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John Barry is reader in politics and deputy director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queens University, Belfast. He has written extensively about normative aspects of environmental politics. His publications include Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue, Progress (1999); Environment and Social Theory (1999); Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research (2000), with John Proops; and he has co-edited Sustaining Liberal Democracy: Ecological Challenges and Opportunties (2001), with Marcel Wissenburg; The International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics (2001), with Gene Frankland; and Europe, Globalization and Sustainable Development (2004), with Brian Baxter and Richard Dunphy. Raymond Bryant is reader in geography at King’s College, London. He has writ- ten extensively on political ecology and the political economy of natural resource use. His books include The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma (1997); Environmental Management: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (1997), with Geoff Wilson; Third World Political Ecology (1997), with Sinead Bailey; and Making Moral Capital: Non-Governmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles (2005). Peter Christoff teaches and coordinates environmental studies in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. Formerly the assistant to the Commission of the Environment in Victoria, he is on the board of Greenpeace Australia-Pacific and vice-president of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Ken Conca is an associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda. His research and teaching focus on global environmental politics, political econ- omy, environmental policy, North-South issues, and peace and conflict studies. He is the author or editor of several books on global environmental politics, tech- nology, and international political economy, including Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg (2004), Environmental Peacemaking (2003), Confronting Consumption (2002), Manufacturing Insecurity: The Rise and Fall of Brazil’s Military-Industrial Complex (1997), and The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (1993). 04441_Contr.qxd 2/4/05 11:34 PM Page 300

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John Dryzek is professor of social and political theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His books include Democracy in Capitalist Times (1996), The Politics of the Earth (1997), Deliberative Democracy and Beyond (2000), and Postcommunist Democratiza- tion (2002), with Leslie Holmes. Robyn Eckersley is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Melbourne. She has written extensively on environmental politics and green polit- ical theory, including Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (1992), the edited volume Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration (1995), and The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (2004). Tim Hayward is a reader in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Ecological Thought: An Introduction (1995), Political Theory and Ecological Values (1998), and Constitutional Environmental Rights (2005). He has published journal articles on environmental and political philosophy and has co-edited Justice, Property and the Environ- ment: Social and Legal Perspectives (1997), with John O’Neill. Christian Hunold is associate professor of political science in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His articles on environ- mental politics and democratic theory have appeared in German Politics & Society, Governance, Environmental Politics, and Political Studies. He is a co- author of Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway (2003) and is currently writing a book on issues of justice and democracy in U.S. radioactive waste disposal policy. Karen Lawrence received a Ph.D. degree in 2002 with a dissertation on negotiated conservation as social change in Northern Palawan, the Philippines. She has worked with community-mapping methodologies in the Philippines for more than eight years. She has been involved in national and regional policy dialogue in Asia that seeks meaningful involvement of local people in resource management. She has transferred forest management planning processes based on community mapping to communities in Cross River State, Nigeria, while also conducting consultancy work in Cambodia. James Meadowcroft is professor of political science in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa. He publications include Implementing Sustainable Development: Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies (2000), with William Lafferty; Planning Sustainability (1999), with Michael Kenny; and articles on environmental governance and sus- tainable development. He is an editor of the International Political Science Review and an associate editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies. Matthew Paterson is an associate professor of political science at the University of Ottawa. He works on the intersection between global political economy and envi- ronmental politics. His main publications developing these interests are Global Warming and Global Politics (1996) and Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance (2000). He is currently working on the political economy, cultural politics, and environmental politics of cars. 04441_Contr.qxd 2/4/05 11:34 PM Page 301

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David Schlosberg is an associate professor of political science at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches political theory and environmental politics. He is author of Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism (1999) and co- author (with Dryzek, Downes, and Hunold) of Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway (2003). His articles have appeared in Environmental Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, PS, and Society and Natural Resources. Steven Slaughter teaches international relations at Deakin University, Burwood, Australia. His Ph.D. dissertation was titled Public Power in a Globalising Age: A Critical Analysis of Liberal Governance. He has taught at Monash University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and the Australian National University. His research interests include international relations, globalization, global gover- nance, international ethics, and political theory. John Vogler is a professor of international relations at Keele University, U.K. He is also convenor of the British International Studies Association Environment Group and served on various Economic and Social Research Council committees, including that for the Global Environmental Change Programme. His main inter- ests are international environmental cooperation and European Union external policy, and he is currently reconsidering regime analysis under the heading “tak- ing institutions seriously.” He is working, with Charlotte Bretherton, on a study of EU external policy for the Palgrave European Union Series. His publications include The Global Commons: Environmental and Technological Governance (1995; 2000); The European Union as a Global Actor (1999), with Charlotte Bretherton; and The Environment and International Relations (1996), with Mark Imber.