Richard Primack is a Professor at Boston University (USA) with a specialization in plant ecology, phenology, conservation, and climate change biology. He has written four widely used conservation biology textbooks; local co-authors helped to produce 38 translations with local examples. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Conservation and served as President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. His research has been featured in many newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and National Geographic. Primack shares his research in the popular book Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods.
Tibor Standovár is an associate professor and department head at the Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. His major research interest is in biodiversity conservation in forests. He has led and participated in several projects on studying tree stand and vegetation dynamics of untouched forest reserves, patterns, causes and consequences of large-scale ice and wind disturbances in managed forests and on the effects of tree stand structures on the occurrence of forest-dwelling species (herbs, birds, xylophagous beetles). In the past two decades his interest has turned into more applied topics in collaboration with national parks and forestry companies including the development of monitoring schemes to assess forest naturalness.
Tamara Mitrofanenko is working as an expert in the field of regional sustainable development as part of the team of the United Nations Environment Programme, Office in Vienna, Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention and at the University of Natural Resources and life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN). Her work has been largely focused on Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus countries. Her PhD Thesis was focused on “Integrating approaches from the Intergenerational field into protected area management and regional development governance”. Since learning about the importance of transdisciplinary approaches for sustainable regional development, she has devoted her efforts to integration of transdisciplinary approaches into academic systems and policy processes as well as science-policy-practice interface in the context of sustainable regional development, as well as Education for Sustainable Development.