Editor-in-Chief
Emily Boyd Editor-in-Chief
Emily is a Professor in Sustainability Science at Lund University and Director of LUCSUS. She works on cross-cutting issues of climate change and society, resilience governance and development, and on shaping inclusive practices and politics in sustainability.
Deputy Editors
Örjan Bodin Deputy Editor
Örjan Bodin is a Professor in Environmental Science at Stockholm University. He is studying different challenges and opportunities in collectively governing and managing the natural environment, and much of his research bridges the natural and social sciences. His research encompasses case studies across the world, interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical developments, and experiments.
Sirkku Juhola Deputy Editor
Sirkku Juhola is professor of urban environmental policy in University of Helsinki, Finland. Her area of expertise is environmental policy and governance for sustainability. She has been interested in the interface of environmental change and social transformations and how to govern that change equitably. She has worked with both qualitative and quantitative methods and both in global North and South. She leads the multidisciplinary Urban Environmental Policy (@UEP_group) research group at the University of Helsinki that consists of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students in projects that focus on, among other topics, urban sustainability, climate risks assessments and governance. She is also a member of the Finnish Climate Change Panel that advices the Finnish Government on climate policy with specific focus on adaptation policy.
Vinayak Sinha Deputy Editor
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
Vinayak Sinha is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISER Mohali). He works on atmospheric composition and chemistry. His current interests are focused on developing evidence based strategies at the interface of emissions, air quality, climate and policy towards achieving more sustainable interactions with the environment through transdisciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches. He is currently also an expert member of the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee (EPAC SSC), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution, and the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, a Global Research Project under Future Earth. He has served as an Editor of Earth Science Data (EGU journal) from 2010-2020 and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Science and Technology Letters, an ACS journal.
Advisory Member
Xuemei Bai Advisory Member
Professor of Urban Environment and Human Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society
Xuemei's research focuses on several frontiers of urban sustainability science and policy, including drivers and consequence of urbanization, structure, function, processes and evolution of urban socio-ecological systems, urban metabolism, urban sustainability experiments and transition, cities and climate change, and urban environmental policy and governance.
Katherine Richardson Advisory Member
Katherine is Professor in Biological Oceanography and Leader of the Sustainability Science Centre both at the University of Copenhagen.
Johan Rockström Advisory Member
Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, where he led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.
Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.
Section Editors
Neil Adger Section Editor
Neil is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. His research bridges the social and natural sciences with a focus on social and ecological resilience, adaptation to global environmental change and migration, human security and demography. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in the social sciences.
John Barrett Section Editor
John holds a Chair in Energy and Climate Policy at the Sustainable Research Institute (SRI), University of Leeds. His research interests include energy demand, resource productivity, sustainable consumption and production (SCP) modelling, carbon accounting and exploring the transition to a low carbon pathway. John is the director of Centre of Industrial Energy, Materials and Products, funded by the UK Research Council’s Energy Programme. In addition, John is the co-director of UK Energy Research Centre, a multidisciplinary research centre understanding energy from a whole systems perspective.
Felix Creutzig Section Editor
Mercators Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
Felix is Professor for Sustainability Economics of Human Settlement and investigates how cities, land use management and the transport sector can contribute to climate solutions.
Mark Diesendorf Section Editor
Dr Mark Diesendorf is Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Humanities at UNSW Sydney. Previously, at various times, he was a Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO, Professor of Environmental Science and Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney, and Director of Sustainability Centre Pty Ltd. Currently his principal research is on rapid mitigation of global climate change and, in particular, integrating renewable energy on a large scale into electricity supply-demand systems. His most recent books are Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change (Routledge-Earthscan, 2014) and Climate Action: A campaign manual for greenhouse solutions (UNSW Press, 2009).
