**About the Editors**

**Piotr Matczak** Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). He publishes on flood risk governance, adaptation to climate change, ecosystem services, crisis management and sustainable development. He is a member of The Commission of Climatology, Water Resources, and Air Quality Protection of the Poznan Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has been engaged in several EU and Polish National Science Centre funded research projects as principal investigator and coordinator of work packages.

**Dries L. T. Hegger** is an Assistant Professor in Regional Water and Climate Governance at UU's Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. He studies modes of environmental governance and their relationship with resilient and sustainable urban development. He has been involved in several national and international projects on flood risk governance (EU-FP7 STAR-FLOOD; JPI-CLIMATE TRANS-ADAPT), on knowledge co-creation in regional climate adaptation (Dutch National Research Program Knowledge for Climate), on relationships between water companies and consumers (funded by Dutch drinking water companies) and on innovation in wastewater management systems in a Western context (nationally funded). All his past projects have involved extensive stakeholder engagement, leading to an equally extensive network of national and international governmental, business and civil society organizations.
