Vegetation Boundary Shifts: Global and Local DriversNeil SaintilanProfessor and Head of Department of Environmental SciencesMacquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Just Compensation?: The Politics of Land and Justice in the Global CityMichael GoldmanProfessor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesDr. V.K.R.V. Rao Chair Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

The Specter of Global China: Is Chinese Capital a Different Kind of Capital in Africa?CK LeeProfessor of Sociology, UCLA

Theory and the Practice of Futurable Socioecological Systems - Behind the Scenes -Kelley CrewsAssociate Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas - Austin