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xix Athanasios  Damialis Aerobiologist at the University Centre for Health Sciences at the Augsburg Hospital, Germany (UNIKA-T), and the German Research Centre for Environmental Health. Since 1996, he has worked in plant and fungal ecology and biology, biometeorology and climate change, and environmental medicine. Two of his future goals are to protect environmental quality and to promote human health via real-time, personalized health information services. Zoe  G.  Davies Professor of Biodiversity Conservation at the University of Kent, UK.  She is a landscape ecologist who uses empirical data to address questions of importance to conservation management and policy. One of her key research inter- ests is understanding biodiversity-human well-being relationships. Sjerp  de Vries Senior social scientist in  environmental psychology  at Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), The Netherlands. His research focuses on cul- tural ecosystem services, especially on the effect of access to and contact with nature on human health and well-being. Raymond  De Young Associate Professor of Environmental Psychology and Planning at the University of Michigan, USA.  His work explores behavioral responses to the urgent need to transition to a life lived within local resource limits. Despite dismal ecological forecasts, his work is decidedly optimistic but without illusions. Matthew  Dennis Lecturer in geographical information science in geography at the University of Manchester, UK.  His research focuses on human-dominated systems employing a landscape approach to understanding patterns and processes that influ- ence human health and social-ecological resilience. Thomas  Elmqvist Professor in Natural Resource Management at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden. His research is focused on urbanization, urban ecosystem services and components of resilience including the role of social institutions. He has led the “Cities and Biodiversity project” (www. cbobook.org) and is currently leading a Future Earth project entitled “Urban Planet”. Kerstin  Ensinger Environmental psychologist at the Black Forest National Park, Germany. She is the director of the social research program of the Black Forest National Park. Her research and teaching activities have focused on issues of the effects of wilderness and nature-based experiences on body and mind. Jessica  C.  Fisher Conservation researcher at DICE, University of Kent, UK.  While her background is in ecology, much of her current work crosses traditional disci- plinary boundaries. She is particularly interested in understanding how human- wildlife interactions can help solve conservation challenges. About the Editors and Contributors