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Susana Alves

Susana Alves

Affiliation:
OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK
Research Interests:
Susana Alves works as a research associate at OPENspace Research Centre at Edinburgh College of Art. She is an environmental psychologist with special interest in urban outdoor environments and health. Her research has focused on older people with an special concern in promoting positive experiences that sustain health and well-being of an older population. During the last four years, she has been involved in two main research projects: I'DGO (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoor) a 4-year project to determine whether Home Zone streets are a good design solution for older people in the UK and PLUREL (Peri-urban Land Use Relationships), part of the EU 6th Framework Programme, where her work concentrates on investigation the interrelationship between retirement migration and land use. Past research includes studying favorite places for older adults in Brazil and examining the effects of nature-related activities for nursing home residents in the US. A main concern behind her research work is to translate research findings in design recommendations.
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Marc Antrop

Marc Antrop

Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281 S8, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Research Interests:
Dr. Marc Antrop (1946) is geographer specialised in landscapes sciences, remote sensing, GIS and planning. He is professor who lectured at the University of Ghent (Belgium) courses in landscape science, landscape management and planning, environmental impact assessment and GIS). He is member of the National Committee of Geography of the Academy of Sciences and vice-president of the Royal Committee for Protection of Monuments and Landscapes in Flanders. In 2003 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for Landscape Ecology and was proclaimed doctor honoris causa at the University of Tartu (Estonia) in 2007. His landscape research is integrated and really holistic, covering and integrating aspects of landscape genesis (in particular focusing upon the natural and cultural aspects of the European landscapes), landscape perception, landscape evaluation and land assessment, landscape ecology and landscape architecture. Practical application of this knowledge is achieved in planning and environmental impact assessment and monitoring land degradation. His main work areas are Europe, the Mediterranean, Egypt.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ugent.be/portal/people?ugentid=801000215578
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Simon Bell

Simon Bell

Affiliation:
OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK and Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
Research Interests:
Simon Bell is Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director fo the OPENspace Research Centre at Edinburgh College of Art and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. By background he is a forester and landscape architect with special interest in access to the outdoors, forests and remoter landscapes. He has been involved in projects of recreation design in the UK, Canada, Ireland Latvia and Russia. Past research includes 'Local Use of Woodlands in Central Scotland' for the Forestry Commission, 'Crossplan', an EU funded project about participatory landscape planning as a tool for rural development, the chair of COST E33 on “Forest recreation and nature tourism” and more recently, the EU 6th Framework Programme Integrated Project PLUREL: peri-urban land use relationships.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.openspace.eca.ac.uk/
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Blake E. Feist

Blake E. Feist

Affiliation:
Landscape Ecology and Recovery Science, NW Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, 2725 Montlake Blvd. East, Seattle, WA, 98112, USA
Research Interests:
Blake Feist has been an ecologist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-NMFS) since 1999. His research focuses on two general areas: the relationship between fish populations and their terrestrial/estuarine habitat; and the interaction between non-indigenous species and estuarine food webs and ecosystems. He applies the principles of landscape ecology for most of his research, but he is also interested in the effects of climate, spatio-temporal scaling, and anthropogenic influences on ecosystems. Blake has a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Washington.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/staff/display_staffprofile.cfm?staffid=219
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Michio Fukushima

Michio Fukushima

Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Research Interests:
Michio Fukushima is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. He has been a member of the Salmonid Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, IUCN since 2007. He received his PhD in Fisheries from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1996. His current research focuses on freshwater fish migration and on the effects of dams for the fishes in the Mekong River.
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Aimee H. Fullerton

Aimee H. Fullerton

Affiliation:
Landscape Ecology and Recovery Science, NW Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, 2725 Montlake Blvd. East, Seattle, WA, 98112, USA
Research Interests:
Aimee is an aquatic ecologist working as part of the Landscape Ecology team at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (since 2002). There, she has investigated viability of endangered salmonid populations using landscape ecology approaches. Her specific research interests include spatial structure of aquatic populations, especially those living in dendritic stream networks; relationship between spatio-temporal scale and ecological patterns and processes; climate change impacts to aquatic systems; influence of nonindigenous species on native aquatic fauna; and ways that science can contribute to improved decision-making. Aimee received her M.S. in aquatic ecology from the University of Notre Dame in 1998, and will begin doctorate studies at the University of Washington in 2010.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/staff/display_staffprofile.cfm?staffid=608
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Hubert Gulinck

