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Isidor Wallimann Editor Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy Toward Sustainability Policy Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy Isidor Wallimann Editor Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy Toward Sustainability Policy Editor Isidor Wallimann Blauensteinerstr, Basel Switzerland ISBN 978-1-4614-6722-9 ISBN 978-1-4614-6723-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6723-6 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013935500 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 This work is subject to copyright. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Author Bios Evisa Abolina is a Fulbright scholar from Latvia, pursuing a doctorate degree at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry pro- gram of Environmental and Natural Resources Management and Policy. Her research interests include sustainable forestry and agriculture land management (with a particular focus on abandoned and degraded agriculture lands) through the market incentives that promote environmentally sound renewable energy produc- tion and use of agroecosystem services and foster greater rural community involvement. Prior joining SUNY-ESF in Fall 2008, Evisa served as a senior offi cial on agri- culture issues at the Ministry of the Environment in Latvia (2001–2008). She has an extensive experience in work with the United Nations as a National Focal Point for the Convention to Combat Desertifi cation (UNCCD) and as a policy expert for UNDP offi ce in Latvia on land degradation issues. In Summer 2009, Evisa worked as an intern at the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat doing research and analysis on forest degradation with regard to the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD). Evisa holds B.S. and M.S. in Biology and a professional BA in International Economic Relations from the University of Latvia. Valerie Padilla Carroll is Instructor of Women’s Studies at Kansas State University. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Saint Louis University and publishes on community, ecofeminist ethics, and the intersections of popular culture and envi- ronmentalism. [email protected] Professor Gary J. Coates is the Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Faculty Chair in the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University. A frequent keynote speaker, lecturer, and workshop leader at professional and scholarly conferences in the United States and Europe, he is widely recognized as a leading voice in the movement to create sustainable buildings, cities, and bioregions based on climati- cally adapted and culturally situated architectures of place. He has published exten- sively in leading scholarly and professional journals. His fi ve books include v vi Author Bios Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and Community ; Erik Asmussen, architect; and The Architecture of Carl Nyrén. His contributions as an educator have been nationally recognized by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. [email protected] Matthias Drilling is a Professor and Head of the Institute for Social Planning and Urban Development at the Applied University of Social Work in Basel. Drilling studied Geography and Economics in Freiburg (Germany) and in Accra (Ghana) and was the Director of a human rights NGO in the Philippines. Recently, he fi n- ished a master’s in Spatial Planning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. His latest studies focused on social sustainability in urban devel- opment. He is engaged in the EU-COST program on the future of Allotment Gardens in European Cities. Contact: [email protected]. Lynn Duggan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Labor Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research deals mainly with comparative eco- nomic systems and comparative social policy/family policy. She has published in Comparative Economic Studies , Feminist Economics , and the National Women’s Studies Association Journal ; has authored several book chapters ; and is a coeditor of The Women, Gender, and Development Reader, published by Zed Press in 2011 . [email protected] Geoffrey Orme-Evans is the Environment and Climate Change Specialist at Humane Society International. He leads the efforts of HSI to address and mitigate the animal agriculture sector’s contribution to climate change. Orme-Evans fulfi lls this role through research and writing, publishing, policy planning, strategic plan- ning, and advocacy and outreach to policy makers, legislative staff, NGOs, and others. He also speaks at and represents HSI at related conferences, as well as pro- vides support to The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and its staff on climate change. Before joining HSI, he was an Associate at the San Francisco law fi rm Evans & Page, focusing on animal law. [email protected] Monika Jäggi is a Social Geographer and holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Starting out in Toronto as post- doctoral fellow at the Department of Geography at York University, she has lived and worked in Toronto since 1994. In Toronto she has been tending her own urban garden in the downtown area for many years. She was introduced to urban garden- ing by her former Italian landlords. Today, she is an independent environment and development consultant, living in Basel, Switzerland, and Toronto, Canada. She has recently become involved with urban agriculture in Basel, Switzerland, fi nding ways to get the city of Basel and the public interested in the topic of urban agricul- ture ( www.monikajaeggi.ch , [email protected] ). Rhonda R. Janke is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Horticulture, Forestry, and Recreation Resources at Kansas State University. Her master’s and Ph.D. are in Agronomy from Cornell University. Her research, teaching, and extension work encompass many aspects of sustainable and organic Author Bios vii agriculture including whole farm planning, organic production methods, and soil quality. Her most recent projects focus on local and urban food systems. rrjanke@ ksu.edu Kimberly Elizabeth Johnson has taught nutrition and hospitality management stu- dents in the College of Human Ecology at Syracuse University for over eight years. Professionally trained in the culinary arts at the Culinary Institute of America, she worked in restaurants and catering fi rms in New York City and Connecticut before pursuing and completing a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. She is a registered dietitian and spent several years working in healthcare facilities in a clinical and management capacity. Focusing on the micro-context of food, she earned an M.S. in Child and Family Studies, exploring mother child similarities in food preferences. