Jane Costlow, Ph.D. Yale (1987) is Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. She has published extensively on 19th century Russian literature and culture, and is the author of Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest (2013).Yrjö Haila, Ph.D. University of Helsinki (1983), professor of environmental policy (emeritus) at the University of Tampere, has explored the nature–society interface; books include Humanity and Nature (with Richard Levins, 1992), and How Nature Speaks (co-editor Chuck Dyke, 2006).Arja Rosenholm, Ph.D. University of Tampere (1999), is professor of Russian language and culture at that university. She has co-edited Understanding Russian Nature (2005), Russian Mass Media and Changing Values (2010) and Topographies and Popular Culture (2015).

Jane Costlow, Ph.D. Yale (1987) is Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. She has published extensively on 19th century Russian literature and culture, and is the author of Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest (2013).Yrjö Haila, Ph.D. University of Helsinki (1983), professor of environmental policy (emeritus) at the University of Tampere, has explored the nature–society interface; books include Humanity and Nature (with Richard Levins, 1992), and How Nature Speaks (co-editor Chuck Dyke, 2006).Arja Rosenholm, Ph.D. University of Tampere (1999), is professor of Russian language and culture at that university. She has co-edited Understanding Russian Nature (2005), Russian Mass Media and Changing Values (2010) and Topographies and Popular Culture (2015).