Helen Adams is an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter where she researches the role of ecosystem services in poverty alleviation in delta environments. Helen’s PhD focused on migration decision-making under environmental change in Peru. She previously worked on adaptation to climate change with the OECD and the UNFCCC.
W. Neil Adger is Professor in Geography at the University of Exeter. He researches social dimensions of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the face of environmental change. He was an Associate of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Programme and convenes the chapter on human security for the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
Carolina E. Adler is a geographer and environmental scientist, working as a Research Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Her PhD on climate change adaptation was awarded the 2010 Harold D. Lasswell Prize for best dissertation in policy sciences, and her research focuses on problem-oriented global environmental change, science and policy interface, and inter-transdisciplinary collaborations.
Paulina Aldunce is Assistant Professor at the University of Chile and Deputy-PI of the Human Dimensions at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research. She is a social scientist and her research interests are social and institutional dimensions of Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change. She has been involved as Lead Author and Review Editor for the IPCC
Jon Barnett is a Professor in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at Melbourne University. He is a political geographer whose research investigates the impacts of and responses to climate change on social systems, with a focus on risks to human insecurity, hunger, violent conflict, and water stress.
Eduardo Behrentz is an Associate Professor and a former director of the Environmental Engineering Research Center and of the Centre of Studies on Urban and Regional Sustainability, Colombia. He is an author of multiple peer-reviewed articles.
Katrina Brown is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, and specializes in environmental change, vulnerability and resilience. She is co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Change and a member of the Resilience Alliance. She is Professor of Social Sciences at the Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter.
Halvard Buhaug is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Director of PRIO’s Department on Conditions of Violence and Peace. His work has been published in International Organization, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Geography, and PNAS.
Mercy Cordova Borbor is an oceanographer by training. Mercy is studying the interactions among air pollution, heat waves, and vulnerability urban areas. She has also explored the social and ecological factors determining dengue transmission in Ecuador.
Simon Dalby is CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990), Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009).
Halvor Dannevig’s research focuses on various issues around the relationship between society and climate. He has done research on adaptation to climate change in natural resource industries in Northern Norway, adaptation policies at multiple levels of governance and on planning and natural hazards.
Laura Dawidowski is a physicist and is a Professor at the Institute for Research in Environmental Engineering of the National San Martín University. She is also a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Buenos Aires National University and a researcher in the Chemical Department of the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina.
Andrew J. Dugmore is a geographer and Professor at the University of Edinburgh. His principal research interests include human ecodynamics and the development and application of tephrochronology (a dating technique based on the identification and correlation of layers of volcanic ash) to questions of environmental reconstruction, human–environment interactions, adaptations and change.
Siri Eriksen is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her research interests focus on social vulnerability, in particular how people manage climatic variability and change in eastern and southern Africa as well as in Norway, and the politics involved in adaptation processes.
Jason Flanagan is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Canberra. His research cuts across the fields of security, development, and political and diplomatic history. He is the author of Imagining the Enemy: Presidential War Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (Regina 2009) and the forthcoming American Foreign Relations since Independence with Joseph M. Siracusa and Richard Dean Burns.
Oscar A. Gómez is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Doshisha University’s Graduate School of Global Studies.His chapter was prepared while at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University. He is also Deputy Secretary General of the Japan Association for Human Security Studies. His work deals with the theory and practice of human security, with emphasis on the environment, health and disasters. His fieldwork includes Japan, Colombia and the Philippines.
Marisa Goulden is a Lecturer in Climate Change at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. Her research interests are in climate change adaptation and natural resource management, resilience of rural livelihoods, and cooperation and conflict in transboundary river basins.
Roberto P. Guimarães is a Brazilian political scientist. He is Coordinator of MBA Programs on Environment and Sustainability of FGV and Visiting Professor on the Doctoral Program on Environment and Society of UNICAMP, both in Brazil, and Principal Researcher of Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Desigualdades.net in Berlin. He served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the IHDP. He was a staff member of the UN (1983–2007) and was its Chief of Social and Policy Analysis, having also served as Technical Coordinator of all UN International Conferences on the Environment (Rio-92, Rio+5, Johannesburg-2002).
John Handmer leads RMIT’s Centre for Risk and Community Safety and its Human Security Program. He is also Convener of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Emergency Management, and Principal Scientific Advisor for the Bushfire CRC. He holds adjunct professorial positions at the Australian National University and the Flood Hazard Research Centre in London.
Betsy Hartmann is Director of the Population and Development Program and Professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, USA. Her work explores the interactions between population, migration, environment and security concerns. Her books include Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, A Quiet Violence (co-authored with James Boyce), and the co-edited anthology Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties.
Bronwyn Hayward is a New Zealand author and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey, UK and a Trustee of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, London. Her work focuses on the challenges for children, youth and democracy in a changing world.
Johan Hedrén is an Associate Professor at Water and Environmental Studies at Linköping University. His main research areas are political organization, ideologies and discourses on the environment and sustainable development, utopian thought on the same issues and the relationship between politics and science.
