Conference 2013 Team:

Conference organizing committee:

• Karen O’Brien, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

• Linda Sygna, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

• Asuncion Lera St.Clair, CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, Norway

• Per Olsson, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

• Heide Hackmann, International Social Science Council, France

• Eva Bakkeslett, Artist and Cultivator, UK and Norway

Scientific Advisory Board Members:

• Neil Agder, Professor in Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He researches social dimensions of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the face of environmental change.

• Eva Bakkeslett, an artist who shows, lectures and performs her work nationally and internationally using a combination of film, performative talks and social sculpture. She holds an MA in Arts & Ecology from Dartington College of Art in England.

• Jon Barnett, Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at Melbourne University. He is a political geographer who researches the impacts of and responses to environmental change on social systems.

• Frans Berkhout, Professor of Innovation and Sustainability at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands where he is also director of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

• Barrett Brown, Integral Sustainability Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• Rohan D'Souza, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India). He is the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (2006).

• Ioan Fazey, Professor Social Dimensions of Environmental Change Geography, School of Environment, University of Dundee, UK. He has diverse interests and an interdisciplinary background in human-environment relationships.

• Chris Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.

• Carl Folke, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

• Heide Hackmann, Executive Director of the International Social Science Council. Heide has worked as a science policy maker, researcher and consultant in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

• Bronwyn Hayward, political scientist, geographer and senior lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her focus is in the area of governments' responsibilities to communities in a changing world.

• Mark Howden, Chief Research Scientist with Australia's national research agency, CSIRO. He leads a group of about 120 researchers in the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and is an Honorary Professor at Melbourne University, School of Land and Food.

• Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) since 2009 and he is also a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED).

• Myanna Lahsen, Senior Researcher in the Earth System Science Center at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) and former Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University.

• Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre, the Institute of Development Studies, UK

• Derk Loorbach, director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (Drift) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and associate professor in transition management.

• Cecilie Mauritzen, physical oceanographer, specialising in large-scale ocean circulation and ocean heat- and freshwater uptake.  She has been lead author for IPCCs Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports, and has contributed to a wide variety of international panels.

• Susanne Moser, Director of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting in Santa Cruz, California and a Social Science Research Fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment. Her work with local, state and federal agencies and others focuses on adaptation, communication, and science-policy interactions.

• Karen O'Brien, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses  on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation and the implications for human security.

• Per Olsson, researcher and theme leader for Adaptive Governance at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His primary research interest is in linked social-ecological system dynamics and resilience.

• Mark Pelling, Professor of Geography, King’s College London. He researches on social dimensions of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation and coordinates an MA in Disasters Adaptation and Development.

• Debra Roberts, Debra Roberts has worked in the city of Durban as a local government practitioner since the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994. Her major focus areas are climate change adaptation and biodiversity planning in the African urban context.

• Paty Romero-Lankao, "interdisciplinary sociologist" by training.  She has been a research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Reasearch (NCAR).

• Paul Ryan, principal of Interface NRM, an environmental consultancy that specialises in resilience thinking, strategic planning, adaptive governance and management.

• Roberto A. Sanchez Rodriguez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

• William Solecki, 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.

• Asuncion Lera St. Clair, philosopher and sociologist, is Research Director at the International Centre for Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo. St. Clair is Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

• J. David Tabara, works at the Global Climate Forum and is associate senior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a member the European Sustainability Science Group.

• John Thompson, has worked on power, policy and sustainability issues in food and agriculture systems for over 30 years, in both developing and industrialised countries. As a Research Fellow in the Knowledge, Technology and Society Team at the Institute of Development Studies, UK

• Coleen Vogel, Extraordinary Professor (Visiting) to the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch. She was the BMW Chair of Sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and was a previous Chair of the international scientific committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP)

• Frances Westley, University of Waterloo, Canada