Contributors
- Contributors
• Jeremy S. Boss is a doctoral student in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a BA in Political Science from Saint Xavier University in Chicago. His research interests include comparative politics, the environment, and East Asia.
• Jennifer Clapp is Associate Professor of International Development Studies and Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University in Canada. Her research focuses on the interlinkages between the global political economy and the environment, especially how this linkage affects developing countries. She is coauthor (with Peter Dauvergne) of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (2005) and author of Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries (2001) and Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea (1997).
• Peter Dauvergne is Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics, Director of the Environment Program of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (1997) and Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Management (2001). He is the editor of Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies (1998) and Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (2005). He is the co-author (with Jennifer Clapp) of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (2005).
• Peter Newell is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. Prior to this he has held posts as Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex UK, visiting researcher at FLACSO Argentina, lecturer in International Studies at the University of Warwick and researcher and lobbyist for Climate Network Europe in Brussels. He is author of Climate for Change: Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse (2000), co-author of The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (2000) and co-editor of Development and the Challenge of Globalisation (2002) and The Business of Global Environmental Governance (2005). His main research interests are the political economy of environmental governance and politics of corporate accountability and regulation. [End Page iii]
• Ambuj D. Sagar is a Senior Research Associate in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Assistant Dean for Planning at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) at Harvard. At the Kennedy School, Ambuj's current research focuses mainly on energy technology innovation and the environment in India, but he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation and global environmental issues. His recent papers have focused on energy technology development and deployment in India, energy innovation policy, climate change policy, and capacity development for the environment. At DEAS, he shepherds the strategic planning for Division's future growth while also helping shape new initiatives, especially in the area of science and technology for society. Ambuj came to the United States after doing his undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Materials Science, and an M.S. in Technology and Policy, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Larry A. Swatuk is Associate Professor of Natural Resource Governance at the University of Botswana's Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre located in Maun. Among his latest publications are two co-guest-edited special issues of the journal Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (2004, vol. 29; and 2005, vol. 30), devoted to Water Resources Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Stacy D. VanDeveer is the 2003-2006 Ronald H. O'Neal Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, and the role expertise in policy making. Before taking a faculty position, he spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's...
