As part of our ongoing review of our editorial structure, the Topical Advisor Panel (TAP) role will be discontinued effective January 1, 2027.

Topical Advisory Panel

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1. Center for Technology and Society, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
2. Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
Interests: urban travel behaviour; land use/transportation interactions; transportation modeling; urban sprawl

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Department of Land Resources Planning and Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi P.O. Box 62 000–00200, Kenya
Interests: soil conservation; integrated water resources management; land degradation; dryland agriculture; environmental conservation

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Italian Forest Restoration Society, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: silviculture; forest restoration; agroforestry; forest management
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Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: applied plant nutrition; fertilizers; biogenic waste management; conservation agriculture

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Hydrology and Conservation Research Group, Catholic University of Ávila, MO 64145 Ávila, Spain
Interests: forest restoration; forest hydrology; erosion and desertification
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si 24341, Republic of Korea
Interests: remote sensing; phenology; forest ecology
Institute for Urban and Regional Development, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Interests: neighborhood determinants of health; greenspace; urban health; health equity

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Department of Geography and Environment (GEOG), College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Interests: cultural geography; political ecology; geopolitics; development studies; tourism studies

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Department of Palaeobotany, W. Szafer Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
Interests: archaeobotany; palaeoecology; environmental archaeology; anthropocene from archaeological point of view; beginnings of agriculture, its adaptations and changes, human-envronment interactions
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land-use modeling; climate change; deforestation and soil moisture; crop yield; biomass and carbon emission; remote sensing & GIS applications in earth system studies; top-down downscaling to enhance the spatial resolution of gridded datasets; improve understanding of agroecosystem-environment interaction; land-atmosphere interaction studies; climate system modeling
Room 230bMeckenheimer Allee 166, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Interests: wetlands; Amazonia; Tanzania

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Environment and Development, & CHANGE-LAB-Associated Lab on Global Change and Sustainability, Department of Geosciences, MED-Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Universidade de Évora Polo da Mitra, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
Interests: land-use governance; rural landscapes; spatial planning
Department of Economics, University Loyola Andalucía/ Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Cordoba, Spain
Interests: land use; landscape management; agricultural policies; multiple criteria decision making (AHP/ANP); computable general equilibrium modelling

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Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, 700505 Iași, Romania
Interests: geomorphometry; geomorphic change detection; high-resolution topography; landslides; gullies; fluvial geomorphology
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Institute of Landscape Architecture, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: landscape architecture; system of green infrastructure; rural landscape; small cities
Centre for Environmental Research and Impact Studies, University of Bucharest, 1 Nicolae Balcescu Blvd., Sector 1, 010041 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: environmental governance; social–ecological system models; conservation biology; impact assessment; participatory planning processes; collaborative decision making; network analysis
EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Changes Foundation (CMCC), Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services Division (IAFES), 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: GIS (geographic information systems); climate change impacts; species distribution modeling

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Department of Building Sciences and Urban Planning, Urban Design and Regional Planning Unit, University of Alicante, San Vicente de Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Interests: urban design; urban data analysis; land uses; built environment; LBSN data
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Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: sustainable development; sustainable food systems; agricultural and food policy; planning agricultural economics
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Department of Agribusiness Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan
Interests: agritourism; farm diversification; rural tourism; multifunctionality of agriculture
CoLAB +ATLANTIC, Molhe Leste, 2520-620 Peniche, Portugal
Interests: urban climate adaptation; urban risk assessment; green infrastructure; heatwaves; urban health
Campo Grande, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: fire; pyrogeography; remote sensing; global pyrogeography; fire regime characterization; global burned area algorithms
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Croatian Forest Research Institute, Cvjetno Naselje 41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia
Interests: perceptions; preferences; attitudes and behaviour of stakeholders; participatory approaches; cultural ecosystem services; urban forest and green space policy and governance
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Chair of Soil Science, Research Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, TUM-School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Interests: soil erosion and degradation; GIS; remote sensing; water quality modeling; soil carbon
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DiBT Forestry LABs, Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Italy
Interests: environmental science; agricultural and biological sciences; earth and planetary sciences; social sciences; engineering; mathematics; computer science; multidisciplinary
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Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari, Università degli Studi di Torino, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy
Interests: soil remediation; PM 10; heavy metals bioaccessibility; remediation of contaminated soils

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Department of Built Environment, Bailey College of Engineering and Technology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
Interests: sustainable architecture and urban design; bioclimatic design; occupant's wellbeing; Integrative human-centric lighting; building thermal performance; indoor air quality; urban warming and heat islands; environmental data visualization and virtual/augmented reality; image processing applications in architecture

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1. Computer Science Department, University College London, London WC1E 6EA, UK
2. Applied Mathematics Department, Technical University of Madrid, 28031 Madrid, Spain
3. LifeD Laboratory, 28010 Madrid, Spain
Interests: natural disasters; climate change; floods; resilience; mitigation; social impact; social media; mobile phone data; remote sensing; data privacy; data ethics; data governance; smart sustainable cities; artificial intelligence; data; metaverse; governance; policy-making; early warning; legal technologies; mobility; migrations; complex systems
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