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 5726; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.exergycourse.org/lectrurers/rosen-mark-a
E-Mail: marc.rosen@uoit.ca
Interests: sustainable development; energy; exergy; efficiency; environmental impact; economics; ecology; sustainable engineering and design
Managing Editor
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Interests: Gibbs paradox; entropy; symmetry; similarity; diversity; information theory; thermodynamics; process irreversibility or spontaneity; stability; nature of the chemical processes; molecular recognition; open access journals
Editorial Board Member
Prof. Dr. Edwin Chan
Deptment of Building & Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Tel. +852 27665800; Fax: +852 23623979
Website: http://www.bre.polyu.edu.hk/staff/bsedchan/index.htm
E-Mail: bsedchan@polyu.edu.hk
Interests: green building promotion; institutional Analysis; urban renewal; heritage conservation; land use and Development control
Editor
Dr. Le Zhang
MDPI Beijing Office, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170
E-Mail: le.zhang@mdpi.com
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
E-Mail: htovey@tcd.ie
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
Associate Editor
Dr. Mary Ann Curran
1 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 (valid up to November 2012); 2 LCA & Sustainability Consultant, BAMAC Ltd., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (starting from November 2012)
Tel. +1-513-248-9551
E-Mail: macurran@cinci.rr.com
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
Editorial Board
Dr. Philipp Aerni
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) FAO-NRD, Room B.565, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
Institute for Environmental Decisions and Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich ETH-Zentrum (SOL E5), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 632 53 08; Fax: +41 44 632 10 86
Website: http://www.afee.ethz.ch/people/Associated/aernip
E-Mail: aernip@ethz.ch
Interests: agricultural biotechnology; sustainable agriculture; political economy; environmental economics; stakeholder attitudes; consumer behavior; science and moral education
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biotechnology and Sustainable Development
Prof. Dr. Nicholas A. Ashford
Technology and Law Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT E40-239, 77 Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tel. +1 617 253 1664; Fax: +1 617 452 2265
Website: http://web.mit.edu/ctpid/www/tl/
E-Mail: nashford@mit.edu
Interests: sustainable development; national, regional, and international environmental law; trade law; pollution prevention; toxic substances; employment and labor market policies; industrial policy; environmental economics; ecological economics
Dr. Jack Barkenbus
Climate Change Research Network within the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment, PMB 407702, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
Website: http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/user/115713
E-Mail: jack.barkenbus@vanderbilt.edu
Interests: climate change; sustainable development; energy; clean technology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainability and Consumption
In other journals:
Special Issue: Measuring the Impact of Public-Private Governance for Climate Change
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/
E-Mail: barth@geol.uni-erlangen.de
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. Joo Hwa (Philip) Bay
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA6009, Australia
Tel. +61 4 3191 1234; Fax: +61 8 6488 1082
Website: http://www.alva.uwa.edu.au
E-Mail: philip.bay@uwa.edu.au
Interests: sustainable architecture; social and environmental sustainability; density, community and sustainability; holistic green rating systems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Density and Sustainability
Dr. Allyson Beall
School of the Environment, Washington State University, PO Box 642812, Pullman, WA 99164-2812, USA
E-Mail: abeall@wsu.edu
Interests: system dynamics; participatory environmental modeling; environmental modeling; interdisciplinary modeling
Contribution:
Special Issue: System Dynamics Simulation of Environmental and Resource Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Per Berg
Inst för SOL, Landskapsarkitektur, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7012 Ulls väg 28 A, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel. +46 18 672513
Website: http://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/search/search-employee/person-presentation/?emp=01A8350ABA2AD755DC636401E4BC5519
E-Mail: per.berg@slu.se
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
E-Mail: frans.berkhout@ivm.falw.vu.nl
Interests: climate change; innovation; policy studies; transitions
Dr. Werner Bonrath
DSM Nutritional Products, Research and Development, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 815 87 15; Fax: +41 61 687 21 17
E-Mail: werner.bonrath@dsm.com