Hubert Gulinck

Affiliation:
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Research Interests:
The current research activities of Hubert Gulinck are about the transformation of land use in Flanders (Belgium) and their underlying causes, landscape impacts of large scale developments and the role of landscape as communication medium between stakeholders, and sustainability of semi-urban landscapes linked to remnant open spaces and garden complexes. Recently he started a project on landscape and land use factors in human health issues in northern Tanzania, but he has also been active in other countries, a.o. China in research on land use changes and environmental impacts. Hubert Gulinck is furthermore active in diverse networks related to landscape, rural development and spatial planning in Flanders. He teaches in Leuven and in Gent, with courses on Landscape Analysis and Rural Land Use.
Personal Homepage:
http://ees.kuleuven.be/staff/index.html?sap=7978
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Dagmar Haase

Dagmar Haase

Affiliation:
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr 15, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany
Research Interests:
Dagmar Haase is a post-doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. She got a PhD in Landscape Ecology and Geography and recently co-ordinates the research work on urban modelling at the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology at the UFZ. In this field, her research speciality is spatially explicit modelling of land use changes, urban growth and shrinkage. Another subject of her current research refers to urban ecosystem services and their modelling including flood impact and risk assessment. Dr. Haase coordinates the Leipzig case study and the modelling activities in the PLUREL EU-IP on peri-urban land use relationships.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=4576
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Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn

Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn

Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Decisions, Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland & transdisciplinarity-net, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Berne, Switzerland
Research Interests:
Gertrude Hirsch is a Titular Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences of ETH Zurich. She got a Ph.D. in educational sciences at the University of Zurich and was a private lecturer in philosophy at the University of Constance. Her research interests include the philosophy of environmental sciences, the methodology of transdisciplinary research and ethical issues of climate change. From 2003-2008 she has been acting as president of td-net for transdisciplinary research (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, www.transdisciplinarity.ch) and in 2000 she has joined the scientific board of the journal GAIA - ecological perspectives for science and society (www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oekom/gaia).
Personal Homepage:
http://www.env.ethz.ch/environmental_philosophy/people/hirsch
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Robert M. Hughes

Robert M. Hughes

Affiliation:
Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University, 200 SW 35th Street, Corvallis, OR, 97333, USA and current affiliation: Amnis Opes Institute, 2895 SE Glenn Street, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
Research Interests:
Ecological assessments of surface waters and regional patterns in aquatic biota. Developed and tested methods for sampling fish in New England lakes and non-wadeable Oregon rivers. Co-authored the fish assemblage and fish tissue chapters in the EMAP field protocols for wadeable streams and non-wadeable rivers. Refined the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) for use in small Oregon streams, Appalachian streams, a large Oregon river, the Seine River of France, the Kshipra and Khan Rivers in India, Pacific Northwest rivers, and western USA streams and rivers. Co-authored USEPA's Rapid Bioassessment Protocols for Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrates, and provided technical expertise to the USEPA's Steering Committee on Biological Criteria, Ecological Indicators Work Group, and Tiered Aquatic Life Uses Work Group. Served as External Evaluator of the Heinz Center State of the Nation's Ecosystems Report, European Fish Index, National Research Agency of France (ANR), and University of Minnesota Great Lakes Environmental Indicators. Currently applying ecological assessment and monitoring protocols to Brazilian stream, river, and reservoir ecosystems.
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Christoph Kueffer

Christoph Kueffer

Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A. & transdisciplinarity-net, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Berne, Switzerland & Institute of Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests:
Christoph Kueffer is a research scientist at the Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a lecturer for Environmental Sciences at the Department of Information Technology and Electric Engineering, ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in plant ecology from ETH Zurich, and is a member of the editorial board of 'Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics' (www.elsevier.de/ppees). His current research is focused on plant invasions in oceanic island and mountain ecosystems, among others as the coordinator of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN, www.miren.ethz.ch). His involvements with transdisciplinary research include his work as a scientific collaborator of the td-net for transdisciplinary research (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, www.transdisciplinarity.ch), a member of the working group 'knowledge exchange' of the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (SAGUF), and a founder and steering committee member of seed sustainability - the platform of student based transdisciplinary research in the field of sustainability (www.seed-sustainability.ch). He has worked as a consultant for organisations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the Seychelles Ministry of Environment.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.env.ethz.ch/people/all/02720/kuefferc/
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Ülo Mander

