Robert C. Brears is an international sectoral expert (water) consultant with the Green Climate Fund. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Robert is an author of several Springer Nature titles, including The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Blue and Green Cities: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources, and Developing the Circular Water Economy. He is the Founder of Our Future Water.