Editorial board

Co-Editors-in-Chief

Alexander van Oudenhoven, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Alexander van Oudenhoven is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University (CML), The Netherlands. His research focuses on the integrated evaluation of nature-based solutions, nature’s contributions to people and ecosystem services, with a particular interest on coastal ecosystems and cities. Alexander is education director of the transdisciplinary MSc program Governance of Sustainability. Next to being Co-Editor in Chief of Ecosystems and People, Alexander is steering committee member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership, and co-chair of its Thematic Working Group on Ecosystem Services Indicators. In addition, Alexander was lead author of the IPBES Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Europe and Central Asia.

Marta Berbés-Blázquez, University of Waterloo, Canada
Marta Berbés-Blázquez is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research considers the human dimensions of environmental change in rural and urban ecosystems with an emphasis on vulnerable populations. Her work is informed by resilience thinking and political ecology at a conceptual level, and it is practically oriented towards qualitative, participatory, and anticipatory research methods. Marta is a member of the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and coordinates the Northamerican chapter of the Earth System Governance project. Marta is a contributing author to the IPBES Values assessment.

Matthias Schröter, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Matthias Schröter is an environmental scientist with a broad interdisciplinary background, including landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological economics and environmental ethics. Matthias has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, edited a book (Atlas of Ecosystem Services) and was lead author in the Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia of IPBES. He is member of the steering committee of the Ecosystem Services Partnership. His research interests include spatial ecosystem service assessments, in particular telecoupling and coproduction of ecosystem services, sustainability of social-ecological systems, and the science-policy-interface of ecosystem services. Furthermore, he is interested in the theoretical-conceptual development of ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people. Matthias is affiliated with the Social-ecological Systems Institute at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is working for a funding agency that supports biodiversity conservation projects in a development context globally.

Editorial Assistants

Aikaterini Christopoulou, Harokopio University, Greece
Catherine Courtier, University of California, Davis, USA
Nina Kaiser, University of Duisburg-Essen & University of Applied Science Trier, Germany
Sophie Peter, ISOE Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Germany

Associate Editors

Christian Albert, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Christian Albert is Professor of Environmental Analysis and Planning in Metropolitan Regions and Head of the Planning Metropolitan Landscapes (PLACES) working group at Ruhr University Bochum's Institute of Geography, Germany. His research interests include landscape planning, ecosystem services, and sustainability sciences. He served as Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for the Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia. Christian is also co-editor of the journal Landscape Online, and serves as editorial board member of Landscape Ecology, and as Subject Editor of OneEcosystem. He is a board member of the German section of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE-DE) and member of the Steering Committee of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP).

Evangelia (Valia) Drakou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Evangelia (Valia) Drakou is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Physical Geography at the Geography Department in Harokopio University of Athens in Greece. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with a background in Biology (BSc) and Landscape Ecology (PhD), who works on assessing human-nature interactions through ecosystem service quantification and mapping with emphasis on marine and coastal systems. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Ecosystem Services Partnership and a co-chair of the Marine and the Mapping working group of the same network. She is also an active member of the Group on Earth Observations, Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON), where she works towards the development of Essential Variables for Ecosystem Services and leads the design of an Ontology for Ecosystem Services (ESOnto).

Berta Martín-López, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Berta Martín-López is a Professor in Sustainability Science at the Faculty of Sustainability of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. With a PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, and many years of undertaking applied research, Berta focuses on analysing the dynamics of social-ecological systems at different scales, from local to global. She has been editor of the IPBES Pollinators Assessment and coordinating lead author for the IPBES Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Europe and Central Asia. In addition to her commitment to the ‘Ecosystems and People’ journal, she serves as editorial board member of Ecology & Society and One Earth. She is also involved with the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) of Future Earth.

John Parrotta, United States Forest Service, USA
John Parrotta is the National Program Leader for International Science Issues in the USDA Forest Service’s Research & Development branch. He provides scientific and technical advice to develop science-based policy positions in international forest policy forums, and works with government agencies and external partners to support international efforts to strengthen forest science, biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management. John holds a PhD in Tropical Forest Ecology and Management from Yale University and an MSc in Ecology from the University of Aberdeen, and has been engaged in research worldwide for over 30 years, in the fields of tropical forest ecology, biodiversity conservation, ecology and management of planted forests, forest restoration, forest history, and traditional forest knowledge. He was coordinating lead author of the IPBES Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration. He serves as Vice-President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).

