Toward a More Livable World

DR. JERRY WILLIAMS and DR. WILLIAM FORBES, the editors of Toward a More Livable World: The Social Dimensions of Sustainability, are both professors in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas. Williams received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Kansas State University, and is the author of The Rise and Decline of Public Interest in Global Warming: Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Environmental Problems (Nova Science, 2001); he has published numerous sociological publications in such journals as Creative Sociology, Human Ecology Review, and Sociological Inquiry, among others. For many years, he has organized conference sessions on sustainability topics. Bill Forbes holds an M.S. in Applied Geography and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of North Texas. Among Forbes’ environmental activities, he oversaw the compliance of tree protection, open space, and storm water regulations in relation to suburban development in the Town of Flower Mound, Texas; built partnerships with residents of Chihuahua, Mexico, to research environmental history, economic and environmental issues, and ecological restoration techniques; and, worked with the USDA Forest Service in Oregon to write environmental assessments for forest health and wildlife habitat restoration.