Contributors
- Contributors
Karin Bäckstrand is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Her research interests revolve around global environmental politics, the role of scientific expertise in environmental diplomacy and the legitimacy of new modes of governance in issues such as climate change, forestry and biotechnology. Karin’s research has been published in European Journal of International Relations, Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Politics as well as contributions in edited volumes, such as The Social Construction on Climate Change. Power, Knowledge, Norms and Discourses, edited by Mary Pettenger (2007).
Sander Chan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije University, Amsterdam. His research focuses on transnational multi-stakeholder networks in global sustainability politics with a special emphasis on environmental governance in China. His publications include “Multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: does the promise hold?” in Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development. Reflections on Theory and Practice, edited by P. Glasbergen, F. Biermann and A. P. J. Mol (2007).
Xinyuan Dai is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of International Institutions and National Policies (2007). Her work has been published in American Political Science Review, International Organization, World Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, among others.
Peter M. Haas is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His recent books include International Environmental Governance (2008); Global Environmental Governance (with Gus Speth, 2006) and Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance (co-edited with Norichika Kanie, 2004). He works on issues of international environmental governance, the interplay between international institutions and organized science, and international relations theory.
Michael Mason is Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the author of Environmental Democracy (1999) and The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders (2005), and co-editor of the forthcoming Renewable Energy in the Middle East (2008). [End Page iii]
Peter Newell is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and James Martin Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. He is author of Climate for Change (2000), co-author of The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (2000) and co-editor of several volumes including, most recently, Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability (2006).
Chukwumerije Okereke is Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. His research addresses the links between ethics, political economic ideas and the governance structures of international institutions within the context of global sustainable development. He is the author of Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance (2008) and the editor of The Politics of the Environment (2007).
Philipp Pattberg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije University, Amsterdam, and an Assistant Professor for International Relations at the Department of Political Science, Vrije University, Amsterdam. He is also the research coordinator of the International Global Governance Project (glogov.org). His publications include Private Institutions and Global Governance: The New Politics of Environmental Sustainability (2007) and a number of journal articles in Annual Review of Environment and Resources; Global Governance; Governance; and Third World Quarterly, among others.
Luigi Pellizzoni is associate professor of Sociology of the Environment at the University of Trieste, Italy. His research interests focus on risk, environment, technology and democracy. His publications include “The Myth of the Best Argument. Power, Deliberation and Reason,” British Journal of Sociology 52 (1) (2001); “Uncertainty and Participatory Democracy,” Environmental Values 12 (2) (2003); “Knowledge, Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Public Sphere,” European Journal of Social Theory 6 (3) (2003); and “Responsibility and Environmental Governance,” Environmental Politics 13 (3) (2004).
Marja Ylönen is a junior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is finalizing her Ph.D. dissertation on crimes against the environment. Her publications include “Les crimes contre l’environnement en Finlande,” in Les annales de la rescherche urbaine. Nro. 84/84 (1999); and “The Formation of a Power Relationship in an Environmental Conflict,” in All Shades of Green. The Environmentalization of Finnish...
