Alex Lechner

Kuala Lumpur

Dr. Alex Lechner is a landscape ecologist and Assistant Professor at the School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. His primary research interests lie in the application of integrated socio-ecological approaches along with spatially explicit modelling to conservation planning and natural resource management. His current research projects in Malaysia focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of urban planning in Asian cities, in particular Kuala Lumpur, and tropical forest conservation in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Originally, from Australia, he has held a variety of positions at the University of Queensland, the University of Tasmania, and RMIT University and conducted research in a range of areas from mine land rehabilitation to planning wildlife corridors.