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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 contributions 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 initiator 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 religion, 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 ensuring 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 mutually 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 behavior 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
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 contributions 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 initiator 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 religion, 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 ensuring 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 mutually 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 behavior 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