Ülo Mander

Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 46 Vanemuise St., Tartu, Estonia, 51014
Research Interests:
Dr. Ülo Mander (1954) is Professor of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology and Head of the Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He received a BSc in physical geography (1977) and PhD in biology/ecology (1983) at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Prof. Mander's research and teaching has focused on landscape ecology (nutrient cycling at landscape and catchment levels) and ecological engineering (constructed wetlands and riparian buffer zones: design and performance). He has written over 200 papers and edited 25 books and special issues of international peer reviewed journals in these fields. He has been visiting scientist/visiting professor at various universities and research centers (University of Kiel, Germany, Lund University and University of Linköping, Sweden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Germany, National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Sapporo, Japan; The Ohio State University, USA). He is member of editorial board of 7 international peer reviewed journals.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.geo.ut.ee/english/mandereng.html
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Riho Marja

Riho Marja

Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 46 Vanemuise St., Tartu, Estonia, 51014
Research Interests:
Riho Marja (1982) is a Phd student of landscape ecology and environment protection at the Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia. He also works for the Agricultural Research Centre, Estonian Ministry of Agriculture. He got his MSc degree in physical geography from the University of Tartu (2007). His research interest covers relationships of farmland bird communities with landscape pattern, land use structure, and agri-environmental schemes.
Personal Homepage:
https://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuCV.aspx?PersonVID=41728&lang=en
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Michael Matthies

Michael Matthies

Affiliation:
University of Osnabrück, Institute of Environmental Systems Research (USF), 49069 Osnabrück, Germany
Research Interests:
Prof. Dr. Michael Matthies is the Head of the Institute of Environmental Systems Research. He studied physics and chemistry at the universities of Münster and München. His main research interests is environmental systems science, in particular exposure modelling and risk assessment of pollutants. He is currently involved in several research projects on chemical fate modelling on local, regional and global scale, georeferenced exposure assessment and river basin management.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.usf.uos.de/~matthies/
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Steven J. Meeus

Steven J. Meeus

Affiliation:
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Research Interests:
Steven Meeus obtained the Master in Bioscience Engineering in the field of Land Management in 2003 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. After graduation, he started researching landscapes under supervision of Prof. H. Gulinck at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the K.U. Leuven, first investigating surface sealing for the Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij (the Flemish environmental agency) and is now finishing a PhD research on Landscape Indicators as measurement tools for sustainability in Semi Urban Areas.
Personal Homepage:
http://ees.kuleuven.be/staff/index.html?sap=43606
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Evy Mettepenningen

Evy Mettepenningen

Affiliation:
Ghent University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Coupue Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Research Interests:
Evy Mettepenningen obtained a master in Bioscience Engineering at the University of Ghent in 2005, and is working on a PhD at the same University, in the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering. The topic of her PhD is a new institutional analysis of agri-environmental schemes, mainly focussing on the transaction costs involved. Her main fields of interest are the relationship between agriculture and the natural environment, rural development and in particular agri-environmental policy, transaction costs involved in these policies, multifunctional agriculture and rural cooperation.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ugent.be/people?ugentid=801001996641
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Susanne Muhar

Susanne Muhar

Affiliation:
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Dept. of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Max-Emanuel-Strasse 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Research Interests:
Susanne Muhar is Associate Professor at the Inst. of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management in Vienna, Austria. Her research work is focused on methods for assessing the physical environment of riverine landscapes, concepts and methods of ecological river management and river restoration and the evaluation of river restoration programmes; current projects include the analyses of effects of the implementation of water related directives (Water Framework Directive, Habitat and Birds-Directive), the relationship between hydro-morphological conditions and land use patterns and the self purification capacity of small rivers and the development of causal models in sustainable river catchment management.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.boku.ac.at/hfa
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Eva Silveirinha de Oliveira

Eva Silveirinha de Oliveira

Affiliation:
OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK
Research Interests:
Eva Silveirinha de Oliveira is a PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art. She got her degree in Landscape Architecture at Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon Technical University, in 2004. Her research interests cover the use of public open spaces by ethnic minorities and immigrant communities. Her current investigation focuses on the use of Lisbon's public open spaces by three immigrant communities. She has also collaborated as a research assistant at OpenSpace and has participated at Cost Action E39 - "Trees, forests and human health and well-being".
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Hannes Palang

