Quentin Grafton, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Paul Wyrwoll, The Australian National University, Crawford School, Acton, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Ariel Miara¹, Jordan Macknick², Henriette Jager³, Vincent Carroll Tidwell⁴, Balazs M Fekete⁵, Nalini Rao⁶, Fabio Corsi⁷, Charles J. Vörösmarty⁸, Nicole D Jackson⁹ and Stuart Cohen², (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Strategic Energy Analysis Center, Golden, CO, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, (6)Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, United States, (7)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (8)CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (9)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

Yangyang Dong¹, Jingli Fan^1,2, Xiaowei Feng¹ and Xian Zhang³, (1)China University of Mining and Technology, School of Energy and Mining Engineering, Beijing, China, (2)China University of Mining and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China, (3)Ministry of Science and Technology, The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21, Beijing, China

Delphis F Levia Jr¹, Irena F Creed², David M Hannah³, Kazuki Nanko⁴, Elizabeth W Boyer⁵, Darryl E Carlyle-Moses⁶, Nick Van De Giesen⁷, Domenico Grasso⁸, Andrew J Guswa⁹, Janice Elaine Hudson¹⁰, Sean Hudson¹⁰, Shin' ichi Iida¹¹, Robert B Jackson¹², Gabriel George Katul¹³, Tomo'omi Kumagai¹⁴, Pilar Llorens¹⁵, Flavio Lopes Ribeiro¹⁰, Diane E Pataki¹⁶, Catherine A Peters¹⁷, Daniel Sanchez Carretero¹⁰, John S Selker¹⁸, Doerthe Tetzlaff¹⁹, Maciej Zalewski²⁰ and Michael P Bruen²¹, (1)University of Delaware, Departments of Geography and Spatial Sciences & Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (4)FFPRI, Ibaraki, Japan, (5)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, (6)Thompson Rivers University, Geography and Environmental Studies, Kamloops, BC, Canada, (7)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (8)University of Michigan- Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, United States, (9)Smith College, Picker Engineering Program, Northampton, MA, United States, (10)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (11)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology, Ibaraki, Japan, (12)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (13)Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (14)The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, (15)Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (16)University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (17)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (18)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (19)University of Aberdeen, Northern Rivers Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (20)University of Lodz, Department of Applied Ecology, Lodz, Poland, (21)Univ College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Xiaowei Feng¹, Jingli Fan^1,2, Yangyang Dong¹ and Xian Zhang³, (1)China University of Mining and Technology, School of Energy and Mining Engineering, Beijing, China, (2)China University of Mining and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China, (3)Ministry of Science and Technology, The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21, Beijing, China

Jingyan Xue¹, Gengyuan Liu¹ and Sergio Ulgiati², (1)Beijing Normal University, School of Environment, Beijing, China, (2)Parthenope University of Naples, Department of Science and Technology, Naples, Italy

Kai Wang¹, Junguo Liu¹, Jun Xia², Zifeng Wang³, Ying Meng¹ and He Chen¹, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science &Engineering, Shenzhen, China, (2)Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydro Power Engineering Sciences, Wuhan, China, (3)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Jie Zhuang, University of Tennessee, Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, Knoxville, TN, United States, Frank E. Loeffler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, TN, United States and Gary Sayler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States