PETER G. BROWN, PHD, professor, School of Environment and the Departments of Geography and Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University. Peter Brown’s career has concentrated on the practical uses of philosophy to think critically about the goals of society. Since the 1980s, this work has centered on the deterioration of Earth’s life-support capacity and the thought systems that facilitate and legitimate this decline. He is the author of Restoring the Public Trust: A Fresh Vision for Progressive Government in America and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth. He is also a coauthor of a book on macroeconomics and global governance entitled Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy; and coedited Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals. He is currently the principal investigator for Economics for the Anthropocene: Re-Grounding the Human/Earth Relationship, a partnership among McGill, the University of Vermont, and York University in Toronto. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and the Club of Rome.
PHILIP DUGUAY works as a public-affairs adviser to the government of Québec in Boston, Massachusetts, focusing mostly on energy, environmental, and transportation policy issues in the six New England states. He holds a BCL-LLB from the McGill University Faculty of Law and a BA with honors from Dalhousie University.
JON D. ERICKSON, PHD, professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, and fellow, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics University of Vermont (UVM). Jon Erickson has published widely on ecological economics, climate-change policy, renewable-energy economics, and environmental management; led international research and education programs as a Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania and visiting professor in the Dominican Republic, Iceland, and Slovakia; produced Emmy award–winning documentary films on water-, energy-, and food-system transitions; and founded and led numerous nonprofit organizations, including the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, Adirondack Research Consortium, Deportes para la Vida, and Bright Blue EcoMedia. He currently leads UVM’s participation in the Economics for the Anthropocene research and doctoral training partnership with McGill and York Universities.
JAMES W. FYLES, PHD, professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University. Jim Fyles is an ecosystem ecologist with broad interest and expertise in the ecology of forests, agro-ecosystems, and devastated lands. Raised in Victoria, British Columbia, he obtained his BSc and MSc in ecology from the University of Victoria, and his PhD jointly in soil science and botany at the University of Alberta in 1986. He holds the Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology at McGill. He has been the chair of the department since 2011. He is the director of the Molson Nature Reserve and the Morgan Arboretum, peri-urban conservation and research areas near the Macdonald Campus. Between 2004 and 2010, he was the scientific director of the Sustainable Forest Management Network Centre of Excellence (SFM-NCE), a national research network involving partners from industry, governments, aboriginal groups, and nongovernmental organizations. Dr. Fyles’ research interests focus on the interrelationships among human activity, organisms, soil disturbance, and climate that structure patterns of ecosystem function across multiple scales. Through his multidisciplinary work on food security and with the SFM-NCE, he has become increasingly interested in complex social-ecological systems and the relationships among scientific knowledge, policy, and management of natural landscapes. Dr. Fyles has published more than eighty articles in scientific journals and coauthored many knowledge-exchange documents. He has received the Macdonald College Award for Teaching Excellence.
GEOFFREY GARVER, PHD candidate, Department of Geography, McGill University. Geoff Garver is a doctoral candidate in geography at McGill University and project coordinator of the Economics for the Anthropocene partnership, a research, teaching, and outreach project among McGill University, York University, and the University of Vermont along with twenty-two other academic, civil-society, and governmental organizations. His degrees include a BS (chemical engineering) from Cornell University (1982), a JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School (1987), and an LLM from McGill University (2011). His PhD dissertation will build on his LLM thesis, “The Rule of Ecological Law: A Transformative Legal and Institutional Framework for the Human–Earth Relationship.” Previously, he worked for twenty years in public service, most recently from 2000–2007 as director of submissions on enforcement matters at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and earlier for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. District Court Judge Conrad Cyr. Mr. Garver is coauthor of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy (2009), as well as several published articles and book chapters. From 2010 to 2013, he was a member of the Joint Public Advisory Committee of North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
MARK S. GOLDBERG, PHD, professor, McGill University, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)–Research Institute. Dr. Mark Goldberg holds a PhD from McGill University (1991) in epidemiology and biostatistics. He is full professor in the Department of Medicine, McGill University; a member of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, MUHC; and an associate member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the McGill School of Environment, and the Department of Oncology. From 2009 until 2013, he was co–editor in chief of the scholarly journal Environmental Research. His main interests in research have been in occupational and environmental epidemiology, focusing especially on environmental and occupational causes of cancer as well as the short- and long-term effects of air pollution on health. His research bridges clinical and environmental epidemiology and he has published more than 135 papers in peer-reviewed journals, covering myriad topics, including the health effects arising from exposures to ambient biogas produced in municipal solid-waste sites, environmental and occupational causes of disease, and occupational and environmental investigations of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer. Notable among these are his recent findings that chronic exposure to ambient air pollution may cause breast cancer and prostate cancer. He was a member of Health Canada’s Science Advisory Board and he has sat on a number of expert committees of the U.S. National Academies.
