Global Change: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Note: Professional titles date from 1994, when this book was published in print.
Daniel M. Bodansky is Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Law and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Marine Affairs at the University of Washington at Seattle. He is author of "The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Commentary," forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International Law; and "Protecting the Marine Environment from Vessel Source Pollution: UNCLOS III and Beyond," Ecology Law Quarterly No. 18 (1991). He attended the meetings of the INC/FCCC on a 1991 - 1992 International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ingrid C. Burke is Professor of Forest Sciences and a Research Associate at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. Among her many contributions to scientific publications, she is coauthor of "Regional Modeling of Grassland Biogeochemistry Using GIS," Landscape Ecology 4 (1990) and "The Effect of Small-Scale Heterogeneity on Nutrient Cycling and Availability in Shortgrass Steppe," Plant and Soil 138 (1991).
David D. Caron is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at the University of California's School of Law. He is author of "Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer and the Structure of International Environmental Law-Making" in Hastings International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol. 14 (1991) and The Legitimacy of the Collective Authority of the Security Council (1993).
F. Stuart Chapin III is Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as chair of the Global Change Working Group on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Academy of Sciences, and is coeditor of Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate (San Diego: Academic Press, 1992) and coauthor of Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Effects on Ecosystem Process (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, in press).
Joan Donoghue spent the 1992 - 1993 academic year as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, taking a leave of absence from her position at the Office of Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State. In her capacity at the State Department as Assistant Legal Adviser for Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs, she was deeply involved in the conclusion of the global climate change agreement and preparation for the UNCED meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the summer of 1992.
Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies at the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University. He is author of the well-known book The Population Bomb (Ballantine Books, 1968), and coauthor, with Anne H. Ehrlich, of The Population Explosion (Simon and Schuster, 1990) and Healing the Planet (Addison-Wesley, 1991).
Christopher Field is Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University, and an Associate Professor at Stanford. His recent publications include, as coeditor, Scaling Physiological Processes: Leaf to Globe, San Diego: Academic Press, 1993; and as coauthor, "Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems to the Changing Atmosphere: A Resource-Based Approach" in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Vol. 23 (1992).
Mary Firestone is Professor of Soil Microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the physiological ecology of bacteria and fungi in soil and the impact of microbial processes on system function.
Lawrence H. Goulder is Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University's Department of Economics, where he teaches environmental economics and public finance, among other classes. His recent papers include "Effects of Carbon Taxes in an Economy with Prior Tax Distortions," Working Paper No. 4061 (October 1991) of the National Bureau of Economics Research, and he is coauthor of "Population Growth, Economic Growth, and Market Economies" in the Fall 1992 issue of Contention.
John Harte is Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow. Among his publications are Consider a Spherical Cow: A Course in Environmental Problem Solving (Mill Valley: University Science Books, 1988) and, with M. Torn and D. Jensen, "The Nature and Consequences of Indirect Linkages between Climate Change and Biological Diversity" in Global Warming and Biodiversity, ed. R. Peters and T. Lovejoy (Yale University Press, 1992).
Thomas Homer-Dixon is Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Recent publications include "On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict," International Security, Fall, 1991; and with Jeffrey Boutwell and George Rathjens, "Environmental Change and Violent Conflict" in Scientific American, February, 1993.
Lee A. Kimball's publications include Forging International Agreement: Strengthening Inter-Governmental Institutions for Environment and Development, published by the World Resources Institute (April, 1992); and "Toward Global Environmental Management: The Institutional Setting" in the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Volume III (Graham & Trotman, Ltd., 1993). He works in Washington, DC, as a consultant on international law and institutions.
John A. McGowan is Professor of Oceanography at the Marine Life Research Group, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. His publications on this topic include "Climate and Change in Oceanic Ecosystems: The Value of Time-Series Data," in Trends in Ecology and Evolution No. 5 (September, 1990).
Rosamond Naylor is Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where she is coordinator of the interdisciplinary environmental studies program. She was named a McNamara Fellow by the World Bank in 1990 for her work on rural employment and the role of women in agriculture in Indonesia, and her most recent article is "Culture and Agriculture: Employment Practices Affecting Women in Java's Rice Economy," forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Jeff Romm is Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and Chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1980 after serving ten years on the program staff of the Ford Foundation in South and Southeast Asia. His publications include Thermal Pollution (1969), Ecology and Resource Development in Southeast Asia (1973), Urbanization in Thailand (1973), and The Uncultivated Half of India (1981).
Jorge L. Sarmiento is Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program of Princeton University. Professor Sarmiento has participated in the scientific planning and execution of most of the large-scale, multi-institutional and international oceanographic biogeochemical and tracer programs of the last two decades. His most recent of many published articles is "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Ocean," coauthored by U. Siegenthaler, upcoming in Nature.
Joseph L. Sax is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, University of California School of Law. Professor Sax has won numerous awards for his work on environmental legal issues, and has served as a consultant or board member of nineteen different environmental public service organizations. His major books include Mountains without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks (University of Michigan Press: 1980).
William H. Schlesinger is Professor of Botany and Professor of Geology at Duke University. In 1992 he testified at the hearings on global climate change held by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space as a guest of then-Senator Al Gore; and his most recent book is Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (San Diego: Academic Press, 1991).
Raoul Stewardson was the 1992 - 1993 Olin Research Fellow and an Assistant Specialist at the School of Law at UC Berkeley. His research on environmental law includes "Elephants to Mice: A Case Study of Small-Source Control at EBMUD Wastewater Department," forthcoming in Ecology Law Quarterly. He is now a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of European Law in Brussels, Belgium.
B. L. Turner II is Director and Professor of Geography at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University. His recent publications include "Human Population Growth and Global Land-Use/Cover Change" in Annual Review of Ecological Systems No. 23 (1992), coauthored by William B. Meyer; and "Thoughts on Linking the Physical and Human Sciences in the Study of Global Environmental Change" in Research and Exploration (Spring, 1991).
Lisa E. Wells is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley. Her publications include "Holocene History of the El Niño Phenomenon as Recorded in Flood Sediments of Northern Coastal Peru" in Geology, 1990; and "Thermally Anomalous Holocene Molluscan Assemblages from Coastal Peru: Evidence for Paleogeographic, Not Climatic Change," in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 81 (1990).
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