Dr Kikuko Shoyama is an Associate Professor at the Department of Regional and Comprehensive Agriculture, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan. Her research interests are in quantitative analysis of socio-ecological systems related to land-use change, ecosystem services, and disaster resilience, in particular, the role of scenario modelling in decision-making under uncertain and changing environment. She contributed to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a Lead Author for the Methodological Assessment on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.