Contributors
- Contributors
John Barry is Reader in Politics at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University, Belfast. His recent publications include Environment and Social Theory, 2nd edition (2007); and "Towards a Model of Green Political Economy: From Ecological modernisation to Economic Security", International Journal of Green Economics 1 (3/4) (2007). He is the co-author, with Peter Doran, of "Refining Green Political Economy: From Ecological Modernisation to Economic Security and Sufficiency", Analyse & Kritik 28 (3) (2006); and co-editor, with Robyn Eckersley, of The Nation-State and the Global Ecological Crisis (2005).
Anders Blok holds an MA degree in Sociology and is currently PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. His PhD project deals with the knowledge politics of global environmental governance, building on the sociology of science, environment, and risk, and with cases involving biodiversity and climate change. From October 2005 to January 2007, he was postgraduate research student at Tohoku University, Japan, conducting research into Japanese whaling politics. His recent publications include "Experts on Public Trial: On Democratizing Expertise through a Danish Consensus Conference", Public Understanding of Science 16 (1) (2007); and "Actor-Networking Ceta-Sociality, or, What is Sociological about Contemporary Whales?", Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 15 (2007).
J. Samuel Barkin is Associate Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty at the School for Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Florida. He works on international institutions, international fishery politics, and trade and environment issues, as well as international relations theory more broadly. His most recent book is International Organization: Theories and Institutions (2006).
Robert Darst is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His current research interests include the transnational politics of hazardous waste disposal and the adoption of carbon neutrality programs.
Jane I. Dawson is Virginia E. Weinmann Associate Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College. Her research focuses on issues of nuclear power and waste disposal in industrialized societies, with emphasis on social movements, politics, and of environmental justice. She is also currently involved in the implementation of the President's Commitment [End Page iii] on Climate Change at Connecticut College and very interested in learning about similar efforts underway at other institutions.
Geraint Ellis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queens University, Belfast. His recent publications include "Many Ways to Say 'No', Different Ways to Say 'Yes': Applying Q-Methodology to Understand Public Acceptance of Wind Farm Proposals," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 50 (4) (2007), co-authored with John Barry and Clive Robinson; and "Reparation or Retribution: An Investigation into Regulatory Compliance in Planning," Environment and Planning A 37 (4) (2005), co-authored with Stephen McKay.
Ann Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. She is internationally recognized as an authority on new approaches to global governance, focusing on the roles of civil society and the private sector in addressing global issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy sector. Her publications include The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (2007); The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (2003 and 2005); and The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (2000). Dr. Florini received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University.
Thomas Gehring is Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration of the University of Bamberg/Germany. He has published many articles and books on international environmental governance, European integration and international institutions. His most recent book, with Sebastian Oberthür, is Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance. Synergy and Conºict among International and EU Policies (2006).
Lars H. Gulbrandsen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He was a visiting scholar in 2007 at Harvard University's Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government. His research...
