Contributors
- Contributors
Amanda Giang is a doctoral candidate in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current research focuses on how to assess the environmental and human health impacts of air pollution policy across scales, to better support environmental governance. More broadly, her research interests concern the interactions of science, publics, and policy in environmental contexts. Her recent work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Environmental Science & Technology.
Andreas Goldthau is professor at Royal Holloway University of London; an associate with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard’s Belfer Center; and fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute. His publications include A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The EU Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (Oxford University Press 2015), The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security (Palgrave 2015), the Handbook of Global Energy Policy (Wiley 2013), Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (Palgrave 2012), Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game (Brookings Press 2010), Imported Oil and US National Security (RAND 2009), and OPEC (Hanser 2009).
Cecilie Hestbæk holds a BSc in geography from Copenhagen University and an MSc in international public policy from University College London. She works at charity think tank and consultancy New Philanthropy Capital in London and is interested in the role of civil society campaigning in policymaking. She wrote the report Closing in on Change: Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Campaign (London: NPC).
Erin Clover Kelly is an assistant professor in forestry at Humboldt State University. She has conducted research on forest ownership and tenure, economic and ecological impacts of natural resource policies, dam removal, and rural community well-being; most recently she has focused on wildfire management across ownership boundaries in the American West. Recent publications include “Cultural Entrenchment: Explaining Gaps Between Ecosystem-Based Management Policy and Practice in the Forests of Newfoundland” (Forest Policy and Economics, 2014) and “The Roots of Community Forestry: Subsistence and Regional Development in Newfoundland” (forthcoming in the UBC Press book Community Forestry in Canada). [End Page iii]
Michael Pahle heads the Energy Strategies Europe and Germany working group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His research focuses on energy and climate strategies, primarily for the power sector. He has worked in and coordinated projects commissioned by German state and federal agencies, including studies on the Energiewende and EU climate and energy policies. He is a member of the EU Expert Committee of the German Ministry of Energy and Economics, and he contributed to the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation and the AR5 Working Group III Report.
Jeongwon Bourdais Park holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a visiting assistant professor of political science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has published articles in several journals on environmental innovation, the international environmental laws governing transboundary water, and global environmental governance. She has recently completed a collaborative inter-regional environmental cooperation project between the European Union and Korea on the low-carbon economy. She has written a monograph on the regional development of Northeast China (Palgrave Macmillan 2017, forthcoming).
Marissa Bongiovanni Schmitz completed her master’s degree at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and is now a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on economic and policy issues, including landowner participation in preferential tax programs, production of non-timber forest products, and forest offset commodification in voluntary and regulatory carbon markets.
Noelle Eckley Selin is an associate profesor in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research applies atmospheric chemistry modeling to inform decision-making strategies on hazardous air pollution issues, including mercury, persistent organic pollutants, and climate change. She has published articles and book chapters on the interactions between science and policy in international environmental negotiations. She also serves as associate director of MIT’s Master’s program in Technology and Policy, for which she teaches interdisciplinary classes focusing on science, politics, and environmental negotiations.
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