JUDY BROWN School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand BEAT BUERGENMEIER Centre of Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland TERRY COOK Energy and Environment Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK DAVID ELLIOT Energy and Environment Research Unit, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK FERENC FODOR EDF, Paris, France ANTHONY FRIEND Oikos, Ottawa, Canada IRINA GLAZYRINA Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Cryology, Chita, Russia and the Chita State University, Chita, Russia DMITRY KAVTARADZE Laboratory of Complex Systems Management Modelling, School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia ELENA LIKHACHEVA Laboratory of Complex Systems Management Modelling, School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia GALINA E. MEKUSH General and Regional Economics Department, Kemerovo University, Russia STANISLAV SHMELEV University of Oxford, UK, and Environment Europe IRINA SHMELEVA, School of International Relations, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia PETER SOEDERBAUM School of Sustainable Development of Science and Technology, Malardalen University, Sweden ARILD VATN Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway