Special Issue "Cleaner Technologies and Tools for Resilient Water Management and Energy Saving in Urban Environments"

A special issue of Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.
Submit your paper and select the Journal “Clean Technologies” and the Special Issue “Cleaner Technologies and Tools for Resilient Water Management and Energy Saving in Urban Environments” via: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=cleantechnol. Please contact the guest editor or the journal editor ([email protected]) for any queries.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Luis A. Sañudo-Fontaneda
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Guest Editor
GICONSIME Research Group, INDUROT Research Institute, Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Oviedo, Campus of Mieres, Gonzalo Gutierrez Quirós s/n, 33600 Mieres, Spain
Interests: sustainability; water management; stormwater engineering; teaching innovation; green infrastructure; sustainable drainage systems; civil engineering; biological and environmental engineering; sustainable construction; water analysis; environmental impact assessment; urbanism; land-use planning
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Dr. Felipe Pedro Álvarez-Rabanal
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GICONSIME Research Group, INDUROT Research Institute, Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Oviedo, Campus of Mieres, Gonzalo Gutierrez Quirós s/n, 33600 Mieres, Spain
Interests: nature based solutions; sustainable construction; sustainable drainage systems; sustainable energy; energy saving; thermal analysis; heat transfer; civil engineering materials; life cycle assessment; finite element analysis; fluid-structure interaction
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Dr. Jorge Roces-García
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Guest Editor
INDUROT Research Institute. Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Oviedo. Polytechnic School of Engineering of Gijón, 33203 Gijón, Spain
Interests: sustainability; green infrastructure; BIM; civil engineering; sustainable vehicles; traffic modeling; FEM; biomechanics; bone remodeling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Urban pollution, non-controlled urban growth, land occupation, and the arising of global pandemic scenarios as well as other threats related to climate change are drastically reducing livability in cities across the world in recent times. Urban infrastructure and services have been identified as key resources to increase community resilience against challenging environments by providing stability. This complex and variable urban context set the scene for new technologies and policies to be developed in order to improve urban infrastructure. With this aim, cleaner technologies and sustainable construction are needed to adjust the aforementioned stresses and unpredictable changes in the urban environment. In addition, multicriteria decision analysis tools are required to enhance urban planning and to reduce uncertainty. Green stormwater infrastructure plays an important role by linking sustainable water management to energy saving and food resilience, conferring robustness to human settlements and creating multifunctional spaces. Biodiversity has been pinpointed as another barrier against pandemic and climate change threats. So cleaner technologies associated with nature-based solutions are fundamental both in new urban spaces and in the built-environment through retrofitting.

In consequence, this Special Issue aims to contribute knowledge about this adverse and disruptive scenario in order to create resilient urban environments in a wide variety of aspects, including:

  • Amenity and landscape design
  • Building Information Modeling
  • City Information Modelling
  • Green BIM
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Clean technologies
  • Economic impact
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Education
  • Energy saving
  • Geographic Information System
  • Green infrastructure
  • Monitoring and maintenance
  • New and emerging pollutants in the urban environment
  • Multicriteria decision analysis
  • Regulatory framework and barriers for implementation
  • Renewable Energies
  • Sponge cities
  • Stormwater reuse
  • Sustainable Construction
  • Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
  • Sustainable water management
  • Urban Agriculture and Urban Forest
  • Urban infrastructure resiliency to variable climate
  • Urban retrofitting for sustainability

This Special Issue calls for critical reviews and original research articles. All submissions will be selected for publication following a rigorous peer review.

Dr. Luis A. Sañudo-Fontaneda
Dr. Felipe Pedro Álvarez-Rabanal
Dr. Jorge Roces-García
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Clean Technologies is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Biourbanism
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate resiliency
  • Flood risk mitigation
  • Ecosystem Services provision
  • Energy saving techniques
  • Green Infrastructure
  • Ground Source Heat Pumps
  • Low Impact Development
  • Urban Planning
  • Renewable Energy
  • Sponge Cities
  • Stormwater Best Management Practices
  • Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
  • Urban Heat Island
  • Urban Retrofitting
  • Water Sensitive Urban Design

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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