Prateep is Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo. He has an academic background in political science, natural resources and environmental studies and international development. He engages in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship with an active interest in combining social and ecological perspectives. Prateep’s research focuses on the understanding of complex human-environment connections/disconnections in coastal-marine systems with attention to social-ecological change, its drivers, their influence and possible ways to respond. His main research interests include coastal commons, environmental change, governance, social-ecological system resilience, regime shifts, environmental justice, political ecology.