**About the Editors**

### **Pankaj Kumar**

Pankaj Kumar is working in the field of water resources and climate change adaptation at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. His research work primarily focuses on socio-hydrology, water security, hydrological simulation, scenario analysis, and the water-health-food-energy nexus. To address his research objectives, he uses an integrated approach involving both qualitative and quantitative analysis. One of the important works that he is engaged in is 'Water quality assessments and scenario modeling for different water environment in different Asian countries', a transdisciplinary work that aims to enhance community resilience to address growing water demands under climate change and rapid urbanization, with the ultimate intention to give a solution for sustainable water resource management at the policy level both from adaptation and mitigation perspectives.

In parallel, he is also working for different global reports like Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) in different capacities, and is currently working as lead author for nexus assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health in the context of climate change under Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) secretariat.

### **Ram Avtar**

Dr Ram Avtar is working as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. He developed methods for forest mapping using multi-sensor remote sensing techniques and scenario analysis for sustainable forest management. His research interest is in applications of geospatial techniques to monitor terrestrial ecosystems including forest, agriculture, urban and disasters and disseminating the results to policy-makers. Currently, he is working on the synergistic use of remote sensing and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) techniques to monitor the environment more precisely to solve environmental issues from global to local scale.
