Dr. Haorui Wu is the Canada Research Chair in Resilience (Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, Faculty of Health, at Dalhousie University. With an interdisciplinary background (architecture, landscape architecture, regional and community planning, and social work), he has been serving as a principal/co-investigator on 55 multi-investigator funded research projects (over $5M in research grants), both nationally and internationally, devoted to exploring human–environment interplay through the lens of environmental and social justice in the global context of climate change, disasters, and willful acts of violence. He has been published intensively in applying innovative socio-ecological protection strategies to stimulate the transdisciplinary application of grassroots leadership empowerment in community social development that contributes to the enhancement of inhabitants’ health and well-being.