Biography: Komali Kantamaneni is a Senior Research Fellow at UCLan (University of Central Lancashire ) and Honorary Research fellow at University College London. She completed her PhD at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea, UK, entitled Evaluating Fiscal and Physical Coastal Vulnerability in the UK. Her research is into risk analysis of coastal communities due to climate change impacts (such as increased flooding and storms) and development of corresponding mathematical systems that can holistically measure coastal vulnerability in both physical and fiscal terms. She holds an MBA in Business Studies from Cardiff Metropolitan University (UK); and MSc in Environmental Sciences and a BSc in Biology from Nagarjuna University, India. She has published several papers in refereed international journals as well as presented her research at various international conferences. Komali is a topic editor for the Journal of Sustainability (MDPI) and associate editor for the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)