Steve Hinchliffe is Reader in Environmental Geography and Director of Research at the Open University. He is author or editor of 6 books and has written numerous articles on issues ranging from risk and food, to biosecurity, urban ecologies and nature conservation. His research focuses on the ‘making of things in practices’, and draws together insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Geography. Steve has also held posts at Cambridge University and Keele University, and has worked as a researcher at the European Parliament. He has recently published a book entitled ‘Geographies of Nature’ (Sage, 2007).
Philip Kelly is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Geography at York University, Toronto. He is also Economic Domain Leader at the Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement in Toronto. His research has focused on labour issues in rural and urban contexts in Southeast Asia, as well as immigrant transnationalism and labour market integration in Canada. He is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters, which have appeared in journals such as Economic Geography, Environment & Planning A, Environment & Planning D, Geoforum, IJURR, Political Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. He is the author of Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000), and co-author of Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (with Neil Coe and Henry Yeung, Blackwell, 2007).
Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. He has writen numerous articles on the social history of geographical ideas and topographic cultures, focusing attentions on the not-too-distant past and the almost-present, considering the geographical dimensions of a series of themes: landscape, nature, fieldwork, science, memory, mobility and biography.
Cheryl McEwan is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham. She has written over thirty-five articles and book chapters on feminist and postcolonial approaches to cultural, political and development geographies, with a particular focus on South Africa. She has published in journals such as: Area, Environment & Planning A, Environment & Planning D, Geoforum, IJURR, Political Geography Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Journal of Southern African Studies. She is author of Gender, Geography and Empire (Ashgate, 2000), co-editor (with Alison Blunt) of Postcolonial Geographies (Continuum, 2002) and is writing a book on Postcolonialism and Development (Routledge, forthcoming). She is currently Editor (Development) of Geography Compass.
Keith Richards is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a fluvial geomorphologist with interests that include river channel forms and processes in a wide range of environments; hydrological processes and sediment production and transfer processes in drainage basins; and modelling fluvial and hydrological systems. He also has interests in river management, river and floodplain restoration, and inter-relationships between hydrological and ecological processes in floodplain environments. He has published more than 150 papers in these fields, and authored or edited 10 books. He has been on the Editorial Boards of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms and the International Journal of River Basin Management; has been variously past Secretary, Vice Chairman, and Chairman of the British Geomorphological Research Group, and Vice-President (Research) of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers; and Chairs the sub-Panel for Geography and Environmental Studies, in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Heather Viles is Reader in Geomorphology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on rock breakdown in extreme environments, biological contributions to geomorphology and applications of geomorphology to problems of the deterioration and conservation of building stone. She has published extensively on these topics, and also co-edited 'The Student's Companion to Geography' with Ali Rogers (Blackwell, Oxford, 2003). She was co-editor of 'Area' for 5 years and is currently joint editor in chief of the journal 'Catena'.
Andrew Wood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. His research interests are in three related areas: urban and regional governance; the politics of local economic development; and issues relating to competition and collaboration between firms. He has written over thirty-five articles and book chapters on these issues including recent publications in Economic Geography, Political Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, Area, Environment and Planning A and Urban Studies.
Allan James is Professor of Geography and Director of the Biogeomorphology Lab at the University of South Carolina, USA. He specializes in fluvial geomorphology, flood hydrology, and water resources with a focus on historical sedimentation; an area where these three fields come together. Legacy sediment from episodic production by mining, deforestation, agriculture, and other anthropogenic sources drive channel morphology, flood hazards, and non-point source pollution in many fluvial systems. He has authored or edited four books and more than 35 articles in journals including Water Resources Research, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, GSA Bulletin, Annals of the AAG, and Geomorphology. He has served as Secretary and Chair of the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Assn. Amer. Geographers and is presently on the editorial boards of Geomorphology and the Southeastern Geographer.
