David W. Orr, Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse

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Kersty Hobson

Kersty Hobson is lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. She has a background in anthropology and geography and has undertaken research into household sustainable consumption and public responses to climate change in the UK and Australia, as well as on nongovernmental organizations and civil society politics in Singapore and East Asia.

John D. Peine

John Peine is a social scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey stationed at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. From 1982–1992, he served as Chief Scientist at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He is the editor of and a contributor to the 1999 book Ecosystem Management for Sustainability: Principles and Practices Illustrated by a Regional Biosphere Reserve Cooperative. He has contributed to the books A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion(2005) and Conservation of Rare and Little Known Species: Biological, Social, and Economic Considerations(2007). More recently, he is coauthor of the paper National Biological Information Infrastructure Data Management Toolkit(2009) posted on the U.S. Geological Survey Open-File website. He just completed a project devising a strategy for systematically incorporating social and economic dimensions into analysis and decision-making processes associated with habitat conservation and recovery plans for endangered species. A member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas–Mountain Group, his current research focuses on leadership in ecosystem management and seeks to document best environmental sustainability practices.

Terence Jeyaretnam

Terence Jeyaretnam is founder of Net Balance, a sustainability advisory firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and London. He holds a degree in environmental engineering and is a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia. He is one of six professionals globally to be awarded the grade of Lead Sustainability Assurance Practitioner by the International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA). Jeyaretnam was formerly the chair of the College of Environmental Engineers and Engineers Australia’s Sustainability Committee. In 2005, he was named one of the ten most influential young engineers in Australia by Engineers Australia. Net Balance has recently been selected by Australia’s Business Review Weekly as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in the country.

Ke Chung Kim

Ke Chung Kim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Entomology and Director Emeritus of the Center for Bio-Diversity Research at The Pennsylvania State University. Kim is a biodiversity scientist whose work has built on insect taxonomy/systematics, ecology, conservation biology, evolution, and natural resource management. He founded the Center for BioDiversity Research in 1989 and has helped assess biodiversity in Pennsylvania and South Korea ever since. In 1997, Kim founded the DMZ Forum, a nongovernmental organization that promotes the preservation of Korea’s demilitarized zone for conservation and peace. In light of the recognition of biodiversity loss and its impacts on ecosystems throughout the world, Kim shifted his interest ten years ago to issues of human sustainability and has written on many aspects of biodiversity and its continued loss. He has promoted the concept of biodiversity related to human sustainability through biodiversity assessment and monitoring, research, and public lectures worldwide. Kim convened a major conference in 1990 titled “Biodiversity and Landscape: A Paradox of Humanity” that gave rise to a book with the same title.

David W. Orr

David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Senior Adviser to the president of Oberlin College. He is the author of seven books and a Trustee of Bioneers and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado.