Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

Olaf Kaltmeier is a professor of Ibero-American history at Bielefeld University. Since its foundation in 2008, he has been the director of CALAS - Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is the founding director and a member of the Executive Board for the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld and director of the collaborative research project "Turning Land into Capital."

María Fernanda López Sandoval is a senior lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador. She is a founding member of the Geographical Association of Ecuador. She is currently the Academic Assistant Director of FLACSO, Ecuador, and a member of the scientific committee of CALAS, Andes.

José Augusto Pádua is a professor of Brazilian environmental history at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is also the coordinator of the Laboratory of History and Nature. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies on Environment and Society (ANPPAS). He was part of the creation team and the scientific board of the Museum of Tomorrow, inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli is a professor and holds a PhD in history from the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. An investigator of the National Board of Scientific and Technical Investigation, he serves as an associate professor at the National University of Quilmes and La Plata, Argentina.