Contributors
- Contributors
Jessica Ayers is a PhD Candidate in the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), London School of Economics and Political Science. She is working on the governance of adaptation to climate change. Her recent publications include “Climate Change Adaptation and Development: The State of the Debate,” Progress in Development Studies 10 (2) 2010, co-authored with D. Dodman; “Financing Urban Adaptation,” Environment and Urbanization 21 (1) 2009; and “The Value of Linking Mitigation and Adaptation” Environmental Management 43 (5) 2009, with S. Huq.
Shlomi Dinar is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. His research interests focus on international conflict and cooperation over the environment and natural resources. He is also interested in institutional resilience under conditions of environmental change. Most recently, he is the editor of Beyond Resource Wars: Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation (2011).
Itay Fischhendler is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University. His research interests focus on environmental conflict resolution; natural resources management and governance and decision making under conditions of political and environmental uncertainties. Many of his publications demonstrate his approach through focusing on water in the Middle East and along the US/Mexico border.
Dana R. Fisher is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on environmental policy, civic participation and activism more broadly. She has written extensively on climate politics in the US and comparatively across nations, including in her first book: National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime (2004). Fisher is currently researching the climate policy network in the United States as part of the US National Science Foundation-funded Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) project. She is also the Lead Investigator of the “Understanding the Dynamic Connections Among Stewardship, Land Cover, and Ecosystem Services in New York City’s Urban Forest,” which is funded by the US National Science Foundation. This project aims to understand the relationship between urban civic stewardship and re-greening efforts in New York City. Fisher directs the Environmental Stewardship Project at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. [End Page iii]
Mattias Hjerpe holds a PhD in Water and Environmental Studies and is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University, Sweden. He is currently involved in the research program Clipore (Climate Policy Research) funded by Mistra (The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). His current research focuses on civil society actors’ role in climate change governance, how survey techniques can enrich the theoretical understanding of global environmental governance, and how local government and civil society actors respond to global environmental and economic change. His recent work has been published Climate Policy, Local Environment and Futures.
Christer Karlsson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University in Sweden. He is currently working as a part of Clipore, the Climate Policy Research program funded by Mistra (The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). He has published books, articles and book chapters in his principal research areas: climate change politics, European Union studies and democratic theory. His recent publications include The Illusion of Accountability in the European Union (2009); and “Climate Change and the European Union’s Leadership Moment: An Inconvenient Truth?” Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (4) 2010.
David Katz is Director of the Akirov Institute for Business and Environment at Tel Aviv University. He is also Adjunct Lecturer at Tel Aviv University’s Recanati School of Management and Porter School of Environmental Studies where he teaches courses in environmental and resource economics and corporate environmental strategy. His research focuses on the links between economic growth and natural resource use, transboundary resource management, and the economics of ecosystem restoration.
Björn-Ola Linnér is Professor in Water and Environmental Studies and director of the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University, Sweden. He is currently involved in the research program Clipore (Climate Policy Research) funded by Mistra (The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). Recent publications include analyses of linkages between climate policy and sustainable development, transnational governance, and North-South relations in international climate cooperation. He has published The Return of...
