Sustainability

Prof. Dr. Jessie P.H. Poon

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Department of Geography, University at Buffalo-SUNY, 105 Wilkeson Quad, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA
Interests: international trade and foreign investment; regional economic development; Asian business

Prof. Dr. Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu

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1. Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business and Administration, University of Bucharest, 030018 Bucharest, Romania
2. Department of Economics and Economic Policy, Economics I Doctoral School, Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: sustainable development goals (SDGs); economics; management; finance; auditing; accounting; business counseling; financial analysis; control and evaluation; intellectual capital; corporate governance; sustainability; sustainable development; business environment; business process management; quality management; human resources management
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Dr. César Porras-Amores

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Grupo de Investigación TEMA, Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas y su Control, Escuela Técnica Superior de Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida Juan de Herrera, 6, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: building materials ventilation energy efficiency air quality; circular economy; waste management
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Prof. Dr. Sergio Porta

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Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, UK
Interests: urban design; public space design; spatial analysis; urban regeneration; adaptive urbanism
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Dr. Luciana Porter Bolland

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Institute of Ecology, A.C., Xalapa 91073, Veracruz, Mexico
Interests: landscape ecology; natural resource management in tropical zones; society-nature interaction; role of local people in biological conservation; tropical deforestation

Prof. Dr. Boris A. Portnov

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Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management, Faculty of Social Sceincesm University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Interests: Urban and Regional Planning; Sustainable and Smart Cities; environmental risk assessment; geographic information systems in environmental studies; green building; modifying behavior for energy saving; environmental and health effects of light pollution

Prof. Dr. Simona M. C. Porto

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, via S. Sofia n. 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: buildings, equipment, and infrastructure for livestock; buildings, equipment, and infrastructure for vegetable farms; classification, rehabilitation, and enhancement of rural buildings; survey, representation, analysis, modeling, and planning of the territory
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Dr. Dimitris Potoglou

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School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Interests: travel behavior; decarbonization through electrification; electric vehicle demand; electric vehicle public charging choices and inequalities; transport planning; transport analysis
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Prof. Dr. Susan E. Powers

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Sustainable Environmental Systems Director, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, 8 Clarkson Ave, Potsdam, NY 13699-5715, USA
Interests: sustainable energy systems; circular economy; lifecycle assessment; greenhouse gas inventory; industrial ecology

Dr. Mauro Prestipino

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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: renewable energy systems; process simulation; bioenergy; thermodynamic sustainability; combined heat and power; polygeneration systems; bio-hydrogen production
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Prof. Dr. Primo Proietti

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: soil fertility; agriculture environment; plant physiology; sustainable agriculture; biofortification; abiotic stresses; carbon sequestration; fruit quality
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Dr. Piotr Prus

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Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Al. prof. S. Kaliskiego 7 (Building E, Room 302), 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: sustainable development; sustainable development of rural areas and agriculture; education for sustainable development; rural advisory services; agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS); diffusion and adoption of innovations in rural areas; multifunctional development of rural areas; entrepreneurship; non-agricultural entrepreneurship in rural areas; horizontal and vertical integration in the food sector and agriculture; formation and operation of agricultural producer groups
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Dr. Svetlana Pushkar

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Department of Civil Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
Interests: sustainable building materials; green building rating systems; life cycle assessment
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Prof. Dr. Kaisu Puumalainen

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School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, PO Box 20, FIN‐53851 Lappeenranta, Finland
Interests: sustainability; innovation; strategy; entrepreneurship
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Dr. Chongchong Qi

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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
Interests: solid waste minimisation; cemented paste backfill; pollution reduction; recycling; first-principles calculations; molecular dynamics; artificial intelligence
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Dr. Gujie Qian

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College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
Interests: acid mine drainage remediation; hydrometallurgy; mineral dissolution kinetics; mine waste disposal and treatment; surface analysis (e.g., X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy)
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Dr. Queena K. Qian

