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Prof. Dr. Rob Roggema

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Cittaideale, Herenstraat 26A, 6701DL Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: regenerative design; nature-driven urbanism; foodscapes; climate adaptation; spatial sea level landscapes; sustainable urban design; complexity
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Dr. Isabel Rosa

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School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK
Interests: tropical deforestation; land use and land cover change
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Dr. Sanda Roșca

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1. Faculty of Geography, Babes-Bolyai University, Clinicilor Street 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2. Academy of Romanian Scientists, Ilfov 3, 050044 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: gis modelling; landslide; spatial modeling and analysis; remote sensing and geospatial data integration; environmental and geographical studies; climate change impact assessment; risk and hazard assessment; land-use and spatial planning; applied geomorphology; forest and ecosystem monitoring; geospatial technologies evaluation
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Prof. Dr. Alberto Matarán Ruiz

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Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, University of Granada, Faculty of Architecture, Campo del Príncipe, 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests: bioregional planning; urban agroecology; short food supply chains; periurban agriculture; social participation; urban and territorial decoloniality; megaprojects, extractivism and collapse
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Dr. Alessio Russo

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School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
Interests: urban green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; urban ecosystems; landscape architecture; renaturing cities
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Dr. Soheil Sabri

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1. School of Modeling, Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
2. Urban Digital Twin Lab, School of Modeling Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, 3100 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
Interests: urban digital twins; automated building approvals; modeling and simulation; planning support systems; geospatial analytics; rule-based compliance assessment; environmentally sustainable design; GeoAI; AI-ready data center siting and urban integration; human–environment interaction modeling
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Dr. Wojciech Sałabun

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Research Team on Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: decisions; management; multi-criteria problems; multi-criteria decision analysis; artificial intelligence; applied mathematics
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Dr. Alim Samat

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1. Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
2. China-Kazakhstan Joint Laboratory for RS Technology and Application, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty 050012, Kazakhstan
Interests: remote sensing image processing & application; arid land resource & environment remote sensing; urban remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez

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Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA
Interests: urban planning; technology; social equity; scholarly impact
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Dr. Harpinder Sandhu

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School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Interests: sustainable agriculture; organic farming; theory and practice of ecosystem services; true cost accounting in agriculture, agroecology; rural ssociety and environment interactions
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Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt

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Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: forest-farming interactions; multifunctional landscapes; integrated land use systems; land use change and livelihoods in mountainous areas
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Prof. Dr. María Schmitz

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Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: conservation environment spatial analysis biodiversity conservation biology ecosystem ecology species diversity environmental impact assessment urban planning sustainable development
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Dr. Birgit Schmook

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Department for the Observation and Study of the Land, Atmosphere and Ocean, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) Chetumal, Chetumal 77014, Mexico
Interests: smallholder livelihoods; migration; conservation; land use change; Mesoamerica
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Dr. Laura Schneider

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Department of Geography, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 54 Joyce Kilmer Blvd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Interests: environmental disturbances; tropical ecosystems; secondary forest; remote sensing; socio-ecological resilience; Latin America

Prof. Dr. Nicola Sciarra

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Department of Engineering and Geology, University of G. d'Annunzio Chieti — Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: characterization of rock slopes; back-analysis; debris flow; rockfalls; numerical modeling; unmanned aerial vehicle data; rockfall simulation

Dr. Samuele Segoni

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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Interests: prediction and mapping of landslide hazards; physically based models for the triggering of shallow landslides; landslide susceptibility maps; rainfall thresholds for landslide triggering; regional-scale landslide early warning systems; civil protection; land planning; landslide risk assessment
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Prof. Dr. Dursun Zafer Seker

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Department of Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, ITU, 34469 Istanbul, Türkiye
Interests: GIS; machine learning; geospatial data analysis; geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI); remote sensing and earth observation; photogrammetry; 3D point cloud segmentation and analysis
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Prof. Dr. Jefferey M. Sellers

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Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, Von KleinSmid Center 327, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: urban governance and policy; local government; politics and political participation in urban regions; intergovernmental relations and multilevel governance; suburbanization and metropolitanization; urban form; urban and periurban land dynamics; political economy of urban development; metropolitan land and housing markets; urban sociospatial inequality and segregation; remote sensing and GIS

Prof. Dr. Enrique Serrano Cañadas

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Department of Geography, University of Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: geomorphology; glacial and periglacial processes; mountain environments; mapping
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Dr. Penelope Serrano Ortiz

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Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, CP, Spain
Interests: micrometeorology; greenhouse gases; carbon cycle; photosynthesis; respiration; subterranean ventilation; agro-systems

Prof. Dr. Charlie Shackleton

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Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa
Interests: non-timber forest products; NTFP ecology; NTFP management; multipurpose landuse; poverty alleviation; rural livelihoods; urban foraging
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Dr. Xiaoying Shi

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Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Interests: hydrology and carbon cycle; land ecosystems; earth system modeling; human dimensions

Prof. Dr. Zhi-Hua Shi

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College of Resources & Environment, Huazhong Agricultral University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: soil erosion; landscape ecology

Dr. Cynthia S. Simmons

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Department of Geography, Center for Latin American Studies (LATAM), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: economic, environment, and development geography; livelihoods and poverty; geographies of resistance, coupling human and natural systems ; agrarian reform; land grabs; political economy of environmental change
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Dr. Hariklia D. Skilodimou

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Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: GIS; geomorphology; environmental geology; natural hazard; land use planning
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Dr. Wei Song

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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 use change and simulation; ecological effects of land use change; land use policy; rural land consolidation; land use planning
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Dr. Renata Sõukand

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Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, Mestre, 30172 Venice, Italy
Interests: ethnobotany; ethnobiology; ecosemiotics; biocultural diversity; Eastern Europe; post-Soviet
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Prof. Dr. Jane Southworth

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Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: land change science; remote sensing of land cover; climate variability; human-environmental interaction; people and parks: social-ecological system resilience
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Dr. Joachim H. Spangenberg

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Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI Germany, Vorsterstr. 97-99, 51103 Cologne, Germany
Interests: drivers of biodiversity loss; land use intensity assessment; ecosystem services and limits to monetization; sustainability scenarios and modelling; socio-environmental justice
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Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

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Group Head Sustainable Land Management, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: sustainable land management; land use and land cover analysis; land degradation; climate variability and climate change adaptation and mitigation; ecosystem services / natural resources; agricultural landscapes / agro-ecology; social-ecological resilience; environmental performance; environmental stewardship / environmental policy; conceptual and methodological development
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