Contributors

 

Margarita Alario is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. She is the author of several journals and the book, Environmental Destruction, Risk Exposure and Social Asymmetry (University Press of America, 1995). Her research on environmental policy is primarily concerned with the analytic deliberative process, issues of equity, the function of regulatory science in policy making, and the outcomes of policy implementation in cases, such as ecosystem restoration and management.

Steven Best is associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at University of Texas, El Paso. He is the author of The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, and Habermas, Guilford Press, 1995 and co-author (with Douglas Kellner) of the books Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, MacMillan Press and Guilford Press, 1991, and The Postmodern Turn: Paradigms Shifts in Art, Theory, and Science, Guilford Press, 1997 . His forthcoming books are: Philosopher of Freedom: The Work of Murray Bookchin, Guilford Press, (forthcoming 2000) and The Postmodern Crossroads, Guilford Press, (forthcoming 2000).

Tim Boston is a Murina Teacher in the Riawunna Centre for Aboriginal Education and a PhD candidate in the Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published in The Trumpeter, Alternatives Journal, Environmental Politics, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Electronic Green Journal, Local Environment and Environmental Ethics. In addition to having worked with a variety of grassroots/direct action organisations, he currently serves as Senior Policy Adviser to the Leader of the Green Party of Canada.

Regina Cochrane is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto where she is working on a project entitled ‘Anarchisms, Postmodernism, and Green Political Theory’. Before completing her doctoral studies, she taught for nine years at the high school, adult, and junior college levels in Canada, Ghana, and China. She has been actively involved in the feminist, peace, environmental, and Third World solidarity movements.

Takis Fotopoulos is  a writer and the editor of  Democracy and Nature; he is also a columnist for the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia. He was previously (1969-1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of North London. He is the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy--The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (London & New York: Cassell, 1997) which was also published in Italian (Per una Democrazia Globale, Milano: Eleuthera, 1999) and Greek (Periektiki Dimokratia, Athens: Kastaniotis, 1999). He is also the author of the following books (in Greek): Dependent Development: The Case of Greece;  The Gulf War: The First Battle in the North-South Conflict; The Neo-Liberal Consensus and the Crisis of the Growth Economy; The New World Order and Greece; Drugs: beyond the demonology of penalisation and the ‘progressive’ mythology of liberalisation; The New Order in the Balkans; Religion, Autonomy and Democracy; From the Athenian Democracy to Inclusive Democracy. Several of his works have been translated in French, German, Dutch and Norwegian.

Ted Trainer is a lecturer in the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales.  His main interests have been global problems, sustainability issues, radical critiques of the economy, alternative social forms and the transition to them.  He has written numerous books and articles on these topics, including ,The Conserver Society; Alternatives for Sustainability, London, Zed, 1995, Saving the Environment; What It Will Take, Sydney, University of N.S.W Press, 1998, and What Is To Be Done -- Now?, (In press).  He is also developing Pigface Point, an alternative lifestyle educational site near Sydney.