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Dr. Liz Alden Wily

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Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden School of Law, Leiden University, PO Box 9500 Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: land tenure; collective property; compulsory acquisition; community forests

Prof. Dr. Yang Xiao

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College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Interests: built environment; spatial assessment; social health; community governance
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Dr. Zhixiao Xie

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Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA
Interests: GIS; remote sensing; spatial data analysis & modeling

Dr. Zisheng Xing

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Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, 370 River Road, Portage la Prairie, MB R1N 3V6, Canada
Interests: soil and water erosion; modeling
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Dr. Dingde Xu

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College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: land use policy; food security; sustainable development
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Prof. Dr. Ligang Xu

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Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: ecohydrology; carbon sequestration; soil organic carbon; wetlands
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Dr. Nan Xu

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School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Interests: coastal remote sensing; urban informatics; disaster remote sensing; sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Yong Xue

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School of Environment Science and Geoinformatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: quantitative remote sensing; geocomputation; aerosol optical depth; thermal inertia modeling; heat exchange calculation
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Dr. Yoshiki Yamagata

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Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES),16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8506, Ibaraki, Japan
Interests: climate change risk assessment; social network analysis of climate policy; simulation of carbon neutral city scenarios

Prof. Dr. Jun Yang

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1. Jangho Architecture College, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China
2. Human Settlements Research Center, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
Interests: spatial analysis; land use modeling; land use change; urban climatology
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Prof. Dr. Linchuan Yang

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Department of Urban and Rural Planning, School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
Interests: green travel and physical environments; activity behavior and built environments; transport and land use
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Prof. Dr. Yuanjian Yang

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School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: multispectral remote sensing; cloud precipitation; land surface temperature; Doppler lidar; urban boundary layer; data fusion; artificial intelligence and weather prediction
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Prof. Dr. Zhenshan Yang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: urban and rural relations; human capital; green growth

Prof. Dr. Yung Yau

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School of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
Interests: anti-social behaviour in housing; building control; building illegality; governance of multi-owned housing; inclusive cities; informal housing; sustainability in the built environment; urban renewal and planning
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Prof. Dr. Chao Ye

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School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Interests: urbanization; rural-urban governance; sustainability science; production of space; urban and rural planning
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Prof. Dr. Hezi Yizhaq

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Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 8499000, Beer Sheva 84101, Israel
Interests: pattern formation; non-linear dynamics; ecohydrology; aeolian geomorpholgy; spatial ecology
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Prof. Dr. Kenneth R. Young

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Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Interests: biogeography; environmental conservation; developing countries; tropical ecosystems; protected areas; Latin America, biodiversity; climate change; landscape change
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Prof. Dr. Mike Young

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Centre for Global Food and Resources, The University of Adelaide, 10 Pulteney St, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
Interests: water policy; water trading; environmental policy; transformational change

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Youssef

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Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Interests: remote sensing; GIS; site investigation; geological hazards; geo-environmental hazards; environmental engineering; landslides; rock slope stability; water resources; climate changes

Prof. Dr. Wenze Yue

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Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: land use change; spatial planning; urbanization in China
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Prof. Dr. Yuemin Yue

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Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
Interests: ecological remote sensing; regional ecological assessment; regional ecological restoration effect and mechanism
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Prof. Dr. Jinyan Zhan

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State Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: ecosystem services; ecosystem assessment and management; nature-based solutions
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Prof. Dr. Jianjun Zhang

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School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: land use and sustainable development; land economy and real estate valuation; landscape ecology and low-carbon utilization; urban management and land use allocation
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Dr. Liqiang Zhang

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Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: remote sensing imagery recognition; 3D modeling and reconstruction; deep learning
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Prof. Dr. Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang

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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071, USA
Interests: remote sensing and GIS applications in urban environments; information extraction from remotely sensed data; digital change detection and environmental monitoring; landscape ecology; geoscience education
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Prof. Dr. Yangjian Zhang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A Da Tun Road, An Wai, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: global ecology; remote sensing; landscape ecology; global change biology

Dr. Guangju Zhao

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Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: soil conservation; land degradation; hydrology; soil erosion; soil and water conservation

Prof. Dr. Taiyang Zhong

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School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: land use change; food system transition
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Prof. Dr. Karl Zimmerer

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Departments of Geography and Programs in Rural Sociology and Ecology, Pennsylvania State University, 302 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: biodiversity; food; and sustainability in land system science; food/nutrition security and biodiversity in local and global agri-food systems; land use; water resources; food and social justice in global change; agri-food landscapes; seed systems; food sovereignty

Prof. Dr. Corrado Zoppi

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo 2, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: ecosystem services; green infrastructure; ecological networks; environmental planning; landscape planning; strategic environmental assessment
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