Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Marc A. Rosen
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668, ext 3756; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/people/rosen
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Interests: sustainable development; energy; exergy; efficiency; environmental impact; economics; ecology; sustainable engineering and design
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advanced Forum for Sustainable Development
Special Issue: Exergy: Analysis and Applications
Managing Editor
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Interests: molecular recognition; entropy; Gibbs paradox; irreversibility; stability; symmetry; similarity; diversity; diversity preservation; evolution; information theory; thermodynamics; enzyme inhibitors; heterocycles; isotopically-labeled compounds; Lewis acids and bases; quninoxaline N-oxides; photochemistry ESR; aromaticity; protein folding; nature of chemical processes
Associate Editor
Dr. Mary Ann Curran
Life Cycle Assessment Research Program, US EPA Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management, Research Laboratory, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive (MS-466), Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, USA
Tel. +1 513 569 7782; Fax: +1 513 569 7111
Website: http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/lcaccess/
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Interests: environmentally-preferable products; life-cycle studies including electricity; diapers; cleaners; plastics; coal ash and building products; biofuels; allocation; wood-based products; biobased industrial products through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); nanotechnologies
Associate Editor
Dr. Hilary Tovey
Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, 1-3 Foster Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: http://people.tcd.ie/htovey
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Interests: Nature-society relations and dynamics; food and rural development; social movements around environmental and food issues; knowledge use and knowledge dynamics in sustainable development policies and projects; natural resources management and history; animal-human relations
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainability: an Impossible Future?
Special Issue: Food Security and Environmental Sustainability
Editorial Board
Dr. Philipp Aerni
World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland; and Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 33, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 53 08; Fax: +41 44 632 10 86
Website: http://www.iaw.agrl.ethz.ch/NFP/aernip
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Interests: agricultural biotechnology; sustainable agriculture; political economy; environmental economics; stakeholder attitudes; consumer behavior; science and moral education
Prof. Dr. Johannes Barth
Applied Geology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Schlossgarten 5, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
Website: http://www.gzn.uni-erlangen.de/angewandte-geowissenschaften/mitarbeiter/akademische-mitarbeiter/barth/?L=0/
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Interests: large-scale water balances; ground-surface water interaction; carbon cycle in water systems; stable isotope techniques; biogeochemistry of rivers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainability of Groundwater
Dr. Allyson Beall
Waters of the West, University of Idaho, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-2812, USA
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Interests: system dynamics; participatory environmental modeling; environmental modeling; interdisciplinary modeling
Contribution:
Special Issue: System Dynamics Simulation of Environmental and Resource Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Frans G.H. Berkhout
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (FALW), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Interests: climate change; innovation; policy studies; transitions
Dr. Luis M. A. Bettencourt
T-5, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Tel. +1 505 667 8453; Fax: +1 505 665 5757
Website: http://math.lanl.gov/~lmbett/
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Interests: memory and information processing in living neuronal networks; urban organization and dynamics; population and economic growth; sustainability; real time epidemiology; emerging infectious diseases and pathogen evolution; the social dynamics of innovation and scientific discovery; distributed sensor networks and aridland ecology; fundamental aspects of nonlinear dynamics; statistical physics; complex systems
Dr. Werner Bonrath
DSM Nutritional Products, Research and Development, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 688 65 17; Fax: +41 61 687 21 17
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Interests: catalysis (general); vitamins (general); chemistry under non-classical conditions (ionic liquids; supercritical fluids; ultrasound and microwaves)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sonochemistry-organic synthesis
Special Issue: Ionic Liquids
Special Issue: Green Chemistry for Environment and Health
Prof. Dr. Bart A.G. Bossink
Management of Technology & Innovation for Sustainability, VU University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Management and Organization, De Boelelaan 1105, Room 3A-32, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 5986074; Fax: +31 20 5986005
Website: http://staff.feweb.vu.nl/bbossink
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Interests: environmentally sustainable innovation; sustainable construction; environmental design; environmental policy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Environmental Sustainability and the Built Environment
Special Issue: Innovation and Environmental Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Barry Brook
Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Tel. +61 4 2095 8400; Fax: +61 8 8303 4347
Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/barry.brook
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Interests: global ecology and conservation biology; climate change; sustainable energy
Prof. Dr. Erve J. Chambers
Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Tel. +1 301 405 1439