Interests: catalysis (general); vitamins (general); chemistry under non-classical conditions (ionic liquids; supercritical fluids; ultrasound and microwaves)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Green Chemistry for Environment and Health
In other journals:
Special Issue: Sonochemistry-organic synthesis
Special Issue: Ionic Liquids
Prof. Dr. Bart A.G. Bossink
VU University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Information, Logistics and Innovation, De Boelelaan 1105, Room 5A-22, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 5981722
Website: http://personal.vu.nl/b.a.g.bossink/
E-Mail: b.a.g.bossink@vu.nl
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
E-Mail: barry.brook@adelaide.edu.au
Interests: global ecology and conservation biology; climate change; sustainable energy
Prof. Dr. Paul Burger
University of Basel, Departement of Social Science, Division Sustainability, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 267 04 03; Fax: +41 61 267 07 75
Website: http://philsem.unibas.ch/seminar/personen/burger/
E-Mail: paul.burger@unibas.ch
Interests: theoretical foundations for sustainability; values and evaluation (especially within sustainability issues); human-nature-interrelations; ontology of systems; social theories and sustainability; epistemology and methodology of future studies and of inter- & transdisciplinary research
Prof. Dr. Erve J. Chambers
Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Tel. +1 301 405 1439
E-Mail: echambers@anth.umd.edu
Interests: sustainable tourism; community-based development; heritage resource management
Prof. Dr. Rachel J.C. Chen
The University of Tennessee, Center for Sustainable Business and Tourism, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134, USA
Tel. +1 865 974 0505; Fax: +1 865 974 1838
Website: http://csbt.tennessee.edu/
E-Mail: rchen@utk.edu
Interests: sustainable business; sustainable tourism; sustainable development; branding; marketing; forecasting models; economic impacts; sustainable consumer services
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainable Branding and Marketing
Dr. Giovanni de Feo
Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIn), University of Salerno, via Ponte don Melillo, 1, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Tel. +39-089-964113; Fax: +39-089-968738
E-Mail: g.defeo@unisa.it
Interests: Life Cycle Assessment; solid waste management; wastewater treatment; water and wastewater technologies in ancient civilizations; characterization of the quality of surface water and groundwater; environmental management systems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Processes and Management: Past, Present and Future
Prof. Dr. Wouter Theodoor De Groot
Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Departmnent of Conservation Biology, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 71 5277487; Fax: +31 71 5277496
Website: http://cml.leiden.edu/organisation/staff/groot.html
E-Mail: degroot@cml.leidenuniv.nl
Interests: environmental management; ethnographic modeling; authenticity of nature; econometric analysis; land use modelling
Prof. Dr. David De la Croix
IRES & CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Website: http://www.de-la-croix.be
E-Mail: david.delacroix@uclouvain.be
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
E-Mail: deal@uiuc.edu
Interests: land use; urban planning; spatial modeling; dynamic modeling; green infrastructure; energy systems; energy conservation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Land Use and Sustainability
Special Issue: Planning for Climate Change
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
E-Mail: pdeng@highpoint.edu
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://law.widener.edu/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/DernbachJohnC.aspx
E-Mail: jcdernbach@widener.edu
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/
E-Mail: jo.dewulf@ugent.be
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/faculty/ibrahim.dincer
E-Mail: ibrahim.dincer@uoit.ca
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:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Entropy Generation in Thermal Systems and Processes
Dr. Rachel Dodds
Ted Rogers School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel. +1 416 979 5000
E-Mail: r2dodds@ryerson.ca
Interests: sustainable tourism; island tourism; CSR; tourism planning and development; climate change and tourism
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/
E-Mail: ldoyle@seti.org
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
In other journals:
Special Issue: Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication
Dr. Richard G. Dudley
21 Etna Lane, Etna, New York 13062, USA
E-Mail: rgdudley@gmail.com
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. Samuel Fankhauser
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK
Tel. +44 2071 075427
Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/fankhaus/
E-Mail: s.fankhauser@lse.ac.uk
Interests: climate change adaptation; development; climate change policy; green growth and carbon markets
Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Farber
Sho Sato Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Tel. +1 510 642 0340
Website: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=1141
E-Mail: dfarber@law.berkeley.edu
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
Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner
Chair of Sustainable Engineering, Department of Environmental Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Office Z1, Strasse des 17, Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)30 314 24341; Fax: +49 (0)30 314 21720
Website: http://www.see.tu-berlin.de
E-Mail: matthias.finkbeiner@tu-berlin.de
Interests: all assessment and management tools for environmental and sustainability performance from carbon footprint; water footprint via life cycle assessment; social LCA; life cycle costing, resource efficiency; eco-efficiency towards life cycle sustainability assessment
Contribution:
Special Issue: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
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
E-Mail: wtf@deerlab.org
Interests: sustainable wildlife management and conservation; invasive mammals; sustainable extractive land use; biogeochemical cycles; medical geology
Prof. Dr. Andrew Ford
School of the Environment, Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4430, USA
Tel. +1 509 335 7846
Website: http://www.sees.wsu.edu/Faculty/Ford/index.html
E-Mail: forda@wsu.edu
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
E-Mail: gallandt@maine.edu
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. Marion Glaser
Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie, Fahrenheitstr. 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Tel. +49 421 2380066
Website: http://www.zmt-bremen.de/Marion_Glaser.html
E-Mail: marion.glaser@zmt-bremen.de
Interests: social-ecological systems analysis; participatory research & natural resource management; social dimensions of ecosystem management; ecosystem-dependent and other livelihood options; sustainability research
Dr. Robert Goodland
613 Rivercrest, McLean, VA 22101, USA
E-Mail: rbtgoodland@gmail.com
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
E-Mail: david.i.gustafson@monsanto.com
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/
E-Mail: chall@esf.edu
Interests: systems ecology; computer simulation models; integrative geographical modeling of environments and economies
Contribution:
Special Issue: Net Gains from Depleting Fossil Energy and Mineral Sources
Special Issue: New Studies in EROI (Energy Return on Investment)
In other journals:
Special Issue: Biophysical Economics
Dr. Ralf Hansmann
Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI), Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS), 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/ralphh
E-Mail: ralph.hansmann@env.ethz.ch
Interests: cultural, social, and environmental aspects of sustainability; transdisciplinarity, education and learning for sustainable development; mutual learning; group decision making for sustainable development
Contribution:
Special Issue: Group Processes and Mutual Learning for Sustainability
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/mheck/
E-Mail: mheck@ufl.edu
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
Dr. Stefan Hirschberg
Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, The Energy Department, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Tel. +41 56 310 2956; Fax: +41 56 310 4411
Website: http://gabe.web.psi.ch/team/cv_hs.html
E-Mail: stefan.hirschberg@psi.ch
Interests: energy technologies; sustainability assessment; life cycle assessment; environmental impact assessment; accident risks; probabilistic risk assessment; energy economics; external costs; cost-benefit analysis; multi-criteria decision analysis; energy scenarios
Prof. Dr. Yosef Jabareen
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Room: 522, Sego Building, Haifa 32000, Israel
Tel. +972 4 8294043
Website: http://architecture.technion.ac.il/faculty.php?pi=432
E-Mail: jabareen@technion.ac.il
Interests: sustainable development; planning theory; urban planning; climate change; culture and planning
Contribution:
Special Issue: Coping with Climate Change in Developing Countries
Prof. Dr. Daniel M. Kammen
Energy and Resources Group (ERG), 310 Barrows Hall, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3050, USA
Tel. +1 510 642 1640; Fax: +1 510 642 1085
Website: http://kammen.berkeley.edu
E-Mail: kammen@berkeley.edu
Interests: renewable energy; innovation; energy policy climate change
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Challenges in Alternative Energy
Dr. Byron Keating
Professor of Service Systems, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra, Australia
E-Mail: byron.Keating@Canberra.edu.au
Interests: sustainable supply chains; green outsourcing; corporate governance; marketing and consumer affairs, and rapidly emerging economies
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. 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
