Fragile Earth has been compiled by the editorial team at Collins Bartholomew who publish the market leading Times and Collins world atlases. All design, maps, picture research and editorial work by Collins in Glasgow with the following international cast of writers supplying text for the book.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE
World's Greatest Living Explorer. He is the first person ever to reach both poles by surface travel.
- In 1993 he was awarded an OBE for human endeavour and charitable services.
- Numerous other awards including Livingstone’s gold medal from royal Geographic Society, Explorers Club of New York awarded a Gold Medal and the Queen awarded a second clasp to the polar medal in 1995 (no-one else has a double clasp medal)
- Author of several books including bestselling The Feather Man and Mind Over Matter.
- Raised over £4.2 million for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Mark Lynas
English journalist and author of groundbreaking book High Tide: News from a Warming World.
- Regular writer for the Guardian, Observer, Independent, New Statesman.
- Appears on radio and television news and discussion programmes ranging from Newsnight to the BBC World Service.
- Member of the 2006 National Geographic's Emerging Explorers Program.
Tim Flannery
Australian author of worldwide bestselling book The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change.
- Internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist
- At 34 he was awarded the Edgeworth David Medal for Outstanding Research.
- Tim’s books include the definitive ecological histories of Australia (The Future Eaters) and North America (The Eternal Frontier). He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.
Elizabeth Kolbert
American journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
- Reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years.
- Currently a staff writer covering politics for the New Yorker.
- Lives in
Michael Allaby
Prize-winning author of over 80 books on environmental issues.
- Edited and authored many subject books and dictionaries including a whole environmental series called facts on dangerous weather.
- Author of A Change in the Weather and Facing the Future.
- Lives in a remote corner of the west coast of Scotland.
Guy Dauncey
Canadian Author, speaker and consultant who specializes in developing a positive vision of a sustainable future.
- Winner of a Nautilus Award, New York Book Expo, May 2002 with his book Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Climate Change.
- Author of EarthFuture and After the Crash.
- Sustainable Communities consultant.
- Publisher of EcoNews, a monthly environmental newsletter
Fred Pearce
English environment consultant and leading contributor to New Scientist magazine.
- Freelance writer on environmental, developmental and demographic issues and has reported from fifty-four countries over the past fifteen years.
- An avid environmentalist, Pearce is the author of Deep Jungle (2005), Keepers of the Spring (2004) and When the Rivers Run Dry (2006).
Bjørn Lomborg
Danish Author of The Skeptical Environmentalist which challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse.
- Associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.
- From February 2002 to July 2004 director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute.
- In April 2004, named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.
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