Elisabeth Corell Editor

Angela Churie Kallhauge works on climate change issues at the Swedish Energy Agency. Until recently she was a researcher at the Division of Urban Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm where she focused on decision-making processes and planning. She has over a decade's experience as an observer in international environmental negotiations, in particular the climate change and desertification processes and in working with issues relating primarily to capacity development and environmental policy in Africa. She has published several articles on aspects relating to capacity development, climate change policy in Africa and has participated in a number of capacity development initiatives focused specifically on improving the negotiation capacities in the South. She holds a Licentiate degree in Regional Planning and an MSc in Environmental Engineering. Gunnar Sjöstedt is a research fellow at Swedish Institute of International Affairs and an associate professor at the University of Stockholm since 1977. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Program of International Negotiation (PIN) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and member of the Advisory Board for Negotiation Journal. A principal area of research has in recent years been negotiations about issues related to the international economy and environment, publications relating to which include: International Environmental Negotiations (co-editor with B. Spector and W. Zartman; Sage, 1993); Negotiating International Regimes: Lessons Learned from UNCED (co-editor with R. Löfstedt; Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, 1994); Environmental Aid Programmes to Eastern Europe (co-editor with V. Kremenyuk; Avebury Studies in Green Research, 1996); International Economic Negotiation: Models versus Reality (co-editor with J. Linneroth-Bayer and R.G. Löfstedt; Edgar Elgar, 2000); Transboundary Risk Management (editor; London: Earthscan Publications, 2001); and Professional Cultures in International Negotiation: Bridge or Rift? (editor; Lexington Books, 2003). Elisabeth Corell works as a Wallenberg Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm. She holds a doctoral degree in international relations from the University of Linköping in Sweden. Her research interests are in the field of international decision-making for sustainable development and centre on the role of experts and scientific advisors as well as actors who represent practical and experience-based knowledge.