1. W. Neil Adger is Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He leads the research program on adaptation in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is a member of the Resilience Alliance. His latest book is Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance (2009).
2. Jon Barnett is Reader and Associate Professor in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an Australian Research Council Fellow and recently published Climate Change and Small Island States: Power, Knowledge and the South Pacific (2010).
3. F. S. “Terry” Chapin III is Professor in the Department of Biology and Wildlife and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska, US. He has researched and written widely on Arctic ecosystem and social-ecological resilience. He is a Member of the Resilience Alliance and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
4. Heidi Ellemor teaches and researches natural hazards and cultural geography in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia.