Page - xxi - in Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

xxi Stefan  Heiland Professor of Landscape Planning and Development at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Currently his work focuses on adaptation to climate change by landscape planning, urban green infrastructure and its contri- butions to human well-being, and the transition of landscapes, for example, by renewable energies. He was head of the working group preparing the scientific basis of the German Federal Green Infrastructure Concept. Astrid  Hilgers Landscape ecologist and senior policy advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. She is the national coordinator  of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD)  and of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)  for The Netherlands. She is an initia- tor of the international Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators. Dusty  Hoesly Lecturer in the departments of Religious Studies  and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the USA.  His research focuses on  contemporary American religions and the  social scientific study of reli- gion, specializing in how minority religions and spirtual movements shape modern American culture.  Jo  Hopkins Chair of the IUCN WCPA Health and Well-being Specialist Group. In this role, she advocates for the vital role that parks and protected areas play in ensur- ing a healthy natural world. Jo is also the manager of National and International Engagement at Parks Victoria (Australia) and is responsible for the consolidation of partnerships that deliver on Government policy and facilitates initiatives with mutu- ally beneficial outcomes between partners. Michelle  Howarth Senior lecturer in nursing at the University of Salford, UK.  She is  a specialist in the impact of nature-based interventions on health and well-being. Her  current research explores the process, impact and mode of social prescribing as an emerging social movement and how this promotes a person-centred, salutogenic approach to well-being. Ruth  F.  Hunter Researcher and lecturer in public health at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.  Her field of expertise is on green space interventions and health behav- ior change, with a focus on natural experiment methodology. Jukka-Pekka  Jäppinen Development manager and deputy director of the Biodiversity Centre  at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). He has a long career in working with the research  and policy development  on biodiversity  and ecosystem services, Convention on Biological Diversity (e.g. ecosystem approach), nature management in forestry,  nature-based solutions, business and biodiversity, and biodiversity and human health. About the Editors and Contributors