Sustainable Environmental Management

Prof. Dr. Jatna Supriatna is the Chairman of Research Center for Climate Change University of Indonesia. After finishing his Master of Science (1986) and Doctorate degree (1991) from the University of New Mexico, USA, plus pre and postdoctoral at Columbia University in New York, he serves as Senior lecturer at the Biology Dept., Director of Biodiversity and Conservation Studies, Coordinator of Graduate Program on Conservation Biology of the University of Indonesia. He has also been an active member of several international organizations: IUCN-World Conservation of Protected Area, IUCN-Specialist Survival Commission-Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Society for Conservation Biologist and many others. He published 30 books mostly in Indonesia’s Biodiversity and Environment and more than 190 articles in international journals (Science, Nature, Conservation Biology, Scientific Reports, Global ecology and Conservation, Sustainability, Primates, Evolution, Primate Conservation, Herpetologica, and many others). Two of his books, Biologi Konservasi (Conservation Biology 2007) and Menyelamatkan Alam Indonesia (Saving of Indonesia’s Nature 2009) are among the best seller on the environment books in Indonesia. In 2009, together with Dr. Sharon Gursky authored edited books “Indonesia Primates” and “Ecotourism and Indonesia’s Primates,” published by Springer, New York.

Prof. Dr. Ralph Lenz is a professor emeritus of geography at Wittenberg University in Ohio.  His PhD was from Rutgers University in 1977.  After one year at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, he taught at Wittenberg University from 1976 to 2015, serving as geography chair 1991-2000 and 2006-2015.  He was also an environmental science faculty member, urban studies program director in 1981-1982, 1984, and 1988-1991, and East Asian studies interim chair in 2013-2014.  He has been a member of the American Association of Geographers, serving as director for Southeast Asia, 1992-1994 and 2013-2015 for the Asian geographers’ specialty group. Also a member of the American Geographical Society and the Association for Asian Studies and served on the Fulbright National Screening Committee for Southeast Asia in 2007, 2008, and 2012.  His primary academic interests have included atmospheric science, agriculture, soils, and rainforest environments; he taught meteorology classes and human ecology, emphasizing population, food, energy, and pollution, for many years.  Early publications in the journal Geographical Analysis were quantitative/theoretical, about analyses of map patterns with urban applications in chapters of two books.  Since 1983, Southeast Asia has been his main focus, with 30 visits and various publications about Indonesia and Vietnam in Social Science and Medicine and Focus on Geography.