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Interests: sustainable tourism; community-based development; heritage resource management
Prof. Dr. Wouter Theodoor de Groot
Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Department of Environment and Development, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 71 5277487; Fax: +31 71 5277496
Website: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/cml/pmo/staff/PMO_de_groot.html
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Interests: environmental management; ethnographic modeling; authenticity of nature; econometric analysis; land use modelling
Prof. Dr. David de la Croix
Department of Economics, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Website: http://www.de-la-croix.be
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Interests: growth theory; human capital and demographics; overlapping generations
Dr. Brian Deal
University of Illinois, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 111 Temple Buell Hall, 611 Taft Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Tel. +1 217 333 1911; Fax: +1 217 244 1717
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Interests: land use; urban planning; spatial modeling; dynamic modeling; green infrastructure; energy systems; energy conservation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Land Use and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Peng Deng
David Hayworth Hall 131, High Point University, 833 Montlieu Avenue, High Point, NC 27262, USA
Tel. +1 336 841 9117
Website: http://acme.highpoint.edu/~history/Hist_Faculty/Deng/deng.htm
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Prof. Dr. John C. Dernbach
Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University, 3800 Vartan Way, Harrisburg, PA 17106-9382, USA
Tel. +1 717 541 1933; Fax: +1 717 541 3966
Website: http://www.johndernbach.com/
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Interests: sustainable development; climate change law; environmental law; governance for sustainability; law for sustainability
Contribution:
Special Issue: Environmental Laws and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Jo Dewulf
Research Group ENVOC, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tel. +32 (0)9 264 59 49; Fax: +32 (0)9 264 62 43
Website: http://www.envoc.ugent.be/
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Interests: environmental and clean technology, thermodynamics and sustainable engineering, exergy, resource consumption in technology development
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Dincer
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology (UOIT), 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668 ext: 2573, Cell: 905 441 2229; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/people/dincer.php
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Interests: hydrogen and fuel cell systems; renewable energies; energy and exergy; energy conversion and management; heat and mass transfer; thermodynamics; drying; refrigeration; thermal energy storage
Contribution:
Special Issue: Energy Policy
Special Issue: Entropy Generation in Thermal Systems and Processes
Dr. Laurance R. Doyle
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA
Tel. +1 650 960 4533
Website: http://www.seti.org/
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Interests: photometric techniques for detecting extrasolar planets; information theory applied to animal communications; astro-ecology and remote detection of exobiological systems; quantum astronomy and cosmic-scale quantum measurement problems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Exobiology Studies and the Study of the History, Present, and Future of Life on our Planet
Special Issue: Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication
Dr. Richard G. Dudley
21 Etna Lane, Etna, New York 13062, USA
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Interests: system dynamics modeling; fishery management; small scale fisheries; natural resources management; international development; conservation
Contribution:
Special Issue: System Dynamics Simulation of Environmental and Resource Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Farber
Sho Sato Professor of Law; Center for Law, Energy and the Environment; Chair, Energy and Resources Group; and Climate and Energy Policy Institute, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Tel. +1 510 642 0340
Website: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=1141
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Interests: uncertainty and environmental policy; U.S. climate policy; constitutional issues in environmental law; compensation for climate change; natural disasters and the legal system
Contribution:
Special Issue: Energy Policy and Sustainability
Dr. Werner T. Flueck
National Council for Scientific Research, C.C. 176, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina; Swiss Tropical Institute, University Basel, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +54 2944 467345; Fax: +54 2944 467345
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Interests: sustainable wildlife management and conservation; invasive mammals; sustainable extractive land use; biogeochemical cycles; medical geology
Prof. Dr. Andrew Ford
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4430, USA
Tel. +1 509 335 7846
Website: http://www.sees.wsu.edu/Faculty/Ford/index.html
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Interests: environmental science; computer simulation modeling; energy and environmental problems; electric power industry
Dr. Eric R. Gallandt
Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, 5722 Deering Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5722, USA
Tel. +1 207 581 2933; Fax: +1 207 581 2999
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Interests: Ecology and population dynamics of annual weeds in organic farming systems, with a particular emphasis on ecologically-based strategies that contribute to both improvements in soil quality and multiple stresses to weed populationE
Dr. Robert Goodland
613 Rivercrest, McLean, VA 22101, USA
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Interests: sustainability (social, human & especially environmental); sustainability assessment; environmental and social impacts; impact assessment; climate change
