Contributors
- Contributors
• Patrick Bernhagen is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK, where he teaches democratic theory and research methods. His research on the political behavior and influence of citizens and business enterprises has appeared in numerous journals, including Democratization, Electoral Studies, and Political Studies. His forthcoming works include a book on the informational power of business, as well as a textbook on democratization (co-edited with Christian Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart and Chris Welzel).
• Itay Fischhendler is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current main research interests include global environmental politics and transboundary water policy.
• Tim Gray is Emeritus Professor of Political Thought at Newcastle University, UK. He specializes in environmental political issues connected with commercial sea fisheries, on which he recently edited a book entitled Participation in Fisheries Governance (2005).
• Peter H. Koehn is Professor of Political Science, The University of Montana's Distinguished Scholar for 2005, and a Fulbright New Century Scholar. His publications include "Fitting a Vital Linkage Piece into the Multidimensional Emissions-reduction Puzzle: Nongovernmental Pathways to Consumption Changes in the PRC and the USA," Climatic Change 77 (2006); "Globalization, Migration Health, and Educational Preparation for Transnational Medical Encounters," Globalization and Health 2 (2) (2006); and The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions (2002).
• Sarah Lieberman is completing her doctorate on the meaning and implications of the EU's moratorium on biotech products, on aspects of which she has published one article in Environmental Politics, with two other articles currently under review by other journals.
• Thomas Princen is Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Logic of Sufficiency (2005) and lead editor of Confronting Consumption (2002), both awarded the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the "best book in the study of international environmental problems." He is co-author of Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global (1994) and author of Intermediaries in International Conflict [End Page iii] (1992/1995). His research primarily focuses on the drivers of overconsumption and the conditions for restrained use of resources.
• Lynn M. Wagner is the editor of MEA Bulletin and Linkages Update, two biweekly newsletters on current developments related to multilateral environmental agreements published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Reporting Services (IISD RS) Division. Her main research interests are the relationship between negotiation process and outcome and international environmental negotiations. Her book, Problem-Solving and Bargaining in International Negotiations, will be published in 2008.
• Paul Wapner is Associate Professor and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program in the School of International Service at American University in Washington DC. He is the author of Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (1996), and co-editor of Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations (2000). His most recent work studies how changing understandings of nature are influencing environmentalism.
• Oran R. Young is Professor of Environmental Institutions at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He serves as chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. His latest book—co-authored with Helmut Breitmeier and Michael Zürn—is Analyzing International Environmental Regimes: From Case Study to Database (2006). [End Page iv]
