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Notes on Contributors 191 191 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS SHERRIE BAVER teaches political science and Latin American studies at City College and the Graduate Center-CUNY. Her work focuses on the Hispanic Caribbean and their mainland diasporas. Along with many articles, she has authored The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico (1993) and coedited Latinos in NewYork: Communities in Transition (1996). MAURICE BURAC teaches geography at the Universite des Antilles et la Guyane in Martinique where he also heads GEODE, the Center for Research on Geography , Development, and Environment in the Caribbean. He has written extensively on Caribbean topics, and his most recent publication is Les Antilles et la Guyane française à l’ube de XXIé siècle (2003). BARBARA DEUTSCH LYNCH is director of the urban and regional studies program and visiting associate professor in the department of city and regional planning at Cornell University. She has published on the politics of irrigation in Latin America, urban environment and the politics of risk, megaprojects and displacement , and on Latino environmental perspectives. Her recent research has focused on fields of urban environmental concern, their relationship to broader landscape transformations, and their implications for the distribution of risk in Caribbean cities. She came to Cornell from the Ford Foundation where she was program officer for the Caribbean environment and development program. She also taught in the Carleton College science and technology studies program and served as extension associate in Cornell’s Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology. NEFTALI GARCÍA-MARTÍNEZ PH.D., a chemist, serves as executive director and chairman of the board of Scientific and Technical Services, a non-profit organization , where he also works as a scientific and environmental consultant. For over thirty-five years he has worked as an environmental advisor in Puerto Rico. His specialties include the areas of renewable and non-renewable natural 192 Notes on Contributors resources, water, soil and air pollution, dangerous chemical substances, solid wastes and recycling, energy, reforestation, and matters of occupational health and industrial pollution. During the years as an advisor and community organizer , Dr. García has written numerous articles on the environment, many of which have been published in local newspapers, and is the author of ¿Quién cantará por las aves? (“Who will sing for the birds?”) (1996), a collection of essays on the Puerto Rican environment. He is also a university professor and has taught chemistry, biochemistry, environmental conflicts, economic history of Puerto Rico, and environmental geography at several universities in Puerto Rico and the United States. TANIA GARCÍA-RAMOS received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Universidad Complutense in Madrid and is now associate professor in the department of psychology, University of Puerto Rico. She has served on the board of directors of Scientific and Technical Services, an environmental NGO in Puerto Rico, since 1997, and since 1996, as a collaborator of the Taller Salud, a women’s health NGO in Puerto Rico. She has edited two books and has authored several articles in her main areas of interest, women’s health and environmental health. FRANCINE JÁCOME serves as director of Instituto Venezolano de Estudios Sociales y Políticos (INVESP) in Caracas and teaches at Universidad Central de Venezuela . She is a well-known authority on Venezuelan politics, Latin American regional integration, and environmental movements and has written and lectured widely on these topics. KATHERINE T. MCCAFFREY teaches anthropology at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her book, Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico (2002) analyzes the long-term conflict between the U.S. Navy and residents of Vieques Island. She continues to conduct ethnographic research on social change and the struggle for sustainable development on Vieques as the island shifts from military to civilian control. MARIAN A. L. MILLER passed away in November 2003, and she was associate professor of political science at the University of Akron. Her work was at the intersection of development studies and global environmental studies, and she published numerous book chapters and articles. Her 1996 book, The Third World in Global Environmental Politics (Lynne Rienner), won the International Studies Associations’ Sprout Award. Marian Miller will also be remembered as one of the founding associate editors of the journal, Global Environmental Politics. LORRAINE C. MINNITE teaches American and urban politics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on issues of inequality, political participation , social movements, and institutional change. She has published work on a range...

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