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Prof. Dr. Nivaldo Peroni

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Department of Ecology and Zoology, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Trindade, Florianópolis 88040-970, Brazil
Interests: ecological history; agrobiodiversity; ethnobotany; landscape ethnoecology; social-ecological system resilience; land and food systems; plant and landscape domestication; paleoethnobotany

Prof. Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

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1. Doctoral School of Urban Planning, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, 10014 Bucharest, Romania
2. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical University of Moldova, 2004 Chisinau, Moldova
3. National Institute for Research and Development in Constructions, Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial, Development URBAN-INCERC, 21652 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: environmetrics; systems ecology; spatial ecology; geostatistics; urban ecology; landscape ecology; land cover and use; land cover and use changes; sustainable spatial development
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Dr. Vinod Phogat

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School of Agriculture, Food and Wine & Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Interests: soil science; soil physics; irrigation; salinity tolerance and management; nutrient transport in soils under surface and pressurized irrigation systems

Prof. Dr. Andrea Pieroni

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Ethnobotany and Ethnobiology, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II 9, Pollenzo, I-12042 Cuneo, Italy
Interests: food heritage; ethnobiology; ethnobotany; wild food plants; fermentations; neglected species
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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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Prof. Dr. Claudia A. Radel

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Department of Environment & Society, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5215, USA
Interests: gender and agrarian change, conservation, and natural resource management & assets; migration and land-use change; smallholder livelihood dynamics
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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 and 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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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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1. Escuela de Architectura, Artes y Diseño, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico
2. 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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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. Alessio Russo

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School of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
Interests: green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; urban regeneration; urban green spaces; urban rewilding; ecosystem services
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Dr. Soheil Sabri

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Urban Digital Twin Lab, School of Modeling Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, 3100 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
Interests: digital twin; digital transformation; environmentally sustainable design (ESD); 3D modeling; automated building assessment; geospatial AI (GeoAI)
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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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Prof. Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez

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Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA
Interests: urban planning; technology; social equity; scholarly impact
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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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Dr. Matthew Saunders

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Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, D02 PN40 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: plant ecophysiology; climate change; carbon cycle; greenhouse gas dynamics; sustainable land use

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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Prof. Dr. María F. Schmitz

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Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: cultural landscape; social–ecological systems; landscape heritage; biocultural diversity; protected areas; nature-based tourism; landscape structure
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Dr. Birgit Schmook

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Department for the Observation and Study of the Land, Atmosphere and Ocean, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) Chetumal, Chetumal 77014, Mexico
Interests: smallholder livelihoods; migration; conservation; land use change; Mesoamerica
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Dr. Laura Schneider

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Department of Geography, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 54 Joyce Kilmer Blvd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Interests: environmental disturbances; tropical ecosystems; secondary forest; remote sensing; socio-ecological resilience; Latin America

Prof. Dr. Nicola Sciarra

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Department of Engineering and Geology, University of G. d'Annunzio Chieti — Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: characterization of rock slopes; back-analysis; debris flow; rockfalls; numerical modeling; unmanned aerial vehicle data; rockfall simulation

Prof. Dr. Jefferey M. Sellers

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Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, Von KleinSmid Center 327, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: urban governance and policy; local government; politics and political participation in urban regions; intergovernmental relations and multilevel governance; suburbanization and metropolitanization; urban form; urban and periurban land dynamics; political economy of urban development; metropolitan land and housing markets; urban sociospatial inequality and segregation; remote sensing and GIS

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