Seite - xxiii - in Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

xxiii Barbara  Livoreil Knowledge broker at the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB). She works to promote the use of systematic reviews to support decision and negotiation. Her background is in animal behavior and she also spent 10  years in the field doing conservation biology. Her main interests currently are behavioural change, conservation psychology and mainstreaming biodiversity into society. Kathy  MacKinnon Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). The IUCN WCPA is a global network of conservation protected areas professionals supporting well-managed and connected parks and other protected areas as natural solutions to biodiversity loss and other global challenges, including climate change and human health and well-being. Iana  Markevych Postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Epidemiology at the German Research Center for Environmental Health. She is an environmental epide- miologist with a background in ecology. Among others, her interests lie in the field of green space benefits for childhood health. Dörte  Martens Researcher at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany. She completed her PhD in environmental psychology at the University of Zürich on the effects of different urban forests on psychological well-being. Her current research interests are psychological effects of nature experi- ence areas for children in an urbanized environment. Doreen  Montag Lecturer in Global Public Health in the Barts and London School of Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, UK.  Her interests lie in health- centred global environmental governance, political economy of planetary health, climate change, biodiversity, sustainable development and vector-borne diseases. Ruth  Müller Head of the Environmental Toxicology and Medical Entomology Department at Goethe University, Frankfurt in Germany and the head of the Ecology and Genetics Platform of Polo GGB, Italy. She is a vector biologist. Her basic and applied research focuses on mosquito-borne diseases and innovative, environmen- tally friendly control of aedine and anopheline vector species, in particular those altering their distribution with global climate changes. Bram  Oosterbroek PhD candidate at the International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS), Maastricht University, The Netherlands. His research topic is on a healthy living environment, specialized in the method of spatial modeling. He is working on a GIS model to assess and map the human health impacts of urban green spaces. Kate  Reilly EU program officer for Nature-Based Solutions at the IUCN European Regional Office in Brussels, Belgium. She supports IUCN’s work to promote About the Editors and Contributors