Christophe Bonazzi Author

American Penny Allen is a writer and environmental consultant living in Paris. She has worked on environmental issues in the United States and Europe since 1987, and organised the international conferences ECO 1997, ECO 1999 and ECO 2001. Earlier, Allen worked as a public welfare worker, a university instructor, a community organiser in local land-use planning, a feature film-maker, and, in 2001, she published a non-fiction book, A Geography of Saints (Boston, MA: Zoland Books). Christophe Bonazzi is a Frenchman with a doctorate in industrial economics from the Paris Ecole des Mines. He was Secretary General of the Ecobilan Group from 1992 to 1996 and since then has headed a small, innovative electronics firm. He co-organised the ECO conferences and is active in local politics in the French Green Party. Englishman David Gee has worked for over two decades on occupational and environmental risk reduction with UK Trade Unions, with the Environmental Group and Friends of the Earth, where he was Director. Since 1995, he has worked for the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, where he is responsible for emerging issues and scientific liaison. He is now working on the European Environment Agency report, The Precautionary Principle: Late Lessons from Early Warnings, 1896-2000.