DR. ERIC LAMBIN is a George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford School of Earth and Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, California; Co-Chair of Department, Environmental Earth System  Science; Professor, University of Louvain, Belgium; Member, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres & des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (2006); Fellow, European Academy os Sciences (2010); Member of the Boarder of Directions, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm; Laureate, Francqui Prize in Sciences, he  received the awards from His Majesty the King Albert II; Laureate, Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2014); Associate Editor. ‘Ecology and Society’; Member of the Editorial Board, ‘Global Environmental Change’.