Editors

About the Editor

Max Finlayson is a wetland ecologist with extensive experience internationally in the science and management responses to water pollution, mining and agricultural impacts, invasive species, climate change, and human well-being and wetlands. He has participated in global assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Global Environment Outlook, and Water Management in Agriculture, and since the early 1990s has been a technical adviser to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

He has been actively involved in environmental NGOs and science organisations and has worked with government, community-based organisations and industry to investigate the causes of ecosystem change and management responses, including restoration, and the participation of local communities. Underlying these activities is a concerted effort to improve the collection of evidence for addressing complex ecological issues and providing guidance to managers and policy makers recognising that social, economic and ecological issues are inter-dependent and operate across multiple scales, particularly when dealing with regional sustainable development.

Max holds honorary positions with the University of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University in Australia, IHE Delft in the Netherlands, and the Institute for Wetland Research, China Academy of Forestry, China. He has participated in many project panels and scientific societies, and in 2017 was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Wetland Scientists.

He has contributed to over 400 journal articles, reports, guidelines, proceedings and book chapters on wetland ecology and management. His publication record is available on Google Citations (https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=1mZHY3gAAAAJ).