Dr. Fikret Berkes is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He has held the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Community-based Resource Management for two seven-year terms. Berkes is a world leader in the area of interconnected human-environment systems (social-ecological systems). His research deals with commons theory, resilience, and traditional ecological knowledge. Internationally, he has participated in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the UNDP Equator Initiative in conservation-development, and the IPBES. He has conducted training sessions for young scholars and professionals in Brazil, Turkey, Hungary, Sweden, Kyrgyzstan, and India. Berkes has some 250 peer-reviewed publications and over 50,000 Google Scholar citations. His ten books include Coasts for People (Routledge 2015), Sacred Ecology (Routledge 2012), Navigating Social-Ecological Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Linking Social and Ecological Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His recent honors and awards include the IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature CEESP Inaugural Award for Meritorious Research (2016); elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (2015); the IASC International Association for the Study of Commons, Elinor Ostrom Award for Senior Scholar (2015); and the ESA Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award for the book, Sacred Ecology (2014).