| About EnvironmentAbout EnvironmentNow in its 50th year of publication, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development analyzes the problems, places, and people where environment and development come together, illuminating concerns from the local to the global. More readable than specialized journals and more timely than textbooks, Environment offers peer-reviewed articles and commentaries from researchers and practitioners who provide a broad range of international perspectives. This ISI-rated magazine also features in-depth reviews of major policy reports, conferences, and environmental education initiatives, as well as guides to the best Web sites, journal articles, and books.
Susan L. Cutter Ruth S. DeFries
Advertising Sales Representative Production Editor Executive Editor BiosSusan L. Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography the director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at University of South Carolina. Her primary research interests are in the area of vulnerability science—what makes people and the places where they live vulnerable to extreme events and how this vulnerability is measured, monitored, and assessed. Most recently, she has led a Hurricane Katrina post-event field team to examine the geographic extent of storm surge inundation along the Mississippi and Alabama coastline and its relationship to the social vulnerability of communities. Ruth S. DeFries is a professor in the Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Department at Columbia University. Her research investigates the relationships between human activities, the land surface, and the biophysical and biogeochemical processes that regulate the Earth's habitability. She is interested in observing land cover and land use change at regional and global scales with remotely sensed data and exploring the implications for ecological services such as climate regulation, the carbon cycle, and biodiversity. Anthony A. Leiserowitz is director of the Yale Project on Climate Change, director of Strategic Initiatives, and a research scientist at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He is also a principal investigator at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University. His research focuses on American and international public perceptions of climate change risks, support and opposition for climate policies, and willingness to make individual behavioral change, including the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive environmental perception and behavior. His work in the Arctic investigates social vulnerability to sea level rise and coastal erosion. He also recently conducted the first empirical assessment of worldwide public values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding sustainable development. Alan H. McGowan is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Science Program at Eugene Lang College, The New School. He is interested in the social impact of science and technology, including environmental, environmental justice, and racial issues. Before retiring in July 2005, Timothy O’Riordan was a professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He has promoted the cause of interdisciplinary research for sustainable development and led two international research projects on the transition to sustainability in the European Union (1995–1999). Editor of a number of books on the institutional aspects of global environmental change policy and practice, his current research interests are focused on global-local relations and their implications for the transition to sustainability in Europe. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1999 and continues to be an active member of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. | |
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