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## **About the Editors**

**Atsushi Tsunekawa** graduated from the Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo, after which he joined the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. Currently, he serves as a professor at the Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, and also serves as a Head of the Strategic Management Office of the International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University. His primary scholarly interests are developing sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches to restore degraded land and improve farmers' livelihood and monitoring and modeling of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change using remote sensing and GIS. He is selected as a Science and Technology Correspondent from Japan to the Committee on Science and Technology of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

**Nigussie Haregeweyn** received his PhD in Physical Geography from K.U Leuven (Belgium). He started his professional career in Ethiopia as an irrigation engineer in 1995 before joining Mekelle University in 2001 as a lecturer. Since 2010, he has been serving in various research capacities at Tottori University (Japan), where he currently holds a professor position at the International Platform for Dryland Research and Education. His research interests include land degradation and development with emphasis on soil erosion, land use and climate change and sustainable land management through integrating a range of tools and techniques covering various spatiotemporal scales.
