**About the Editors**

## **Xin-Chen Hong**

Dr. Xin-Chen Hong received his Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (including a visiting process at University of British Columbia). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Southeast University. He is now a Fujian Higher-Level Talent and associate professor in the School of Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning at Fuzhou University, China. Dr. Hong's research interests are in the area of social sensing and computational social science. His recent projects include the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Program of Humanities and Social Science Research Program of Ministry of Education of China. Dr. Hong has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as *Sustainable Cities and Society, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Journal of Cleaner Production*, which included two ESI High Cited Papers. He serves as reviewers of *Nature Communications, Ecological Indicators, Urban Ecosystems, Frontiers in Public Health*, and many others.

## **Jiang Liu**

Dr. Jiang Liu received his Ph.D. in Landscape Planning and Design at the University of Rostock in Germany in 2014. He is now a full Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture and Urban–Rural Planning at Fuzhou University, China. With over 10 years' research experience in the soundscape field, his research focuses on the relationship between soundscape and landscape in different context, to reveal the fundamental mechanism of interactions between people and the physical as well as perceptual forms of soundscape and landscape. He has published over 40 journal publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, such as *Landscape and Urban Planning*, *Building and Environment*, *Urban Forestry and Urban Greening*, and *Science of the Total Environment*. He is also the director of Environmental Psychology and Health Innovation Research Team, and vice head and co-founder of the "Key Lab of Digital Technology in Simulation and Prediction of Territorial Space" at Fuzhou University.

## **Guangyu Wang**

Dr. Guangyu Wang is an Associate Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the UBC's Multidisciplinary Institute of Natural Therapy (MINT), and Director National Park Research Centre. He has been working intensively in national park, recreation management and ecotourism development in the USA, Canada, and China. He brings extensive experience in protected areas research and project leadership while successfully managing USD 4 million in research projects over the last 10 years. He has completed several research projects on forest therapy and its contribution to both social and environmental wellness. Currently, his MINT team is mainly focused on the effectiveness of forest soundscape, lightscape, and viewscape on human health and wellbeing. He works very closely with Forest Therapy Hub, ANFT, Korea Forest Welfare Institute, China Forest Therapy Committee, BC Cancer Research Center, and the UBC School of Medicine.

He is the author of numerous books, chapters, technical reports, and scientific papers, including around 100 peer-reviewed international journals. He serves as an Associate Editor of *Journals of Forestry Research, Frontier of Ecology and Evolution, Forests*, and many others, and Director of Asia Pacific Forestry Education Coordination Mechanism.
