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Simon Bell
- Affiliation:
- Edinburgh College of Art, Art & Design, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF
- Research Interests:
- Simon Bell is Senior Research fellow at Edinburgh College of Art and by background 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 develop-ment. Simon is also Associate Professor at the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu, Estonia, department of landscape architecture. Currently Simon is the chair of COST E33 on “Forest recreation and nature tourism.
- Personal Homepage:
- http://www.openspace.eca.ac.uk/
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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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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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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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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.
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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
- 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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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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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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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
- 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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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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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
- 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
- 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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