Harini Nagendra teaches sustainability at Azim Premji University and has conducted research on the interaction between people and nature in forests and cities for over thirty years. She is internationally recognized for her scholarship on sustainability by the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences the 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award and the 2017 Clarivate Web of Science award. Her previous books include Nature in the City Bengaluru in the Past Present and Future and The Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series set in 1920s colonial India.
Seema Mundoli teaches sustainability at Azim Premji University. She has worked with NGOs in conservation mining land and forest rights and education in indigenous communities. Her current work examines the relationship between people and nature in cities that is critical to understand sustainability and climate change challenges. In addition to research papers and popular articles she has co-edited State of the Environment 2005 Andaman and Nicobar Islands. She always listens to her cats who provide the best advice on all matters.
The authors also co-wrote Cities and Canopies Trees in Indian Cities and the illustrated children's book So Many Leaves.