Dr. David I. Gustafson
Monsanto Company, 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63167, USA
Tel. +1 314 694 2698; Fax: +1 314 694 4028
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Interests: water quality; sustainable agriculture; environmental modeling; climate change; transgenic crops; weed resistance; pollen-mediated gene flow
Prof. Dr. Charles A.S. Hall
Faculty of Environmental & Forest Biology, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, State University of New York, 354 Illick Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA
Tel. +1 315 470 6870; Fax: +1 315 470 6934
Website: http://www.esf.edu/EFB/hall/
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Interests: systems ecology; computer simulation models; integrative geographical modeling of environments and economies
Dr. Ralf Hansmann
Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI), Department of Environmental Sciences, Sonneggstrasse 33, CH-8092 Zürich; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)44 632 63 16
Website: http://www.uns.ethz.ch/people/associated/soccult/ralphh
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Interests: cultural, social, and environmental aspects of sustainability; transdisciplinarity, education and learning for sustainable development; mutual learning; group decision making for sustainable development
Dr. Michael J. Heckenberger
Department of Anthropology, P.O. Box 117305, 1112 Turlington, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7305, USA
Tel. +1 352 392 2253, ext.: 230; Fax: +1 352 392-6929
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mheckenb
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Interests: Non-western cultures of the humid tropics, especially Amazonia and Caribbean; pre-industrial complex societies; built environment, cultural memory and landscape; historical and political ecology; interdisciplinary approaches; anthropology of the body
Prof. Dr. Daniel M. Kammen
1) Class of 1935, Distinguished Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, Department of Nuclear Engineering; 2) Berkeley Institute of the Environment; 3) Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, 310 Barrows Hall #3050, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3050, USA
Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kammen
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Interests: Science and technology policy focused on energy, development and environmental management. Technology and policy questions in developing nations, particularly involving: the linkages between energy, health, and the environment; technology transfer and diffusion; household energy management; renewable energy; women; minority groups; global environmental change including deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption; environmental and technological risk; management of innovation and energy R&D policy. Geographic expertise: Africa; Latin America
Dr. Byron Keating
Centre for Business Services Science, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, NSW 2522, Australia
Tel. +61 2 4221 5315; Fax: +61 2 4221 4170
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Interests: sustainable supply chains; green outsourcing; corporate governance; marketing and consumer affairs, and rapidly emerging economies
Prof. Dr. Gebhard Kirchgässner
Universität St. Gallen, SIAW-HSG, Bodanstrasse 8, CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)71 224 2347; Fax: +41 (0)71 224 2298
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Interests: political economy of environmental policy; ecological tax reform; energy prices; energy and economic development; sustainability of public finances
Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein
Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Tel. +49 551 3922257; Fax: +49 551 398806
Website: http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~uaoe/mitarbeiter/a_klein_e.htm
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Interests: biodiversity; environmental management; ecosystem services; ecosystem disservices; landscape ecology; sustainability of agroecosystems
Dr. Christopher J. Koroneos
Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering (LHTEE), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Box 483, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Interests: Life Cycle Assessment: products and processes analysis; eco-design of products and processes; LCA of energy systems; assessment of natural resources use; Process Engineering: process design of environmental systems; simulation of environmental and chemical systems; environmental process synthesis; reaction synthesis; optimisation of single and multiple objectives; modelling and control of polymerisation reactors; dynamic simulation of systems; desalination; Environmental Engineering: management of solid and liquid wastes and air pollution; pollution prevention and control; Energy Engineering: exergy analysis; energy conservation in the industry; renewable energy systems; geothermal; biomass; solar, and wind; biofuels; energy co-generation; coal combustion; gasification and liquefaction; biomass gasification
Contribution:
Special Issue: Renewable Energy and Sustainability
Dr. Robert Krueger
Worcester Community Project Center; and Environmental Studies Program; Office Project Center Building, Second Floor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280, USA
Tel. +1 508 831 5110; Fax: +1 508 831 5485
Website: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/People/jrk.html
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Interests: developing and applying political economic theory to questions of urban sustainability and economic development and the environment; examining economic theory from a critical cultural perspective
Contribution:
Special Issue: Political Economy and Sustainability
Dr. Gurkan Kumbaroglu
Boğaziçi University, Department of Industrial Engineering, 34342, Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey
Tel. + 90 212 359 7079; Fax: + 90 212 265 1800
Website: http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/People/pages/kumbaroglu.html
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Interests: macroeconomic modeling; energy and environmental policy modeling; energy demand forecasting; investment planning; power system economics; environmental economics
