**About the Editors**

**Nicola Favretto** (Dr). is a Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK and an Associate Researcher at the ESRC's Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. He has experience in mixed-method research addressing environmental, economic and policy dimensions of sustainable development across dryland sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, with a focus on rural development, sustainable land management, climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustainable energy. Dr Favretto has undertaken research and managerial roles across a range of international organisations, including the United Nations University, United Nations Development Programme and European Commission.

**Sheona Shackleton** is Professor and Deputy Director at the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Her current research focuses on livelihood and landscape (social-ecological) change, with a particular interest in climate change as a driver and how it interacts with other shocks and stressors to influence adaptation, transformation and future livelihood trajectories. Sheona has been engaged in interdisciplinary, participatory and transdisciplinary research for most of her career. Her interest in engaged scholarship and knowledge co-production arises from both a practical research and ethical perspective, but also an academic one in terms of how best to integrate knowledge co-production processes into our teaching and learning and to support such an approach in our postgraduate research.

**Susannah M. Sallu** is Associate Professor of Environment and Development at the Sustainability Research Institute of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK and a Researcher at the ESRC's Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. Her research and teaching focuses broadly on human–environment interactions and more specifically on rural livelihoods, environmental change, marginalisation and natural resource governance. Academically, her main interests lie in the theoretical and empirical intersections of political ecology, complex systems science and environmental justice. Susannah has particular regional expertise in Africa and works together in participatory ways with communities and a wide range of academic and non-academic partners to develop better understanding of the dynamics, resilience and vulnerability of social-ecological systems, landscapes and livelihoods.
