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About the Contributors About the Contributors Weslynne Ashton (Ph.D. in Environmental Studies) is an assistant professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA. Her research and teaching focus on corporate sustainability, industrial ecology, social entrepreneurship and sustainable industrial development. She previously worked as an associate research scientist and lecturer at Yale University, with visiting scholar appointments at the National University of Singapore and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University in India. She has also worked extensively in the Caribbean, as well as in Hawaii and India. Contact: [email protected] Michael Bahn is an associate professor at the Institute of Ecology of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research focus is on linking plant, soil and ecosystem processes in a global change context. He has co-edited a book on soil carbon dynam- ics (Cambridge) and is an editor of the journal Biogeosciences. He has been prin- ciple investigator/work package leader of several national and European projects, and has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and books. He contributed to a recently published white paper on research perspec- tives for LTER in Austria. Contact: [email protected] Peter Bezák (Ph.D. in Regional Geography) works at the Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. His research interests include socio-ecological interactions in the landscape, landscape and biodiversity changes and driving forces behind these, landscape management and policy, sustainable development, participatory approaches in landscape and nature protection research. He participated in several research projects funded under EU Framework Programmes (EVALUWET, BIOSCENE, BIOPRESS, ALTER-NET) and he has monitored LIFE programme projects in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated to the support of the Natura 2000 sites. He is the main coordinator of the Landscape Europe network. Contact: [email protected] S.J. Singh et al. (eds.), Long Term Socio-Ecological Research, 563 Human-Environment Interactions 2, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1177-8, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 564 About the Contributors Sylvain Bigot is Professor of Physical Geography at the Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France) and Researcher in the LTHE (Laboratory of study of Transfers in Hydrology and Environment). Specialised in climatology and in Remote Sensing, his experience is dedicated to climate variability diagnostics and land cover/land use moni- toring in the French Prealps (Long-Term Ecological Research site) and in tropical Africa. Director of the international review Climatologie (publication of the International Association of Climatology) since 2006, his expertise is on global and regional climate teleconnections and environmental impacts. Contact: [email protected] Christopher Boone (Ph.D. in Geography) is a professor with joint appointments in the School of Sustainability and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, USA. For more than a decade he has participated in the Long-Term Ecological Research programme in the United States. His work exam- ines social and ecological drivers and consequences of urbanisation, with a special focus on environmental justice. Contact: [email protected] Axel Borsdorf (Doctorate and Habilitation in Geography) is a full professor at the Geography Department of the University of Innsbruck and the director of the Institute for Mountain Research: Man and Environment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Innsbruck, Austria. He is also a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Vice-President of the Austrian Latin-America Institute. Axel Borsdorf edits several scienti fi c journals and has led EU-funded projects on urbanisation, alpine development and mountain research. Contact: [email protected] Stephen Boyden obtained a degree in Veterinary Science in London in 1947. From 1949 to 1965 he carried out research in immunology in Cambridge, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and Canberra. From 1965 onwards he pioneered human ecology and biohistory at the Australian National University. In the 1970s he directed the Hong Kong Human Ecology Programme. Since retirement in 1991 he has been actively involved in the work of the Nature and Society Forum – a community-based organisation concerned with the future wellbeing of humankind and the natural environment. He has published a series of books on human biohistory. Contact: [email protected] Jean-Jacques Brun ( Ph.D.) is a research professor at Cemagref Grenoble Centre, France. Leader of the team “Ecosystem assessment and Conservation”, he works as a soil ecologist in a landscape ecological perspective. He focuses on soil biodiver- sity in an above ground/below ground approach and studies the role of humus forms, organic matter and soil fauna as indicators of global change impact on mountain ecosystems. He is the current President of the International Committee on Alpine Research (ISCAR). He is project partner in the European INTERREG IV B project ECONNECT “Improving ecological connectivity in the Alps” and was involved in the Sixth European Framework Programme GLOCHAMORE (Global Change in Mountain Regions) which aims to develop an integrative working plan for environ- mental and social monitoring in mountain regions that will facilitate the implemen- tation of global change research strategies in selected UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserves. Contact: [email protected] About the Contributors 565 Mary L. Cadenasso (Ph.D. in Ecology) is an associate professor and ecologist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, USA, with research interests in landscape, ecosystem, and plant ecology speci fi cally focused on the role of spatial heterogeneity in system dynamics. She is involved in research on urban land cover and the link to ecosystem and hydrologic processes, urban agriculture and environmental justice, the in fl uence of vegetation structure on nitro- gen dynamics in California oak savannas, and the structure and function of riparian zones in Kruger National Park, South Africa. She is co-principal investigator of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research Project (BES), co- principal investigator on the Fresno-Clovis Urban Long-Term Research Areas Exploratory Project and lead principal investigator on two projects in Sacramento investigating urban land cover and ecosystem services. Contact: mlcadenasso@ ucdavis.edu Stephen R. Carpenter (Ph.D. in Botany and Oceanography & Limnology) directs the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research interests include integrated social-ecological analysis of watersheds, large- scale and long-term fi eld experiments, and early warnings of regime shifts. Currently, he is Chair of the Scienti fi c Committee for the Program on Ecosystem Change and Society, a new interdisciplinary initiative from the International Council of Science. Carpenter served as co-chair of the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and as lead principal investigator of the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Site. Contact: [email protected] Marian Chertow (Ph.D. in Environmental Studies) is a professor of industrial envi- ronmental management at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, USA. Her research and teaching focus is on industrial ecology, business/ environment issues, waste management, and environmental technology innovation. Her current research compares two urbanised socio-ecological systems on Hawai’i Island. She is also appointed at the Yale School of Management and the National University of Singapore. She serves on the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) that advises US EPA and is incoming President of the International Society of Industrial Ecology. Contact: mar- [email protected] Daniel L. Childers (Ph.D. in Marine Science) is a professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA. He is also director of the CAP LTER and co-director of the Urban Sustainability Research Coordination Network. His research focuses on systems ecology (primarily in wetland, aquatic, and urban ecosystems) and sustainability science. He has studied many different freshwater and estuarine systems around the world, recently expanding to urban wetlands and “ciénega” systems of arid southwestern streams. Dan came to ASU after 15 years at Florida International University, where he was director of the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program. Contact: [email protected] 566 About the Contributors Philippe Cozic is a research director and agronomist, specialised in agro-ecology of mountain pastures and in ecological engineering. His research is characterised by two main topics: applied and participative research implicating local mountain stakeholders, and interdisciplinary studies that he has conducted (ecology, econom- ics, agronomy, forestry, geography) for a sustainable development of mountain ter- ritories. For over 20 years he has managed several teams and research units of Cemagref (UR Ecosystèmes Montagnards, UR Agricultures et Milieux Montagnards). He has been co-founder and leader of the LTSER Central French Alps with Sandra Lavorel. Contact: [email protected] Wolfgang Cramer (Ph.D. in Vegetation Science, Professor of Global Ecology)
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