Dr. Daniel J. Lang
ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI), Universitaetstrasse 22, CHN J72.2, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 60 37; Fax: +41 44 632 10 29
Website: http://www.nssi.ethz.ch/people/staff/langd
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Interests: future studies (scenario analysis); sustainability sciences; human-environment systems; system theory; transdisciplinarity; systemic assessment; material flow analysis; integrated risk assessment; waste and resource management; urban and regional development
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias
Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Ctra de Ajalvir, km. 4, 28850, Torrejon de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 520 6418; Fax: +34 91 5201621
Website: http://tierra.rediris.es/jmfrias.html
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Interests: planetary geology; astrobiology; natural resources of near earth space and sustainability; geo and biomarkers; extreme environments and planetary habitability; geodiversity and biodiversity; natural hazards and planetary ecosystems; geoethics in earth and space sciences; science and technology for development; emerging sciences, cultural implications and new paradigms
Contribution:
Special Issue: Astrobiology and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Michael A. R. Meier
University of Potsdam, Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Sustainable Organic Synthesis, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Golm / Potsdam, Germany
Website: http://www.meier-michael.com/
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Interests: renewable raw materials; fats and oils; catalysis; metathesis; polymers; controlled/living polymerization; block-copolymers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainable Approaches within the Chemical Sciences
Dr. Ottar Michelsen
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Industrial Ecology Programme, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47 73 59 87 19
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Interests: environmental management; environmental impact assessment; eco-efficiency; green procurement; sustainable supply chain management; biodiversity and land use
Prof. Dr. Joel A. Mintz
Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center, 3305 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
Tel. +1 954 262 6160; Fax: +1 954 262 3835
Website: http://nsulaw.nova.edu/faculty/profiles/index.cfm?ID=81
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Interests: enforcement of environmental laws; toxic substance and hazardous waste management; environmental impact analysis; climate change; atmospheric pollution; water pollution control
Contribution:
Special Issue: Environmental Laws and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Bedřich Moldan
Charles University Environment Center, U Kříže 8 150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
Tel. +420 251 080 202; Fax: +420 251 620 441
Website: http://moldan.cz/eng/page.php?page=111
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Prof. Dr. Richard Henry Moore
Environmental Science Graduate Program; Ohio State University, 119A Williams Hall, OARDC, 1968 Madison Avenue, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA
Tel. +1 330 202 3538; Fax: +1 614 292 7007
Website: https://pro.osu.edu/profiles/moore.11/
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Interests: water quality; human values about biodiversity; intensification of agriculture, farming and stream ecology; farmer participatory groups; climate change; landscape ecology; land use; land tenure; GIS; watersheds; nutrient trading; Amish; organic agriculture. Geographic fieldwork: Tohoku, Japan and Ohio, USA
Dr. Giuseppe Munda
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of Economics and Economic History, Edifici B, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
Tel. +34 935814104
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Interests: index numbers and aggregation; criteria for decision-making under risk and uncertainty; project evaluation; macroeconomic analyses of economic development; sustainable development; water; alternative energy sources
Prof. Dr. Lionel Obadia
Center for Researches and Studies in Anthropology (CREA), Department of Anthropology, University of Lyon 2, Campus Porte des Alpes, 5 avenue Pierre Mendès-France, F-69676 Bron (Cedex), France
Tel. +33 (0)4 78 77 23 86; Fax: +33 (0)4 78 77 24 88
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Interests: religion and nature; cultural and traditional forms of development and sustainability; non-western forms of development; the globalization of standards of development and ecology; critical perspectives on sustainability; beliefs and ideologies of “environment” and their applications; cultural habits towards material culture; recycling and politics of pollution reduction
Contribution:
Special Issue: Waste, Garbage and Filth: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Recycling
Special Issue: Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Pluralism
Prof. Dr. Paul S. Phillips
SITA Centre for Sustainable Wastes Management, University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road, Northampton NN2 7AL, UK
Tel. +44 1604 892385
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Interests: waste prevention/minimisation; waste management strategy and policy; waste management and the voluntary sector; recycling; waste management as part of sustainable development
Prof. Dr. David Pimentel
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Tel. +1 607 255 2212; Fax: +1 607 255 0939
Website: http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Faculty_Staff/Pimentel/pimentel.html
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Interests: basic population ecology; genetics; ecological and economic aspects of pest control; biological control; energy use and conservation; genetic engineering; sustainable agriculture; soil and water conservation; natural resource management and environment
Dr. Andrius Plepys
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics/Lund University, Box 196, Tegnersplatsen 4, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Tel. +46 (0)46 222 02 00 (-26 direct); Fax: +46 (0)46 222 02 30
