Mark Stafford Smith
Science Director of the Climate Adaptation Flagship at CSIRO
Mark Stafford Smith is Science Director of the Climate Adaptation Flagship at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Australia's national science agency.
Mark is co-chair of the upcoming Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards Solutions conference in London, March 2012.
Will Steffen
Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at the ANU
Will Steffen is Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a co-author of the original paper on nine planetary boundaries.
The doughnut 'compass' is a powerful idea. The original 'planetary boundaries' concept focused on biophysical factors: there was some internal logic to this - it aimed to identify the conditions under which we couldn't expect the planet to continue supporting us, regardless of how we care to organise ourselves as a human race. But of course, as soon as you ask practical questions about how we might manage our interaction... Read more