Maurie J. Cohen is the editor of Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy and presently an AT&T Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellow. He holds academic appointments as Associate Professor with the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and as Reader with the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds . Dr. Cohen had prior positions at Binghamton University (State University of New York), the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society ( Mansfield College , Oxford ), and Indiana University . His books include Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences (with Joseph Murphy), Risk in the Modern Age: Science, Social Theory, and Environmental Decision Making, and The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem (with J. Steven Picou and Duane Gill). (email: mcohen@adm.njit.edu; m.cohen@see.leeds.ac.uk)