José Augusto Pádua is professor of Brazilian environmental history at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is also coordinator of the Laboratory of History and Nature. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies on Environment and Society (ANPPAS).

Anthony Goebel McDermott holds a PhD in History from the University of Costa Rica. He serves as Professor in the School of History and as investigator at the Center for Central American Historical Investigation (CIHAC) of the same university, where he also forms part of the investigative team for the program Environment, Science, Technology, and Society (ACTS) Intersection between Environmental History and Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Society (CTS). Currently he acts as director of the Central American Postgrad in History at the University of Costa Rica.

Cecilia Ibarra is an industrial civil engineer of the University of Chile. She specialized in management of technology and innovation, focusing in professionally on the processes that accompany technological change. Later, she received her doctorate in Science and Technology Policy Studies from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom and, currently, is engaged in investigation. Her area of work includes the processes of technological change and governance, specifically on themes related to climate change from a historical focus.

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Prof. Dr. Adrián Zarrilli is a professor and Doctor of History from the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. Investigator of the National Board of Scientific and Technical Investigation, he serves as associate professor at the National University of Quilmes and La Plata. His postdoctoral studies took place at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He has acted as professor of postgraduate programs in universities throughout Latin America and Europe.