Thomas Heyd teaches Philosophy, is Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, and is member of the Centre for Ecosocial Studies, University of La Laguna, Spain. His research focuses on cultural dimensions of environmental change, environmental ethics and aesthetics. He has organised/chaired 7 sessions at international meetings (2008–2010) and an interdisciplinary workshop, ‘Culture and Climate Change’ (2010). He edited a special issue of the Human Ecology Review (2010) on this topic.
Henk B.M. Hilderink is Senior Policy Researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency where he leads various projects on global sustainability. His research focus is on global demography and population health, especially in the context of sustainable development.
Svein Jarle Horn is currently a Professor of Bioprocess Technology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. His research focuses on biomass processing for products such as chemicals, feed and fuels. His interests also include climate change, peak oil, the emerging biobased economy and applications of the Integral Model developed by Ken Wilber.
Grete K. Hovelsrud’s research interests include studies of vulnerability and adaptation to environmental and societal changes (coupled with social-ecological systems); adaptive capacity across societal scales; barriers and constraints of adaptation in the northern regions, and aspects of societal transformation in the face of global change.
Philip Ireland has worked across the NGO sector as a policy and advocacy advisor on development. He has recently completed a PhD from Macquarie University, Australia, where he researched adaptation to climate change and development at UN negotiations in Nepal and in Bangladesh. He is a published author across the academic literature and mainstream media.
Peter Keegan is an international development practitioner and has worked in the NGO sector for the last 12 years. He is currently responsible for programs across Africa and South-East Asia. Peter has degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Sydney, and is completing a postgraduate research degree.
Christian Keller is a Professor at the University of Oslo and works in Nordic archaeology and history, mainly focusing on the Vikings and the Middle Ages, the human eco-dynamics of the pre-industrial world and human responses to climate change. In addition, he has carried out underwater archaeology in Cyprus, Turkey and Thailand.
Marcel T.J. Kok is a Senior Researcher and Project Leader on global governance at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. His main focus is on sustainable development, global governance and vulnerability analysis. He was a coordinating lead author for the chapter on vulnerability in the UNEP ‘Global Environmental Outlook IV’.
Vikram Kolmannskog holds degrees in Law and the Humanities, including a specialized LLM in Human Rights Law. He has researched, lectured and advised extensively on the rights of ‘climate refugees. He is an independent scholar and adviser as well as a psychotherapist.
Christian Kuhlicke has a background in Human Geography. His research focuses on how vulnerabilities and risk are constructed in governance and management processes as well as in practices of everyday life. He is Chairperson of the Working Group ‘Natural Hazards/Natural Risks’ of the German Association of Geography (DGfG).
Victoria Lawson is a Professor and former Chair of Geography at the University of Washington. She is co-founder of the Relational Poverty Network project. A past president of the Association of American Geographers, she is also the author of Making Development Geography (2007) and served as editor for Progress in Human Geography. She works on the social and political effects of global economic restructuring across the Americas.
Hayley Leck is a post-doctoral researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a geographer and her research focuses on the relationship between global environmental change and urbanism, with a particular interest in social and institutional dimensions of municipal and community-based adaptation in diverse contexts.
Robin M. Leichenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. She is co-author with Karen O’Brien of the book Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), which received the 2009 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution in Geography from the Association of American Geographers.
Alejandro León is an Associate Professor at the University of Chile, and Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources. He teaches Environmental Economics, and his research has focused on institutional and economic arrangements regarding water issues and the desertification process.
Asunción Lera St. Clair, a philosopher and sociologist, is Research Director at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO). Her research interests are focused on critical poverty studies, climate change, development ethics, human rights, global justice, epistemology, processes of knowledge and multilateral organizations.
Virginia Levín has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Chile and currently she is employed in the private sector. Her research has focused on disaster management and environmental planning
Paul L. Lucas is a Policy Researcher and Integrated Assessment Modeler at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. His work focuses on international climate policy and sustainable development issues, and more specifically on the link between environment and human development. He was involved as a lead author for UNEP’s fifth Global Environmental Outlook.
Matthias K.B. Lüdeke has been Senior Scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Lecturer at Potsdam University since 1995. Since 2008 he has been a Project Leader in the research domain ‘Climate Impacts and Vulnerability’, focusing on climate change, urban development and global patterns of vulnerability.
Amanda H. Lynch is Professor of Geological Sciences and Director of the Environmental Change Initiative at Brown University. Her interests lie in the application of climate and meteorological research to concrete problems of policy relevance. Her approaches include regional and global climate models of the contemporary and past climates, weather prediction models, statistical models, and quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Christian Koch Madsen is an archaeologist and a senior doctoral student focusing on the Norse Eastern Settlement of Greenland. Christian has made a central contribution to the Vatnahverfi Project at the National Museum of Denmark (which began in 2005) and has been involved in both extensive survey work and archaeological excavation.
David Manuel-Navarrete is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, where he studies the socio-ecological boundaries produced by tourism development and climate adaptation regimes. He has carried out extensive research in Latin America on socio-ecological inequality, climate governance and sustainable development through appointments at the Free University of Berlin, King’s College London, and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Peter J. Marcotullio is an Associate Professor of Geography at Hunter College and Co-Deputy Director of the City University of New York Institute for Sustainable Cities. His research focuses on the relationships between urban growth, urbanization, globalization, urban planning and the environment.
