Global Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change

Contributors

Contributors Steinar Andresen is a senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. He has published extensively on global environmental politics and climate changes in journals such as Global Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, and International Environmental Agreements. Inga Fritzen Buan is a researcher with the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, where she currently is the primary researcher on Chinese energy and climate politics. Her academic background is in human geography and Chinese language and culture studies. She has published articles and commentaries on Chinese climate policy. Kate Crowley is an associate professor and head of the School of Government at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely on environmental politics and policy in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Environmental Politics, Local Environment, and the Australian Journal of Political Science. She is coeditor of Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in Decline and Devolution (1999) and chair of the Tasmanian Premier’s Climate Action Council. Kathryn Harrison is professor of political science at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy (1996), coauthor of Risk, Science, and Politics: Regulation of Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States (1994), coeditor of Managing the Environmental Union (2000), and editor of Racing to the Bottom? Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation (2006). She has published recent articles in the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Governance. Gørild Heggelund is currently senior climate change advisor with the United Nations Development Programme in Beijing. As a specialist on Chinese energy and environmental policy, Dr. Heggelund is the author of Environment and Resettlement Politics in China (2004), and has published extensively in journals such as International Environmental Agreements, Asian Perspective, and Development and Change. Laura A. Henry is an associate professor in the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research has focused on the Russian 292 Contributors environmental movement. She is the author of the book Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, forthcoming) and coeditor of the volume Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment (M. E. Sharpe, 2006). Miranda A. Schreurs is director of the Environmental Policy Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Free University of Berlin. Prior to this she was associate professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. She is author of Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States (2002), coauthor of the Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement, 2nd edition (2007), and coeditor of The Environmental Dimension of Asian Security: Conflict and Cooperation in Energy, Resources, and Pollution (2007). Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is an associate professor of political science at the University of British Columbia. Her publications include Funding Civil Society: Transnational Actors and NGO Development in Russia (Stanford University Press, 2006) and articles in the journals International Organization, Demokratizatsiya , and Canadian Foreign Policy. Yves Tiberghien is an associate professor of political science at the University of British Columbia and a faculty associate at the Center for European Studies of the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris. He is author of Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book on the global governance of genetically modified organisms as well as another on global institutional reforms led by the EU, Japan, and Canada. ...