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Ian D. Rotherham is Emeritus Professor at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. He is an authority on landscape history and particularly on the history, heritage and ecology of woodlands and peatlands. He has published widely, including over 500 academic research papers, around 50 books and many hundreds of popular articles. He is co-editor (with Alper H. Çolak and Simay Kirca) of Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests: Ecology, History and Management.

Jennifer A. Moody is an Aegean archaeologist at the University of Texas, Austin, specializing in landscape and paleo-climate reconstruction and ceramic fabric analysis. She is an advocate for landscape conservation and the preservation of cultural heritage in Greece and elsewhere. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called genius grant, for her research on the intersection of changes in climate, culture and landscape on the island of Crete, Greece. She has directed four archaeological surveys on the island and consulted for many more. She has worked on Crete for over 40 years, and collaborated there with Oliver Rackham for 32 years. She and Oliver Rackham co-authored The Making of the Cretan Landscape, for which they won the Runciman prize.