Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Responsibility

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Brent S. Steel

Brent S. Steel is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master of Public Policy Program at Oregon State University. He is editor of Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups and Values(1997) ,coeditor of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (1999), coauthor of Environmental Politics and Policy: A Comparative Perspective(2003), and coeditor of Oregon Politics and Government: Progressive versus Conservative Populism(2005). His current National Science Foundation funded research concerns the role of science and scientists in the environmental policy process.

Debra J. Davidson

Debra J. Davidson is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta and Director of the Environmental Research and Studies Centre. Her primary research areas include the social dimensions of global environmental change and natural resource politics. She has published recently in Sociological Inquiry, Current Sociology, and the Canadian Review of Sociology,and she is coeditor of Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change(2005).

Berton Lee Lamb

Berton Lee Lamb is currently Branch Chief, Policy Analysis and Science Assistance, Fort Collins Science Center in the United States Geological Survey. He earned a PhD in political science at Washington State University in 1976 and a master’s degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University in 1970. Dr. Lamb’s research interests are in the fields of environmental conflict resolution, water-resources policy, and institutional analysis. His articles have appeared in Public Administration Review, BioScience, River Research and Applications, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Public Works Management and Policy, Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, International Journal of Public Administration, and Environmental Practice. Dr. Lamb edited a special symposium on “Institutional Analysis in Environmental Decisionmaking” that appeared in the International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior(2007; 2008).