Marion Dumas Section Editor
Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Marion is an assistant professor at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on the role and efficacy of different policies and institutions in driving a low-carbon transition. Two cross-cutting themes are justice and innovation. On justice, she has worked on citizen access to courts and environmental litigation, and is now focused on the policies that can promote a more just transition to a low-carbon economy. On innovation, she is working on a range of projects asking what economic, social and institutional factors influence the pace of green innovation and access to these innovations to all members of society.
Paul Ekins Section Editor
Paul Ekins is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London. His academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. He is a member of UNEP’s International Resource Panel (IRP), and was the lead author of the IRP’s 2017 report on resource efficiency commissioned by the G7 governments. He is currently one of two global Co-Chairs of UN Environment’s sixth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6).
Carl Folke Section Editor
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Carl is Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and founder and Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Since the mid-1980s he has broken new grounds in understanding the dynamic interplay of humans and nature, of economy and ecology, and developed research on social-ecological systems and resilience thinking from management and stewardship of ecosystem services in the seas and on the land to global sustainability. Carl is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Peng Gong Section Editor
Peng Gong is Chair Professor of Global Sustainability at the University of Hong Kong. He built the Department of Earth System Science and served as Dean of School of Sciences at Tsinghua University. He also served as the founding director of Tsinghua Urban Institute. He had previously taught at the University of Calgary and the University of California, Berkeley. His major research interests include mapping, monitoring and modeling of global environmental change, and modelling of environmentally related infectious diseases such as schistosomiasis, avian influenza, dengue and COVID-19, and healthy and sustainable cities. He is the author/co-author of over 600 articles and 8 books. He chaired/co-chaired 8 Lancet Commission reports on climate change and health, and healthy cities in China.
Bronwyn Hayward Section Editor
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Bronwyn Hayward is a Professor in Political Science at the University of Canterbury NZ. She served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Cities Scoping Report (2024), and co-led the IPCC Cities and Infrastructure chapter (2022). She leads a 7-nation study identifying ways to support children’s low-carbon, wellbeing in cities with the University of Surrey UK and co-leads a New Zealand National Science challenge on Indigenous youth leadership in climate. A Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and Fellow of the NZ Royal Society, she won the Supreme New Zealand Women of Influence Award in 2022.
Mine Islar Section Editor
Mine Islar is an Associate Professor at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). Her research interests are environmental governance, political ecology, justice and transformative political frameworks including degrowth. Currently, she is part of a project called ‘Postgrowth Welfare Societies’ that aims to assess ways of decoupling welfare from economic growth. She is a Lead Author for the IPBES Global Assessment (2019) and Values Assessment (2022) with a focus on multiple valuation methods of nature. She has published over 20 internationally peer-reviewed articles in journals including Ecology & Society, Geoforum, Global Environmental Change, COSUST, Conservation and Society.
Graham Jewitt Section Editor
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
Graham Jewitt is Professor of Hydrology and Head of the Dept of Water Resources and Ecosystems at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Over the past twenty years, he has led several water and earth system science related initiatives. He has authored or co-authored over 90 journal articles and supervised numerous PhD and MSc students from many different parts of the world. A long standing research theme is the hydrological interaction between land use and land cover and the effective use of science to better inform land and water resources policy development, especially in developing countries. The nexus between Water, Food and Energy and Nature Based Solutions and Ecological Infrastructure as adaptation measures to climate change are current research interests.
Lennart Olsson Section Editor
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Science (LUCSUS)
Lennart Olsson is Professor of Geography at Lund University and the founding Director of LUCSUS.
Jouni Paavola Section Editor
Jouni is Professor of Environmental Social Science in the School of Earth and Environment and Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in Leeds.
James Patterson Section Editor
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
James is an Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. James’ work focuses on the institutional and policy dynamics of addressing complex public good problems, particularly concerning climate change governance and sustainability transformations.
Laura Pereira Section Editor
Wits University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Laura Pereira is an Associate Professor in Sustainability Transformations and Futures at the Global Change Institute at Wits University and a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. She is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist and holds DPhil in Geography from Oxford University. She is interested in the interface between indigenous and local knowledges and innovation, the role of futures techniques and visioning in enabling transformative change and developing innovative methods for knowledge co-production in Global South contexts. Laura is passionate about inter and trans-disciplinary research processes and works closely with artists and writers in her current research.
