Ranjan Datta, PhD. Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada. Ranjan's research interests include advocating for environmental sustainbilities, responsibilities for decolonial research, water and energy justice, critical anti-racist climate change resilience, and cross-cultural community research. He has 65 peer-reviewed publications, including 4 books, five edited books, two journal special issues on decolonial research, traditional story sharing, Indigenist community-based participatory action research, Indigenous land-water and sustainabilities issues. His current research program is supported by his existing network of Indigenous, visible minority immigrants and refugees, Black communities, scholars, students, practitioners, and professionals in Bangladesh, India, Canada, the USA, the UK, Ghana, and Malawi.