Melissa Leach is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). James Fairhead is professor of social anthropology at the University of Sussex. Leach and Fairhead are the coauthors of Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic; Reframing Deforestation: Global Analyses and Local Realities--Studies in West Africa; Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean; Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society; and other single-authored books.