Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Kazuhiko Takeuchi, PhD
President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Project Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo
Visiting Professor, United Nations University Institute for Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)
(Landscape ecology, Sustainability science)
 
Editorial Advisors
Braden Allenby, PhD
Arizona State University, USA 
(Earth systems engineering, Emerging technologies, National security)

Salvatore Arico, PhD
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France
(Biodiversity science and policy)

William Ascher, PhD
Claremont McKenna College, USA
(Government and economics)

Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio, PhD
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
(Anthropology, Human-environment sciences)

William C. Clark, PhD
Harvard University, USA 
(Environment, Development and security)

Peter Edwards, PhD
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
(Environmental sciences)

Thomas Elmqvist, PhD
Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
(Systems ecology)

Jim Falk, PhD
The University of Melbourne, Australia
(Environmental politics and governance)

Carl Folke, PhD
Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden, and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
(Resilience, Social-ecological systems, Sustainability Science, Ecological Economics)

Hans-Martin Fuessel, PhD
European Environment Agency, Denmark 
(Climate change impacts, Vulnerability and adaptation)

Kensuke Fukushi, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Environmental engineering, Risk management)

Chris Gordon, PhD
University of Ghana, Ghana 
(Integrated coastal zone/river basin management, Climate change, Ecotoxicology)

Zakri A. Hamid, PhD
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
(Ecosystem assessment)

Keisuke Hanaki, PhD
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Urban engineering)

Mohammad Hassan, PhD
InterAcademy Panel (IAP), Italy
(Applied mathematics, Plasma physics and environmental modelling)

Eiji Hosoda, PhD
Keio University, Japan
(Environmental economics)

Maria Ivanova, PhD
University of Massachusetts, USA
(Global governance and sustainability)

Mikiko Kainuma, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Climate change)

Norichika Kanie, PhD
Keio University, Japan
(Sustainable development policy and global governance)

Joanne Kauffman, PhD
Independent Expert in Sustainability Science, France
(Global environmental politics)

Nobuo Mimura, PhD
Ibaraki University, Japan 
(Coastal management)

Shunsuke Managi, PhD
Kyushu University, Japan 
(Urban Engineering, Economics)

Fabio Orecchini, PhD
Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy
Luiss Business School, Italy
(Energy, automotive, mobility and sustainability engineering)

Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, PhD
University of Ghana, Ghana 
(Biodiversity conservation)

Joan B. Rose, PhD
Michigan State University, USA 
(Microbial risk assessment)

Akimasa Sumi, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Climate modelling)

Lawrence Susskind, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA 
(Public and environmental dispute resolution)

Finn Tarp, PhD
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
(Development economics)

Barton Buzz Thompson, PhD
Stanford University, USA 
(Environmental and natural resources law)
 
Managing Editor
Osamu Saito, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Ecosystem management, Environmental system analysis)
 
Editors
David J. Abson, PhD
Leuphana University, Germany
(Ecosystem services and sustainability science)

Noé Aguilar-Rivera, PhD
Universidad Veracruzana, México
(Environmental management in agro-industries, Waste management, Sustainable development)

Erik Andersson, PhD
University of Helsinki, Finland
(Social-ecological systems theory and landscape studies)

Mekuria Argaw, PhD
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
(Environmental Science, Ecology and Natural Resources Management)

Ram Avtar, PhD
Hokkaido University, Japan
(Geospatial applications in natural resources monitoring and management)

Julia M. Baird, PhD
Brock University, Canada
(Social and environmental studies, Water and disaster management, Agriculture, landscape, forestry and ecosystems)

Julia Bentz, PhD
Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
(Education for sustainable development, Transformation, Art & climate)

Faik Bilgili, PhD
Erciyes University, FEAS, Turkey
(Environmental economics, Climate change, Sustainable development, Applied econometrics)

Yaw Agyeman Boafo, PhD
University of Ghana, Ghana
(Climate and ecosystem change assessment, Nature-based solutions, Sustainability Science, Food system governance, Disaster Risk reduction and resilience)

Iris C. Bohnet, PhD
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
(Transdisciplinary landscape planning)

Wiebren J. Boonstra, PhD
Uppsala University, Sweden
(Rural and environmental Sociology and sustainability science)

Jeremy Brooks, PhD
The Ohio State University, USA
(Environmental social science)

