Topical Advisory Panel

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Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, R. Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: spatial planning; planning systems; food planning; geographic information systems
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University Institute on Gender Studies and Department of Social Analysis, University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: ageing and old age; land/environment; gender and feminism; habitat/rural spaces; evaluation of programmes; caring/work; climate/social change; health; technologies; social psychology and sociology
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Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umea, Sweden
Interests: land system science; social-ecological systems; ecosystem services; data analytics


Department of Social Sciences and Humanities / Instituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos (ISEC), University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
Interests: agricultural; land management

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Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management Unit, Geographies of Sustainability Department, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: spatially explicit modelling of land use patterns and processes (peri-urban); land use change impacts on social-ecological systems; integrated cloud-based geospatial computing, machine learning and R; remote sensing and in-situ based land degradation assessment; composite land degradation index, UN land degradation neutrality; modelling vegetation processes, incl. crop conditions, with remote sensing satellite time series; climate variability and climate change impact and adaptation; sustainable use of natural resources in smallholder agro-pastoral systems; GIS education across disciplines and in school
The Department of Geomatics Engineering & Land Management, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine BB11000, Trinidad and Tobago
Interests: remote sensing; land cover mapping; photogrammetry; spatial analysis
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1. Land Management Group, School of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia
2. Principal Scientific Officer, Soil Unit, Natural Resources Management Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Farmgate, Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
3. Senior Scientific Officer, Soil Science Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh
Interests: conservation agriculture; cropping systems; climate change mitigation; life cycle assessment; environmental science; plant nutrition; soil physics; nutrient cycling in intensive cropping agro-ecosystems; carbon sequestration; C and N footprints; critical limits of nutrients for soils and crops; fertiliser rate determination; organic agriculture; heavy metal remediation; agronomic biofortification
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Department of forestry & Management of the Environment & Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Vasilissis Sofias 12, 671 00 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: forest policy; environmental policy; decision making; sustainable development

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Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Fytokou Street, 38446 Volos, Greece
Interests: soil physics; irrigation; hydraulics
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Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), CMCC Foundation—Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Viale Trieste 127, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: sustainable food systems; food policy; water policy; sustainable diets; urban food policy; food waste

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Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: social-ecological systems; urban–rural gradients; land planning; simulation scenarios; landscape structure; global change; socioeconomic models
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Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, 8333 Volos, Greece
Interests: institutional economics; commons; real estate; urban economics
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Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali (SAAF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 13 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: land market analysis; farmland evaluation; real estate appraisal; monetary valuation methodologies of environmental resources; ecosystem services economic valuations; consumer behaviour analysis; environmental impact assessment

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School of Science, Engineering and Environment, Maxwell Building, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
Interests: land use planning and urban development processes; land/property and natural resource administration and management; heritage conservation and management; real estate and development economics; urbanisation, urban growth, governance, and housing; environment and sustainable development; infrastructure development and financing; property valuation and management
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College of Agriculture, Bahadur Sub-Campus Layyah, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan
Interests: soil science; soil health; nutrient cycling in agriculture
Laboratory IRAMAT-UMR-7065 CNRS, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UTBM), 90010 Belfort, France
Interests: landscape design/landscape architecture; data computation
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Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture, Sapienza, University of Rome, Via Flaminia 72, 00196 Rome, Italy
Interests: urban land; sustainable development dimensions and urban agglomeration
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Department STEBICEF, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: landscape ecology; vegetation science; botany; biodiversity biocultural landscape; historical ecology
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RSPB Centre For Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2 Lochside View, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh EH11 1TE, UK
Interests: conservation; remote sensing; land cover change; protected areas; key biodiversity areas; species distribution modelling; google earth engine

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Department of Spatial Analysis and Real Estate Market, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 15 Prawocheńskiego St., 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: real estate economics; socio-economic geography; land management; spatial econometrics; housing market analysis; property valuation; cadastral systems, catastrophe theory
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School of Geoscience, Physics, and Safety, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 64093, USA
Interests: land use dynamics; forest ecosystem; political economy of forestry sector; ecosystem services; urban planning/smart city; tourism; terrorism; federalism; international border conflict; geovisualization; climate change; environmental analysis; vulnerability; food security; nutrition; sustainable agriculture; sustainable development; hydropower development; water recharge; political ecology; ethnicity; demographic changes; migration; income inequality and economic development; transportation

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Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: spatial planning; urban analysis; optimization of urban space; spatiotemporal analysis; fuzzy set theory; changes in land use and land cover
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Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Land Management and Environmental Protection, College of Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszów, ul. Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601 Rzeszów, Poland
Interests: forest ecology and management; agroecology; silvopastoralism and wooded farmlands; conservation; landscape dendroecological reconstruction
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Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: land systems; agroecology; nature conservation; political ecology; environmental justice; rural development

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Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS Bratislava, branch Nitra, 94901 Nitra, Slovakia
Interests: geography; landscape ecology; remote sensing; geoinformatics; geomorphology; land use change; landscape pattern physical geography; geostatistical analysis; natural hazards
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Department of Civil Engineering Sciences and Architecture (DiCAR), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: urban economics; urban management; decision support systems in planning; urban democracy; sustainable development models; social studies
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Forest Research Centre, Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: fire-adapted silviculture; fire behaviour modelling; trade-offs analysis in fuel management; assessment of forest ecosystem services; climate change scenarios; forest dynamics disturbances; modelling and mapping ecosystem services; optimizing forest ecosytem landscape planning; multicriteria optimization techniques
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1. CIRAD, UMR TETIS, 34398 Montpellier, France
2. TETIS, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, AgroParisTech, 34000 Montpellier, France
Interests: territorial development; land use planning; participatory approaches
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