Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DTech, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He also chairs the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme (ICCIRP).Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 600 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals. This includes the African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, a 4-volumes publication illustrating the means via which climate change adaptation is being implemented in Africa today (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6) and the Handbook of Climate Change Management: Research, Leadership, Transformation (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3), a 6-volumes compendium on the theory and practice of climate change management. With 229 chapters, to which over 500 authors from across all geographical regions have contributed, this is the largest non-publicly funded editorial project on climate change adaptation ever produced.
