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Michael Mason is Director of the Middle East Centre and Professor of Environmental Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is interested in ecological politics and governance as applied to questions of accountability, security and territory. This research addresses both global environmental politics and regional environmental change in Western Asia, with a particular focus on regions of contested sovereignty.

Through a project contract from UNDP, Mason was lead consultant and author for the first climate change adaptation strategy adopted by the Palestinian Authority. External funders for his research have included the Emirates Foundation, European Commission, the UK Economic and Social Research Council and NATO (Security through Science Programme). Recent research projects on water management in Iraq have been funded by the UK Government (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Alongside articles in a wide range of academic journals, Mason is the author of Environmental Democracy (Routledge, 1999) and The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders (Routledge, 2005). He is also co-editor of (with Amit Mor) Renewable Energy in the Middle East (Springer, 2009), (with Aarti Gupta) Transparency in Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2014), and (with Muna Dajani and Munir Fakher Eldin) The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: Colonization, Occupation and Jawlani Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2023).