Prof. James Ford received a B.S. in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2000. He received an M.S. in Environmental Change and Management from the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, in 2001. He received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Guelph in 2006. Currently, he is a Professor and Priestley Chair in Climate Adaptation at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds. He is the editor-in-chief of Regional Environmental Change. He serves as a lead author on national and international climate assessments, including the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5C of Warming and the associated Summary for Policy Makers, and the Arctic Council’s Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic assessment. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Group to the UNEP’s GEO-7 Assessment. He is a member of the International Arctic Science Committee’s Social and Human Working Group. His research focuses on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.
Dr. Eranga K. Galappaththi received a B.S. in Fisheries and Marine Science from the University of Sri Lanka in 2005. He received an M.S. in Natural Resource Management (MNRM) from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba, in 2013. He received a Ph.D. in Geography from McGill University in 2020. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include climate change adaptation, social–ecological systems, Indigenous Peoples and knowledge systems, and multi-level governance. His research is aimed primarily at the social dimensions of human–nature systems. He is particularly interested in climate change adaptation, focusing on how Indigenous communities and their local food systems experience and adjust to change.
Prof. Guangqing Chi is a Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Pennsylvania State University. He is also an environmental demographer with a focus on socio-environmental systems. His research seeks to understand the interactions between human populations and the built and natural environments and to identify important social, environmental, infrastructural, and institutional assets to help vulnerable populations adapt and become resilient to environmental changes. His research interests include environmental demography, socio-environmental systems, population–infrastructure dynamics, spatiotemporal modeling, and data-intensive social sciences. Prof. Chi received a Ph.D. in Environmental Demography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.
