Ronald C. EstoqueRonald C. Estoque is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan. He is a forester and geoenvironmental scientist by training. His research interests are at theinterface of nature and society, cutting across different fields and topics, including land change science (forest cover change, land use/cover change, urbanization), sustainability science, the forest transition theory, landscape/urban ecology, urban heat islands, ecosystem services, social-ecological systems, quality of life, climate change mitigation, vulnerability, risk, and adaptation, and nexus assessment. He applies various tools and techniques, including GIS, remote sensing, and social-ecological approaches. Dr. Estoque was a contributing author (CA) to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) (WG II, Chapter 10). Currently, he serves as an expert for the Scoping for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, a review editor (RE) for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ (IPBES) nexus assessment (Chapter 2), a section Editor-in-Chief for (section: Sustainable Forestry), a subject editor for , an associate editor for , and a member of the editorial board for and . Read More Read Less