Website: http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/persons/person/K/Gebhard_Kirchgaessner
E-Mail: gebhard.kirchgaessner@unisg.ch
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
E-Mail: aklein2@gwdg.de
Interests: biodiversity; environmental management; ecosystem services; ecosystem disservices; landscape ecology; sustainability of agroecosystems
Dr. Christopher J. Koroneos
Unit of Environmental Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering 9, Iroon Polytechneiou St., Zographou Campus, 157 73, Athens
Tel. +30 210 7723085; Fax: +30 210 7723285
E-Mail: koroneos@chemeng.ntua.gr
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. 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
E-Mail: gurkank@boun.edu.tr
Interests: macroeconomic modeling; energy and environmental policy modeling; energy demand forecasting; investment planning; power system economics; environmental economics
Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Lang
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Scharnhorststr. 1, C11.210f, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Tel. +49 (4131) 677 1678
Website: http://www.leuphana.de/
E-Mail: daniel.lang@leuphana.de
Interests: transdisciplinarity; sustainability sciences; future studies (scenario analysis); human-environment systems; system theory; systemic assessment; material flow analysis; integrated risk assessment; waste and resource management; urban and regional development
Dr. Vida Maliene
School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
Tel. +44 1512 312854; Fax: +44 1512 312815
E-Mail: v.maliene@ljmu.ac.uk
Interests: urban and spatial planning; urban regeneration; land management and development; real estate valuation and taxation
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias
Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Ctra. Ajalvir km-4. Torrejón de Ardoz, 28850 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 520 6418; Fax: +34 91 5201621
Website: http://tierra.rediris.es/jmfrias/
E-Mail: jmfrias@cab.inta-csic.es
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; mineralogy; geoethics in earth and space sciences; geoeducation; science and technology for development; emerging sciences, cultural implications; 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/
E-Mail: michael.meier@uni-potsdam.de
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
Industrial Ecology Programme, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47 73 59 87 19
E-Mail: ottar.michelsen@ntnu.no
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.cfm?pageid=65
E-Mail: mintzj@nsu.law.nova.edu
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, José Martího 2, 16200 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Tel. +420 220 199 471; Fax: +420 220 199 462
Website: http://www.czp.cuni.cz/czp/bedrich-moldan/blog_en
E-Mail: bedrich.moldan@czp.cuni.cz
Interests: sustainable development, SD indicators, environmental policy, analytical chemistry, biogeochemistry, environmental science
Prof. Dr. Andrea Monti
Department of Agroenvironmental Science and Technologies, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy
E-Mail: a.monti@unibo.it
Interests: energy crops; Agro‐energy chains; sustainability and energy balance and environmental impacts; photosynthetic activity in response to biotic and abiotic stresses
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: http://oardc.osu.edu/phone_single.asp?id=1014
E-Mail: moore.11@osu.edu
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
E-Mail: giuseppe.munda@uab.es
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
Dr. Masa Noguchi
Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ, Scotland, UK
Tel. +44(0)141 353 4668; Fax: +44(0)141 353 4703
Website: http://www.masscustomhome.com/
E-Mail: m.noguchi@gsa.ac.uk
Prof. Dr. Lionel Obadia
Doctoral School in Social Sciences of Lyon (ED 483), 86 rue Pasteur, 69007 Lyon, France
Tel. +33 4 78 77 23 86; Fax: +33 4 78 77 24 88
E-Mail: lionel.obadia@univ-lyon2.fr
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:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Pluralism
Special Issue: Religion & Globalization
Prof. Dr. Paul S. Phillips
School of Science and Technology, Newton Building, Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, Northampton UK NN2 6JD, UK
Tel. +44 1604 893366
E-Mail: paul.phillips@northampton.ac.uk
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
E-Mail: dp18@cornell.edu
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
Contribution:
Special Issue: Energy Sustainability after Global Fossil Energy Depletion
In other journals:
Special Issue: Soil Erosion: A Major Threat to Food Production and the Environment
Dr. Andrius Plepys
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics/Lund University, Box 196, Tegnersplatsen 4, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Tel. +46 46 222 02 00 (-26 direct); Fax: +46 46 222 02 30
Website: http://www.iiiee.lu.se/
E-Mail: andrius.plepys@iiiee.lu.se
