**About the Editor**

**Gareth Hughes** is Emeritus Professor of Plant Disease Epidemiology at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK. Before joining SRUC in 2010, he had held faculty positions at the University of the West Indies from 1977 to 1981 and the University of Edinburgh from 1981 to 2010. In 2000 he received the Lee M. Hutchins Award of the American Phytopathological Society and in 2003 he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Professor Hughes' work includes *The Study of Plant Disease Epidemics* (co-authored with Laurence Madden and Frank van den Bosch, 2007) and *Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology* (2012), both books published by APS Press. Analysis of the crop protection decision-making problem is at the center of Professor Hughes' research interests.
