Conservation and Climate Change: The Immediate Need to Adapt

James Levitt is director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University and a research fellow at the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work focuses on historic and present-day innovations in land and biodiversity conservation. He is the author of From Walden to Wall Street (Island Press/Lincoln Institute 2005), and has lectured widely on conservation finance innovation.

Charles C. Chester is the author of Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World (Island Press 2006). He teaches the courses International Environmental Conflict and Collaboration at Brandeis University and International Biodiversity Conservation at The Fletcher School of Tufts University. He has worked for the Henry P. Kendall Foundation on a range of domestic and international conservation issues, for the Union of Concerned Scientists on global biodiversity issues, and for the World Foundation for Environment and Development on bioprospecting.