**Ronald C. Estoque**

Dr. Ronald C. Estoque is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan. He is a forester and geoenvironmental scientist by training. His research interests are at the interface of nature and society and include sustainability, land use/land cover change, forest cover change, ecosystem services, urbanization, quality of life, climate change mitigation, vulnerability, risk and adaptation, and the nexus approach. He applies various tools and techniques, including GIS, remote sensing, and social–ecological approaches. He has published more than 60 journal articles. Dr. Estoque was also a contributing author (CA) to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) (WG II, Chapter 10). Currently, he serves as a review editor (RE) for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services' (IPBES) nexus assessment (Chapter 2), a section Editor-in-Chief for *Sustainability* (section: Sustainable Forestry), an associate editor for *Frontiers in Forests and Global Change*, and a member of the editorial board for *Science of the Total Environment*, *Remote Sensing*, and *Ecological Civilization*.
