Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra) offers a combination of practical, innovative and interdisciplinary scientific research across many disciplines related to the green world around us and the sustainable use of our living environment. Aspects of our environment that Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra) focuses on include soil, water, the atmosphere, the landscape and biodiversity ? on a global scale as well as regionally, from the Dutch polders to the Himalayas and from Amsterdam to the Arctic.Teams of Alterra includes:? Soil, Water and Land Dynamics: Saskia Visser ? Animal Ecology: Jack Faber ? Spatial Knowledge Systems: Henk Janssen ? Environmental Risk Assessment: Nina Smits ? Earth Observation and Environmental Economics: Sander Janssen ? Biodiversity and Policy: Lawrence Jones-Walters ? Sustainable Soil Use: Gerrit-Jan Reinds ? Nature and Society: Lawrence Jones-Walters ? Regional Development and Spatial Use: Arjan Koomen ? Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology: Nina Smits ? Climate Change: Marianne Oomens ? Water and Food: Marianne Oomens