Urban Sustainability: A Global Perspective

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Adriana Allen is currently a senior lecturer at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. She has over twenty years of work experience in issues related to sustainable urbanization and environmental justice in the context of development. Her work covers Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. One of her main current areas of research is on the governance of service provision for the urban poor, with a focus on citizen coproduction in water and sanitation. Carl Amrhein is in his second term as provost and vice president (academic) at the University of Alberta. He came to the University of Alberta in 2003 following seventeen years at the University of Toronto. He holds a bachelor of science degree in geography from Pennsylvania State University (1978) and a PhD in geography from State University of New York at Buffalo (1984), with research interest in economic geography, labor markets, decision theory, migration, and quantitative methods. He recently received the Ami de la Francophonie Award and the German-Canadian Friendship Award. Stefan Anderberg is codirector of the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. His prior appointment was as associate professor at the Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen (1996–2008). Before that, he was affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, where he was involved in studies on resource use and the environment in varying spatial and temporal scales. His current research focuses on industrial ecology, regional and urban transformation, and water management. Other research interests include global sustainability issues, environmental history, and rural development. 678 ■ CONTRIBUTORS Carlos Balsas is an assistant professor at Arizona State University. He has graduate degrees in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, as well as an undergraduate degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. His main research interests include urban revitalization and nonmotorized transportation planning. He has published two books on commercial urbanism and city center revitalization and currently teaches introduction to urban planning, planning theory, advanced urban studio, and sustainable transportation planning. Victoria Basolo is an associate professor of urban planning at the University of California, Irvine. Her research investigates decision making around housing and neighborhoods, urban development , governance, and disaster preparedness. Professor Basolo is particularly interested in the formulation and implementation of housing and community development policies and the effects of policymaking processes and adopted policies on individual and societal outcomes. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Housing Policy Debate, Housing Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Urban Studies. Jeb Brugmann is an urban and business strategist who has worked for twenty-six years with cities worldwide. In 1990 he founded ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability and served as its chief executive until 2000. He also cofounded the worldwide Local Agenda 21 initiative and the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, which now supports more than 1,000 cities in a coordinated effort to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions. His new book, Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World, was published in 2009. Nairne Cameron is an assistant professor of geography at Algoma University and an adjunct assistant professor in the Centre for Health Promotion Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include food and health geography, spatial analysis, and urban and regional development. She holds a bachelor of science degree from Queen’s University, and a master’s and PhD from the University of Ottawa. Xi Chen received his PhD from Wuhan University in China in 2003. He has worked at Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Science since 1988. In 2002 he was appointed as the academy’s associate director and as its director in 2006. He is recognized as an expert on the assessment of ecological processes and urbanization impacts in arid and semiarid regions, with a focus on ecological and societal sustainability. Eric Clark is professor and head of the Department of Human Geography at Lund University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Letters at Lund. His research interests include gentrification, the political economy of space, and, more recently, island studies and historical political ecology. Clark edited Geografiska Annaler B 1999–2008. He is board member of the Danish Centre for Strategic Urban Research and steering committee member of the International Critical Geography Group, the International Small Island Studies Association, and the International Geographical Union Commission on Islands. CONTRIBUTORS ■ 679 Giovanna Codato...