Contributors

• Silke Beck is a senior researcher at and deputy chair of the Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and governance in global environmental politics. She helped set up the UFZ Science-Policy Expert Group, is senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, and is a member of the Governing Council of the Science and Democracy Network, Harvard University.• Steven Bernstein is a professor in the Department of Political Science and codirector of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, both at the University of Toronto. His publications include Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era (co-edited; UBC Press, 2009), Global Liberalism and Political Order: Toward a New Grand Compromise? (co-edited; SUNY Press, 2007), and The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism (Columbia University Press, 2001), as well as many articles in refereed academic journals. His current major collaborative research projects include “Transformative Policy Pathways Towards Decarbonization” and “Coherence and Incoherence in Global Sustainable Development Governance.”• Cyril Cassisa has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University since 2012. He has conducted research with French and Chinese institutions since 2006. He has participated in biannual high-level Sino-French expert meetings on climate change, and has also been part of the French expert delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations since COP19. His research focuses on carbon markets, renewable energy, and the Chinese position in the UNFCCC. He has contributed to recent publications including “Low-Carbon Energy in China’s Energy Security Strategy,” with B. Denjean, in China’s Energy Security: A Multidimensional Perspective (Routledge, 2016), and “Emission Trading in China: Progress and Prospects” (Energy Policy 75: 9–16, 2014).• Christian Downie is a lecturer and vice chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales, and also a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. He was previously a foreign policy advisor to the Australian government’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. His first book, The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations (Elgar), was published in 2014.• Todd A. Eisenstadt is a professor of government at American University. Author of an award-winning monograph on indigenous rights, Politics, Identity, and Mexico’s Indigenous Rights Movement (Cambridge, 2011), he has taught at the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty in Ecuador. His recent work has focused on constitutions, rights, and democracy and on environmental policies worldwide, and has been published by American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society, among others.• Alejandro Esguerra is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group “Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations” at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research focuses on environmental politics, especially the role of knowledge in international relations and transnational private governance. He is a co-editor, with Nicole Helmerich and Thomas Risse, of Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting the New Modes of Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).• Coraline Goron is a PhD candidate in politics in the Erasmus Mundus Globalisation, Europe & Multilateralism Program, under the joint supervision of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB; Belgium) and Warwick University (UK). She holds a master of laws degree in European, International, and Chinese Law from the China University of Political Science and Law, and has a master’s degree in European Studies from the Institute for European Studies at ULB. Her publications include “China-EU Relations: Low Carbon Objectives and the Management of Bilateral Trade Relations,” in China-EU Green Cooperation (World Scientific, 2014), and “The EU Aviation ETS Caught Between Kyoto and Chicago: Unilateral Norm Entrepreneurship in the Multilateral Governance System” (GEM-GREEN Doctoral Working Paper Series, Brussels, November 2012).• Matthew Hoffmann is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is also co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He has written the books Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response After Kyoto (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ozone Depletion and Climate Change: Constructing a Global Response (SUNY Press, 2005). He is also a co-author of the collaborative book Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His current collaborative research project explores the development of political pathways to decarbonization.• Yoomi Kim is a research fellow at Seoul National University Asia Center, South Korea. Her research interests lie in environmental governance and sustainable development, especially in the quantitative analysis of international environmental treaties and various environmental issues, mainly in Asia. She recently wrote “The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regime: The Case of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution,” for the Papers on Environmental Information Science series. She is also an affiliated professor at the Jimmy Carter School of International Studies, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, and a visiting fellow at the Center for Risk Research, Shiga University, Japan.• Timo Koivurova is a research professor and the director of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.• Rolf Lidskog is a professor of sociology in the Environmental Sociology Section at Örebro University. His research interests include environmental policy and politics at the national and international levels, especially the role of expertise in environmental governance. He co-authored Transboundary Risk Governance (Earthscan, 2010) and co-edited Governing the Air: The Dynamics of Science, Policy, and Citizen Interaction (MIT Press, 2011).• Shunji Matsuoka is a professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, and the director of Waseda Resilience Research Institute at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, and earned his PhD in environmental management from the Graduate School of Biosphere Sciences, Hiroshima University. His specialties are environmental economics and policy. His major publications include Social Evaluation of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (in Japanese; Waseda University Press, 2013), Environmental Governance in Asia (in Japanese; Keiso Shobo, 2013), and Effective Environmental Management in Developing Countries: Assessing Social Capacity Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).• Katsuya Tanaka is an associate professor at the Research Center for Sustainability and Environment at Shiga University in Japan. His primary research interest is the quantitative analysis of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, mainly in Asia. He is particularly interested in cost-effective design of conservation policies in agriculture and forestry. His article “Effects of Nuclear Power Plant Shutdowns on Electricity Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions After the Tohoku Earthquake” recently appeared in Energy Economics.• Hamish van der Ven is an SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto (2015). His research has appeared in Regulation & Governance, Business and Politics, and Business Ethics Journal Review. He is currently working on a monograph about credibility in transnational eco-labeling.• Karleen Jones West is an assistant professor of political science at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Her work, which focuses on the politics of marginalized groups in Latin America, has been published by Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Party Politics, among others.

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