Interests: systems\' studies (municipal waste management, energy services); IT and environment; sustainable consumption; product-service systems and life cycle assessment
Dr. Pallav Purohit
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Mitigation of Air Pollution & Greenhouse Gases (MAG) Program, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel. +43 2236807 336; Fax: +43 2236807 533
Website: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/
E-Mail: purohit@iiasa.ac.at
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/
E-Mail: art.ragauskas@chemistry.gatech.edu
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
Prof. Dr. Jørgen Randers
Norwegian Business School BI, 0442 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47 92 24 06 87
Website: http://www.climatestrategy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=26
E-Mail: jorgen.randers@bi.no
Interests: futures research; sustainable development; climate strategy; system dynamics
Contribution:
Special Issue: 40th Anniversary of 'The Limits to Growth'
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
E-Mail: ratsaby@ariel.ac.il
Interests: discrete applied mathematics; statistical learning theory; pattern recognition and classification; machine learning
Dr. Darren Robinson
Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Tel. +44 115 748 4012; Fax: +44 115 951 3159
Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/abe
E-Mail: darren.robinson@nottingham.ac.uk
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. Miklas Scholz
School of Computing, Science and Engineering, The University of Salford, Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, England, UK
Tel. +44 161 295 5921
Website: http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/profile.php?profile=M.Scholz
E-Mail: m.scholz@salford.ac.uk
Interests: stormwater management; runoff control; filtration; wetlands; sustainable water management
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainable Water Management
Special Issue: Sustainable Flood Risk Management
In other journals:
Special Issue: Sustainability: Environmental Studies and Public Health
Special Issue: Sustainable Water Systems
Dr. Bruce E. Tonn
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831-6038, USA
Tel. +1 865 574 4041; Fax: +1 865 576 8646
Website: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/people/tonn/index.shtml
E-Mail: tonnbe@ornl.gov
Interests: energy policy; environmental policy; sustainability; foresight; futures analysis; decision making under uncertainty; technology assessment; energy program evaluation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainable Futures
Special Issue: Adaptation or Extinction
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
E-Mail: tundop@unive.it
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
E-Mail: silvia.ulli-beer@bluewin.ch
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. Michiel van Drunen
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 59 89534
Website: http://www.ivm.vu.nl/en/people/researchers/spatial-analysis-and-decision-support/drunen-van/index.asp
E-Mail: michiel.van.drunen@ivm.vu.nl
Interests: climate change; socio-economic scenarios; air pollution; energy; multicriteria analysis; teaching
Prof. Dr. Christian R. Vogl
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, 1180 Vienna
Tel. +43 1 47654 3752; Fax: +43 1 47654 3792
Website: http://www.nas.boku.ac.at/christian-vogl.html
E-Mail: christian.vogl@boku.ac.at
Interests: organic farming; sustainable agriculture; traditional ecological knowledge; local knowledge; ethnobiology
Prof. Dr. Holger Wallbaum
ETH Zurich, Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management, Chair of Sustainable Construction, IBI - HIL, Room F 28.1, Wolfgang Pauli Str. 15, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 633 28 01; Fax: +41 44 633 10 88
Website: http://www.ibi.ethz.ch/nb/index_EN
E-Mail: wallbaum@ibi.baug.ethz.ch
Interests: ecological, economic and socio-cultural (reciprocal) impacts of the planning, construction, operation and demolition/dismantling of buildings and settlements
Dr. Ross M. Welch
Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Room 227, 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/
E-Mail: rmw1@cornell.edu
Interests: sustainable food-based system; agricultural production to human health and nutrition; micronutrient bioavailability
Dr. Stephen M. Wheeler
Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Environmental Design, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Tel. +1 530 754 9332
Website: http://lda.ucdavis.edu/people/websites/wheeler.html
E-Mail: smwheeler@ucdavis.edu
Interests: sustainable development; city and regional planning; climate change planning; urban design; urban morphology; social ecology; social change
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/
E-Mail: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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
E-Mail: zhangpeng@sibs.ac.cn
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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