**About the Editors**

**Huei-Min Tsai** is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University. She received a M.Sc. in Natural Resources Management from the Ohio State University, U.S.A., and a Ph.D. in Geography from National Taiwan University. Her research interests mainly focus on human–environment interactions and sustainability issues in various types of environments, particularly in small islands, Indigenous communities, and coastal sea areas. The aspects of research include: environmental history, bio-cultural diversity, social–ecological systems, historical political ecology, sustainability science, resilience theory, nature-society co-evolution, and local and Indigenous knowledge systems. The applications of these understandings mainly apply to environmental literacy, community capacity building, Indigenous knowledge-based science education, and relevant policies. She also serves as the Chair for International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Islands, and as an Honorary Life Member of International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA).

**Yih-Ren Lin** is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University. Dr. Lin received a Ph.D. in Geography, University College London, London, UK. From a perspective of social–cultural analysis on nature, Dr Lin explores the relationship between environmental values and social change of different social groups. His main research topics during the past years include: the multi-cultural perspective on the ecological values of the Chi-lan cypress forests; Indigenous community mapping and traditional territories; traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge and socio–ecological systems; political ecology of natural disasters; Indigenous ecological governance; ecological pedagogy; and exploration of participatory action research, e.g., the 'Millet Ark' action with Indigenous Tayal People. He has also been recognised as an honorary researcher at College of Indigenous Futures Arts & Society, Charles Darwin University in Australia since 2019 and serves as a member of editorial advisory board of the journal *Environmental Humanities*.

**Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak** is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University, and an Einstein Scholar of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan. Dr. Bayrak obtained his PhD from the Geography and Resource Management Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015. His research and teaching interests concern ways in which local and communities in Southeast and East Asia cope with and adapt to global climate change. He often employs a political ecology approach in both his teaching and research. Dr. Bayrak is an associate editor/editorial board member for Weather, Climate, and Society, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and serves as member of the reviewer board of Land. He also serves as Executive Secretary for the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Islands.
