Contributors

Marie Larocque

Professeure au département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Professeure au département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - Centres de recherche Geotop et GRIL - Chaire de recherche Eau et conservation du territoire (chaire-eau.uqam.ca)

Mehrafarin Takin

PhD student in the School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney

PhD student in the School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney My research explores the role of green infrastructure in enhancing urban flood resilience.

Michael Brennan

Professor of Sociology, Liverpool Hope University

Professor of Sociology, Liverpool Hope University Michael Brennan is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, UK. My research is focused around the social aspects of dying, death and bereavement, where I have authored, edited and published numerous books, journal articles and pieces written for educational and professional publications. I have previously served as Director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA.

Michael Keenan

Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University

Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University Michael Keenan is a lecturer on the Sociology course. He teaches on a number of courses including Religion and Society, Introduction to Social Structure, Researching Sociology and Exploring Social Life. Michael's teaching interests focus on the Sociology of Religion, and issues related to family, sexuality and relationships. Michael is also first year tutor on the Sociology course.

Marine Drouilly

Researcher, conservation and wildlife ecology , University of Cape Town

Researcher, conservation and wildlife ecology , University of Cape Town Marine Drouilly is the regional coordinator for carnivore surveys and research in West and Central Africa for the NGO Panthera. Marine's research interests are in conservation and wildlife ecology and she is particularly interested in human-carnivore relationships. Her current projects span across West and Central Africa. Marine is also a research associate at the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa (iCWild), and at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Mark C. Hand

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington Mark C. Hand researches organizational politics, examining the business of politics, the politics of business and policy about business. He has a Ph.D. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin and an MBA from the Saïd Business School at Oxford. Mark's current area of research focus is on the culture, politics and governance of employee ownership trusts, a form of perpetual purpose trust and an emerging alternative to employee stock ownership plans.