Contributors
- Contributors
• Kate Crowley is a Senior Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator in the School of Government, and Deputy Dean of Graduate Research, at the University of Tasmania. She has published extensively on environmental politics and policy, in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Environmental Politics, Local Environment and the Australian Journal of Political Science. She is coeditor of Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in Decline and Devolution (1999) and Chair of the State Government of Tasmania's Environment Industry Council.
• Kathryn Harrison is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy (1996), coauthor of Risk, Science, and Politics: Regulation of Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States (1994), co-editor of Managing the Environmental Union (2000), and editor of Racing to the Bottom? Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation (2006). She has published recent articles in the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Governance.
• Laura A. Henry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. She currently is working on a book on the Russian environmental movement and recently published a related article, "Shaping Social Activism in Post-Soviet Russia: Leadership, Organizational Diversity, and Innovation" Post-Soviet Affairs 22 (2) (2006). She, together with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom and Alfred B. Evans, Jr., recently co-edited Change and Continuity in Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment (2006).
• Miranda A. Schreurs is Director of the Environmental Policy Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Free University of Berlin. Prior to this she was Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Her book Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States (2002) was recipient of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Honorable Mention given by the International Studies Association's Environmental Studies Section in 2004. Among other volumes, she is co-author of the Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement, 2nd edition (2007) and co-editor of The Environmental Dimension of Asian Security: Conflict and Cooperation in Energy, Resources, and Pollution (2007). [End Page iii]
• Jeannie Sowers is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests focus on environmental politics and development in the Middle East. Her recent publications include "Nature Reserves and Authoritarian Rule in Egypt: 'Embedded Autonomy' Revisited," forthcoming in the Journal of Environment and Development.
• Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her previous work has focused on democratization, civil society, and foreign assistance programs in Russia. Recent publications include Funding Civil Society: Transnational Actors and NGO Development in Russia (2006) and "Foreign Assistance, International Norms, and Civil Society Development: Lessons from the Russian Campaign," International Organization 59 (2) (2005).
• Yves Tiberghien is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. His book, Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea, is forthcoming in 2007 from Cornell University Press. Yves' current research focuses on the politics of GMO regulations and on the battle for global governance of biotechnology. He recently published "The Battle for the Global Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms: the Roles of the European Union, Japan, Korea, and China in a Comparative Context," Les Etudes du CERI 124 (April) 2006, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. [End Page iv]
