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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

Dr. Pere Serra

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Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Interests: land use planning; landscape dynamics; earth observation applications
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Prof. Dr. Enrique Serrano Cañadas

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Department of Geography, University of Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: geomorphology; glacial and periglacial processes; mountain environments; mapping
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Dr. Penelope Serrano Ortiz

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Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, CP, Spain
Interests: micrometeorology; greenhouse gases; carbon cycle; photosynthesis; respiration; subterranean ventilation; agro-systems

Prof. Dr. Charlie Shackleton

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Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa
Interests: non-timber forest products; NTFP ecology; NTFP management; multipurpose landuse; poverty alleviation; rural livelihoods; urban foraging
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Dr. Muhammad Shafique

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK
Interests: building information modeling (BIM); machine learning; green buildings; green infrastructures; sustainability; life-cycle energy and environmental assessment (LCA); environmental policy impact assessment sustainable & smart city; transport policy; transport behavior and network modeling; energy & environmental economics; carbon neutrality; sustainable and smart materials; climate change adaptation
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Dr. Xiaoying Shi

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Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Interests: hydrology and carbon cycle; land ecosystems; earth system modeling; human dimensions

Prof. Dr. Zhi-Hua Shi

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College of Resources & Environment, Huazhong Agricultral University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: soil erosion; landscape ecology

Dr. Cynthia S. Simmons

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Department of Geography, Center for Latin American Studies (LATAM), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: economic, environment, and development geography; livelihoods and poverty; geographies of resistance, coupling human and natural systems ; agrarian reform; land grabs; political economy of environmental change
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Dr. Hariklia D. Skilodimou

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Department of Geology, University of Patras, Rio, ZC, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: GIS&EO; mapping; environmental geology; natural hazards; land use planning
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Prof. Dr. Aleksandar D. Slaev

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Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Varna Free University, 9007 Varna, Bulgaria
Interests: market-based instruments for sustainable/green development; methods of planning (e.g., decentralised planning) and sustainability; market methods for provision and financing urban green spaces; forms of property rights; property rights and sustainable/green development; sustainability and the forms of urban growth; urban sprawl (exclusive of mathematical models of sprawl or urban growth)

Dr. Wei Song

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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 change and simulation; ecological effects of land use change; land use policy; rural land consolidation; land use planning
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Dr. Renata Sõukand

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Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, Mestre, 30172 Venice, Italy
Interests: ethnobotany; ethnobiology; ecosemiotics; biocultural diversity; Eastern Europe; post-Soviet
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Prof. Dr. Jane Southworth

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Department of Geography, Land Use & Environmental Change Institute (LUECI), Florida Climate Institute (FCI), University of Florida, TUR 3141, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: land change science; remote sensing of land cover; climate variability; human-environmental interaction; people and parks: social-ecological system resilience
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Dr. Joachim H. Spangenberg

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Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI Germany, Vorsterstr. 97-99, 51103 Cologne, Germany
Interests: drivers of biodiversity loss; land use intensity assessment; ecosystem services and limits to monetization; sustainability scenarios and modelling; socio-environmental justice
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Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

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Group Head Sustainable Land Management, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: sustainable land management; land use and land cover analysis; land degradation; climate variability and climate change adaptation and mitigation; ecosystem services / natural resources; agricultural landscapes / agro-ecology; social-ecological resilience; environmental performance; environmental stewardship / environmental policy; conceptual and methodological development
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Prof. Dr. Shiliang Su

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Department of GI Science and Cartography, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: geocomputational social sciences; land use modeling; thematic cartography
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Prof. Dr. Bindong Sun

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Research Center for China Administrative Division, Institute of Eco-Chongming, School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University, Minhang District, Shanghai 200241, China
Interests: urban and regional spatial structure; urban and regional planning; urban and regional economics; transportation and land use
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Dr. Wei Sun

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Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: regional development and planning; regional spatial growth management; sustainable development of watersheds
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Dr. Elias Symeonakis

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Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Building, Manchester M15 6BH, UK
Interests: remote sensing; land degradation; AI algorithms
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Dr. Lulseged D. Tamene

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International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Addis Ababa P.O. Box 5689, Ethiopia
Interests: landscape ecology; land degradation; restoration; system analysis; geospatial analysis
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Dr. Deodato Tapete

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Italian Space Agency (ASI), Via del Politecnico snc, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: remote sensing; satellite radar; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); interferometric radar; archaeology; Earth observation; Earth sciences
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Prof. Dr. Fabio Terribile

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Department of Agriculture, University of Napoli Federico II, 80055 Portici (Napoli), Italy
Interests: soil; pedology; applied pedology; geospatial decision; support systems

Prof. Dr. Piyush Tiwari

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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
Interests: land and housing economics
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Dr. Maria Rosa Trovato

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia, 54, Catania, Italy
Interests: housing affordability; real estate market; urban regeneration; urban planning valuation; landscape accounting and assessment; historic city preservation; multiple criteria decision aid; housing vulnerability and property prices; human vulnerability and human capital
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Dr. Svetlana Turubanova

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Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: satellite-based forest mapping; satellite-based forest monitoring; land use and land cover change; forest conservation; history of land management

Dr. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi

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Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: landscape architecture; landscape planning; natural based solutions; urban sustainability; urban microclimate; vertical green urban biodiversity; green infrastructures; cultural heritage landscapes design
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