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  • Contributors

• Steinar Andresen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. His main research is on international environmental regimes and organizations, focusing on issues such as effectiveness, the role of science, and institutional design. He has published several books and articles on these topics.

• Ioli Christopoulou is a Ph.D. candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Her studies have concentrated on global environmental politics. Her research has focused on the determinants of compliance with international environmental law and effective global environmental governance. Currently, she is examining the application of the concept of sustainable development within the European Union.

• Andrea K. Gerlak (akg2004@columbia.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Her research interests are international waters management, global civil society, collaborative environmental governance, and US water policy. Her most recent publication is "Strengthening River Basin Institutions: The Global Environment Facility and the Danube River Basin" in Water Resources Research (forthcoming).

• Lars H. Gulbrandsen is a Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. His research interests are in the area of environmental politics, with a particular focus on biodiversity, forest, and climate change politics. He has published articles on these topics in Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, and International Environmental Agreements.

• Peter M. Haas is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research includes IR theory, the interplay between science and international institutions, social learning, and global governance. He is the author or editor of 4 books, has 18 peer reviewed journal publications and 40 chapters and encyclopaedia entries.

• Alastair Iles is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California. He works on sustainable industry and consumption, green chemistry, environmental health, and technology and justice. Most recently, he published an article on sustainable seafood consumer campaigns in Science and Public Policy (April 2004).

• Jerry McBeath is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he has taught since 1976. His publications include books and [End Page v] articles on Alaska state and local government, the Alaska constitution, Alaska Native politics, rural Alaska education, natural resource development, environmental protection, the Chinese living abroad, and the foreign relations and political economy of Taiwan and China.

• William R. Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University where he directs the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and works to translate science into policy in the fields of climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, air pollution, energy and technology.

• Adil Najam (adil.najam@tufts.edu) is an Associate Professor of International Negotiation and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is editor of Environment, Development and Human Security (2003) and co-author, with Tariq Banuri, of Civic Entrepreneurship: A Civil Society Perspective on Sustainable Development (2002). He serves on the Boards of the Pakistan Institute for Environment, Development and Action Research (PIEDAR) and the Pakistan Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (PCSTD). He is a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and an Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). He is a chapter lead author for the third and fourth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

• Emery Roe (eroe@mills.edu) is Barbara M. White Professor of Public Policy at Mills College in Oakland. He has written widely on domestic and international policy issues, including those related to agriculture, natural resources and the environment.

• Mukul Sanwal has been in the United Nations since 1993, dealing with sustainable development issues, first in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and later in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat. He was a principal negotiator at the Rio Conference. He has served in senior positions in the Ministry of Environment and Forest, India.

• Michel J.G. van Eeten (m.j.g.vaneeten@tbm.tudelft.nl) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands...

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