Hannes Palang

Affiliation:
Center for Landscape and Culture, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120 Tallinn
Research Interests:
Dr Hannes Palang (1968) is a geographer interested in culture in the landscape. He is professor of human geography and head the Center for Landscape and Culture at the Tallinn University. He is also the President of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape. His past research ranges from landscape diversity indexes to local participation and time layers. He has been involved in many applied projects in planning valuable landscapes and assessing their values.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.tlu.ee/
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Michaela Poppe

Michaela Poppe

Affiliation:
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Dept. of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Max-Emanuel-Strasse 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Research Interests:
Michaela Poppe is PhD student at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management in Vienna, Austria. She got her MSc in Geography at the University of Vienna. Her research interests cover riverine landscape typology and pattern and the analyses of land use and landscape metrics at different spatial scales. Currently, she is involved in an EU funded project on identifying causal models in sustainable river catchment management.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.boku.ac.at/hfa
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Jörg A. Priess

Jörg A. Priess

Affiliation:
Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Kurt-Wolters-Str. 3, D-34109 Kassel, Germany
Research Interests:
Joerg A. Priess has a scientific background in ecology and forestry. For the last ten years he is studying land-use change dynamics, at the regional and larger scales. He is focussing on socio-environmental impacts of land-use dynamics and links and feedbacks between the antroposphere and the environment. He is the main developer of an integrated land-use modeling framework, which is currently being adapted and applied in different case study regions.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.usf.uni-kassel.de/cesr/
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Ulrike Pröbstl

Ulrike Pröbstl

Affiliation:
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN), A-1190 Vienna, Austria
Research Interests:
Ulrike Pröbstl is Univ. Professor for Landcape development, recreation and tourism at the BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. Actual research projects are deal-ing with nature based tourism and recreation - with a special focus on forest as well as Natura 2000 -, possible impacts of climate change on nature based tourism and tourism related to protected areas. Further research task are focussed on landscape development in the sensitive alpine area and the implementation of planning frameworks like SEA, EIA, Auditing systems and other. She is member of various professional bodies on a national, european and international level.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.rali.boku.ac.at/6649.html
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Jüri Roosaare

Jüri Roosaare

Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 46 Vanemuise St., Tartu, Estonia, 51014
Research Interests:
Dr. Jüri Roosaare (1953) is the Associate Professor in geoinformatics at the Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu Estonia. He got a PhD in geography (landscape geophysics) at the Moscow State University (1982). His research interests include applications of GIS in landscape ecology (simulation modelling of water cycle and land use changes in watersheds, analysis of spatial patterns), curriculum development in geoinformatics and philosophical problems of geography. Since 2004 he is member of the Steering Committee of IGU Commission on Geographical Information Systems.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.geo.ut.ee/roosaare/roosaarecveng.html
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Maarja Saar

Maarja Saar

Affiliation:
Center for Landscape and Culture, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120 Tallinn
Research Interests:
Maarja Saar (1987) studies anthropology at the Tallinn University, Estonia, and geography at the University of Wisconsin Madison, USA, and worked as a research assistant at the Center for Landscape and Culture at the Tallinn University. Her main research interest lies in urban geography, specifically she is engaged in place meaning and place identity studies. She is currently studying the area of blockhouses in Tallinn and also deals with post-soviet urban space.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.tlu.ee/
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Rüdiger Schaldach

Rüdiger Schaldach

Affiliation:
Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Kurt-Wolters-Str. 3, D-34109 Kassel, Germany
Research Interests:
Rüdiger Schaldach is senior scientist at the Center for Environmental Systems Research. He studied computer science and geoecology in Karlsruhe and Braunschweig. His main research interests are in the fields of spatial modelling of land-use systems and sustainable use of natural resources. Current research projects include the development of global scale modelling approaches and the application of land-use modelling techniques in context of sustainable water management in the Jordan River region.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.usf.uni-kassel.de/cesr/
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Stefan Schmutz

Stefan Schmutz

Affiliation:
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Dept. of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Max-Emanuel-Strasse 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Research Interests:
Main interests of Stefan Schmutz are in fish ecology and modelling of complex aquatic ecosystems. He recently has coordinated EU projects (FAME, EFI+) targeting at assessment of ecological status of running waters according to the Water Framework Directive. Further research interests are impacts and mitigation of hydropower and channelisation effects, fish pass technologies, habitat modelling and restoration of running waters in Austria and EU. He teaches courses at the BOKU in aquatic ecology and river management.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.boku.ac.at/hfa
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Marcus Schulz

