Dr. C. Emdad Haque is Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Management at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Masters of Arts degree in 1982 and a PhD in Geography and Environment in 1988. Dr. Haque served as the Chair of the Department of Geography of Brandon University, Manitoba, during 1996–2000 and as Director of the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Manitoba from 2001 to 2011. He authored/co-authored more than 220 refereed articles and has written seven books, including Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh (Kluwer Publishers, 1997), and edited the Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters (Springer, 2005) volume recently. Dr. Haque is the recipient of the 1998 Brandon University Senate Award for Excellence in Research. He was also awarded the Visiting Research Fellowship by the Queen Elizabeth House of the University of Oxford, Oxford, England in 1996–97, and Visiting Fulbright Research Chair at the Arizona State University, USA by the Fulbright Foundation.