Verity Burgmann is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the area of the history and politics of radical movements, both labour movements and new social movements such as the green movement. Her 11 books include Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995), Green Bans, Red Union (1998), Unions and the Environment (2002), Power, Profit and Protest (2003) and Changing the Climate (2011).

Hans A Baer, an anthropologist and development studies specialist at the University of Melbourne, has published 18 books and some 170 book chapters and journal articles on a variety of topics, including Mormonism, African American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical medical anthropology, and the Australian climate movement. He is the co-author, along with Merrill Singer, of Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health (2009). Baer also authored Global Capitalism and Climate Change (2012).