Professor Will Steffen is Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, and also serves on the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee (MPCCC) and as a Climate Commissioner. From 1998 to mid-2004, he served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate change and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability, climate change and the Earth System.
Key publications
Steffen, W., Grinevald, J., Crutzen, P. and McNeill, J. (2011). The Anthropocene: Conceptual and historical perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369: 842-867.
Steffen, W. (2011) A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem. In: Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Eds. J.S. Dryzek, R.B. Norgaard and D. Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 21-37. NOTE: THIS IS AN UPATE OF AN EXISTING ENTRY).
Richardson, K., Steffen, W., Liverman, D., Barker, T., Jotzo, F., Kammen, D., Leemans, R., Lenton, T., Munasinghe, M., Osman-Elasha, B., Schellnhuber, J., Stern, N., Vogel, C., and Waever, O. (2011) Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 502 pp.
Steffen, W. (2010) Climate Change: A Truly Complex and Diabolical Policy Problem. In: Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Eds. J.S. Dryzek, R.B. Norgaard and D. Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, Oxford, in press.
Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å, Chapin, III, F.S., Lambin, E.F., Lenton, T.M., Scheffer, M., Folke, C., Schellnhuber, H.J., Nykvist, B., de Wit, C.A., Hughes, T., van der Leeuw, S., Rodhe, H., Sörlin, S., Snyder, P.K., Costanza, R., Svedin, U., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Corell, R.W., Fabry, V.J., Hansen, J., Walker, B., Liverman, D., Richardson, K., Crutzen, P. and Foley, J.A. (2009). A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461: 472-475.
Young, O. and Steffen, W. (2009) The Earth System: Sustaining planetary life support systems. In: Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Resource Natural Resource Management in a Changing World. F.S. Chapin III, G.P. Kofinas and C. Folke (eds), Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 295-315.
Steffen, W. (2009) Learning by doing: managing for ecosystem services. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106: 1301-1302.
Steffen, W., Crutzen, P.J. and McNeill, J.R. (2007). The Anthropocene: Are humans now overwhelming the great forces of Nature? Ambio 36: 614-621.
Costanza, R., Graumlich, L. and Steffen, W. (eds) (2006) Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, Dahlem Workshop Report 96, 495 pp.
Steffen, W., Sanderson, A., Tyson, P.D., Jäger, J., Matson, P., Moore III, B., Oldfield, F., Richardson, K., Schellnhuber, H.-J., Turner II, B.L. and Wasson, R.J. (2004). Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure. The IGBP Book Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 336 pp.