Graciela Rusch, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Graciela Rusch is a plant ecologist by training, with research interest in a wide range of topics from vegetation ecology, grassland dynamics, comparative ecology, biodiversity conservation and cross-disciplinary research in the field ecosystem services. She has research experience in grasslands, savannas, silvopastoral and agricultural systems and urban systems, and has conducted research in South, Central and North America, East and West Africa, and Scandinavia. Graciela has her first degree in Agronomy from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, her PhD in Plant Ecology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden and works at present as a senior research scientists at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway.

Nynke Schulp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nynke Schulp is associate professor at the Environmental Geography Group, part of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nynke holds a PhD on interactions between long-term land use and soil organic carbon stocks. After her PhD, she broadened her focus towards human-landscape interactions in general, with ecosystem service flows and sustainable agriculture as core topics. She has developed indicators ecosystem services and assessed linkages and trade-offs between supply and demand for ecosystem services at multiple scales. Furthermore, she is skilled in land use change modelling using a variety of approaches.


Editorial Board Members

David Abson, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Dave Abson is a junior Professor at the Faculty of Sustainability of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, in Northern Germany. Dave is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist with a focus on the intersection of natural and social sciences in relation to the sustainable management of agro-ecosystems. He has co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and his research interests encompass the conceptualization and operationalization of the ecosystem services concept and systems thinking approaches to sustainable land management. He was a lead author of the two economics chapters of the UK national ecosystem assessment. Dave’s research is currently focused on participatory scenario modelling of land use change and related ecological and socio-economic impacts of land use change in South West Ethiopia.

Rob Alkemade, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands
Rob Alkemade obtained his PhD on marine ecology at Wageningen University in co-operation with the Netherlands Institute for Ecology in Yerseke. From 1993 to 2008, he was researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), where he developed the GLOBIO model for global biodiversity and ecosystem services (www.globio.info). Since 2008, he has been a senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and guided the applications of the GLOBIO model in scenario studies for Global Environmental Outlooks, Global Biodiversity Outlooks and OECD Environmental Outlooks. From 2014, he is head of the IPBES Technical Support Unit for Scenarios and Models, and lead author of the IPBES scenario assessment. From 2012, he is affiliated to the Environmental Systems Analyses group in Wageningen University, and from 2019 he is special professor on global biodiversity and ecosystem services modelling.

Bas Amelung, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Bas Amelung is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Systems Analysis group of Wageningen University, Netherlands. Bas has co-authored around 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, the large majority of which address interactions between global environmental change and tourism. His research interests include tourism in relation to climate change, water scarcity and ecosystem services. In terms of methods, Bas is currently focusing on agent-based modelling as a tool to explore tourism-environment interaction.

Brigitte Baptiste, Universidad Ean, Colombia
Brigitte Baptiste is a Colombian biologist graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with a Master's Degree in Conservation and Tropical Development from the University of Florida. She is Honoris Causa PhD in Environmental Management of Unipaz. She was director for 10 years of the Alexander Von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute and currently serves as Chancellor of Universidad Ean, a higher education institution focused in sustainable entrepreneurship. She is considered an expert in environmental issues and biodiversity and she is an important leader in gender diversity, being recognized for her participation in international conferences related to these issues. Brigitte was chosen as one of the 25 global experts of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She currently chairs the Inter-American Environmental Initiative for Global Change Science Policy Advisory Committee and is an active member of the Scientific Committee of the Program on Ecosystem Change and Society. In 2018, she received the Fulbright for Excellence Award in Colombia and in 2019 the exemplary Colombian Environment category Award.

Edmundo Barrios, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, Italy
Edmundo Barrios is an Agricultural Officer at FAO. He provides technical and policy related advice on soil health and ecosystem management to support agroecological transitions to sustainable food and agricultural systems. His PhD at Dundee University-U.K. and the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) researched biological indicators of soil quality in tropical agroforestry systems in Kenya and Zambia. Thereafter, during nearly two decades with the CGIAR based in Colombia and Kenya, his work focused on understanding the impact of land use change and agricultural intensification on soil health and biodiversity and the participatory development of indicators associated to soil-mediated ecosystem services in Latin America and Africa.

