CONTRIBUTORS

‘Far from being a political narrative, in my book, The Heartbeat of Iran, I invite readers into the heart and soul of a country that’s often seen through news headlines and a political fog that blurs the reality of life for millions of Iranians inside the country,’ says Tara Kangarlou (page 16 and 70), who talks through what she has learned over four years of interviewing Iranian citizens. ‘With the world’s highest per-capita rooftop solar take-up and an enduring love of coal and gas, Australia’s energy landscape is one big paradox,’ says British journalist and long-time resident Down Under, Matt Brace ( page 38). ‘I wanted to find out why, in a country where so many people are tuned into climate change, the federal government is so backward and out of touch.’ ‘Wildfires have become startlingly common. These blistering damnations are partly the price of a natural world thrown off kilter by human incursion,’ says Jacob Dykes ( page 52). ‘I visited a project in Portugal that offers a glimpse of how the patient restoration of natural processes such as herbivory and predation – so often lost and forgotten – can improve the resilience of landscapes.’