Peter Dauvergne, The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment

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Foye Hatton

Foye Hatton is a Lecturer in Environmental Social Science at the University of East Anglia where he teaches modules on environment and society, sustainable consumption, and qualitative methods. His primary research is in the communication of climate change and barriers to sustainable consumption. His most recent research project explored how residents in a low-impact intentional community were rejecting consumer society’s value structure, rebuilding social capital, and redefining notions of the good life. Alongside lecturing and research, he campaigns on climatechange issues with the grassroots network Rising Tide UK.

Alina M. Szmant

Alina M. Szmant is Professor of Marine Biology in the Center for Marine Science at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is a coral-reef ecologist and coral physiologist whose current research focuses on the effects of climate change (ocean warming and ocean acidification) on the early life stages of Caribbean reef corals. Alina has also been collaborating with molecular geneticists to help develop genomics tools to study how elevated seawater temperatures disrupt embryonic development. Recent articles are being published in Global Change Biology, Coral Reefs, and Biological Bulletin. She is a member of the SSPP editorial board.

Peter Dauvergne

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics, and Director of the Liu Institute at the University of British Columbia. He has also served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts (2006-08) and Senior Advisor to the President (2008-09). In addition, he is the founding and past editor (2001-2008) of the journal Global Environmental Politics. His research focuses on the politics of global environmental change, including current projects on sustainable consumption and corporate social responsibility. The Shadows of Consumptionwon the Society of Human Ecology’s 2009 Gerald L. Young Award for the best book authored in 2008 in the field.