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Mikael Skou Andersen (PhD, Pol.Sci.) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Governance by green taxes (1994) and co-editor of European Environmental Policy: The Pioneers (1997) as well as The innovation of EU environmental policy (1997). He is also involved in a current research project within comparative environmental policies concerning ecological modernisation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Anders Bro (Lic, Pol.Sci.) is Research Fellow in Novemus, the School of Public Affairs at the University of rebro, Sweden. He is specialised in local environmental politics and cooperation between researchers and practitioners. Among his publications are his licentiate dissertation Kommunala angeldgenheter? Debatten om halsovardens och miljdskyddets kommunalisering (1998), and The Robust or Adaptable City: Sustainability from an Empirical, Theoretical and Normative-Constructive Perspective (with C. Pettersson) (1997).
Carsten Daugbjerg (PhD, Pol.Sci.) is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus Univarsity, Denmark. His main research interests concern policy network theory, comparative environmental policy and agricultural policy. In environmental research, he has particularly focused on the choice and design of environmental policies. He is the author of Policy Networks under Pressure: Pollution Control, Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers (1998). His articles have also been published in Scandinavian and international journals such as Governance, Scandinavian Political Studies and Public Administration.
Ann-Sofie Hermanson (MA Pol.Sci.) is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, at bo Akademi University, Finland. Her publications on environmental politics and policy include The Debate on Establishing the Ministry of the Environment in Finland in the Light of Environmental Ideologies (Environmental Politics, 1993), and The State of the Environment in West Europe (with D. Jahn), in Governmental Response to Environmental Challenges in Global Perspective (Jabbra and Dwivedi (eds), 1998).
Detlef Jahn is Research Professor in the Department of Economics and Politics, at The Nottingham Trait University, UK. His main research interests lie in comparative environmental politics, Scandinavian and German Studies, and election campaigns. He has published articles on European Politics in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics and Policy Sciences. He is also the author of New Politics and Trade Unions (1993). In spring 1999 he will be Guest Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Marko Joas (Lic, Pol.Sci) is Research Fellow in the Department of Public Administration, at bo Akademi University, Finland. He is now preparing his PhD thesis on local environmental policies in Finland. He has published articles on Finnish environmental policy and Local Agenda 21, e.g. Finland (with A-S. Hermanson) in Governing the Environment Politics, Policy and Organization in the Nordic Countries (Christiansen (ed), 1996), and Finland: from local to global politics in European environmental policy: the pioneers (Andersen and Liefferink (eds), 1997).
Pekka Jokinen (PhD, Sociology) is a Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland at the University of Turku, Finland. He has specialised in environmental sociology, and the study of environmental policy and politics, especially agri-environmental politics. Recent articles include The Development of Agricultural Pollution Control in Finland (Sociologia Ruralis, 1995), Agricultural Policy Community and the Challenge of Greening: The Case of Finnish Agri-Environmental Policy (Environmental Politics, 1997), Unity in Environmental Discourse? The Role of Decision-makers, Expats and Citizens in Developing Finnish Environmental Policy (with Keiio Koskinen, in Policy & Politics, 1998).
Jan Erling Klausen (MA Pol.Sci.), has been Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research since graduating from the Institute of Political Science at the University of Oslo in 1994. He is currently working on his PhD thesis on sub-municipal government in Oslo, and was a visiting scholar at SCANCOR/Stanford University in California for nine months in 1997-98. He has coedited and co-written an anthology on Norwegian NGOs involved in environmental politics: Miljpolitikk Organisasjonene, Stortinget og forvaltningen (1997). Klausen is currently involved in local government research.
Lennart J. Lundqvist is Professor of Environmental Policy and Administration in the Department of Political Science, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Apart from numerous articles, he is the author of Miljvrdsfrvaltning och politisk struktur (1971), The Hare and the Tortoise: Clean Air Politics in the United States and Sweden (1980), Housing Policy and Equality: A Comparative Study of Tenure Conversions and their Effects (1986), and Dislodging the Welfare State: Housing and Privatization in Four European Nations (1992). He is presently engaged in the Swedish Strategic Water Management Research Programme Towards Catchment-based Strategies for Sustainable Resource Use.
Aard Mulders (MA Pol.Sci.) is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include organisational theory and environmental policy. He is currently preparing his PhD thesis and focusing on Formal Structure, Policy Management Approaches and Views of Nature in Finnish and Swedish Environmental Administrations, within the framework of the Nordic project Management Cultures in Nordic Environmental Bureaucracies.
