Contributors
- Contributors
• Steinar Andresen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and a senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has published extensively in international journals and books on various issues related to international environmental and resource regimes. His most recent books (with co authors) are Environmental Regime Effectiveness (2001) and Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes (2000).
• Karin Bäckstrand is a Wallenberg Research Fellow on Environment and Sustainability at the Laboratory for Energy and Environment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is also affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. She has authored and co-authored articles and book chapters on the role of science in global environmental politics in issue areas such as transboundary air pollution, biotechnology, and sustainable development.
• J. Samuel Barkin (barkin@polisci.ufl.edu) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is co-editor, with George Shambaugh, of Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources (1999), and is the author of Social Construction and the Logic of Money: Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership (2003).
• Jon Hovi is Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo, and Senior Researcher at CICERO. His main research interests are the design and enforcement of international regimes. He is the author of Games, Threats and Treaties. Understanding Commitments in International Relations (1998), and co-editor of the forthcoming book International Compliance: Implementing the Climate Regime (with Olav Schram Stokke and Geir Ulfstein).
• Anita Krajnc is Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellow in Canadian Affairs and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. She teaches and researches in the areas of social movement strategies and neo-liberal globalization. She has published articles on the debilitating impacts of neo-conservative ideology on environmental spending, popular environmental education, and civic science.
• Gabriela Kütting is Lecturer of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland where she has taught since 1997. Her publications include books and articles on global environmental politics, globalization, sustainable development and international political economy. [End Page vi]
• Tora Skodvin (tora.skodvin@stv.uio.no) is post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Department of Political Science. Most of her research has addressed international environmental negotiations and policymaking, with a special focus on the role of various types of non-state actors in these processes (scientific communities, industry and environmental organizations). Her most recent book (as co-author) is Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problem, Varying Strategies (2003).
• Veronica Ward (vward@hass.usu.edu) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. Her areas of research focus on global environmental questions, issues of inter-state cooperation and conflict, and culture and state policies. She is the author of the book chapter "Sovereignty and Ecosystem Management: Clash of Concepts and Boundaries?" in Environment and Sovereignty, edited by Karen Litfin (1998), of the book chapter "Towards an International Theory of State-Non-state Actors: A Grid-Group Cultural Approach" in Culture in World Politics, edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal et al. (1998), and also of the article (co-authored with David Goetze and Amal Kawar) "Remedies for Injustice in an Age of Terrorist War." [End Page vii]
