Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University and Lead Principal Investigator of Risk Society and Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University.

Koichi Hasegawa is Professor of Sociology at Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan.

Dowan Ku is Director of Environment and Society Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea.

Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Fo Guang University.