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Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst

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Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Department Sustainable Landscape Development, University of Halle, Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4, 06120 Halle, Germany
Interests: social–ecological system models; ecosystem services; impact assessment; participatory planning processes at urban and landscape scales; climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies; biodiversity trends and governance
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Prof. Dr. Paul Aplin

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Department of Geography, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, V94 VN26 Limerick, Ireland
Interests: remote sensing; land cover classification; scales of observation; environmental applications
* Section "Land – Observation and Monitoring"
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Prof. Dr. Hossein Azadi

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Department of Economics and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Interests: land and food policies; land governance; food security; agrarian change; resilient agriculture; sustainable livelihood; vulnerability
* Section "Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues"
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Prof. Dr. Benjamin Burkhard

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Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany
Interests: human-environmental system analysis; ecosystem services modelling and mapping; sustainable land use; physical geography and landscape ecology
* Section "Landscape Ecology"
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Dr. Francesca Cigna

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Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: landscape evolution; geophysical hazards; archaeology; cultural heritage; remote sensing; earth observation; InSAR; landslides; land subsidence; ground instability
* Section "Landscape Archaeology"
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Prof. Dr. Nick B. Comerford

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North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Quincy, FL32351, USA
Interests: forest soils and management; tropical/subtropical; soils; soil ecosystem services; soil organic carbon management
* Section "Land, Soil and Water"
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Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase

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Lab of Landscape Ecology, Department of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Interests: land-use change modelling; ecosystem services; socio-environmental justice; urban land teleconnections; urban ecology; GIS and remote sensing
* Section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions"
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Dr. Nir Krakauer

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1. Department of Civil Engineering and NOAA-CESSRST, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
2. Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY 10017, USA
Interests: climate change; water resources planning; groundwater; land-atmosphere interaction; sustainable agriculture; urban ecological design; carbon cycle monitoring; renewable energy resource assessment; probabilistic forecasting; data assimilation; model uncertainty assessment
* Section: Land–Climate Interactions
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Panagopoulos

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Faculty of Science and Technology, Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-Being, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: nature-based solutions; landscape restoration; sustainable development; climate change adaptation; green infrastructure; environmental justice; carbon neutral cities
* Section "Land Planning and Architecture"
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Dr. Sean Sloan

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Canada Research Chair (T2) in the Human Dimensions of Sustainability and Resilience, Department of Geography, Vancouver Island University, 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6E9, Canada
Interests: tropical forest change; wildfire management; rural development and forest conservation; land use; forest transitions; payment for environmental services; REDD+; GIS/remote sensing
* Section "Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing"
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Dr. Le Yu

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Department for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: land system science; land remote sensing; GIS; biodiversity conservation
* Section "Land Systems and Global Change"
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Prof. Dr. Chuanrong Zhang

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Department of Geography & Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Rd., Unit 4148, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Interests: geographical information science and systems; cyberinfrastructure; land use and land cover; spatial data analysis
* Section "Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning"
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Prof. Dr. Weiqi Zhou

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State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10085, China
Interests: urban ecology; remote sensing; urban greenspace; spatial pattern; urban heat island; landscape ecology
* Section "Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability"
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Prof. Dr. Yurui Li

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Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land use; land consolidation; land governance; community development; rural development; regional development; human geography
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Prof. Dr. Shiliang Liu

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School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: landscape ecology; ecological effects of major engineering projects (dam construction and road ecology); restoration ecology; environmental and ecological planning
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Prof. Dr. Alejandro Rescia

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Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: ecology; landscape ecology; biodiversity; ecological restoration; socioecological systems
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Dr. Adrianos Retalis

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Institute for Environmental Research & Sustainable Development (IERSD), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), 15236 Athens, Greece
Interests: remote sensing; GIS; natural hazards; land cover/use change; natural disasters and extremes; spatial data analysis; climate change; air quality; desertification; soil erosion
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Prof. Dr. Richard Smardon

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Department of Environmental Studies, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: visual resource management; landscape assessment; cultural ecosystem services; wetland assessment
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Prof. Dr. Jacques Teller

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Local Environment Management and Analysis (LEMA), Urban and Environmental Engineering, University of Liege, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Interests: urban planning; landscape; land use; governance
* Section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions"
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Prof. Dr. Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla

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Mining and Civil Department, University of Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 52, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: territorial anthropization; GIS analysis; landscape planning; land use policy; territorial management
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Prof. Dr. Richard Aspinall

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Honorary Research Fellow, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
Interests: land systems science; land use; GIS; sustainability; environmental change; landscape ecology
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Prof. Dr. Christian Brannstrom

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Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, 3147 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: land use economics; wind power; energy; political ecology; governance
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Prof. Dr. Xiangzheng Deng

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Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land use/land cover change; ecosystem services; food security; ecological livability; urbanization
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Prof. Dr. Peng Gong

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The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam 999077, Hong Kong
Interests: urbanization and health; mapping and monitoring of global environmental change; modelling of environmentally related infectious diseases

Prof. Dr. Stefan Hotes

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Applied Landscape Ecology Lab, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
Interests: ecosystem functions and ecosystem services in cultural landscapes; sustainable land management; ecology of wetlands; palaeoecology; science policy interfaces
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Prof. Dr. Hualou Long

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: rural geography; rural restructuring; urban-rural development; land use change; land use transition; sustainable land use
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Prof. Dr. Brendan Mackey

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1. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
2. Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
Interests: climate change adaptation and mitigation including nature-based solutions; landscape approaches to conservation; strategic resilience planning; forest ecosystems

Dr. Antonio Raschi

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CNR-Institute for BioEconomy, 50145 Firenze (FI), Italy
Interests: global change; agriculture; rural development; rural tourism

Prof. Dr. Jeff Sayer

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Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Interests: biodiversity; communities and livelihoods; forest policy; land-use change; sustainability; tropical landscapes and livelihoods
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Dr. Linda See

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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Interests: citizen science, crowdsourcing and volunteered geographic information (data collection, quality assessment, creating added value products with VGI, motivation and engagement, etc.); land cover/land use validation; creation of hybrid land cover products; serious gaming; sustainable development goals (SDGs)
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