Editorial Board for section 'Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions'

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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.

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College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: urban geography; metropolitan development; urban-rural planning
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Department Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering ABC, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: regional and urban development; urban rent; innovation and regional and urban competitiveness

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School of Biological Sciences, Unit of Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Private Bag X1009, Potchefstroom 2531, South Africa
Interests: urban biodiversity; urban ecosystem services; urban ecology; urban social-ecological systems; urban gardens; urban green infrastructure planning
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USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 4955 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Interests: ecosystem services; urban forestry; forest policy; socio-ecological systems; community forestry; landscape ecology

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: urban geography and urban agglomeration development; the resource and environmental effects of urbanization

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Department of Geography, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
Interests: counterurbanisation; urban-to-rural migration; alternative communities; nature; counterculture

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School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: rural settlements planning; land consolidation; land use; ecological effects
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Department of Geoinformatics, Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Stefanikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: land-use/land-cover change; landscape fragmentation; urban dynamics; ecosystem services; remote sensing
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Faculty of Management, The Open University of The Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands
Interests: creative industries; urban development; cultural heritage; digital technology; strategic performance management
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School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: neighborhoods; sociospatial transformation; spatial planning; urban China
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School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: sustainable utilization of land resources and ecological effect; spatial planning; geospatial modeling and applications using geographic information systems
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Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Italian National Research Council, Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: land-use planning; urbanization and geo-hydrological processes; historical research
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College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Interests: sustainable development of resources and environment; regional development and planning management; agricultural development and rural revitalization
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Department of Geography, Harokopio University, 17778 Athens, Greece
Interests: urban inequalities; segregation; gentrification; southern Europe
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Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Via Francesco De Sanctis, 1, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: urban forest; landscape ecology; landscape planning; land management; forest management; environmental science
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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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Political Science, University of Bordeaux, Bureau B032 (RdC), 11 allée Ausone, 33607 Pessac CEDEX, France
Interests: urban governance; neoliberalism; urban policies (planning, town planning, economic development, international relations, digital); local government; center-periphery relations; intergovernmental relations; political sociology of local government; metropolitanization; intermunicipal governance, public policies; social science methods (interview, comparison)

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School of Environmental Sciences, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Interests: rural and environmental change; social and cultural aspects; agriculture and land management; family farming; agri-environmental schemes and management

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1. Escuela de Architectura, Artes y Diseño, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico
2. Cittaideale, Herenstraat 26A, 6701DL Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: regenerative design; nature-driven urbanism; foodscapes; climate adaptation; spatial sea level landscapes; sustainable urban design; complexity
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Urban Digital Twin Lab, School of Modeling Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, 3100 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA
Interests: urban analytics; sustainable cities and communities; spatial statistics; spatial analysis and modelling; geodesign; planning support systems; urban digital twin
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Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA
Interests: urban planning; technology; social equity; scholarly impact
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Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, Von KleinSmid Center 327, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: urban governance and policy; local government; politics and political participation in urban regions; intergovernmental relations and multilevel governance; suburbanization and metropolitanization; urban form; urban and periurban land dynamics; political economy of urban development; metropolitan land and housing markets; urban sociospatial inequality and segregation; remote sensing and GIS

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Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa
Interests: non-timber forest products; NTFP ecology; NTFP management; multipurpose landuse; poverty alleviation; rural livelihoods; urban foraging
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Department of GI Science and Cartography, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: geocomputational social sciences; land use modeling; thematic cartography
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Local Environment Management and Analysis (LEMA), Urban and Environmental Engineering, University of Liege, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Interests: urban planning; landscape; land use; governance
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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia, 54, Catania, Italy
Interests: housing affordability; real estate market; urban regeneration; urban planning valuation; landscape accounting and assessment; historic city preservation; multiple criteria decision aid; housing vulnerability and property prices; human vulnerability and human capital
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School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Interests: land use and low-carbon development; land use and environmental pollution; land use policy and planning; land use expansion and urban development; land use and urban form
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