Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).  He is the Director of the "International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and founding editor of  the "Climate Change Management Series", serving in the editorial board of various journals. He has in excess of 300 publications to his credit, and over 25 years of research experience on the connections between environmental management, sustainability, climate and human behaviour.

• Preface.- Part I: Innovation in Planning, Reforms, Technology and Transformative Processes.- Part II: Innovation in Sectorial Approaches to Adaptation.