Website: http://www.iiiee.lu.se/
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Interests: systems' studies (municipal waste management, energy services); IT and environment; sustainable consumption; product-service systems and life cycle assessment
Dr. Scott Prudham
Department of Geography and Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Room 5028, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. Georges Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
Tel. +1 416 978 4975; Fax: +1 416 946 3886
Website: http://www.geog.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/prudham/home
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Interests: political economy; environmental politics; political ecology; commodification of nature; industrial and alternative forestry; market-centred environmental governance
Dr. Pallav Purohit
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development (APD), Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel. +43 2236807 336; Fax: +43 2236807 533
Website: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/
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Interests: science; technology and policy focused on energy and environmental issues of developing countries; energy economics; energy policy and planning; renewable energy; clean development mechanism; air pollution control and health
Contribution:
Special Issue: Atmospheric Pollution
Prof. Dr. Arthur J. Ragauskas
Institute of Paper Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
Tel. +1 404 894 9701; Fax: +1 404 894 4778
Website: http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Ragauskas/
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Interests: biomass to biofuels; biopower; biomaterials; biochemicals; sustainability/green chemistry; biotechnology; chemistry/biopchemistry of natural biopolymers including cellulose; hemicellulose; lignin and extractives; pulping; bleaching; papermaking; fiber modification/engineering; wood/bio composites; nanobioterials
Dr. Joel Ratsaby
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ariel University Center, Ariel 40700, Israel
Tel. +972 (0)3 907 6587
Website: http://www.ariel.ac.il/ee/pf/ratsaby
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Interests: discrete applied mathematics; statistical learning theory; pattern recognition and classification; machine learning
Dr. Darren Robinson
Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory, Station 18, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 45 43
Website: http://leso.epfl.ch/e/research_urbdev.html
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Interests: Stochastic modelling of human behaviour, urban resource flows and their dynamics, urban climate, definitions and indicators of sustainability, life cycle environmental impacts
Prof. Dr. Stephen H. Schneider
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Professor of Department of Biology, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, MC 4205, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
Tel. +1 650 725 9978; Fax: +1 650 725 4387
Website: http://climatechange.net/
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Dr. Miklas Scholz
Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, William Rankine Building, The King´s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, UK
Tel. +44 (0)131 6506780; Fax: +44 (0)131 6506781
Website: http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/see/staff/staff.cfm?person=mscholz
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Interests: stormwater management; runoff control; filtration; wetlands; sustainable water management
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainability: Environmental Studies and Public Health
Special Issue: Sustainable Water Management
Prof. Dr. Pietro Tundo
Professor of Organic Chemistry, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice, Italy; IUPAC Division, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Italy
Tel. +39 041 2348642 and +39 041 2346601; Fax: +39 041 2348620
Website: http://www.incaweb.org/inca/pdf/REPORT%202007.pdf
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Interests: green chemistry; organic synthesis; dimethyl carbonate; green molecular design; reaction mechanism; educational activities
Dr. Silvia Ulli-Beer
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 56 310 27 23; Fax: +41 056 310 44 16
Website: http://dis.web.psi.ch
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Interests: strategic planning and sustainability; simulation and decision support; systemic control systems in public policy and management; public policy analysis; dynamics of innovative systems; energy efficient technology implementation: public acceptance; compliance and organizational learning
Dr. Ross M. Welch
Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Room 106, Tower Rd., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2901, USA
Tel. +1 607 255 5434; Fax: +1 607 255 1132
Website: http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/welch/
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Interests: sustainable food-based system; agricultural production to human health and nutrition; micronutrient bioavailability
Dr. Ning Zeng
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Tel. +1 301 405 5377; Fax: +1 301 314 9482
Website: http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~zeng/
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Interests: climate change and climate variability on time scales ranging from seasonal-interannual to glacial-interglacial cycles; biosphere-atmosphere interaction; amazon deforestation; drought; carbon cycle; carbon sequestration; technical solutions and policy implications of climate change
Prof. Dr. Peng Zhang
Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Road, 200032 Shanghai, China
Tel. +86 21 5492 4096; Fax: +86 21 5492 4015
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Interests: biotechnology; cassavae; sweet potato; genetic engineering; transformation, plant tissue culture; virus resistance; abiotic stress rsistance; functional genomics; starch biosynthesis and modification; stem nematode; Whitefly; Anthocyanin; biofortification; food security, biomass and bio-energy development
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