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Associate Professor, Department of Management in the Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: building energy efficiency; housing energy renovation; behavioral change; supply chain integration for prefabrication; process & social innovation; transaction costs; market barriers; energy transition
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Dr. Jun Qin

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State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: data assimilation; climate modeling; deep learning; remote sensing inversion
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Prof. Dr. Kun Qin

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School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: spatio-temporal big data analysis and mining; intelligent processing of remote sensing images; spatial humanities and social geography
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Dr. Jiangxiao Qiu

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School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL32611, USA
Interests: ecosystem service; landscape ecology; social-ecological system; landscape sustainability; global change ecology

Prof. Dr. Chunxu Qu

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Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Interests: structural modal parameter identification; rapid bridge detection and device development; data abnormality diagnosis and processing
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Dr. Paola Quatrini

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Department of Biological Chemical, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze bldg.16, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: environmental microbiology; bioremediation; soil and marine microbial ecology. Presently involved in research on the biodegradation of chlorinated organic solvents and soil microbiology of desertified agroecosystems.

Dr. Muhammad Abdul Qyyum

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Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering (PCED), College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Interests: hydrogen economy; natural gas liquefaction; CO₂ capture, utilization, and storage; decarbonization
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Dr. Elena Cristina Rada

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Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering Department - DICAM, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: environmental pollution; circular economy; waste and wastewater management; human health; renewable energy; interdisciplinary approaches for environmental management; air quality; environmental sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Marco Ragazzi

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Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM), University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: environmental sustainability; emissions; impact; health; optimisation; treatment
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Dr. Sayanthan Ramakrishnan

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Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure, FSET, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: sustainable construction materials; advanced concrete technology; building energy efficiency; 3D concrete printing; sustainable built environment
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Dr. Christian Rammel

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RCE Vienna, University of Business and Economics Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Interests: education for sustainable development; transformative education; sustainability-driven entrepreneurship; change and adaptation; resilience
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Prof. Dr. Vijaya Rangari

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Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Sustainable lightweight advanced Materials Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088, USA
Interests: synthesis and characterization of various types of bio-nanomaterials obtained from renewable waste resources such as used eggshell, seashells, used coffee grinds, packaging waste and rice husk et; the application of nanoparticles includes the drug delivery systems, scaffold for bone regeneration, wound healing, biodegradable antimicrobial food packaging, automotive parts, carbon capturing and electronic devices
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Dr. Marco Raugei

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Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
Interests: life cycle analysis; net energy analysis; EROI; carbon emissions; energy transition; environmental impact analysis
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Prof. Dr. Manal Rawashdeh-Omary

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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, USA
Interests: Our research focuses on the design and development of new coinage metal-containing organic materials with interesting structural and optoelectronic properties. The research manifests sustainability in all its aspects, from the material composition to the methods and targeted applications. The material composition encompasses variation across a spectrum of structural complexity, from small molecules to coordination polymers and metallopolymers; we especially focus on “modern alchemy” based variations whereby we attempt to substitute gold and silver with less expensive copper without significantly compromising the properties needed for a given application. We aspire to establish structure-function correlations to examine the effect of systematic variation in chemical compositions that comprise molecular and/or supramolecular structural moieties upon cross-correlated light-emitting and/or solar energy-harvesting properties that could be harnessed in future devices and environmental sensors. These applications manifest sustainability by different means, including organic and inorganic LEDs for lighting and video display with up to 10-fold energy-saving potential versus conventional sources, large-area photovoltaic solar cell devices that is both renewable and environmentally-friendly, and smart sensors that can both detect and remediate a wide variety of environmental pollutants in air and water. The most recent addition to our research has been directed toward “green chemistry” whereby our group recently started exploring a new direction based on solventless syntheses for a majority of the synthetic research projects. We have started to explore solvent-free transformations (mechanochemical and sublimation) versus the conventional solvent-mediated approach for the synthesis of the new molecular materials we are pursuing

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