Yiyang Fan is a second-year doctoral candidate at the Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China. She received the Master Degree of Landscape Architecture (2016-2019). Her research interests are urban green space morphology and digital landscape. She participated in the publication of ‘Digital Landscape Architecture: Logic, Structure, Method and Application’ and had practical experience in landscape planning, landscape design and urban design.

Nuzhat Fatema is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Development Studies Discipline of Khulna University, Bangladesh. She obtained Master in Development Studies and PGD in Policy Studies from Murdoch University, Australia. She also did PGD on Disaster Management from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET). She has published about a dozen of publications from many national and international publishers including Springer and Emerald. She has presented more than a dozen of papers in conference held in Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia. Her research interest covers Climate Adaptation, Disaster Management, Sustainable Development, Public Health, Gender and development, and Poverty and Inequality. She worked for many developmental institutions located in Bangladesh and abroad.

Juan P. Ferrer-Rodríguez holds a PhD in renewable energy (University of Jaén, Spain). He works at Andaltec Technological Centre (www.andaltec.org) in biomaterials, circular economy and renewable energy. He also holds a MBA and is a R&D researcher in the LIFE-COMP0LIVE Project (coordinated by Andaltec). He is also currently studying a Master in Digital Marketing and is responsible for the dissemination and public awareness activities of the LIFE-COMP0LIVE Project, as well as for the project management.

BIO-SKETCH: Willem H. Ferwerda Ferwerda is CEO of Commonland, that he founded in 2013 with the Rotterdam School of Management -Erasmus University, the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and the COmON Foundation. Commonland is a system developer of large integrated, holistic landscape management and restoration projects, bringing solutions at a landscape scale on biodiversity, carbon, regenerative agriculture and communities. Ferwerda is involved as an advisor or board member with various international organizations in the field of nature, biodiversity, agriculture and sustainability. He is executive fellow at the the Rotterdam School of Management -Erasmus University, and theme lead at the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. In 2016, he was awarded first place in the Sustainable 100, the list of Dutch people with the most influence on the environment and sustainability. In 2019 Ferwerda received the Dutch sustainable landscape award. From 2000-2012 Ferwerda was director of IUCN Netherlands. There he was, among other things, leading large ecosystem grants programs, and initiator of Leaders for Nature, an international network of CEOs and prominent people from the business community addressing biodiversity conservation. It led to several agreements and policy changes with industrial networks. Between 1995 and 2000 he headed the Tropical Rainforest Grants Program of IUCN NL that supported hundreds local conservation and restoration projects in more than 40 countries. In 2012, Ferwerda left IUCN NL for a sabbatical in which he developed the 4 Returns Framework on Landscape Restoration. Ferwerda studied biology, tropical agriculture and environmental science at the Free University and University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands and at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia. He is specialized in the interaction between tropical ecosystems and agriculture, and system change management. Before joining IUCN, he worked in the eco-tourism industry and led expeditions in Latin America and Europe. The 4 Returns Framework was first published in “4 returns, 3 zones, 20 years: a holistic framework for ecological restoration by people and business for next generations (2015, IUCN CEM, RSM)” and further developed with other landscape experts and colleagues.

Billy Fields (Ph.D., Urban Studies, University of New Orleans) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. His research focuses on understanding the key elements of resilient communities. He is the lead author of Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities (Routledge 2021) and co-editor of Transport Beyond Oil (Island Press 2013). He directs the International Sustainable Transportation Engagement Program, an annual study abroad program in the Netherlands exploring best practices in active transportation. Prior to joining Texas State University, Dr. Fields was Director of the Center for Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans and Research Director for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy where he developed and explored the concept of trail-oriented development. Before his academic life, he was a raft guide in the mountains of North Carolina, an ice cream clerk at Harrods in London, and a food runner at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans.

Maira Finizola e Silva has been working as a researcher at the University of Antwerp after obtaining her master’s degree in Socio-Economic Sciences in 2019 and advanced master’s in Development, Evaluation, and Management in 2020. She will start her doctoral research at the University of Antwerp in September 2021.

Graduated in Political Sciences form LUISS University in Rome, She has over fifteen years of experience in research, public affairs and communications. At Eurisy, She implemented an extensive analysis on the uses of satellite applications by European public administrations before launching the Space for Cities and Space for Culture initiatives. She has a long experience exploring the use of satellite applications in various sectors and facilitating good practice exchanges among confirmed and potential users of satellite-based services through workshops and conferences. Since 2021 she is Head of Programmes at Eurisy, coordinating the implementation of the association’s thematic activities. She was previously Research Officer within the UNDP REDIVU project, aimed at fostering university social responsibility in Latin America, and Project Manager at the European Public Law Organization, managing EU-funded projects in the fields of rule of law and human rights.

Bachelor Degree in Architecture, University of Guayaquil-Ecuador Diploma Architectural Technologies, Minneapolis Community Technological College. Mineapolis-Minnesota Master of Science Sustainable Design, School of Architecture, University of Minnesota. Work experience: Landscape Architect, LAHMAYER. Project: Diagnosis, Feasibilities and projects of protection of Estero Salado, Guayaquil-Ecuador Instructor of Urban Ecology, Catholic University of Guayaquil, School of Architecture Director 's assistant Graduation Courses, Catholic University of Guayaquil, School of Architecture. Environmental Specialist, TECAM, Estudies of contamination of Orense high plain: Zaruma, Pinas, El Oro and Portovelo. Director of Project Plan Master for Waste Solids collection , Duran-Ecuador. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), recognition one of the 16 best projects, 2016 Campus Rainworks Challenge. Project: Hydrosocial Water district plan, West Bank of University of Minnesota. With participation of Universities of all USA. First Symposium Estero Salado, presenting the Poster “RESTORING THE SALADO ESTUARY” Organized by Environmental Ministry, University of Specialties Espiritu Santo UESS, and the Society Community. Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ecocities 2019 participation, project:THE IMPACT OF THE SLUM DWELLERS OF WESTERN SUBURB IN GUAYAQUIL-ECUADOR ON THE PUERTO LISA ESTUARY, Vancouver-Canada. Article on Magazine Ecuambiente (Eco Environment on English) October 2018 Edition No 46-ISSN 1390-3985. Title: “Human Race Footprints and the beginning of the Anthropocene”.Guayaquil, Ecuador. XXXVI and XXXVII Interamerican Conferences of Sanitary and Environmental engineering: participation 2018 and, 2021. on Guayaquil-Ecuador, and Buenos Aires-Argentina.

Biourbanist, Master in Urban Management, Permaculture, Multiplier of Agenda 2020/SDGs and certified facilitator of Gaia Education - Design for Sustainability. I am part of the Working and Research Group: Econeighborhoods for Regenerative Communities of Escola da Cidade's Architecture and Biophera Platform. Co-founder of the Permanent Ecobairro Program/ Instituto Ecobairro Brasil, since 2004. Associated with the company Paisagem Regenerative Design - which works in consultancy, studies and projects, since 2018.