Georg Winkel Editor

Pia Katila is a senior research scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). She is the coordinator and editor-in-chief of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations' Special Project 'World Forests, Society and Environment' (IUFRO WFSE), a large international research network. Carol J. Pierce Colfer is Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, and a Visiting Scholar, Southeast Asia Program, at Cornell University, New York. Wil de Jong is a Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian and Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan and appointed top level foreign expert at Renmin University of China. Glenn Galloway is Director of the Master of Sustainable Development Practice Program, at the Center for Latin American Studies / Center for African Studies, University of Florida, US. He is also Chair to IUFRO WFSE Special Project's Steering Committee. Pablo Pacheco is Global Forest Lead Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, D.C. and Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia. Georg Winkel is Head of Bonn Office and the Resilience Research Programme at the European Forest Institute (EFI), Bonn, Germany, and Associate Professor at both the University of Freiburg and the University of Bonn, Germany.