Gary C. Bryner was, until his death, Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He also served as Director of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law. He authored and edited many books dealing with the global environment, public policy, and political theory, among them "Gaia 's Wager: Environmental Movements and the Challenge of Sustainability" (2001) and "Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990" (1993, 1995). He completed two book-length manuscripts in the last year of his life while fighting cancer.