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Dr. Valerie Kapos

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United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2019 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
Interests: ecology; climate change; conservation biology; nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation; ecosystem-based adaptation; conservation and land use planning

Dr. Saskia Keesstra

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Wageningen Environmental Research, Team Soil, Water and Land Use, Wageningen University, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: water and sediment connectivity; catchment processes; nature-based solutions; forest fire; sustainable land management
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Dr. Jennifer Koch

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Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, OK 73069, USA
Interests: socioenvironmental systems; land systems science; integrated modeling; alternative futures analysis; transboundary basins
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Prof. Dr. Xuesong Kong

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School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: rural settlements planning; land consolidation; land use; ecological effects
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Dr. Monika Kopecká

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Department of Geoinformatics, Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Stefanikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: land-use/land-cover change; landscape fragmentation; urban dynamics; ecosystem services; remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. Karima Kourtit

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Faculty of Management, The Open University of The Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands
Interests: creative industries; urban development; cultural heritage; digital technology; strategic performance management
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Dr. Nicola La Porta

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Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, 38098 San Michele all’Adige (TN), Italy
Interests: forestry; forest protection and conservation; climate change; biodiversity; urban and forest trees
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Prof. Dr. Lawrence Wai Chung Lai

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Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: town planning; property rights; heritage conservation; sustainable development
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Dr. Wei Lang

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1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
2. China Regional Coordinated Development and Rural Construction Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Interests: public participation and community planning; rural construction and planning; urban form and spatial structure
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Prof. Dr. Eckart Lange

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Department of Landscape Architecture, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Interests: landscape visualization; landscape planning; public participation; landscape modelling; landscape perception; landscape assessment
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Prof. Dr. Lucie Laurian

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School of Planning and Public Affairs, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Interests: urban and environmental planning; plan evaluation and implementation; environmental injustice and public participation in decision-making; planning theory; democracy; trust and time

Prof. Dr. Hanoch Lavee

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Department of Geography and the Environment, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Interests: surface runoff; soil erosion; land use; climate change
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Dr. Amparo Lázaro

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1. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA; UIB-CSIC), Global Change Research Group, 07190 Esporles, Balearic Islands, Spain
2. Department of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
Interests: plant-pollinator interactions; mutualistic networks; pollination services; pollinator behaviour; landscape ecology; biodiversity; conservation biology

Prof. Dr. Alex Lechner

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Monash University Indonesia, Tangerang Selatan, Jakarta 15345, Indonesia
Interests: landscape ecology; remote sensing; mining; spatial planning; conservation biology
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Prof. Dr. Shaogang Lei

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School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221008, China
Interests: integration of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS); ecological environment remote sensing; ecological conservation and restoration; territorial spatial monitoring and digital

Dr. Stephen J. Leisz

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Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Interests: land-use change; land-cover change; drivers of land-use/cover changes; telecouplings; livelihood changes and land-use transitions; GIS; remote sensing
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Dr. Shicheng Li

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School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: land use and land cover change; Tibetan Plateau; ecosystem services; protected areas
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Prof. Dr. Wenjun Li

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College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: agro-pastoralist; privatization; sustainable livelihoods framework; China; rural development

Prof. Dr. Yan Li

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School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: low-carbon land use; urban carbon metabolism; ecological environment and safety assessment of land; land use management and planning
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Prof. Dr. Zhigang Li

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School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: neighborhoods; sociospatial transformation; spatial planning; urban China
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Prof. Dr. Dianfeng Liu

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School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: sustainable utilization of land resources and ecological effect; spatial planning; geospatial modeling and applications using geographic information systems
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Dr. Feng Liu

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State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: soil science; digital soil mapping; geophysics
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Dr. Haimeng Liu

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Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: sustainable urban development; urbanization and eco-environment; coupled human and natural systems

Dr. Linshan Liu

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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 cover mapping; satellite image processing; spatial analysis
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Dr. Tao Liu

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College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: urbanization; migration; land development; spatial planning
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Dr. Weixing Liu

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Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: global change ecology; soil ecology; microbial ecology

Prof. Dr. John Logan

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Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Interests: China; immigration; segregation; urban sociology
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Prof. Dr. Luís Carlos Loures

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Department of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Portalegre Polytechnic University, 7350-092 Elvas, Portugal
Interests: urban and regional planning; landscape reclamation; environmental planning and sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Elena Lucchi

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura (DICAr), University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 3, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: energy efficiency; energy audit; building energy simulation; highly efficient materials; renewable energy sources; BIPV
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Dr. Fabio Luino

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Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Italian National Research Council, Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: land-use planning; urbanization and geo-hydrological processes; historical research
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