**About the Editors**

**Uchendu Eugene Chigbu** (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. His works fall within the interface between Social Sciences and Geodesy (or Social Geodesy). He is a multi-disciplinary consultant with diverse experience across a broad spectrum of land management specializations. He has multiple professional affiliations but is most active with the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN). He is the Co-Chair of the Research in the GLTN. His most recent book, entitled *Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure–Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy*, was published in 2022. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals *Land Use Policy* (Elsevier) and *Local Development & Society* (Routledge).

**Ruishan Chen** (PhD) is Professor at the Shanghai Jiaotong Univeristy. He researches land use change, human–nature interactions, and disaster risk reduction. He has worked on the International Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment and is a lead author of *Transformative Change Assessment* (a thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity). He is also Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) East Asian hub and has worked on several UCCRN assessments, for example, COVID, Climate Change and Cities and Nature-Based Solutions for Cities.

**Chao Ye** (PhD) is Professor at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University. He was selected as a young scholar of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education and is now the chief expert of the Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China. Chao's research interests are in urbanization, urban and rural governance, sustainability science, and geographical thought, with particular focus on interdisciplinary research in economy, society, geography, and culture of urban and rural areas. He has over 100 publications in such high-impact journals as *Science Bulletin, Habitat International, Journal of Rural Studies*, and *Land Use Policy*. He currently serves as the Associate Editor of *Environment, Development and Sustainability* and serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for numerous international journals.
