Meet the editor

Rui Alexandre Castanho has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Planning in Borderlands. He is a professor at WSB University, Poland, and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Castanho collaborates with several research groups all over the world.

José Cabezas Fernández has a Ph.D. in Ecology and has extensive research experience in sustainable management, conservation, and recovery of natural ecosystems (water, soil, fauna, flora, etc.), land use planning, environmental impact, remote sensing and GIS, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), and spatial data infrastructure (SDI), aspects that are fundamentally oriented towards the conservation of transboundary Med-

iterranean ecosystems and their sustainability. His projects have focused on the development of geographic models of environmental and territorial management for rural areas with low population density for better and more coherent management of the territory.

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