Antonio M. Rico‑Amorós is a Full Professor at the Department of Regional Geographic Analysis and Physical Geography and the Masters in Planning and Management of Natural Risks at the University of Alicante, Spain. He is the Director of the Interuniversity Institute of Geography at the same university, being the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Investigaciones Geográficas, indexed in the Scopus database. He is a transdisciplinary researcher with more than 120 publications indexed in JCR and Scopus databases focused on agricultural and urban-tourist water use management, rural development and land planning, and climatic risks (droughts and floods) and adaptation strategies in semi-arid regions. He participated in more than 30 competitive research projects at regional, national, and European contexts, being PI in most of them.