Srinivasan (Seeni) Pillay is an Environmental Scientist and senior lecturer in School of Agricultural, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – Westville Campus, South Africa. He holds a PhD from the former University of Natal and an MSc from the University of South Carolina, USA – both in the field of Environmental Geology. However, due to his research interests, the numerous post-graduate students supervised and consulting assignments, he has gained expertise in a broad spectrum of environmental science specialist areas: Estuarine Sedimentation and Dynamics; Wetland Assessments; Soil and land degradation assessments; Hydropedological Studies and Material Flux Modelling in Tidal Systems. More recently, he has been working on Acid Mine/Rock Drainage and, Climate Change Studies (in the coastal zone and in mountain regions). He has published several papers and written numerous consultancy reports on these topics and most recently served as project leader for the IDRC (Canada) funded project on “Municipal Risk Pooling as an Adaptation Climate Strategy”. Seeni Pillay is actively involved in sport – especially football and an avid student of Hindu religious philosophy. Interestingly, he was previously a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the Umlazi Branch of UniZulu – back in the day!