Katja Brundiers, PhD
University of Freiburg, Germany
(Sustainability, Disaster as an opportunity for sustainability, Heat mitigation, Sustainability education, Transformative sustainability science)

Herlin Chien, PhD
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), Taiwan
(Citizen participation, Public policy, Social-ecological system, Adaptive governance, River ecosystem)

Guido Caniglia, PhD
The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria
(Philosophy of sustainability science, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary methods and theories, Ethics of knowledge co-production)

Hayley Clements, PhD
Centre for Sustainability Transitions and African Wildlife Economy Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
(Social-ecological systems, Biodiversity conservation)

Lars Coenen, PhD
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
(Sustainable innovation and transition, Resilient cities)

Rajarshi Dasgupta, PhD
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
(Landscape planning, Ecosystem services, Natural resource management)

Shalini Dhyani, PhD
CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India
(Forest, mountain and urban ecosystems, Restoration, Socio-Ecological Systems)

Federico Demaria, PhD
University of Barcelona, Spain 
(Ecological Economics, Political ecology, Degrowth and environmental justice)

Annamaria Di Fabio, PhD
University of Florence, Italy
(Psychology of sustainability and sustainable development)

Graham Epstein, PhD
University of Waterloo, Canada
(Common-pool resources, Collective action, Social-ecological systems)

Nora Fagerholm, PhD
University of Turku, Finland
(Human-nature interactions, Social-ecological systems, Participatory approaches, Geospatial approaches, Landscape and urban planning)

Giuseppe Feola, PhD
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
(Sustainability transitions and transformation, Agri-food systems, Grassroots initiatives, Environment and development, Degrowth)

Alexander G. Flor, PhD
University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), Philippines
(Environmental communication, Knowledge management for development)

Alexandros Gasparatos, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Sustainability assessment, Ecosystem services, Food security)

Nicky Grigg, PhD
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
(Aquatic system modeling, Social-ecological systems, Resilience, adaptation and transformation)

Georgina Gurney, PhD
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia
(Conservation governance, Social-ecological systems, Environmental justice, Place attachment)

Jamila Haider, PhD
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
(Social-ecological systems resilience, Development, Food systems, Biocultural landscapes, Interdisciplinary processes)

Maike Hamann, PhD
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
(Ecosystem services and nature-based solutions, Urban resilience, Sustainable development and futures thinking)

Keishiro Hara, PhD
Osaka University, Japan
(Future Design, Mapping of sustainability science, Environmental engineering)

Nick Harvey, PhD
The University of Adelaide, Australia
(Coastal processes, Global coastal change)

Shizuka Hashimoto, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Landscape planning, Land use policy, Natural resource management)

Patrik Henriksson, PhD
Stockholm Resilience Centre/WorldFish, Sweden
(Aquaculture, Antibiotics and life cycle assessment)

Kathleen Hermans, PhD
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
(Environmental change, Migration, Land use)

Rosemary Hill, PhD
James Cook University, Cairns Institute, Australia
(Human geography, Indigenous peoples)

Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu, PhD
University of Kassel, Germany
(Transformative sustainability science, Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge, Values (as leverage points))

Yasuhiko Hotta, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
(Environmental Policy, Circular Economy, Waste Management, Ecological Modernization, international relations, global governance)

Christopher D. Ives, PhD
University of Nottingham, UK
(Environmental values, Urban ecosystems, Sustainability transformations)

Brian Alan Johnson, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
(Remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, Land-use/land-cover change, Citizen Science)

Yuya Kajikawa, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Technology and innovation management, Science and innovation policy)

Miho Kamei, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Climate change, Sustainable cities)

Chiho Kamiyama, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Socio-ecological systems, Ecosystem service sharing, Plant physiological ecology)

Akiyuki Kawasaki, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Water resource management and hydrology)

René Kemp, PhD
UNU-Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), The Netherlands
(Science, technology and innovation governance)

Jasper O Kenter, PhD
Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
(Deliberative ecological economics, Shared and social values of nature, Ecosystem services)

Ali Kharrazi, PhD
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria and Hiroshima University, Japan
(Resilience, Resource networks, Sustainability assessment and quantification)

Yasunori Kikuchi, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Chemical engineering, Process systems engineering, Life cycle assessment)

Yuto Kitamura, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Education and development studies)

