Prof. Nthaduleni Samuel Nethengwe is a Senior GIS Lecturer, the Head of the Department of Geography and Geo-information Sciences, and the Deputy-Dean of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Venda. He received his PhD in Geography from West Virginia University in the United States of America, in 2007, and has been involved in the teaching and research on geography, GIS, RS, and water resource management since 1993. His key areas of research are mainstreaming GIS and RS into flood vulnerability assessment, gully erosion extraction, green economy (energy and transport), land reform, land use change and suitability analysis, climate science/change, green economy, rural livelihoods, and urban organization. He is an accredited assessor, and a GIS and remote sensing specialist trained in ArcGIS, MapObjects, databases and GIS technical issues by ESRI and GIMS, respectively. He is currently a Univen SAF-ADAPT research leader.