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Thomas Bernauer is a Professor of Political Science at ETH Zurich. He and his research group are based at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, a joint institution of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, and at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Environmental Decisions. In his research and teaching Bernauer focuses on international environmental and economic issues. He is the author or co-author of ten books, more than eighty journal articles and book chapters, and many other types of publications.

Tobias Böhmelt has been a Post–doctoral Research Fellow at ETH Zurich since 2010. His main research interests are quantitative analysis of conflict and cooperation, environmental politics, international mediation, military effectiveness, and social network analysis.

David Ciplet is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at Brown University, USA. His research focuses on issues of power and inequality in governance of climate change and energy. He is lead author of five recent climate policy reports with the International Institute for Environment and Development including, “The Eight Unmet Promises of Fast-start Climate Finance” (2012). He is also co-author of “Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building” (2012) in Social Movement Studies.

Clark Gray is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. He researches the interactions between migration, rural livelihoods and environmental change in the developing world, with a focus on the use of demographic and quantitative methods. He has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, World Development, Global Environmental Change and Environment and Planning A, among other journals.

Paul G. Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His work has appeared widely in scholarly journals. He is author/editor of 17 books on global environmental politics, policy and ethics, most recently What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It (Polity). His forthcoming books include the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics.

Kathryn Hochstetler is CIGI Chair of Governance in the Americas at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, in Canada. She has published widely on environmental [End Page iii] issues in Latin America, the Mercosur free trade area, and global negotiations. Her most recent book is the prize-winning Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke University Press, 2007, co-authored with Margaret E. Keck).

Kristine Kern is Professor at the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development, Germany. She is also Affiliated Professor at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research concentrates on subnational and regional environmental governance. She has published six books and articles in journals such as Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Politics & Planning, Local Environment, Urban Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Policy & Politics.

Mizan Khan is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Management, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research focuses on issues of equity in international adaptation politics and national and community adaptation planning. His publications include, “Equity in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs): The Case of Bangladesh” (In Adger et al.’s Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change 2006), “From Cancun to Durban: Is there any likelihood of a new climate regime?” (2011) in Biiss journal, and “Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response” (coauthored, in Haque, C.E and Etkin, D. eds. Disaster and Vulnerability: Mitigation through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships, 2011).

Vally Koubi is a Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich and Adjunct Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Bern. Her current main research interests include international political economy, conflict theory, and environmental politics. Her recent work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Public Choice, Ecological Economics, and British Journal of Political Science.

Taedong Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. Lee has worked on sub-national environmental governance with a variety of topics and methods. He developed two book projects, Translocal Relations and Climate Change; and Climate Policies: A Guide for Local...

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