Thomas H. McGovern is a zoöarchaeologist and researcher with a major focus on Viking-Age European expansion into a very diverse set of North Atlantic island ecosystems and the subsequent dynamics of human impact, climate change, and inter-cultural contacts. Since 1992 he has served as Coordinator for the NABO Research Cooperative.
Desmond McNeill is Professor, and a former Director at SUM (Centre for Development and Environment), University of Oslo. He heads the research area on Governance for Sustainable Development. He has worked in many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and written extensively on aid and global governance.
Susanne C. Moser is Director of Susanne Moser Research and Consulting and a Social Science Research Fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment. She is an internationally recognized expert on adaptation, communication, and science-policy interactions.
Lars Otto Naess is a Research Fellow in the Climate Change Team at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). His research interests include social and institutional dimensions of adaptation to climate change, policy processes on climate change and agriculture at national and sub-national levels, the role of local knowledge for adaptation to climate change, and adaptation planning in the context of international development.
Karen O’Brien is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. She is interested in how transdisciplinary and integral approaches to global change research can contribute to a better understanding of how societies respond to change, and in particular how deliberate, ethical, equitable and sustainable transformations can be catalysed in response to climate change.
Elspeth Oppermann is a Research Fellow at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Australia. Building on her doctoral exploration of the problematization of climate change adaptation in the UK, her post-doctoral research is on transformation and the role of social networks and tacit knowledge in the North Australia region.
Gudrun Østby is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Her work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Development Studies, and Journal of Peace Research.
Elena Ostrovskaya has extensive experience in the field of environmental monitoring and protection, natural resources management and environmental policy research. She has participated in several international projects focusing on river basin, wetland and coastal management. She has also been involved in capacity development projects as a trainer and a group moderator.
Paola Ramallo is an environmental engineer with an MSc in Environmental Planning and Management. She has seven years of experience working with public and private institutions in the fields of water resources management, sustainable development, environmental impact assessment and environmental education in developing countries. She has mainly worked as an assessor for project development as well as project developer in the areas of IWRM and climate change in the Andean region.
Patricia Romero-Lankao is an interdisciplinary sociologist by training working at NCAR since 2006. Her research concentrates on three questions: how cities affect the climate system, and the water and carbon cycles; how cities are affected by those changes and what factors shape urban political and policy responses to mitigate and adapt.
Fiona J.Y. Rotberg is an Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and directs a project on the humanitarian challenges of climate change. Her research interests include human security, accountable governance and land use. Fiona holds a PhD in Natural Resources and Law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, USA.
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. He serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the IHDP’s Urbanization and Global Environmental Change project, and has published widely on development, environment and urban issues.
Konrad Smiarowski is an archaeologist and an advanced doctoral student at the City University of New York. His graduate studies on Norse archaeo-faunal remains involve survey and excavation in Greenland where he has most recently been involved in excavations of the Bishop’s residence in Gardar (Igaliku).
William D. Solecki is a Professor of Geography at Hunter College and Director of the City University of New York Institute for Sustainable Cities. He is also Co-chair of the New York City panel on Climate Change, and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project (UGEC) of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
Sofie Storbjörk is a Senior Lecturer at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focus on drivers and barriers for climate adaptation, with an emphasis on the institutional and organizational dimension of adaptive capacity, as well as the role of spatial planning in facilitating transformations. Further research includes the theory and practice of environmental policy-integration at national, regional and local levels.
Richard Streeter is a geographer who recently completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh developing tephrochronology in order to understand the landscape implications of plague outbreaks in fifteenth-century Iceland. He is currently investigating early warning signals of threshold crossing events in complex socio-ecological systems.
Linda Sygna is an economist by training and works as a Project Leader at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Her work focuses on the social and human dimensions of climate change, and especially how individuals and society perceive and respond to a changing climate.
Michael Thompson studied anthropology at University College London and the University of Oxford while also following a career as a Himalayan mountaineer. Early research on how something secondhand becomes an antique (Rubbish Theory, OUP, 1979) diverted him into teaching at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and at Portsmouth University’s School of Architecture, and from there to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a global change think-tank in Austria.
Henrik Urdal is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Editor of the Journal of Peace Research. His work has appeared in International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Development Studies, and Political Geography.
Katharine Vincent is a Director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (Pty) Ltd, and a visiting Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is interested in vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southern Africa.
Jennifer West is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo, Norway, with interests and experience in climate change vulnerability and adaptation policy and practice in a range of natural resource contexts and countries.
Ben Wisner has worked since 1966 on livelihoods, governance, environment and risk. While teaching in Africa, the US, the UK and Switzerland, he conducted fieldwork world wide. Now retired, he advises, advocates and rants. Writings include At Risk, Routledge Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction and Toward a New Map of Africa.
Johanna Wolf is an Associate Faculty Member at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. Her research interests concern the human dimensions of environmental and climate change. She has examined responses to climate change and related policies in the UK and Canada and her work has been published in international journals including Global Environmental Change, Environment and Planning A, Environmental Politics and Climatic Change.