Sunita Narain is currently the Director-General of the Centre for Science and Environment and the treasurer of the Society for Environmental Communications and editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
She is a writer and environmentalist, who uses knowledge for change. In 2005 she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government. She has also received the World Water Prize for work on rainwater harvesting and for its policy influence in building paradigms for community based water management. Narain began her work in the early 1980s, as a co-researcher with Anil Agarwal, an eminent and committed environmentalist who gave India its environmental concern and message. She has continued to research and write about how environment must become the basis of livelihood security of people in the country. She has also linked issues of local democracy with global democracy, arguing that every human being has an entitlement to the global atmospheric common. In 2012, she has authored the 7th State of India's Environment Reports, Excreta Matters, which presents a comprehensive analysis of urban India's water and pollution challenges. |
Darrel Moellendorf is Professor of International Political Theory and Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002), Global Inequality Matters (2009), and The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy (2014). He co-edited (with Christopher J. Roederer) Jurisprudence (2004), (with Gillian Brock) Current Debates in Global Justice (2005), (with Thomas Pogge) Global Justice: Seminal Essays (2008) and (with Heather Widdows) The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics (2014). He has published articles in journals such as Climatic Change, Ethics, Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy and Policy, Social Theory and Practice, The Monist, and various other journals. He has been a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and a Senior Fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Goethe Unviersität, Frankfurt and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for Humanities, the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst. And he has been the feature of interviews about justice and climate change for major German newspapers such as Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Tagezeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau. Before working at Goethe Universität he held positions at San Diego State University, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Cal Poly Pomona, and Riverside Community College.
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Simon Caney is a Professor in Political Theory at the University of Warwick. He works on issues in contemporary political philosophy. He works, in particular, on global equality, climate justice, ecological ethics, our obligations to future generations, democratic theory, and resisting global injustice. Simon is the author of Justice Beyond Borders (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is currently completing On Cosmopolitanism: Equality, Ecology and Resistance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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Clare Palmer
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