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Acknowledgments
The interviewers, and the interviewee, wish to thank Peter Debrine for his help with information for this interview, and with the meetings that have taken place that led to the publication of the Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism in which this interview is published. Peter Debrine is the Senior Project Officer at UNESCO's World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme.
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Barbara Engels
Barbara Engels is a scientific officer in the German Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz [BfN]) responsible for both Natural WHSs and BRs. She is the executive secretary of the German National MAB-Committee. Barbara Engels is also a member of the IUCN World Heritage Panel and serves on the German Delegation to the UNESCO Word Heritage Committee. For many years, she has been involved with sustainable tourism in Germany and especially with the work on the evaluation of economic effects of tourism in protected areas.
Susanne Becken
Susanne Becken, Hubert Job , and Bernard Lane were the originators, designers, and the editors of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism's Special Issue on Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism & Neo-Liberal Governance Policies: Issues, Management and Research. Susanne Becken is a professor of sustainable tourism and the director of the Griffith Institute for Tourism, Australia. She has published widely on sustainable tourism, climate change, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, tourist behaviour, environmental policy, and risk management. Hubert Job holds the Chair of Geography and Regional Science at Würzburg University, Germany. His main areas of scientific research are protected areas (PAs), tourism, and regional development. Bernard Lane was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He publishes, lectures, advises, and broadcasts on sustainable tourism, rural tourism, heritage tourism, and conservation worldwide.