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• Hans Bruyninckx is Associate of at Wagen- Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/glep/article-pdf/4/3/iii/1818959/1526380041748056.pdf by guest on 24 September 2021 ingen University and Associate Professor of International Environmental Politics at the Catholic University of Leuven. His research interests include in- ternational environmental governance, innovative elements in international environmental policy arrangements, effectiveness of international environ- mental policy making, and international political economy of the envi- ronment. His most recent publications are “Looking through the State: Envi- ronmental Flows and their Governance”, with D. Stevis, in Governing Environmental Flows (forthcoming), and “Sustainable Development as a Con- cept in International Environmental Policy Making” in International Environ- mental Politics (forthcoming). He is co-editor, with Christopher Jasparro, of Environmental Security in the Asia Paciªc Region (2004, forthcoming), and co- author, with Joos Gysen and Kris Bachus, of Evaluating the Effectiveness of Envi- ronmental Policy: An Analysis of Conceptual and Methodological Issues (2003). • Dana R. Fisher ([email protected]) is an Assistant Professor in the De- partment of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research falls at the nexus of political and environmental sociology. Presently, she is working on projects that explore the ways that civil society participates in political processes-on the local, national, and international levels. She is the author of National Governance and the Global Regime (2004). • Jessica F. Green is a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University. She is currently directing a project examining participa- tion of developing countries and civil society actors in international gover- nance for sustainable development. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume entitled, Reforming International Environmental Governance: From Institutional Limits, to Innovative Reforms to be published by UNU Press. • Marybeth Long Martello is a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Ken- nedy School of Government. She is co-editor, with Sheila Jasanoff, of Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance. • Jack Manno is the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Research Consortium and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York. His research interests are sustainable development, ecological econom- ics, the environment and social justice. He is the author of Privileged Goods: Commoditization and its Implications for Environment and Society (2000). Other

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recent publications are “Commoditization: Consumption Efªciency and an Economy of Care and Connection,” in Confronting Consumption (2002), and “The Ecological Dynamics of Environmental Law and Policy,” in press for the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review. • Adil Najam ([email protected]) is an Associate Professor of International Negotiation and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, . He is editor of Environment, Development and Human Security (2003) and co-author, with Tariq Banuri, of Civic Entrepreneurship: A Civil Soci- Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/glep/article-pdf/4/3/iii/1818959/1526380041748056.pdf by guest on 24 September 2021 ety Perspective on Sustainable Development (2002). He serves on the Boards of the Institute for Environment, Development and Action Research (PIEDAR) and the Pakistan Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (PCSTD). He is a chapter lead author for the third and fourth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). • Eric Neumayer is Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is the author of Weak Versus Strong Sustainability—Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms (1999 and 2003), Greening Investment and Trade: Environmental Protection without Protec- tionism (2001) and The Pattern of Aid Giving—The Impact of Good Governance on Development Assistance (2003). His research interests, a full list of publications and recent working papers to download can be found at: http:// personal.lse.ac.uk/neumayer/. • Bradley C. Parks is a graduate student in the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co- author of two forthcoming books, A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality and Climate Change (with J. Timmons Roberts) and Greening Aid: Understanding Environmental Assistance to Developing Countries (with Michael J. Tierney, J. Timmons Roberts, and Robert Hicks). His main research interests are inter- national political economy, late development, and global environmental gov- ernance. • J. Timmons Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environ- mental Science and Policy program at the College of William and Mary. After completing his PhD in the sociology of Comparative International Develop- ment at Johns Hopkins University, he taught ten years at Tulane University in Louisiana. In addition to over thirty published articles and book chapters, he is author of From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (2000, with Amy Hite), Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline (2001, with Melissa Toffolon-Weiss); and Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America (2003, with Nikki Demetria Thanos). • Urs P. Thomas, PhD, is a research associate at the Department of Public Inter- national Law and International Organization of the University of Geneva. He participates in a research program ªnanced by the Swiss National Science Contributors • v

Foundation. His publications cover policy and legal aspects of international environmental affairs with a focus on trade and environment agreements, ne- gotiations, related WTO case law, and the interface between science and Pub- lic International Law with regard to global environmental issues. • Eva T. Thorne is the Meyer and Walter Jaffe Assistant Professor of Politics at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Her research interests include interna- tional development institutions, global civil society, and ethnic land rights in Latin America. She is currently revising a manuscript on the politics of reform Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/glep/article-pdf/4/3/iii/1818959/1526380041748056.pdf by guest on 24 September 2021 at the World Bank. • Alexis A. Vásquez completed her Master of Arts in Latin American Studies at Tulane University in May 2000. Her research at Tulane focused on foreign di- rect investment and its impact on environmental policy in Latin America. She currently works in the ªnancial services industry in New York City.