Harriet Bulkeley is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University. Her research focuses on the processes and politics of environmental governance. Her recent books include Cities and Climate Change (Routledge 2013), Governing Climate Change (Routledge 2010), Cities and Low Carbon Transitions (Ed. Routledge, 2011), Governing the Climate: new approaches to rationality, power and politics (Ed. CUP 2014) Transnational Climate Governance (CUP, 2014), and An Urban Politics of Climate Change (Routledge 2014). She is currently involved in researching the politics and practice of smart grids in the UK, low carbon transitions in southern Africa, and continuing work on urban responses to climate change. She is a member of the DECC Defra Social Science Advisory Group and has undertaken commissioned research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Friends of the Earth, UN-Habitat and the World Bank. In 2014, she is the seventeenth holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Professorship in Environmental Science and a Visiting Professor at Lund University.