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Prof. Dr. Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr.

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Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Interests: error assessment; land change science; simulation modeling; spatial analysis; statistics; uncertainty
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Dr. Paulette Posen

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Principal Spatial Scientist, Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Weymouth DT4 8UB, UK
Interests: environmental modelling; river catchment management and land use impacts on water quality; influence of human activities and natural events at the land/sea interface; climate change
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Dr. Joerg Priess

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Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department for Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstraße 15, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany
Interests: climate change/global change and impacts on environment and ecosystem services; scenario development and -analysis; simulation of land-use dynamics; mapping and evaluation of (cultural) ecosystem services

Dr. Manuel Pulido Fernádez

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GeoEnvironmental Research Group, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
Interests: sustainable grazing
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Prof. Dr. Claudia A. Radel

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Department of Environment & Society, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5215, USA
Interests: smallholder agriculture; migration; political ecology; land system science; gender inequality
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Prof. Dr. Abbas Rajabifard

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Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: digital twin; land administration; cadastre; spatial data infrastructure
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Dr. Tiago Brito Ramos

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Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia do Ambiente e do Mar (MARETEC-LARSyS), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: modeling soil water dynamics; solute transport in the vadose zone
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Prof. Dr. Guoyu Ren

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1. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
2. National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: monitoring and detection of climate change; extreme climate change; observation; urban climate change; climatology
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Prof. Dr. Lynn M. Resler

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Virginia Tech, Department of Geography, and College of Natural Resources, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: ecological biogeography; plant biogeography; mountain ecotones; geospatial technologies; biogeomorphology

Dr. Fatemeh Rezaie

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1. Geoscience Data Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), 124, Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34132, Republic of Korea
2. Department of Geophysical Exploration, Korea University of Science and Technology, 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
Interests: integrating machine/deep learning algorithms; metaheuristic optimization approaches; remote sensing data to address global land-related challenges
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Dr. Mark Riley

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School of Environmental Sciences, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Interests: rural and environmental change; social and cultural aspects; agriculture and land management; family farming; agri-environmental schemes and management

Dr. Todd Robinson

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School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U 1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
Interests: remote sensing; spatial analysis and modelling; restoration; invasive species; LiDAR; rangeland ecology; condition monitoring; impact of mining; endemics
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Dr. Lucia Rocchi

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
Interests: natural resource management; spatial multi criteria assessment; ecosystem service assessment and management; decision support system
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Dr. Matias Merida Rodriguez

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Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Málaga, 29016 Málaga, Spain
Interests: landscape analysis; landscape perception; landscape evaluation; land planning; landscape integration of human activities

Prof. Dr. George Oliver Rogers

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Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137, USA
Interests: landscape architecture; sustainability and environmental planning; risk and disaster; science and technology; organizations and social structure; quantitative methods; evaluation research

Prof. Dr. Rob Roggema

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Cittaideale, Herenstraat 26A, 6701DL Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: regenerative design; nature-driven urbanism; foodscapes; climate adaptation; spatial sea level landscapes; sustainable urban design; complexity
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Dr. Isabel Rosa

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School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK
Interests: tropical deforestation; land use and land cover change
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Dr. Sanda Roșca

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1. Faculty of Geography, Babes-Bolyai University, Clinicilor Street 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2. Academy of Romanian Scientists, Ilfov 3, 050044 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: gis modelling; landslide; spatial modeling and analysis; remote sensing and geospatial data integration; environmental and geographical studies; climate change impact assessment; risk and hazard assessment; land-use and spatial planning; applied geomorphology; forest and ecosystem monitoring; geospatial technologies evaluation
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Prof. Dr. Manfred Rösch

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Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und vorderasiatische Archäologie, Sandgasse 7, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: vegetation history; palaeoecology of the Holocene; land use history

Dr. Benedetto Rugani

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Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Marconi 2, I-05010 Porano (TR), Italy
Interests: ecosystem services; environmentally-extended input-output (EE-IO) analysis; emergy; carbon footprint; ecological footprint; water footprint; life cycle assessment (LCA)

Prof. Dr. Alberto Matarán Ruiz

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Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, University of Granada, Faculty of Architecture, Campo del Príncipe, 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests: bioregional planning; urban agroecology; short food supply chains; periurban agriculture; social participation; urban and territorial decoloniality; megaprojects, extractivism and collapse
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Dr. Jesús Ruiz-Fernández

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Department of Geography, University of Oviedo, Calle Amparo Pedregal s/n, 33003 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: glaciers; glacial and periglacial geomorphology; paleoenviroments; Quaternary; Holocene; soils in polar and mountain environments, sedimentary records; charcoal analysis; permafrost; Antarctica; Arctic

Dr. Alessio Russo

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School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
Interests: urban green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; urban ecosystems; landscape architecture; renaturing cities
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Dr. Ernan Rustiadi

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Center for Regional Systems Analysis, Planning and Development (Crestpent), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Baranangsiang Campus Jl. Raya Pajajaran, Bogor 16144, Indonesia
Interests: regional and rural planning

Dr. Soheil Sabri

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1. School of Modeling, Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
2. Urban Digital Twin Lab, School of Modeling Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, 3100 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
Interests: urban digital twins; automated building approvals; modeling and simulation; planning support systems; geospatial analytics; rule-based compliance assessment; environmentally sustainable design; GeoAI; AI-ready data center siting and urban integration; human–environment interaction modeling
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Prof. Dr. Luca Salvati

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Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, Via Armaroli 43, I-62100 Macerata, Italy
Interests: climate change; desertification; land-use; sustainable agriculture; urban sprawl; urban and rural geography
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Dr. Wojciech Sałabun

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Research Team on Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: decisions; management; multi-criteria problems; multi-criteria decision analysis; artificial intelligence; applied mathematics
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Dr. Alim Samat

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1. Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
2. China-Kazakhstan Joint Laboratory for RS Technology and Application, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty 050012, Kazakhstan
Interests: remote sensing image processing & application; arid land resource & environment remote sensing; urban remote sensing
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Dr. Harpinder Sandhu

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School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Interests: sustainable agriculture; organic farming; theory and practice of ecosystem services; true cost accounting in agriculture, agroecology; rural ssociety and environment interactions
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Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt

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Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: forest-farming interactions; multifunctional landscapes; integrated land use systems; land use change and livelihoods in mountainous areas
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