**About the Editors**

#### **Alessio Russo**

Alessio Russo is a senior lecturer and academic course leader for the Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, United Kingdom. Before joining the University of Gloucestershire, he worked in Russia as an associate professor at RUDN University in Moscow and as a professor and head of the Laboratory of Urban and Landscape Design at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. He holds a Bachelor in Science in Plant Production from the University of Naples, a Post-Graduate Specialization in Healing Garden Design from the University of Milan, and a Master in Science in Landscape Design and Planning from the University of Pisa. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Forestry from the University of Bologna. Outside of academia, Dr. Russo has worked as a landscape architect in the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates, dealing with sustainable design and planning.

#### **Giuseppe T. Cirella**

Giuseppe T. Cirella is a professor of Human Geography at the Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk, Sopot, Poland. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (specialization: Sustainability) from Griffith University, Australia. He is the founder of the Polo Centre of Sustainability and is the director and head of research. He has acted as a principal investigator and coordinator in a number of international projects and is a reviewer and member of the editorial board of several reputed international journals on sustainability and the environment. He has extensive interdisciplinary and cross-cultural experience in socioeconomics as well as expertise in landscape architecture, urban planning, and societal development.
