ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Arun Agrawal teaches environmental politics in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. His research focuses on how power works in communities and in their efforts to govern, on adaptation and climate change, and on poverty and rural social life. Simon Anderson heads the Climate Change Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development. That group works mainly on adaptation and poverty issues in the context of the most vulnerable countries and arid lands. Anderson comes from an agroecosystems background and is now developing an action-research portfolio on climate adaptation planning, equity, and effectiveness—looking particularly at the interface of endogenous and planned adaptation. Halvard Buhaug is a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and he leads the Center’s Working Group on Environmental Factors in Civil War. His research interests include the security implications of climate change and geographic aspects of armed conflict. Justina Demetriades is a researcher at BRIDGE, a gender and development program at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. An experienced gender specialist, she is the manager of BRIDGE’s Cutting Edge Program on Gender and Climate Change, and has written several articles on the topic. Emily Esplen is a researcher at BRIDGE, a gender and development program at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She has worked extensively on gender equality issues, including in its relation to climate change. She has a master’s degree in the social anthropology of development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge.