Urban Planet: Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities

Thomas Elmqvist is a Professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Xuemei Bai is a Professor of Urban Environment and Human Ecology at Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University.

Niki Frantzeskaki is Associate Professor of Sustainability Transitions Governance at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) at Erasmus University, The Netherlands.

Corrie Griffith is Program Manager of the Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes at Arizona State University.

David Maddox is the founder and Executive Director of 'The Nature of Cities', a transdisciplinary essay site with more than 600 writers from around the world, from scientists to civil society, designers to artists.

Timon McPhearson is Associate Professor of Urban Ecology and Director of the Urban Systems Lab at the New School University, New York, and a Research Fellow at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden.

Susan Parnell is Professor of Urban Geography and co-founder of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at LSECities.

Patricia Romero-Lankao is Senior Research Scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research based in Colorado, where she is currently leading the 'Urban Futures' initiative.

David Simon is Director of Mistra Urban Futures at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Mark Watkins is Program Manager for the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Program (CAP LTER), part of the US LTER network.