Raffaele Vignola is currently a research affiliate at the Gund Institute for the Environment of the University of Vermont, US. His research and teaching focus on the coupled human and natural dimensions of climate change adaptation and planning in the context of global change challenges affecting food production and water resources. He has designed and supervised the implementation of research to support a variety of stakeholders’ decision-making processes on ecosystem services conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation in several countries and at different scales. He has a BSc in Agronomy Engineering from the University of Florence (Italy), an MSc in Environmental Economics and Sociology, and a PhD in Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). He founded and led for five years as the Chair of Environmental Decisions for Global Change (CLADA) at CATIE (an inter-American Research, postgraduate Education, and Extension organization). He has been a researcher and lecturer at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Environment, Resources, and Sustainability of the University of British Columbia, Canada.