Michael Northcott

Dr. Michael Northcott is Professor of Ethics at the School of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and an ordained priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church.  He was educated in Durham and Sunderland, and is the author of many books and papers in ecology and religion, including The Environment and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press 1996), A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming (Darton Longman and Todd 2007) and Cuttlefish, Clones and Clusterbombs: Preaching, Politics and Ecology (Darton Longman and Todd 2010). His research is principally at the interface between ethics, ecology and religion. He has been visiting professor at many institutions around the world including the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Flinders University, South Australia, Claremont School of Theology, California, Duke University, North Carolina, and Dartmouth College New Hampshire.