Houria Djoudi, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia
Houria Djoudi is Senior Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, since 2011. Houria has PhD in Agriculture (University of Giessen, Germany), with specialization in Pastoralism and rangeland management. Houria’s work focus in socio-ecological systems analysis particularly linking environmental and institutional changes. Houria has 20 years of work experience in understanding human and ecosystem interactions in different socio-ecological systems in North and West Africa and Central Asia. Houria’s work has a strong focus on the gendered dimensions of natural resources management and the questions of equity access and rights. In her position at CIFOR Houria’ s work focusses on climate change adaptation, vulnerability analysis and the linkages between adaptation and mitigation, particularly applied to the context of drylands. She has sound competencies in quantitative and qualitative research methods as well as participatory approaches, particularly applied to questions of linkages and feedbacks in socio-ecological systems.

Isabelle Durance, Cardiff University Water Research Institute, United Kingdom
Isabelle Durance is the Director of the Cardiff University Water Research Institute that brings together researchers across the natural and social sciences to address the challenge of water for people and ecosystems. With a background in agronomy, her current research as a landscape ecologist uses freshwater ecosystems as a model to investigate the links between changing landscapes, biodiversity and ecosystem services. Having led the recently completed £3.1m NERC Duress project on the role of river biodiversity in sustaining ecosystem services, she is also actively involved in promoting interdisciplinary research in her various advisory roles to government (e.g. UK Natural Environment Research Council –NERC-) or charities (e.g. World Wildlife Fund, Ecosystem Service Partnership). Keen to promote the next generation of ecosystem scientists, she leads the UK NERC Center for Doctoral Training in Freshwater Bioscience and Sustainability.

Marina García-Llorente, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Marina García-Llorente holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (Autonomous University of Madrid - UAM, 2011) and since 2019 is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology in UAM. From a transdisciplinary perspective, her research combines the socio-ecological and agroecological approaches, focused on applying ecological and equity concepts to the maintenance of ecosystem services at agroecosystems, the revitalisation of the rural sector and the wellbeing of local communities. She has led a research line focused on “New strategies for integrated rural development" at IMIDRA (Institute for Rural Development, Agricultural and Food Research, Madrid) and since 2015, she is one of the coordinators of Agrolab, a living lab farming project. Further research interest cover green care as an approach to uncover human-nature relationships through the promotion of health and social values.

Davide Geneletti, University of Trento, Italy
Davide Geneletti is Associate Professor on Spatial Planning at the University of Trento. He is specialized in impact assessment of projects, plans and policies; ecosystem services in spatial and urban planning; nature-based solutions; multicriteria analysis. Formerly Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Sustainability Science Program and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment. He has consulted for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN-HABITAT, and the European Commission. Founding member of the start-up company Skopia, specialized in anticipation services for environmental, social and economic planning.

Zuzana Harmáčková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Zuzana Harmáčková is a researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre and leads the Department of Social-Ecological Analysis at the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She works with stakeholders, experts and policy-makers across geographic and cultural contexts (Africa, Central Asia, Europe) to co-develop scenarios of potential future development, and pathways to sustainable futures for people and nature. Zuzana has been involved in science-policy interfaces related to biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability challenges (IPBES, EKLIPSE), and acts as a coordinating lead author in the futures chapter of the IPBES Nexus Assessment. She is a steering committee member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.

Rosemary Hill, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia
Rosemary (Ro) Hill is a human geographer dedicated to collaborative environmental governance, Indigenous peoples and social-ecological sustainability. She is a principal research scientist with CSIRO Land and Water and an Adjunct Associate Professor with James Cook University. Ro conducts research on environmental governance systems, and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and climate change adaptation, with a special focus on Indigenous approaches. She has extensive experience in cross-cultural research with indigenous peoples and in collaborative knowledge platforms. She is a Member of the IUCN Commission on Environment Economic and Social Policy, the World Commission on Protected Areas, and the Expert Taskforce for Indigenous and Local Knowledge of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Sander Jacobs, Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium
Sander Jacobs is scientific researcher for the Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), research group Nature & Society, focusing on application of ecosystem services and natural capital valuation in policy and practice. As a science -policy officer for the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, he coordinates the Belgian Community of Practice on Ecosystems & Society. He was a lead author for the IPBES Europe & Central Asia assessment, and is coordinating lead author for the IPBES Values assessment. Sander is also guest lecturer and teacher in diverse master courses.

Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jonathan Kingsley is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). He has dedicated the better part of the past two decades working in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, government bodies, academic institutes and NGO’s across Australia in the public health and community development field. Jonathan sees our natural environment as central to health and having the capacity to bridge health inequalities. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers on this topic. Jonathan’s diverse background has led to him winning a range of environmental awards (most notably at Parks Victoria and the International Association for Ecology and Health) and sitting on multiple steering committees related to Indigenous and ecosystem health.

Jacqueline Loos, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Jacqueline Loos is a critical ecologist working in sustainability science. Her main interests are the relationships and responses between the environment, biodiversity, and humans. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, she researches human-nature interactions at conceptual and practical levels. Specifically, she is focusing on Environmental Justice in Development and Biodiversity Conservation, thereby applying a social-ecological understanding of protected areas to scrutinize interdependencies between governance arrangements, management effectiveness and social-ecological outcomes. Jacqueline is currently a Junior Professor for research into the Sustainable use of Natural Resources at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.

María José Martínez-Harms, Center of Applied Ecology & Sustainability, Chile
María José Martínez-Harms is a conservation scientist interested in the science-policy interface to inform biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services management. She explores trade-offs and prioritize management alternatives that balance conservation, development, and social objectives. Her research focuses on synthesizing ecosystem services research to provide scientific evidence that can be used in environmental decision making. Currently, she is working on making conservation more inclusive in the Chilean Patagonia and exploring ways to improve land-sea conservation to provide benefits for the conservation of species, ecosystems and people. Her research aims to inform international and national conservation decision-making on best practices to manage land/seascapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services.

Lelani Mannetti, Georgia State University, United States
Lelani Mannetti is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s Urban Studies Institute, where she teaches Urban Environmental Sustainability and Environmental Justice. She received her doctorate and master’s degrees in conservation ecology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. With a keen intertest in social-ecological systems and the transformative governance of complex systems, her work centers on understanding perceptions of nature and the diverse values people ascribe to the natural environment. In addition to her ongoing research on co-producing sustainable, resilient, and just future cities, she works at the science-policy interface as a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Transformative Change Assessment.

Amrita Neelakantan, Network for Conserving Central India (NCCI), India
Amrita is a conservation and development professional with more than 15 years of experience. She works across multiple efforts as part of her role as the coordinator for the Network for Conserving Central India (NCCI). She is a founding member of the Coalition for Wildlife Corridors (India) and an active contributor to Wildlife Connect (global and India) as well as the Coexistence Consortium (India). Amrita started her own environmental consultancy firm - Tendril Consultancy, in 2020. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University (New York, U.S.) and also has a Masters in Applied Ecology and Conservation from the University of East Anglia (U.K.). Early in her conservation career, Amrita gained fieldwork experience in three of the world's biodiversity hotspots: Ecuadorian Tropical Andes, East African Coastal Forests in Kenya and Northern Dry Deciduous Forests of Madagascar. She has also dabbled in sustainable fashion efforts that include circular loops inspired by nature.

Patrick O’Farrell, CSIR, South Africa
Patrick O’Farrell has focused on understanding the impacts and trade-offs associated with land-use change and development. This has involved interdisciplinary work developing spatially explicit ecosystem service models that capture ecological processes and dynamics, towards understanding the resulting human benefits and plurality of values. At present, he is focused on the challenges that urbanization within Africa poses on ecological processes and how we can better design landscapes and associated policy interventions towards meeting societal needs in the African context.

Ram Pandit, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Ram Pandit is an Environmental and Resource Economist at the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment of the University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia. His research interest lies at the interface of society and natural resources, mainly in the areas of environmental conservation and development. His current research focuses on valuing threatened species and ecosystems, economics of protected areas, biodiversity conservation, environmental management, land degradation, and urban and community forestry. He is an Adjunct Faculty of the Global Center for Food, Land and Water Resources, Graduate School of Global Food Resources, Hokkaido University, Japan. He had participated in several deliverables of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as coordinating lead author (Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment) and lead author (Regional Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Asia-Pacific), and he currently is a lead author of the assessment on the multiple values of nature. He is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP).

