E. REMI AIYEDE Co-ordinator of the National Governance Assessment Survey at the Development Policy Centre, NigeriaFREDERIC BOUDER Senior Research Fellow, King's Centre for Risk Management, King's College, London, UKADAM BURGESS Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath, UKBRETT DAVIDSON Programme Manager at the Institute of Democracy (IDASA), South AfricaMATTHIAS ECKER-EHRHARDT Senior Researcher at the Social Science Centre, Berlin, GermanyHARALD HEINRICHS Associate Professor at the University of Lüneberg, GermanyBÄRBEL HÖHN MP for the German Green Party and Minister of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection for North Rhine-Westphalia, 1996-2005, GermanySHEILA JASANOFF Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USACHANDRIKA NATH Scientific Consultant at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London, UKCHARLES PERROW Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, USAHANS PETER PETERS Communication Researcher at the Research Centre Jülich, Germany (Humans Environment Technology Programme Group) and Honorary Professor at the Free University, Berlin, GermanyGÜNTHER SCHMID Director at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin, Germany and Professor of Political Economy at the Free University, Berlin, GermanyURSULA SCHRÖDER Researcher in the Department of Political and SocialSciences European University, Florence, ItalyKLAUS TÖPFER Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya and Executive-Director of the United Nations Environment Programme