About the Author

Ben Orlove is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Among his previous books are The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Post-Colonial Latin America (1997), and In My Father's Study (1995). More information can be found on the author's faculty webpage at http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/orlove.htm. Ben Orlove can be contacted at bsorlove@ucdavis.edu.