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Ramiro Berardo is a Researcher with the Argentine National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and the Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina. His recent publications include “Self-Organizing Policy Networks: Risk, Partner Selection and Cooperation in Estuaries,” American Journal of Political Science 54 (3), with John T. Scholz (2010); “Processing Complexity in Networks: A Study of Informal Collaboration and its Effect on Organizational Success,” Policy Studies Journal 37 (3) (2009); and “Generalized Trust in Multi-organizational Policy Arenas: Studying its Emergence from a Network Perspective,” Political Research Quarterly 62 (1) (2009).

Tom Deligiannis is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Environment, Peace, and Security at the UN mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague.

Robert Falkner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds Masters-level degrees in politics and economics from Munich University and a DPhil in international relations from Oxford University. He has published widely on global environmental politics and risk regulation, including Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (2008). In 2008–09, he coordinated a transatlantic research team that investigated emerging nanotechnology regulation in Europe and the US, which led to the publication of the Chatham House report Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies: Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation (2009).

Andrea K. Gerlak serves as the Director of Academic Development with the International Studies Association and Environmental Policy Faculty Associate with the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her recent publications include Mapping the New World Order, co-edited with Thomas J. Volgy, Zlatko Šabič, and Petra Roter (2009); “Hydrosolidarity and International Water Governance,” International Negotiation 14: 309–32 with Robert G. Varady, and Arin C. Haverland (2009); and “Today’s Pragmatic Water Policy: Restoration, Collaboration, and Adaptive Management Along U.S. Rivers,” Society & Natural Resources 21 (6) (2008). [End Page iii]

Nico Jaspers is a post-doctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin. He studied economics at Columbia University, New York, international political economy at Sciences Po, Paris (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) and received a doctorate in international relations from the London School of Economics in 2011. He has published widely on nanotechnology policy and in 2009 co-authored an EU commissioned report on transatlantic cooperation in nanotechnology regulation.

Michael Maniates is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College (2011–2013). He holds an M.A. and PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California. His recent work includes The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, with John Meyer (eds.) (MIT Press 2011), and “Editing Out Unsustainable Behavior” in State of the World 2010: Transforming Culture. He is currently at work on a mass-market book on environmental agency.

Adam Moolna is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and his interests lie in the interplay of nature, geography and humankind. He spent two years at the University of Oxford researching carbon and marine algae, then one year working on algal biofuels for the Carbon Trust at the University of Manchester. He holds a PhD in plant sciences from Manchester and an MSc in nature conservation from University College London.

Andreas Tjernshaugen, PhD, is currently Head of Communication at the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board. Until recently, he was a Research Director at CICERO, the Center for Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo. He has authored several publications on the politics of CO2 Capture and Storage, including “The Growth of Political Support for CO2 Capture and Storage in Norway” (Environmental Politics, 2011) and a book (in Norwegian) on the controversy over CO2 emissions from gas-fired power generation in Norway. He has also studied the political strategies of environmental NGOs, as well as US climate policy.

Christopher Wright is a Senior Analyst at Norges Bank Investment Management. He conducted this research while he was...

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