Beyond Resource Wars: Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation

Contributors

Contributors J. Samuel Barkin is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of International Organization: Theories and Institutions (2006), and a coeditor of Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources (1999). Elizabeth R. DeSombre is Frost Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Political Science. Her recent books include Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power (2000) and Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea (2006). Shlomi Dinar is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. He is a coauthor of Bridges over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation, and Cooperation (2007) and the author of International Water Treaties: Negotiation and Cooperation along Transboundary Rivers (2008). Christopher J. Fettweis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. His recent publications include Losing Hurts Twice as Bad: The United States in the Aftermath of Iraq (2008) and Dangerous Times: The International Politics of Great Power Peace (2010). Gabriela Kütting is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University at Newark. She is the author of Globalization and the Environment: Greening Global Political Economy (2004) and The Global Political Economy of Environment and Tourism (2010), and a coeditor of Environmental Governance: Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World (2009). Robert Mendelsohn is Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His area of interest is resource economics, with a special emphasis on valuing the environment. Some of his recent books with other coauthors and coeditors include The Impact of Climate Change on Regional Systems (2006), Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies (2008), and Climate Change and Agriculture: An Economic Analysis of Global Impacts, Adaptation, and Distributional Effects (2009). xii Contributors G. Kristin Rosendal is Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Lysaker, Norway. She is the author of The Convention on Biological Diversity and Developing Countries (2000). Miranda A. Schreurs is Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She is the author of Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States (2002), and a coeditor of The Environmental Dimension of Asian Security: Conflict and Cooperation in Energy, Resources, and Pollution (2007) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (2009). Deborah J. Shields is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Land, Environment , and Geoengineering at Politecnico di Torino. Prior to her retirement, she was Principal Mineral Economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Forest Service, Research, and Development Division, where she directed the agency’s energy and mineral economics along with its mineral policy research programs. She is a coauthor of Sustainable Mineral Resource Management and Indicators: Case Study Slovenia (2004). Slavko V. Šolar is a Mineral Resource Geologist with the Geological Survey of Slovenia, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a coauthor of Sustainable Mineral Resource Management and Indicators: Case Study Slovenia (2004). ...