Thanasis Kizos, PhD
University of the Aegean, Greece
(Land use systems management, Farming and biodiversity)

Pankaj Kumar, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies , Japan
(Integrated water resource management, Water-food-energy-health nexus, Hydrological simulation; Climate change and its impact on water resources)

Tatsuya Kusakabe, PhD
Hiroshima University, Japan
(Sustainability science of education)

Daniel J. Lang, PhD
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
(Transdisciplinary sustainability research)

Judy Lawrence, PhD
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
(Climate change adaptation)

So-Young Lee, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Environmental/Rural Sociology, Political Ecology)

Xianbing Liu, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Climate Policy, Energy Economics, Corporate Environmental Management)

Zhu Liu, PhD
Tsinghua University, China
(Sustainability, Earth system management, Industrial ecology)

Christopher Luederitz, PhD
McGill University, Canada
(Sustainability transformations, Organizational studies, Knowledge processes, Collaborative learning)

Carolyn J. Lundquist, PhD
The University of Auckland and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
(Coastal management, Biodiversity conservation, Ecosystem services, Ecosystem-based management, Socio-ecological systems)

Leslie Mabon, PhD
The Open University, United Kingdom
(Environmental governance for climate change adaptation and resilience, Environmental justice)

Kirsten Maclean, PhD
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
(Human geography, Indigenous cultural and natural resource management, Qualitative and participatory action research)

André D. Mader, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
(Conservation Biology)

Yoshifumi Masago, PhD
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
(Environmental engineering, Health risk assessment, Climate change adaptation)

Erik Mathijs, PhD
University of Leuven, Belgium
(Agricultural economics, Food systems, Resource economics)

Hirotaka Matsuda, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Agricultural economics and development economics)

Takanori Matsui, PhD
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
(Environmental system analysis, Intelligent information systems)

Masahiro Matsuura, PhD
Meiji University, Japan
(Public dispute resolution)

Thaddeus Miller, PhD
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
(Urban sustainability, Knowledge co-production, Socio-eco-technical systems)

Michele-Lee Moore, PhD
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
(Transformations, Social innovation, Social-ecological systems resilience, Water governance, Transdisciplinary research)

Kanako Morita, PhD
Keio University, Japan
(Global environmental governance and finance)

Karel F. Mulder, PhD
The Hague University of Applied Science, The Netherlands
(Innovation, Sustainable development)

Nidhi Nagabhatla, PhD
The United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium
(Water security, Environmental governance, Climate change adaptation, Resilience, Nature-based solutions, Transdisciplinary research , Cross border environmental governance)

Barbara Neumann, PhD
Research Institute for Sustainability, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany
(Sustainability, Social-ecological systems, Ocean governance, Coastal and marine areas; Transdisciplinary research)

Bhanu Neupane, PhD
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, France
(Water, Climate change, ICTs and sustainable development goals)

Luxon Nhamo, PhD
Water Research Commission, South Africa
(Transformative approaches, Climate Change, Environmental GIS and Remote Sensing, WEF Nexus)

Patrick O’Farrell, PhD
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Applied ecology, Land-use management)

Kei Otsuki, PhD
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
(International Development Studies, Human geography)

Jerneja Penca, PhD
Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia
(Environmental law and policy, Ocean sustainability, Sustainability transformations)

Laura Pereira, PhD
Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
(Social-ecological systems, Sustainability transformations, Food systems and development)

Garry Peterson, PhD
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
(Scenario planning, Regime shifts, Social-ecological systems, Resilience)

Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger
University of Göttingen and University of Kassel, Germany
(Sustainability, Landscape dynamics, Natural resource management)

Christian Erik Pohl, PhD
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
(Transdisciplinary research as means for sustainable development)

Merritt Polk, PhD
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
(Transdisciplinary research, Co-production)

Prajal Pradhan, PhD
University of Groningen, Netherlands
(Sustainable development goals, Food systems, Urban transformation)

Claire Quinn, PhD
University of Leeds, UK
Environmental social sciences, Environment and development, Livelihoods and adaptation, Institutions for resource management

Jaco Quist, PhD
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
(Visions for sustainability, Sustainable innovation, Sustainability transitions, Transdisciplinary research, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainable consumption, Grassroots innovation)

Christopher M. Raymond, PhD
University of Helsinki, Finland
(Sustainability, Values of nature, Sense of place, Participatory mapping, Natural resource management)

