Sun-Kee Hong (Mokpo, Republic of Korea) is currently Humanities Korea Professor of the the Institution for Marine and Island Cultures (MIC) of Mokpo National University. He obtained a master degree in Plant Ecology at Chungnam National University (1985). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Landscape Ecology and Environmental Planning at Hiroshima University (Japan) in 1994; his thesis dealt with vegetation ecology and human impact in Asian cultural landscapes. He has organized 20 international symposia on global issues, landscape ecology and biocultural diversity relating “islandscapes” and urban-rural landscapes issues during IUCN, IALE, INTECOL and EAFES. He published international books of Ecological Issues in a Changing World (Kluwer, 2004), Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-influenced Areas: Linking Man and Nature Systems (Springer, 2007), Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures (Springer-Tokyo, 2011), Biocultural Landscapes (Springer, 2014) and 70 papers. He was secretary general of the 8th INTECOL (2002, Seoul) and the chairperson of the local organizing committee of the 55th IAVS conference (2012, Mokpo). He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine and Island Cultures. He is a board member of INTECOL (including Editor of the INTECOL e-Bulletin). He is the Director of the Center for Island Sustainability (CIS) at Mokpo National University.Nobukazu Nakagoshi (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) is Professor Emeritus of Hiroshima University (HU) and lecturing at Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, HU as a Special Appointed Professor from 2017. He is Invited Professors of Ecology at Capital Normal University, Beijing from 2004 and Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, China from 2008. He obtained a master degree in Plant Ecology at HU (1976) and a degree Doctor of Science (Botany) in Plant Ecology at HU (1979): his thesis dealt with soil seed banks in temperate forests. He has organized scores international symposia on community, conservation and landscape ecologies during INTECOL, IAVS, IALE, ICB, ICLEE, URBIO, ESJ, Eco-summit and EAFES. He published international books Coniferous Forest Ecology, from an International Perspectives (SPB Academic Publishing bv, 1991) with Frank B. Golley, Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes (Springer, 2014) with Jhonamie A. Mabuhay and 298 papers. He was President of Japan Association for Landscape Ecology (2000-2007) and a Vice President of IALE (2003-2007). His current scientific interests are eco-tourism in natural landscapes, sustainable managements of cultural landscapes, and green infrastructures associated with resilience in urban landscapes.
