Stuart Sim, The End of Modernity: What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us

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Ian Gough

Ian Gough is professorial fellow at the London School of Economics where he is researching the interface between climate change and social policy. He has previously written on the political economy of welfare states, on human needs and well-being, and on welfare regimes in developing countries.

Kyla Tienhaara

Kyla Tienhaara is Codirector of the Climate and Environ-mental Governance Network and a Research Fellow in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. Her main interest is the intersection between economic law and policy and environmental regulation. She is currently undertaking research that examines ―green Keynesian‖ responses to the global financial crisis. She is the author of The Expropriation of Environmental Govern-ance: Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Pub-lic Policy(Cambridge University Press, 2009).

John D. Peine

John Peine is a social scientist retired from the United States Geological Survey at the end of 2010. He worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior for over 37 years, serving eight administrations and is currently adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment. From 1982 to 1992, he served as Chief Scientist at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He is the editor of and contributor to the 1999 book Ecosystem Management for Sustainability: Principles and Practices Illustrated by a Regional Biosphere Reserve Cooperative. More recently, he has contributed to the books A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion(2005) and Conservation of Rare and Little Known Species: Biological, Social, and Economic Considerations(2007) and coauthored an article on ecosystem management in Volume 3 of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Laws and Politics. A member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas–Mountain Group, his current research focuses on leadership in ecosystem management, documenting best environmental sustainability practices, and environmental inventory and monitoring in the Appalachian highlands. John is a member of the SSPP editorial board.

Stuart Sim

Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory in the English Department, University of Sunderland and cur-rently Visiting Professor in Critical Theory in the English Department, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. His main research interest is in postmodern thought, and he has specialized in recent years in the application of critical theory to public affairs.