Contributors
- Contributors
Liliana B. Andonova is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She has held positions at Colby College and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, USA. Andonova is the author of Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environmental Policies in Central and Eastern Europe (2003). She has also published on topics such as trade and the environment, public-private partnerships, energy policy, and climate politics.
Michele M. Betsill is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on the governance of global environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on the politics of climate change from the global to the local level. Recent books include Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (with Harriet Bulkeley, 2003); Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics (co-edited with Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis, 2006); and NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations (co-edited with Elisabeth Corell, 2008). She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Earth System Governance project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
Maxwell T. Boykoff is a Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute and a Departmental Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford. During the previous two years he was a James Martin 21st Century School Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has explored the cultural politics of climate change in everyday spaces, as his research has investigated how various nonstate actors influence climate science, policy and practice. His research includes analyses of media coverage of climate change, how certain discourses influence environmental policy considerations, the role of celebrity endeavors in climate change issues, and links to ethics, environmental justice movements, climate adaptation and public understanding. Recent publications include peer-reviewed articles in Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Climatic Change. He has also recently written a related commentary in Nature Reports Climate Change and a paper for the 2007 UNDP Human Development Report. [End Page iii]
Harriet Bulkeley is a Reader in Geography at Durham University. Her research interests centre on the concepts and practice of environmental governance, with a particular focus on cities, transnational networks and climate change. She is co-author (with Michele Betsill) of Cities and Climate Change (2003), and has published widely including articles in Political Geography, Environment and Planning A, International Studies Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics and Environmental Politics. She is an editor of Environment and Planning C and editor of ‘Policy and Governance’ for WIREs Climate Change. She currently holds an ESRC Climate Change Fellowship, co-ordinates the Leverhulme International Network Transnational Climate Change Governance, and in 2007 was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Climate Change Law and Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and of Water Law and Policy at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and is on the editorial board of Carbon and Climate Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, and International Community Law Review. She was lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that recently shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. She is on the scientific steering committees of, amongst others, the Global Water Systems Project and the Earth System Governance project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
Soyeun Kim is currently a Research Associate at White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds and a Sessional Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her current research interests are mainly in the political ecology of development cooperation/intervention, with a particular focus on the East Asian donors (including Japan, China and South Korea) and the Southeast Asian recipients. She also works as an independent consultant and a Corporate Social Responsibility analyst in London.
Eva Lövbrand is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University in Sweden. Her research interests revolve around the role of science...
