Topical Advisory Panel

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Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Genscheralle 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Interests: agricultural innovations; natural sustainable resource management; climate change; digitalization; ICT; technical and vocational training; food security; poverty analysis

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Department of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15701 Athens, Greece
Interests: biogeography; biodiversity; biodiversity and climate change; conservation; conservation biogeography; conservation biology; island biodiversity; island biogeography; plant diversity; plant systematics; species distribution modelling
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School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
Interests: political economy and economic geography; comparative public policy; land use planning and strategic spatial planning; community and economic development; territorial policies (regional, rural, urban); transportation and infrastructure policy
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Chubu Institute for Advanced Studies, 1200 Matsumotocho, Kasugai, Japan
Interests: aerosol chemistry and physics
Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 2 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: historical geography; cultural geography; regional geography; landscape transformations; settlement transformations; regional identity; rural areas; mountain areas
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Department of Scientifical and Technological Research, University of Sonora, Hermosillo 83000, Mexico
Interests: land use management; remote sensing; spatial analysis; satellite image processing; satellite image analysis; mapping; vegetation mapping; landscape ecology; digital mapping; natural resource management
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Institute of Water Resources and Hydro–electric Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, China
Interests: dynamic process and prediction model of sediment with rainfall; theory and technology of soil and water conservation and ecological restoration; assessing impacts on environment with ecological rehabilitation of soil and water conservation; multiple process coupling and regulation mechanism of water-soil-nutrient
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: remote sensing of resources and border geography; tropical natural forest-slash-plantation evolution; geo-economic cooperation; border land use interaction
School of Public Administration, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710064, China
Interests: natural resource management; environmental sciences; land use and cover change; coupled-natural-and-human-systems; urban-rural integrated development
Department of Public Administration, Law School, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Ningbo 315211, China
Interests: sustainable development; multi-attribute decision analysis (MADM); industrial land-use planning and management; housing market
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Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avda. Vicuña Mackenna, Santiago de Chile 4860, Chile
Interests: hydrology; ecohydrology
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Department Human, Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle Beauvais, 60000 Beauvais, France
Interests: fertilizers; waste spread on lands; ecological economics; circular economy; soil pollution
Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: agricultural economics; rural development; agro-environmental economics; farm management; productivity and efficiency estimation
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Department Economics, Sociology and Management (DESG) Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD), University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Polo II da ECHS, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: decision-making processes regarding uptake of innovation for sustainability transitions in farming and agrifood systems; agricultural and rural knowledge and innovation systems; environmental and ecosystem services valuation; agri-environmental policies and ecosystem services payment systems; rural and sustainable development studies
Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
Interests: ecosystems & change; land use land cover change (LULC) mapping; open burning & wildfires; ecology, vegetation dynamics; GIS

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Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome. P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: plant ecology; plant functional traits; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; biodiversity conservation; systemic land use planning; land use change monitoring; plant interactions
School of Agro and Rural Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India
Interests: microwave and optical remote sensing for crop biophysical parameter retrieval; synthetic aperture radar for crop monitoring; radar vegetation indices; machine learning based inversion algorithms
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Amrita School of Agricultural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, J. P. Nagar, Arasampalayam, Myleripalayam, Coimbatore 642109, Tamil Nadu, India
Interests: remote sensing; GIS; crop growth simulation models; precision agriculture; irrigation management; crop yield prediction
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Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: photogrammetry; land administration systems; land management; land information; land surveying
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Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, 48121 Ravenna, Italy
Interests: landscape archaeology; GIS and remote sensing in archaeology; water management
Faculty of Forest Science and Ecology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas District, LT-53361 Akademija, Lithuania
Interests: forest management; wood production; biodiversity conservation; spatial planning; forest disturbances; historic and current landscape development; ecosystem services and human well-being
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Interests: soil science; potentially toxic elements; soil contamination; soil remediation; phytoremediation; soil ecotoxicology; plant nutrition; food safety
Department of Engineering and Architecture, Università di Parma, 43125 Parma, Italy
Interests: urban design; urban morphology; sustainability; public space; new technologies; water cities
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Department of Environmental Management Technology, Cape Coast Technical University, Cape Coast 5P3C+F7H, Ghana
Interests: forest ecology; soil analysis; sustainable agriculture; soil microbiology; climate change; environmental science

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Faculty of Agriculture, Plant production and biotechnology, University of Osijek, Trg Svetog Trojstva 3, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Interests: sustainable agriculture; environment; soil and water conservation; water resources management; crop production; climate change and agriculture; environmental impact assessment
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Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
Interests: drylands; desertification; global change; groundwater-dependent agriculture; rangelands; system dynamics; hyper-arid lands; land-use change dynamics
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