Editorial Board for section 'Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members

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Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
Interests: political ecology; food security; agroecology; environmental justice; participatory research

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Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Via della Mattonaia 8, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: urban planning; decision-making in real estate initiatives; public–private partnership; sustainability in land management processes and urban planning
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Faculty of Law and Economics & Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Soldmann Str. 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
Interests: institutional change; institutional economics; environmental and resource economics; governance of natural resources; agricultural and land economics; conservation; technology adoption; sustainable land management
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Department of Business Technology and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: ICT4D; land informatics; digital business
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Department of Mechanics, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: systems ecology; computational fluid dynamics; ecological economics; environmental hydrodynamics; energy and water resources; climate change thermodynamics; environmental modeling and informatics

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School of Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University, No.800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai 20040, China
Interests: land use change; natural resource management; land use planning; environmental governance; rural–urban interaction; social justice; disaster risk reduction; extreme events; sustainable development goals
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School of Engineering and Design, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 München, Germany
Interests: land management; land administration; land use planning; cadastre; land information; organizational and institutional aspects of land management
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Department of Heritage, Architecture, Urban Planning, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Via dell’Università, 25, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: evaluation of the economic; environmental and social sustainability of plans and projects; according to an integrated and multidisciplinary approach
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Department of Planning, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: land governance; land administration; land tenure; cadastre; land use planning; spatial information management; capacity development
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Department of Anthropology, Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: land governance; critical agrarian, legal and development studies; political and ontological roots of global inequality; the commons
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Department of History, Universidad de los Andes Carrera 1 No. 18A-12, Bogotá, Colombia
Interests: landscape change; environmental history; Latin America; agricultural intensification; environment and development; global environmental change; coffee

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Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Lerchenweg 36, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
Interests: environmental perceptions; large-scale land acquisitions; gender and resource management; climate change; bottom-up institution building processes (constitutionality)
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1. School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310012, China
2. Department of International Development, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Interests: original institutionalism and endogeneity; informality and property rights; credibility thesis; institutional functionalism; common pool resources and commons; agrarian change and socio-legal studies; mixed and qualitative methods

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School of Economics and Business/Centre for Land Tenure Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway
Interests: land tenure; land policies; land markets; behavioral economics; climate change; technology adoption and adaptation; rural transformation; youth and land access

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Human Ecology Division, Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Interests: the cultural and political dimensions of human-environmental relations in past and present societies

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China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: agricultural policy; food security; market and trade; rural transformation
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Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: overall optimization for the Production–living–ecological (PLE) space; remote sensing applications for resources and environment; spatio-temporal simulation for the potential and benefit of renewable energy resources
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Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, OK 73069, USA
Interests: socioenvironmental systems; land systems science; integrated modeling; alternative futures analysis; transboundary basins
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College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: agro-pastoralist; privatization; sustainable livelihoods framework; China; rural development

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Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land use; land consolidation; land governance; community development; rural development; regional development; human geography
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Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modelling, InstiInstitute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: regional development and policy; regional planning; economic globalization; low carbon economy; the Belt and Road Initiative

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Agronomy at the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
Interests: landscape agronomy; farming system dynamics; cropping/farming system design; territorial/agricultural scenario analysis; multi-criteria sustainability assessment; peri-urban agriculture; territorial projects
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Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Interests: political ecology; political economy; environmental politics; environmental policy; environmental governance; property; rural areas and extractive industries; social movements; social theory

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Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, Rotorua 3046, New Zealand
Interests: environmental issues; policy development; conservation; animal behaviour; land development; environmental services; housing; aboriginal issues
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Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland, 10 Symonds Street, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Interests: land grabbing; development-induced displacement; natural resource governance; post-disaster response and recovery; participatory approaches to research and development; ethics and governance in the food–water–energy nexus; climate change adaptation and community resilience
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1. Department of Computer and Geospatial Sciences, University of Gävle, 801 76 Gävle, Sweden
2. Department of Planning, Aalborg University, A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: 3D cadaster; land management; standardization; urban and rural planning; geodata co-operation
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Center for Landscape and Culture, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia
Interests: cultural landscapes; landscape values and perception; landscape services; heritage

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Department of Agrifood System Economics, Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), 18080 Granada, Spain
Interests: innovation; modelling; ecological economics; agricultural economics; agricultural policy
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