Contributors
- Contributors
Nurcan Atalan-Helicke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Skidmore College. She has research interests in the politics of development and conservation, the political economy of agriculture, the European Union, and Turkey. She was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in 2008. She authored a popular journal article on seed conservation, an encyclopedia entry on transboundary waters, and co-authored a paper on the importance of sex-segregated spaces for gender and development goals in southeastern Turkey.
Monika Bauhr is an Assistant Professor at the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, the University of Florida, and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Her recent publications are mainly concerned with the link between transparency, corruption, and sustainable development, and how corruption influences the effects of international interventions and aid.
Andrew Biro is an Associate Professor and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Politics at Acadia University. His research focuses on the areas of critical theory, environmental politics, and cultural studies. He is the author of Denaturalizing Ecological Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2005), and most recently editor of Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises (University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Adam Bumpus is a Lecturer in Geography and the Environment at the University of Melbourne, and an Associate Fellow at ISIS, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. This work was made possible through a lectureship at the University of Melbourne, and postdoctoral fellowships from ISIS and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. He works at the intersection of climate, development, and business innovation, and he has published in the journals Economic Geography, Global Environmental Change, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Environment and Planning A, and Antipode.
Elizabeth Havice is an Assistant Professor of international development and globalization in the Geography Department at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. She researches the political economy of natural resource [End Page iii] regulation, production, and consumption. Much of her empirical work is on the tuna industry that spans the Pacific Rim. She has published in journals including Environment and Planning A, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Marine Policy.
Becky Mansfield is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. Her research centers on the political economy of environmental management and agro-food systems. She is the editor of Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations (Blackwell 2008), as well as numerous articles in journals such as Global Environmental Change, Environmental Politics, and Environment and Planning A.
Frances C. Moore is a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University, studying agricultural adaptation to climate change. She holds an MA in environmental science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a BA summa cum laude in Earth and Planetary Science from Harvard University. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellow, a former Switzer Foundation fellow, has published several articles on the significance of short-lived greenhouse gases for climate change mitigation, and co-edited Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them (Earthscan, 2008).
Naghmeh Nasiritousi is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research and the Division of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University. She is working on the role of nonstate actors in climate change governance. Her recent publications include “Quality of Government: What You Get” in Annual Review of Political Science 12 (2009), with Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein, and “Does Corruption Cause Aid Fatigue? Public Opinion and the Aid-Corruption Paradox” in International Studies Quarterly (forthcoming), with Monika Bauhr and Nicholas Charron.
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is currently an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellow working on a project on the governance of clean development. He is co-author most recently of the books Climate Capitalism (CUP, 2010) Governing Climate Change (Routledge, 2010), and Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power (Polity...
