1. ADENA R. RISSMAN is an Assistant Professor of the Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Management in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research has appeared in such journals as Conservation Letters, Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Science and Policy, and Landscape and Urban Planning.
2. STEPHEN R. CARPENTER, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2006, is the Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology and the Director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Princeton Guide to Ecology (with S. A. Levin et al., 2009) and Regime Shifts in Lake Ecosystems: Patterns and Variation (2003). His research has appeared in such journals as Ecology, Sustainability, and Science.