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About the Editors
Simone Lucatello is a full-time researcher and professor at the Instituto Mora, a
public research centre belonging to the Mexican National Agency for Science and
Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico City, Mexico. He is one of the leading authors
of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group II,
which deals with the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change for the
next IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, due in 2021), and coordinating leading
author of the AR6 North American Chapter. His research interests include climate
change impacts in the Global South and risk assessment and disaster risk reduction
in Latin America. He served as a consultant to several international organizations,
such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UNEP, UNIDO, OCHA and
European Union (Europe Aid) in the Balkans, Central America and Mexico. He is
member of the International Network for Sustainable Drylands (RISZA) and of the
Scientific Committee of the Humanitarian Encyclopedia at the Genève Centre for
Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH, Switzerland). He is also
actively engaged in national and international academic networks and projects
across the Americas, Europe and Africa. He holds a master’s degree in International
Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in Governance
for Sustainable Development from the Venice International University, Italy.
Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald is research professor at the Division of Environmental
Sciences, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT),
San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She co-founded the area of Global Environmental Change
and Ecology and co-designed the Environmental Sciences Postgraduate Program
with the specialty in Global Environmental Change and Ecology. She is an expert in
dryland systems considering the influence of global and social changes. She has 15
years of experience in interdisciplinary and 5 years of transdisciplinary research.
Her work focuses on the integrity and resilience of dryland socioecological systems
and the sustainable development of rural livelihoods. She is founder of and currently coordinating the International Network for Drylands Sustainability (RISZA)
and is member of the Executive Committee of the Transatlantic Agadir Platform
fostering transdisciplinary dryland research in Latin America, Southern Europe and
About the Editors
Simone Lucatello is a full-time researcher and professor at the Instituto Mora, a
public research centre belonging to the Mexican National Agency for Science and
Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico City, Mexico. He is one of the leading authors
of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group II,
which deals with the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change for the
next IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, due in 2021), and coordinating leading
author of the AR6 North American Chapter. His research interests include climate
change impacts in the Global South and risk assessment and disaster risk reduction
in Latin America. He served as a consultant to several international organizations,
such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UNEP, UNIDO, OCHA and
European Union (Europe Aid) in the Balkans, Central America and Mexico. He is
member of the International Network for Sustainable Drylands (RISZA) and of the
Scientific Committee of the Humanitarian Encyclopedia at the Genève Centre for
Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH, Switzerland). He is also
actively engaged in national and international academic networks and projects
across the Americas, Europe and Africa. He holds a master’s degree in International
Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in Governance
for Sustainable Development from the Venice International University, Italy.
Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald is research professor at the Division of Environmental
Sciences, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT),
San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She co-founded the area of Global Environmental Change
and Ecology and co-designed the Environmental Sciences Postgraduate Program
with the specialty in Global Environmental Change and Ecology. She is an expert in
dryland systems considering the influence of global and social changes. She has 15
years of experience in interdisciplinary and 5 years of transdisciplinary research.
Her work focuses on the integrity and resilience of dryland socioecological systems
and the sustainable development of rural livelihoods. She is founder of and currently coordinating the International Network for Drylands Sustainability (RISZA)
and is member of the Executive Committee of the Transatlantic Agadir Platform
fostering transdisciplinary dryland research in Latin America, Southern Europe and