Oran R. Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Institutional Dynamics- Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press) and other books. Leslie A. King is Vice President, Academic, and Provost at Vancouver Island University. Heike Schroeder is Tyndall Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University's Centre for the Environment. Oran R. Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Institutional Dynamics- Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press) and other books. Arild Underdal is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Ronald B. Mitchell is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Oran R. Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Institutional Dynamics- Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press) and other books. Thomas Gehring is Professor of International Politics and European Integration at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg. Sebastian Oberth r is Academic Director of the Institute for European Studies at Free University Brussels and the coeditor (with Thomas Gehring) of Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance- Synergy and Conflict among International and EU Policies (MIT Press, 2006) Heike Schroeder is Tyndall Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University's Centre for the Environment. Leslie A. King is Vice President, Academic, and Provost at Vancouver Island University. Frank Biermann is Research Professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the author of Earth System Governance- World Politics in the Anthropocene (MIT Press).