Dr Aliyu Barau read Bsc Geography, Msc Land Resources, PhD Urban and Regional Planning. He currently teaches at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. He is a World Social Science Fellow (Sustainable Urbanisation) of the International Social Science Council, Research Fellow - Earth System Governance Project, member of experts/lead author - Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He is also a member of the Global Land Programme and its working group on knowledge co-production. Dr Barau has published articles in high impact journals with focus on land and environment such as Land Use Policy, Habitat International, Landscape and Urban Planning, Environmental Science and Policy etc, He has also published two article in the GLP newsletters. His most recent articles were published by Nature and Nature Climate Change