He was previously the head of a social science research group at the Aquatic Research Institute of the ETH-domain in Switzerland and lecturer at King’s College in London. He received his doctoral degree in political science at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. His key publications include “Deliberative Politik in transnationalen Räumen—demokratische Legitimation and Effektivität der grenzüberschreitenden Wasser—und Umweltpolitik zwischen Kanada und USA,” in Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2009, and “Integrative and Adaptive Governance on Risk and Uncertainty,” with O. Renn in Journal of Risk Research, 2011.
Richard A. Matthew is Professor in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California at Irvine, and Founding Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. He is also a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Geneva; a Senior Fellow at the Munk School at the University of Toronto; a member of the United Nations Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding; and a member of the World Conservation Union’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. He has over 130 publications, including the co-edited volumes Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (SUNY Press, 1999) and Global Environmental Change and Human Security (MIT Press, 2009).
Henrik Selin is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University. He conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. He is the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor of Changing Climates in North...