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Social Science doctoral program at the Maxwell School and has research interests broadly concerning the social and political context of food and food preferences. In particular, the intersec- tion of food and health policy, politics and nutrition in food businesses, food and social movements, and ethics and food are areas of concentration. Community, stewardship of the earth, and sustainability are lifelong interests she pursues in any way in which she can include it in her life. Ross A. Klein is an international authority on the cruise industry. His research includes environmental practices of the cruise industry, as well as the economics of cruise tour- ism, onboard labor practices, cruise ship accidents and safety, crime onboard cruise ships, and problems around illness and health care. He has published four books and more than two dozen book chapters and articles on the subject. He has lectured around the world and often serves as an expert witness in court cases involving the cruise industry. He is online at w ww.cruisejunkie.com : [email protected]. Jeremy R. Levine is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on urban poli- tics and inequality in American cities. [email protected] Dr Lee Liu worked in the Chinese Academy of Sciences before receiving his Ph.D. in geography from Texas A&M University in 1991. He is currently Professor of geography in the School of Environmental, Physical, and Applied Sciences at University of Central Missouri. His research and teaching focus on issues of sus- tainability including population trends and policy; rural poverty; urban–rural inequality; environmental justice; sustainability science, practices, and policy; and sustainable places, with an area specialization in China. His research has been published in leading journals of geography and sustainability, including The Annals of the Association of American Geographers , E nvironment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development , Ecological Economics, and Sustainable Development . Email: [email protected]. viii Author Bios Valerie A. Luzadis is currently Professor of Ecological Economics and Policy at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her research focuses on the relationships among social, economic, and ecological systems. Luzadis’ current main emphasis is on systems approaches to social– ecological foundations for conservation and sustainability. She is a contributing edi- tor of a book on “Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States” which focuses on biomass energy, and she publishes regularly on issues of bioen- ergy sustainability and connections between ecosystems and social systems. She teaches ecological economics and policy, general economics, and seminars in cur- rent natural resource policy and economic issues. Luzadis consults regularly with groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society to advise and facilitate community-based conservation efforts. She received a Ph.D. in Forest Policy from SUNY-ESF and M.S. and B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University. Chetana Mirle , Ph.D., is the Director of HSI’s Farm Animals Department, which seeks to improve the welfare of farm animals worldwide through education and advocacy. In addition to overseeing campaigns against industrial farm animal pro- duction in India, Brazil, and Mexico, she works to educate key thought leaders in academia, international development institutions, and other civil society groups about the impacts of industrial farm animal production on animal welfare, human health, rural communities, and the environment. [email protected] Guy C. Robertson is the National Sustainability Program Lead with US Forest Service Research and Development in Washington D.C. He received his doctorate in Forest Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle. He also has degrees in international studies and philosophy. Guy’s current work is focused on the application of criteria and indicators for forest sustainability and the develop- ment of the data streams and reporting mechanisms needed to support it. Please direct correspondence to [email protected]. Stuart Shafer has been farming organically and sustainably for more than 30 years. He teaches Sociology and is Chair of the Sustainable Agriculture Program at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and grows vegeta- bles and fruit for the oldest cooperative CSA in the Midwest, Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance. [email protected] Isidor Wallimann is a Visiting Research Professor at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and holds an MA in Economics and Agriculture, and a Ph.D. in Sociology. He recently retired from his positions at the University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland and from the University of Freiburg in Switzerland. Among the numerous books he published in English and German are Estrangement: Marx’s Conception of Human Nature and the Division of Labor , Genocide and the Modern Age (translated into Korean), On the Edge of Scarcity (translated into German), and G lobalization and Third World Women . As a Visiting Professor, he has Author Bios ix been invited to universities in the United States, China, and Taiwan. Isidor Wallimann has lectured worldwide and served the Swiss National Science Foundation as an expert in social policy research programs. He is President of the Social Economy Network Cooperative Basel w ww.viavia.ch/netzbon and of the Urban Agriculture Network Association Basel, Switzerland, w ww.urbanagriculturebasel.ch . For web site and contact, go to h ttp://www.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty.aspx?id = 36507226572 &terms = isidor and [email protected].
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