This page summarises my professional and personal affiliations, revealing some of the responsibilities and influences that shape my thinking.
Journals
I am Editor-in-Chief of the new Wiley-Blackwell Interdisciplinary Review (WIREs) Climate Change, to launch December 2009.
I co-edit with Neil Adger and Kate Brown the journal Global Environmental Change and I am on the editorial board of the journal Climate Policy. I have previously served as an editor for the journals Int. J. Climatology, Climate Research and Progress in Physical Geography.
Advisory Committees and Roles
I am an expert reviewer for 2009-2013 for the European Research Council, sitting on their society and environment panel. I also sit on the Advisory Board’s of the UK Energy Research Centre and the UK Climate Impacts Programme and am a senior advisor to the British Council.
I provided scientific input into the Conservative Party’s 2006 Quality of Life policy review. I was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research between 2002 and 2007 and on the Advisory Board of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2004-2008. I was a Convening Lead Author for the scenarios chapter for the IPCC Third Assessment Report and Manager of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre between 1997 and 2002.
I am a signatory to the Oxford Declaration ‘Science and faith unite on biodiversity’ under the auspicies of the James Martin Institute, issued 7 December 2007.
Personal Influences
I have been a member of the Labour Party since 1990.
I am an evangelical Christian and member of the Church of England, and my theology is not dissimilar to that espoused by Fulcrum, a movement seeking to act as a point of balance within the Anglican Church.
I am currently studying for a postgraduate Diploma in History at the University of East Anglia.
I am a member of the Society of Authors and of the Liverpool and SW Lancashire Family History Society.
I have been married since 1987 and have a 1992-born daughter.