Tatras

Leader for Task 2.3 and a scientific partner for the Polish part of the High Tatra Case Study. She is an Assistant Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University. She works on the perception, understanding and use of forests by different social groups, various approaches to, and interpretations of nature protection and forest management, and interdisciplinary research relating to forest and environmental topics.

Tatiana is an ecological-institutional economist and a full professor of management at Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Slovak University of Technology. She is a Director of CEE research network CETIP, which is an independent supra-regional collaborative research network of Central and Eastern Europe. Her research concerns governance and behavioural aspects of sustainability transformation and transdisciplinary collaboration between natural and social sciences under the conditions of complexity and uncertainty. Current research experience are commons, ecosystem service governance and social and institutional innovation.

Miroslav is a forest ecologist a full professor of forest management at Czech University of Life Sciences at Prague. Research interests include forest dynamics, forest management and biodiversity, disturbance ecology, and dendroecology in temperate and tropical forests. Leader and founder of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity research group that established REMOTE network (www.remoteforests.org). The establishment of this research network over the past resulted in what is currently one of the largest forest research networks of permanent research plots in primary temperate forests. The network comprises more than 1000 permanent research plots established in currently 9 European countries, that are regularly re-measured.

Zuzana has 20 years of research experience in the field of forest policy, focusing on intersectoral relations in forestry, nature conservation and rural development, intra-sectoral relations in forestry, policy instruments to promote innovation and ecosystem services in forestry. The experience and abilities of the principal investigator are documented by the international engagement in scientific teams (e.g. Forest Europe expert group on ES, EFI projects INNOFOREST, Engaging, H2020 ARANGE or COST actions).

Martin is a forest ecologist at Czech University of Life Sciences at Prague. His research concerns. Research interests include forest dynamics and biodiversity in temperate and tropical forests. Co-founder of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity research group that established REMOTE network (www.remoteforests.org).

Stanislava has her universitiy degrees in environmental planning and management and spatial planning. She has been working at Slovak Academy of Sciences since 2016 as a researcher of international projects (H2020, Horizon Europe, COST Action) and has a reach experience of research exchange programs participation at universities and research centres in Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, UK. Her research focuses on adaptive management of marginalized mountain regions and vulnerable communities, multi-actors decision making under uncertainty and global changes, adaptive EU policies and ecosystem services governance.

Olena is a member of Slovak Academy of Sciences research team. She is a PhD student with the main focus on rewilding in terms of turbulent times. Her work is based on nature based solutions` management with yield towards ecological and economical sustainability. Together with the team she works on institutional analysis, choice experiment, and High Tatras rewilding case study.