Preparing for Climate Change

Michael D. Mastrandrea is an Assistant Consulting Professor at theStanford University Woods Institute for the Environment. His work hasbeen published in Science Magazine and Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, and he is co-author of chapters on keyvulnerabilities and climate risks and on long-term mitigation strategiesfor the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. He also serves on theEditorial Board for the journal Climatic Change and is co-editor of the book Climate Change Science and Policy. Stephen H. Schneider was Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology at Stanford University. He was also Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC's working group on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, from 1997 to 2001, and, with his IPCC colleagues, was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in 2007. He was the author or editor of many books, including Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate and Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century (MIT Press, 2004).