Marcus Schulz

Affiliation:
University of Osnabrück, Institute of Environmental Systems Research (USF), Barbarastrasse 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
Research Interests:
Dr. Marcus Schulz is a senior scientist at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research. He studied Geology and Biology at the University of Göttingen and wrote his PhD thesis on the methane cycle in Lake Constance. He has worked many years on sedimentological, biogeochemical, microbiological, and geobotanical topics mainly in aquatic systems and is currently investigating the run-off, transport and sedimentation of pollutants during extreme flood events in the Mulde catchment, a main tributary of the Elbe River in Germany.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~mschulz/
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Nina Schwarz

Nina Schwarz

Affiliation:
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr 15, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany
Research Interests:
Nina Schwarz ist a post-doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology. She is interested in urban land use, climate regulation as urban ecosystem service and agent-based modelling. Currently, she is involved in a project on peri-urban land use relationships in Europe. Her background is environmental sciences, and she got a PhD in social and economic sciences at the University of Kassel, Germany.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=13323
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Tuija Sievänen

Tuija Sievänen

Affiliation:
The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Unit, Helsinki Unit, Unioninkatu 40 A, 00170 Helsinki, Finland
Research Interests:
Tuija Sievänen works in the Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA) as the project leader for outdoor recreation studies in Helsinki, Finland. She is the coordinator of the National Outdoor Recrea-tion Demand and Supply Inventory (LVVI) -study. She is involved in developing visitor survey and counting methods with the Finnish Forest and Parks Service.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.metla.fi/pp/TSie/
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Murray Simpson

Murray Simpson

Affiliation:
University of Oxford, School of Geography & Environment, OX1 3TB, UK
Research Interests:
Murray is a Research Scientist at Oxford University Centre for the Environment, a consultant in tourism and sustainable development and has worked at senior executive and board level in industry. His current work includes the interrelations between tourism and the environment, sustainable livelihoods analysis and liaison with communities and public and private stakeholders; bridging the gaps between research, policy and practice. He is a member of the executive committee of the peak international organization ‘Experts in Climate Change and Tourism’ (eCLAT), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of the Int’l Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP-GEC) UK committee and a member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Panel of Tourism Experts. He has authored and contributed to numerous UNWTO and peer-reviewed publications, and worked on projects in Europe, Australasia, South Africa, USA, Asia, South America and the Caribbean.
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E. Ashley Steel

E. Ashley Steel

Affiliation:
Landscape Ecology and Recovery Science, NW Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, 2725 Montlake Blvd. East, Seattle, WA, 98112, USA and current affiliation: PNW Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 3625 93rd Avenue SW, Olympia, WA 98512, USA
Research Interests:
Ashley Steel is the Station Statistician for the USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station. She is a quantitative research scientist and consulting statistician. Her research interests include the development of methods for linking landscape-scale patterns with in-stream responses, quantification of complex ecological time series such as riverine thermal regimes, and model sensitivity analysis. Ashley hopes to leverage statistical tools to improve ecological understanding and to demonstrate how the quantification of uncertainty can be used to improve the management of natural resources. Before joining the PNW Research Station in October 2009, Ashley was the Team Lead for the Landscape Ecology and Recovery Science Team at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center. She has a PhD in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM) and MS degrees in Ecology and in Statistics from the University of Washington.
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Clemens Trautwein

Clemens Trautwein

Affiliation:
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Dept. of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Max-Emanuel-Strasse 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Research Interests:
Clemens Trautwein is PhD student at the Institute of Hydrobiology and involved in a modelling group with focus on stream ecology. He got his degree in landscape management at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in 2007. Main field of work covers land use analysis in European catchments and various spatial extents of investigation, data acquisition of human impacts on rivers and ecosystem analysis. Current research focus lies on identifying and modelling land use-pressure-fish cause and effect cascades in European streams.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.boku.ac.at/hfa
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Liisa Tyrväinen

Liisa Tyrväinen

Affiliation:
The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi Research Unit, PL 16, FI-96301 Rovaniemi, Finland
Research Interests:
Liisa Tyrväinen (Dr. Sc.) is a professor of nature tourism at METLA (Finnish Forest Research Institute), Finland. She has published around 30 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and books and more than 100 titles in total. Her research work has focused on social and economic valuation of amenity benefits of forests as well as analyzing social values and meanings of forests to the general public. Her research experience includes developing methods for enhancing tourism and recreational use of forests as a tool in rural development.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.metla.fi/pp/3166/
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Evelin Uuemaa

