Carla Ferreira is a senior researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is an expert on surface hydrology and pollutant dispersion, and investigates the application of nature-based solutions and their effectiveness to mitigate water related hazards in different environments. She has been active in the scientific community through the organization of several special issues in many international peer reviewed journals and scientific events. Zahra Kalantari is an Associate professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her main competence is in Geoscience and environmental engineering for Sustainability in the Anthropocene. Her research interests include combining science and applications to manage current and mitigate future climate and land use changes, vulnerability assessment to water-related disasters, adaptive land-use planning for decision support and Nature-Based Solutions for sustainable rural and urban development. ThomasHartmann is professor for land policy and land management at TU Dortmund University (DE) with expertise in flood risk management and land policy. He is the editor and author of numerous books on these issues and Vice-Chair of the EU Cost Action LAND4FLOOD, associate editor of WIRES Water and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Flood Risk Management. Paulo Pereira is full professor of Environmental Science at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He is an expert on Ecosystem Services, Spatial Analysis, Land Degradation, Fire Effects on Soil Properties, Nature-Based Solutions and land use change impacts on ecosystems. He edited several books and is Associated Editor in Chief of the Journal Geography and Sustainability, Associated Editor of the Journals Science of the Total Environment and Helyion and editor and guest editor of more than 10 other journals.