Born in Ottawa and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Laurence A.G. Moss has since lived and worked principally in Pacific Asia and western North America, and most recently in central Europe. For the past 15 years his North American base has been Santa Fe, New Mexico. After undergraduate studies in art, Asian studies and political–economy at the University of British Columbia, he took his graduate degrees in cultural & economic change analysis, ecology and urban & regional planning at University of California (Berkeley). Professionally, he has focused on regional and local community change and development, working through a variety of public and non-profit organizations in some 20 countries. Since 1986 he has targeted sustainability and equity issues in the rapid cultural and environmental change taking place in mountain bio-regions and their human settlements; especially amenity migration and tourism. Intermittently, he has also taught at a number of institutions, including the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok), Charles University (Prague), Stanford University, University of Calgary and University of California (Berkeley). Essential in his work is a multi-disciplinary and ecological perspective, and the use of strategic analysis -- what he prefers to call "non-linear dynamic analysis." Frequently, he and his wife, Romella S. Glorioso, a landscape ecologist, natural resources and community planner, and GIS expert, work as a team.