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  • Contributors

Lukas Hakelberg is a doctoral student at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, under the supervision of Adrienne Héritier. Previously he was a research associate at the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Free University of Berlin. He has a double master’s degree in political science and European affairs, jointly organized by Sciences Po Paris and FU Berlin.

Craig M. Kauffman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon, where he specializes in environmental politics. Kauffman’s dissertation, Global Governors and Local Governance: Transnational Networks and the Decentralization of Watershed Management in Ecuador, explains why in some areas of rural Ecuador, actors at the global and subnational levels collaborated to implement integrated watershed management institutions as a way to achieve sustainable development and mitigate natural resource conºicts. Kauffman’s articles and book chapters have appeared in Peace Review, Agricultural Water Management, Encyclopedia of Political Theory (SAGE, 2011), The Dynamics of Democratization: Dictatorship, Development, and Diffusion (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), and Sustainable Irrigation and Drainage (WIT, 2012).

So Young Kim is an associate professor of the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy and the undergraduate director of the Science and Technology Policy Program at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She has studied cross-national public opinion and policy in the areas of science, technology, and the environment. Her work has been published in International Organization, Journal of Asian Survey, and Science and Public Policy.

Pamela L. Martin is a professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Martin was a 2009 Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador and has published on environmental governance of the Amazon. Her works include Oil in the Soil: The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon, by Rowman and Littlefield 2011; “Global Environmental Governance from the Amazon” in Global Environmental Politics, November 2011; and “Pay to Preserve: The Global Politics of Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Proposal” in International Development Policy: Energy and Development, 2011. Martin is currently researching alternative norms and movements of sustainable development in the Amazon and Andes. [End Page iii]

Rebecca Pearse is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. Her research spans environmental sociology and political economy. She has taught environmental politics and political economy at the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney. She has been investigating social movement responses to climate change and the political economy of climate and energy policy in the Asia-Pacific region. Her published work includes articles in Global Change, Peace & Security, Ephemera and the Journal of Australian Political Economy, and a co-authored book with Stuart Rosewarne and James Goodman called Climate Action Upsurge: An Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics (Routledge, 2014).

Henrik Selin is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations, Boston University. He is the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management (MIT Press) and co-editor of Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate, with Miranda Schreurs and Stacy VanDeveer). He has also authored or co-authored of more than forty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous reports, reviews, and commentaries.

James Morton Turner is an associate professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College. His research focuses on environmental history and science and technology studies. He is the author of The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964 (University of Washington Press). This article stems from Turner’s research on public attention to climate change.

James Van Alstine is a lecturer in environmental policy at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on environmental regulation and governance, the social and environmental risks of resource extraction, and the politics of low-carbon transitions. He leads a three-year research project (2012–2015) on the governance of extractive industries in Uganda. He has also conducted research in Brazil, Ghana, South Africa, and Zambia on related topics. He has published in journals such as Business, Strategy and the Environment, Community Development Journal, and Environmental Politics, and with institutions such as The World Bank...

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