Laura Pereira, Wits University, South Africa
Laura Pereira is an Associate Professor at the Global Change Institute at Wits University and a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. She is interested in the interface between traditional knowledge and innovation, the role of futures techniques in enabling transformative change and developing innovative methods for knowledge co-production in Global South contexts. Her work focusses on issues of climate change and biodiversity loss, bringing a critical lens that connects to diverse bodies of knowledge and decolonial approaches to understanding potential solutions to these wicked sustainability challenges. Laura sits on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Task Force on scenarios and models and she is also a member of the Earth Commission’s Working Group 4 on Transformations.

Cristina Quintas-Soriano, University of Almería, Spain
Cristina Quintas-Soriano is a postdoctoral research associate in the Economic and Business Department at the University of Almeria. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with a background in Environmental Sciences (BSc) and Ecology (PhD) and currently works on assessing human-nature interaction through social-ecological analysis, with emphasis on the consideration of biocultural values and gender. Cristina’s research is focused on a better understanding of the interaction between human and nature, and is practically oriented towards socio-cultural approaches and qualitative, participatory research methods. Specific topics of interest include: coupling and de-coupling of social-ecological systems, plural valuation of nature, gender equity, and sustainable management of ecosystem services.

Maraja Riechers, Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Germany
Maraja Riechers is a group leader of the Fisheries and Society working group at the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries in Rostock, Germany. Maraja is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist with a training in social sciences. Her work focusses on the interactions of human and the environment with special focus on nature valuation (e.g., nature’s contributions to people, relational values, ecosystem services, human-nature connectedness, human-wildlife coexistence) and sustainability transformation (leverage points and their operationalization, anticipatory processes, equity). Her interests also include transdisciplinary and art-based methods/processes, a relational turn in sustainability science and careful academic scholarship.

Juan Emilio Sala, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
Juan Emilio Sala is a Researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council from Argentina (CONICET) and a Postgraduate Professor of Philosophy of Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco (UNPSJB, Puerto Madryn, Argentina). With a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Juan has been working for 20 years with various top predators of the Argentine Sea and its different ecosystems, in order to get to know the various pieces of the big puzzle representing the Patagonian marine socio-ecosystems. He is particularly focused on generating policy-oriented knowledge on marine and coastal social-ecological systems to the management and conservation of these complex scenarios. He is also dedicated to investigate the epistemological procedures and academic practices, seeking to generate spaces for transdisciplinarity, towards the so longed social-ecological transformation and sustainability. Finally, since the beginning of 2020, Juan is working as an advisor to 1) the National Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; 2) the National Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development; and 3) the CONICET; on issues of Marine Sciences, in general, and Marine Protected Areas, in particular.

Nadia Sitas, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Nadia Sitas is an interdisciplinary researcher based at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and a research associate in the Conservation Ecology Department and Centre for Complex Systems in Transition at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Nadia is involved in applied research where she focuses on understanding knowledge exchange processes linked to mainstreaming the environment into various decision making contexts. These mainstreaming activities concentrate on co-designing stakeholder engagement and social learning processes and developing user-inspired decision support tools related to ecosystem services, social-ecological resilience and development planning. Her research interests span both the social and ecological spheres with the majority of her experience based on insights from the global south. Nadia’s work focuses on issues related to power asymmetries through strengthening the integration of issues related to equity, with an emphasis on gender, poverty, rights and access in decision making, strategic planning and assessment processes.

Suneetha Subramanian, United Nations University, Japan
Suneetha Subramanian has more than ten years of experience in international and sub-national research and capacity building activities relating to biodiversity and human well-being with a specific focus on equity, traditional knowledge, community well-being, assessment of changes to ecosystems and human wellbeing, developing indicators to capture changes to socio-ecological resilience, and joint implementation of policies and actions on Health and Biodiversity at the community level. She is currently a visiting fellow at the United Nations University and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan.

Sebastian Villasante, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Sebastian Villasante is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics of University of Santiago de Compostela. Sebastian is interested in understanding the role of marine biodiversity for well-being, and the transformative changes towards ocean equity. He is currently co-chair of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Working Group on Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services, co-chair of the WP on economic valuation of ecosystem services of the Ecosystem Services Partnership, and co-leader author of the IPBES Transformative Change Scoping Assessment. Sebastian is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Frontiers of Marine Sciences and Marine Policy.

Updated 17-08-2023