JANICE E. HARVEY, MPhil in policy studies, IDST PhD candidate (ABD), University of New Brunswick, Lecturer, St. Thomas University. Janice Harvey is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD program at the University of New Brunswick and lecturer in the Environment and Society Programme at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. She has worked for three decades as a policy analyst and advocate in the Canadian environmental movement, primarily through her work with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. She participated in several international nongovernmental organization (NGO) preparatory conferences for the 1992 Earth Summit and in solidarity exchange projects with NGOs in Latin America. She has held directorships and positions on several NGO and federal-government boards, steering committees, and advisory committees and served on the Premier’s Round Table on Environment and Economy from 1992 to 2002. From 1995 to 2011, she wrote a weekly public-affairs column for the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, a provincial daily paper, under the banner “A Civil Society.” For several years, she was also a member of New Brunswick CBC Radio’s weekly political panel and, for two elections, CBC’s election-night political panel. In 2010, she received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship to examine in more depth how the dominant economic discourse, as well as the cultural context of consumerism, has resulted in a postecologist discourse of “sustaining the unsustainable.”
TIM JACKSON, PHD, is professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey. He currently holds a professorial fellowship on Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Tim has been at the forefront of international debates about sustainable development for over two decades and has worked closely with the UK government, the United Nations, and numerous private companies and NGOs to bring social-science research into our understanding of sustainability. His research interests focus on the economic and social dimensions of the relationship between sustainability and prosperity. Between 2004 and 2011, Tim was economics commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission, where his work culminated in the publication of his controversial and groundbreaking book Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Routledge 2009), which was subsequently translated into sixteen languages. Since 2010, Tim has been engaged in an ambitious collaborative project to build a new ecological macroeconomics. He and Peter Victor (York University, Canada) are developing the conceptual and empirical basis for an economy in which stability no longer depends on relentless consumption growth, and they are illustrating these possibilities with system-dynamic models of the national economy. In addition to his academic work, Tim is an award-winning playwright with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.
RICHARD JANDA, PHD, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University and an associate member of the McGill School of Environment. He has taught environmental law and sustainable development and is currently leading the McGill Social Score Project, which is seeking to produce a signaling mechanism distinct from the price signal, relating to us in real time the environmental and social impacts of our choices.
BRUCE JENNINGS, MA, is director of bioethics at the Center for Humans and Nature, Dobbs Ferry, New York, a research institute that studies ethical and policy questions in conservation, ecological economics and politics, and environmental ethics. He is the editor of the center’s electronic journal, Minding Nature. He holds faculty appointments at Yale University and Vanderbilt University. He also is senior advisor and an elected fellow at the Hastings Center, where he served as executive director from 1991–1999. He is editor in chief of Bioethics, 4th ed. (formerly the Encyclopedia of Bioethics), a six-volume reference work in the field of bioethics published in 2014. A political scientist by training, he has written and edited numerous books and articles on ethical issues in public policy, particularly in the areas of health and environmental policy. Among his recent books are Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice and The Perversion of Autonomy: Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society.
RICHARD LEHUN, DCL, is an attorney and teaching fellow at McGill University in the areas of philosophy of law and justice theory. Richard Lehun studied under Jürgen Habermas at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship and completed his Magister Artium on nonconceptual truth claims in T. W. Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory. After completing his Magister Artium, Lehun pursued graduate studies in Canada, first completing a BCL/LLB and then the DCL program at McGill University. Lehun’s current research is focused on the concept of the fiduciary as applied to social transformation.
QI FENG LIN is a doctoral candidate in environmental ethics at McGill University. His research interests lie in Aldo Leopold, Daoism, and alternative worldviews and economic systems. The working title of his doctoral dissertation is “Rethinking the Concept of the Self in U.S. Forestry.” He majored in statistics as an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore and graduated with a master’s degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
NANCY E. MAYO, PHD, is a professor in the Department of Medicine and in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University. At McGill, Dr. Mayo leads a Health Outcomes Research Unit. She also heads the Health Outcomes Axis and the McGill University Health Center Research Institute. Trained originally as a physical therapist, Dr. Mayo holds a PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics. Her research focus has been in measuring the health of populations and contributing evidence toward ways of improving health outcomes of vulnerable populations. She has a long-term interest in models of health and in understanding drivers of health and health change over time. She has published more than 200 research papers and presented her work around the world. Dr. Mayo is also a committed educator, teaching core research-methods courses, and she has supervised more than eighty MSc and PhD students in rehabilitation science and epidemiology.
PETER TIMMERMAN, MA, associate professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Peter Timmerman has been working on environmental issues for many years, beginning with emergency and risk research, early work on climate change, coastal zone management, and nuclear waste management. He has been the coordinator for the joint Faculty of Environmental Studies/Schulich Business and the Environment graduate diploma for a number of years. He now works on environmental philosophy and ethics, including religion and ecology, with a special research focus on Buddhism and ecology in South and Southeast Asia. In the area of ecological economics, he is currently working on the rise of the metaphors of progress, growth, and development in the eighteenth century.
PETER A. VICTOR, PHD, is a professor in the York University Faculty of Environmental Studies. Dr. Victor is an economist who has worked on environmental issues for more than forty years as an academic, consultant, and public servant. By extending input-output models to include material flows to and from the environment, in the 1960s, Dr. Victor provided ecological economics with a practical, quantitative method for linking the economy to the environment. His more recent work on alternatives to economic growth was recognized by the award of the Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts (2011) and the Boulding Memorial Prize (2014) from the International Society for Ecological Economics.