Sean Sloan is a geographer of environmental change and its human dimensions at large spatial and temporal scales. His interests center on transitions to semi-natural and rural landscapes in the Global South, with particular interest in forest change, land management, and wildfires. He is a Canada Research Chair in the Human Dimensions of Sustainability at Vancouver Island University, Canada, with previous affiliations with the Center for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science at James Cook University, Australia. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in association with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. He has served in various editorial roles, including on the editorial board of Land Use Policy and as Section Editor-in-Chief of Land.