Receiving her PhD from the University of Sydney, Dr Meg Parsons worked at the Waitangi Tribunal as well as the University of Melbourne and Griffith University (Australia). Currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, her research is transdisciplinary in scope and nature, and is focused on examining how different values, norms, and belief systems are translated into environmental policies and actions pertaining to Indigenous peoples’ experiences of and responses to environmental risks. She is a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment of the IPCC Working Group II and the author of another thirty-four publications.