Evelin Uuemaa

Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 46 Vanemuise St., Tartu, Estonia, 51014
Research Interests:
Dr. Evelyn Uuemaa (1980) is a Researh Scientist at the Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia. She studied geography at the University of Tartu (BSc 2004, MSc 2005) and defended her PhD thesis in landscape ecology and environmental protection in 2007. Her main fields of interest are landscape pattern and the relationships between landscape pattern and water quality, landscape metrics, urban landscape pattern and its change in time. She has published 7 international peer-reviewed articles.
Personal Homepage:
https://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuCV.aspx?PersonVID=37410&lang=e
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Valerie Vandermeulen

Valerie Vandermeulen

Affiliation:
Ghent University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Coupue Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Research Interests:
Valerie Vandermeulen has obtained a master of science in economics at the University of Ghent and is now working on her PhD at the same University, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering on the topic of development strategies for peri-urban farmers in Belgium. Her main fields of interest contain multifunctional agriculture and related survival strategies, planning discourses for farming within specific environmental conditions, future land requirements by agriculture in Flanders and the relationship between regional identity and multifunctional agriculture.
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Guido Van Huylenbroeck

Guido Van Huylenbroeck

Affiliation:
Ghent University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Coupue Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Research Interests:
Prof. dr. ir. Guido Van Huylenbroeck is professor in Agricultural and rural environmental economics at the University of Ghent since 1995. His experience is particularly developed in agricultural policy, economic valuation of natural resources, rural development and agri-environmental policies, transaction cost and property rights issues in environmental regulations, economic analysis of collective innovation projects in agriculture, optimal strategies in land consolidation projects and analysis of structural developments in different sectors.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.agecon.ugent.be/vanhuylenbroeck_e.html
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Ann Verspecht

Ann Verspecht

Affiliation:
Ghent University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Coupue Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Research Interests:
Ann Verspecht has obtained a master of science in Bio-Engineering at the University of Leuven in 1998. She works in the domain of Agricultural Economics since 2001. Her main fields of interest are policy related research in the field of multifunctional farming and agri-environmental schemes, possibilities for agriculture in peri-urban zones and she has been closely involved in the evaluation of different Flemish Rural Development plans.
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John A. Young

John A. Young

Affiliation:
US Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, Aquatic Ecology Branch, 11649 Leetown Road, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA
Research Interests:
John Young is a Research Biologist (Biogeographer) focusing on applying GIS, remote sensing, and spatial modeling tools to enhance understanding and management of trust species and their habitats. Since 1994, he has led efforts at the US Geological Survey's Leetown Science Center to incorporate spatial analysis into research examining landscape influences on aquatic and terrestrial biota. Past research has focused on watershed analysis, land use impacts on fish and amphibian communities, impacts of eastern hemlock decline on stream fish communities, and development of an invasive species tracking system for the State of Delaware (USA). Currently, he is leading research examining the use of advanced remote sensing technologies such as LiDAR and hyperspectral imaging for examination of upland and aquatic habitat patterning, as well as leading research creating regional spatial models to predict the potential range and population characteristics of American ginseng, a plant species at risk to poaching. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in Geography from Virginia Tech in 1987 and 1992 respectively.
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Affonso Zuin

Affonso Zuin

Affiliation:
OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK and DFT, Federal University of Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Research Interests:
Affonso Zuin is research associate at the OPENspace Research Centre at Edinburgh College of Art and senior lecturer in landscape design and ornamental horticulture at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. With his background in agronomy/horticulture and landscape architecture, his special interest is in research tools for people-environment studies, access to the outdoors, and organic production techniques for tropical flower crops. He has been involved in design projects for public, institutional and private spaces in Brazil and India. Recent research includes the EU 6th Framework Programme Integrated Project PLUREL: peri-urban land use relationships; IDGO TOO -Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors, Phase 2, funded by the EPSRC; 'Tropical flower production in agroforestry systems', funded by FAPEMIG; and previously, locally funded projects on organic cultivation of Heliconiaceae, the assessment of gardening techniques and practices in Viçosa, Brazil.
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