Contributors
- Contributors
Francisco Ascui is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Business School and adjunct senior lecturer at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania. His research focuses on environmental accounting and finance. He transitioned to academia after a decade working in energy and carbon markets. In Edinburgh he established a global center of expertise in business and climate change, and developed the world's first master of science degree in carbon finance. He has served on the advisory boards of several international carbon and environmental accounting standards-setting bodies.
Ken Conca is a professor of international relations in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC. His research focuses on global environmental governance; environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; the UN system; and water politics and governance. His most recent book is An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance (2015, Oxford). He is a member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding. Conca earned his PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Marcel J. Dorsch is a political science researcher in the governance working group at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate, Berlin. His current research centers on polycentric global commons governance, including European and global climate policy, the prospects of deliberative democracy, and processes of global institutionalization.
Christian Flachsland is head of the governance working group at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, as well as an assistant professor of climate and energy governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. His research interests include climate and energy governance, policy assessment, and the science-policy interface.
Kemi Fuentes-George teaches in the department of political science at Middlebury College, Vermont. His recent book, Between Preservation and Exploitation (2016 MIT Press), illustrates how local justice claims shape the implementation of environmental treaties in developing countries. It won an honorable mention from the American Political Science Association for best book on environmental politics and policy. He has also published research in edited volumes from Routledge and the University of the West Indies Press, as well as commentary in popular media. [End Page iii]
Fred Gale is an associate professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania. He has a longstanding research interest in merging political economy with sustainability, with applications to tropical and temperate deforestation, forest governance, and certification and labelling. Recent books include Setting the Standard (with Chris Tollefson and David Haley, 2008 University of Washington Press), Global Commodity Governance (with Marcus Haward, 2011, Palgrave) and Pulp Friction in Tasmania (2011, Pencil Pine Press). He is currently in the latter stages of writing a theoretical book, The Political Economy of Sustainability, which will be published by Edward Elgar.
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace teaches agricultural policy and agrarian politics in the School of International Studies' Global Environmental Politics Program at American University. She has published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Rural Studies, Agriculture & Human Values, Antipode, and ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geography. She is currently writing a book on agricultural biodiversity conservation politics and bioethics, and she conducts community-based participatory action research on the international and domestic impacts of the US Farm Bill. She has a BA from Yale, a masters of theological studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD in geography from University of Kentucky.
Torbjørg Jevnaker is a research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. She has published on EU energy and environmental policy, particularly emissions trading, climate and energy packaging, and internal energy market policy. Recent publications include "The Paris Agreement: Consequences for the EU and Carbon Markets?" (coauthor, Politics and Governance 4: 3), "Rescuing EU Emissions Trading" (with Jørgen Wettestad, 2016, Palgrave) and "Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies" (coauthor, 2016, Edward Elgar).
Goueun Lee is a doctoral candidate in international relations at the School of International Service of American University. Her work focuses on global environmental governance as well as regional environmental institutions and norms. Previously she worked at the Global Green Growth Institute and the Korea Environment Institute, focusing on climate change negotiations...
