Ruth Gamble is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is an environmental and cultural historian of Tibet and the Himalaya. She has previously worked on the Himalaya and Tibet’s sacred geography and is presently writing a book on the environmental history of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Gillian G. Tan is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. Her research covers the multiple ways that humans relate with their natural environment and focuses on the cultural and environmental changes experienced by nomadic pastoralists of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Her current work explores the intersections between religion and ecology. Hongzhang Xu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Specializing in transdisciplinary research, he explores societal adaptation to changes through power relations, cultural values, and institutional dynamics. His focus includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mathematics and sciences as well as additional expertise in biodiversity, water management, and Indigenous Knowledge. Sara Beavis is Senior Lecturer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She has a background in environmental geology with a focus on water. Her research explores the impacts of anthropogenic and natural processes, including landuse, and climate variability and change, on streamflows and water quality, and the cascading consequences these have for downstream river systems, water-dependent ecosystems and human communities. Petra Maurer is Professor at the Institute of Indology and Tibetology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on the cultural history of Tibet, particularly on divination, medicine, and lexicography. She compiles the Wörterbuch der Tibetischen Schriftsprache at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Jamie Pittock is Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His background includes research into the integration between management of freshwater ecosystems and responses to climate change, involving case studies from nine countries. His current research focuses on environmental governance, climate change adaptation, energy, and the sustainable management of water. John Powers is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and currently holds a joint position in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and the Centre for Contemplative Studies at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. His research includes works on Buddhist epistemology and Yogācāra soteriology, Chinese government propaganda on Tibetan Buddhism, gender in Indian Buddhism, and human rights issues. Robert J. Wasson is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University and Adjunct at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. He is a geomorphologist with expertise in reconstruction of landscape change over long time periods, catchment processes and management, sediment and nutrient budgeting, extreme flood hydrology and its geomorphic expression and mitigation, and the impact on fluvial systems of climate variability and change. He has undertaken research in many parts of Australia and Asia.