Contributors
- Contributors
Guri Bang is a senior research fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo (CICERO), doing research on US energy and climate policy, international climate negotiations, and comparative energy politics. Her recent work includes “Why the United States Did Not Become a Party to the Kyoto Protocol: German, Norwegian and U.S. Perspectives” in the European Journal of International Relations, and “Energy Security and Climate Change Concerns: Triggers for Energy Policy Change in the United States?” in Energy Policy.
Steven Bernstein is a professor of political science and co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Publications include Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era (co-edited, 2009); Global Liberalism and Political Order: Toward a New Grand Compromise? (co-edited, 2007); and The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism (2001), as well as many articles in refereed academic journals. He was also a consultant on institutional reform for the “Rio+20” UN Conference on Sustainable Development and its follow-up.
Henry Boer is a PhD candidate with the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on environmental policy instruments in developed and developing countries. In 2012 he received the Prime Ministers’ Australia Asia Award.
Christian Downie holds a PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra, where he is a departmental visitor in the Regulatory Institutions Network. He has taught and/or researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Chulalongkorn. His recent publications include articles in International Negotiation and the Journal of European Integration, a contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, and a forthcoming book, The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations (Edward Elgar).
Kemi Fuentes-George is an assistant professor in political science and environmental studies at Middlebury College. He received his PhD in 2011 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His dissertation, Transnational Networks and the Promotion of Conservation [End Page iii] Norms in Developing Countries, focused on the production and use of scientific knowledge to inform environmental policymaking in the developing world. He published some of his research under the name Kemi George as a chapter in the 2009 volume edited by McGregor, Dodman, and Barker, Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability, published by the University of the West Indies Press. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation, which won the Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award in 2012 for best dissertation in the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.
Maria Ivanova is an assistant professor of global governance at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, and Co-Director for the Center for Governance and Sustainability, both at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research and policy work focus on global environmental governance, the performance of international environmental institutions, and reform options for the UN system for the environment. She is the co-editor of Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities (with Daniel Esty). She has published in International Affairs, International Environmental Agreements, State of the World Report, and SAIS Review of International Affairs, and she was a coordinating lead author for the policy chapter of the United Nations’ Global Environmental Outlook, GEO-5, published in 2012.
Graciela Kincaid has a bachelor of arts in international relations and environmental studies from Brown University. A former member of Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, she attended the COP-17 negotiations in Durban, South Africa, and contributed research on US climate change policy and rhetoric.
Joshua Ozymy is an associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi. His environmental research seeks to better understand how institutional design influences environmental policy outcomes. His recent research is featured in such journals as Environmental Politics, Political Behavior, Review of Policy Research, American Politics Research, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Denis Rey is an assistant professor of government and world affairs at the University of Tampa. He also serves as a research member at the Centre D...