Rob Raven Section Editor
Prof. Dr. Rob Raven is an interdisciplinary scholar, professor of sustainability transitions and deputy director (research) at Monash Sustainable Development Institute. He is also visiting professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. His interest is in understanding the dynamics and governance of sustainability transitions and socio-technical innovation. Rob has made major contributions to multi-level theories of transformative change, socio-technical experimentation and strategic niche management. His empirical work has covered urban, energy and mobility transition processes in Europe, Asia and Australia. In 2012 Rob co-founded the global Sustainability Transitions Research Network and won the EASST Chris Freeman award for a significant collective contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation. In 2019 and 2020 he was selected into the Lifetime Achievement Leaderboard of The Australian – Australia’s top 40 researchers – and 1 of 5 top-performing Australian social scientists. He holds several editorial positions, including Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Global Sustainability, Nature Urban Sustainability, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions. He has published close to 100 articles, 3 books and 7 special issues. His current research agenda is focused on analysis of transformative change in urban context such as smart, sustainable and net-zero cities. A key question is how socio-technical experimentation, institutional change and incumbency in urban regimes co-produce sustainable city futures.
Giles Sioen Section Editor
Future Earth Global Secretariat & National Institute for Environmental Studies
Giles serves as a co-Lead for Research and Innovation at the Future Earth Global Secretariat and works as a Research Associate at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. His research endeavors transcend traditional scientific boundaries, employing a transdisciplinary systems science approach that centers on urban planning and public health scenarios. Giles coordinates Future Earth's Global Research Networks, spearheading the development of processes that foster collaboration across diverse disciplines, and actively contributing to efforts to increase the relevance of science for transformations. As a science officer for the Urban and Health Knowledge-Action Networks, Giles is deeply engaged in both academic and science-policy initiatives. Beyond his core focus, he is passionate about sustainability science concepts and holistic approaches to solve global challenges.
Kaoru Sugihara Section Editor
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto
Kaoru is Professor at RIHN where he is the Director of the Program for Social Transformation under Environmental Change. Originally trained as an economic historian, he has conducted research on various aspects of the global history of resources and environmental sustainability, with a focus on modern and contemporary Asia. At the Science Council of Japan he serves as vice-chair of its Committee for the Promotion of Future Earth.
Tommy Wiedmann Section Editor
Tommy is Professor of sustainability research at UNSW Sydney, Australia. He has extensive experience in integrated sustainability assessment, industrial ecology and environmental footprint analysis. His research focuses on sustainability pathways and solutions to achieve concurrent human and planetary well-being. Tommy is a Highly Cited Researcher and lead author for IPCC WGIII.
Tetsuzo Yasunari Section Editor
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto
Tetsuzo Yasunari is Director General of RIHN. His original background is climate science with a specialism in monsoons and land-atmosphere interactions. His current research is on the human impacts on the earth climate system, with a particular fosus on the Asian monsoon and biosphere-atmosphere interaction in Eurasia. He serves as a member of the Science Committee of Future Earth and a chair of the Committee for the Promotion of Future Earth at the Science Council of Japan.
Le Yu Section Editor
Le Yu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. His research has been on the use of remote sensing to monitor global land use change, especially cropland and to facilitate many applications, e.g., food security, biodiversity conservation, Earth system modeling, sustainable development.
Social Media Editor
Christelle Parris-McKay Social Media Editor
University of Sussex, UK
Christelle Parris-McKay is currently pursuing an MSc in Sustainable Development at the University of Sussex, UK. She holds an MBA and BSc in Biochemistry. As a Caribbean citizen, she is interested in conducting research and contributing to policy development that improves sustainable and equitable outcomes in Small Island Developing States.