Fabrice Renaud, PhD
University of Glasgow, UK
(Environmental risk, Community resilience, Ecosystem approaches)

Marco Rieckmann, PhD
University of Vechta, Germany
(Education for sustainable development, Sustainable development at HEIs, Sustainable development goals)

Sergio Rosendo, PhD
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
(Adaptation to climate change, Coastal and marine governance)

Siddharth Sareen, PhD
University of Stavanger, Norway
(Solar energy governance, Sustainability transitions)

Niko Schäpke, PhD
University of Freiburg, Germany
(Sustainability transformations, Transdisciplinary research, Co-creation Labs, Human agency)

Arnim Scheidel, PhD
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
(Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Critical Agrarian Studies, Ecological Economics)

Barbara Schröter, PhD
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany
(Environmental governance, Transformative and transdisciplinary approaches, Participatory methods)

Peter Seele, PhD
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
(Digitalization, Governance and ethics of sustainability)

Jordi Segalàs, PhD
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech, Spain
(Sustainability science education, Design for sustainability)

Makiko Sekiyama, PhD
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
(Global and environmental health, Child nutrition)

Vigya Sharma, PhD
The University of Queensland, Australia
(Just transitions, energy/ fossil fuel transitions, Mining, Climate change and development, Energy poverty)

Hiroto Shiraki, PhD
Nagoya University, Japan
(Energy modeling, Energy systems, Energy policy)

Jesús M. Siqueiros-García, PhD
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
(Sustainability transformations, Transdisciplinary research and embodied cognition)

Suneetha Subramanian, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
(Ecosystem services and human wellbeing)

Masahiro Sugiyama, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Climate and energy policy)

J. David Tàbara, PhD
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST), Spain
(Participatory knowledge integration for sustainability)

Maria Tengo, PhD
Stockholm University, Sweden
(Social-ecological systems, Resilience, Ecosystem governance)

Vinod Tewari, PhD
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
(Urban management and governance)

Michelle Tigchelaar, PhD
WorldFish, CGIAR, Malaysia
(Climate change, Food systems, Aquatic foods)

Ethemcan Turhan, PhD
University of Groningen, Netherlands
(Political ecology, Climate justice, Energy democracy, Climate mobilities, Environmental conflicts)

Scott Valentine, PhD
National University of Singapore, Singapore
(Energy policy, Sustainable development, Corporate environmental management)

Mohammad Valipour, PhD
Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA
(Sustainable Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Satellite Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Hydroinformatics)

Carena J. van Riper, PhD
University of Illinois, USA
(Environmental social science, Conservation psychology, Protected areas)

Christine Wamsler, PhD
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden
(Sustainability, resilience and associated inner and outer transformation processes and capacities)

David Walther, PhD
Academia SINICA, Taiwan
(Environmental Sociology, Sustainability Policy, and Risk Governance, Constructing Grounded Theory)

Henrik Von Wehrden, PhD
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
(Normativity of methods and transdisciplinary research)

Paul Weaver, PhD
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
(Sustainable production and consumption, Sustainability science education and capacity building, Materials science)

Uta Wehn, PhD
IHE Delft Institute of Water Education, The Netherlands
(Citizen Science, Community Science, Participatory environmental governance, Social innovation, Behavioural dynamics of innovation)

Arnim Wiek, PhD
University of Freiburg, Germany
(Sustainability science, Sustainable food economy and businesses)

Julia Wittmayer, PhD
DRIFT Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Netherlands
(Social innovation, Transdiscplinary and action research, Governance of sustainability transitions)

Masaru Yarime, PhD
Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
(Sustainability and innovation)

Takehito Yoshida, PhD
University of Tokyo, Japan
(Conservation and restoration ecology)

Yadong Yu, PhD
East China University of Science and Technology, China
(Sustainability, Resilience, Networks, Input-Output Analysis)

Shiqiu Zhang, PhD
Peking University, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, China
(Environmental economics, Management and policy)

Xin Zhou, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Environmental economics, environmental assessment, life-cycle analysis, sustainable development, trade and the environment)

Eric Zusman, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Sustainability governance)
 
 
Editorial Office
Shruti Ashish Lahoti, PhD
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan
(Urban landscapes, Green space planning, Urban sustainability)