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Mairon G. Bastos Lima is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam. He holds a master's degree in environmental studies from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and currently researches the emergence of biofuel policies and governance.

Stephen Bocking is professor of environmental policy and history, and chair of the Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program at Trent University. His research interests concern the intersection of environmental science and politics, with projects currently underway on the Canadian Arctic, salmon aquaculture in the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, and biodiversity conservation in Southern Ontario. His books include Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers University Press, 2004).

Mark T. Buntaine is assistant professor of government at the College of William and Mary. His research focuses on the conditions that support the effective use of environmental and development aid. His previous research has appeared in World Development and Environment, Development, and Sustainability.

Aline Coutinho is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa. Her current interests include economic sociology, political economy, and identity studies. She has published articles on media and political scandals, piracy, and cultural exclusion.

Carolyn M. Dudek is an associate professor of political science at Hofstra University. She is the author of EU Accession and Spanish Regional Development: Winners and Losers and has held a Fulbright Scholarship in Spain and a Fulbright Fellowship in Argentina. She was also a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European Forum, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Jessica F. Green is assistant professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on transnational private regulation and its interactions with public forms of authority, particularly in the area of environment. Her book, Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. She received the 2011 American Political Science Association Virginia Walsh Award for the best dissertation in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy. [End Page iii]

Joyeeta Gupta is professor of climate change law and policy at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam and at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft. She has published extensively on climate change and water governance and was a lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She is currently part of the steering committee of the Earth System Governance Project.

Shangrila Joshi is visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Colgate University. This article was developed from a chapter of her dissertation, the research and writing of which were funded by a 2008-2009 Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund and a 2009-2010 Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowship. She is also the co-editor of a forthcoming edited volume, World Turning: Race, Class, Gender, and Global Climate Change.

Bradley C. Parks is co-executive director of AidData and research faculty at the College of William and Mary's Institute for Theory and Practice of International Relations. He has written and contributed to several books and articles on aid allocation, aid effectiveness, and development theory and practice. He is a co-author of Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance (Oxford University Press, 2008) with Michael Tierney, J. Timmons Roberts, and Robert Hicks.

Johannes Urpelainen is assistant professor of political science at Columbia University. His research focuses on international cooperation and political economy, especially in the field of environmental politics. His research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Environmental and Resource Economics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, and Review of International Organizations.

Gregory White is a professor of government at Smith College, where he serves as the Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard '69 Faculty Director of the Global Studies Center. He is the author most recently of Climate Change and Migration: Security and Borders in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2011) and has published articles and book chapters on immigration, environmental security, and North African politics.

Nathan Young is associate professor of sociology at the University of...

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