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Section Board for 'Sustainable Use of the Environment and Resources' (84)

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Prof. Vincenzo Torretta Section Editor-in-Chief Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University of Varese, via G.B. Vico 46, 21100 Varese, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: waste management; air quality management; human health risk assessment; water management; wastewater treatment; environmental engineering Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Resources Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Innovative Approaches for Drinking- and Waste-Water Treatment Special Issue in Sustainability: Waste Management and Application of the Principles of the Circular Economy
Dr. Johannes Barth Applied Geology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Schlossgarten 5, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: large-scale water balances; ground-surface water interaction; carbon cycle in water systems; stable isotope techniques; biogeochemistry of rivers Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Groundwater
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 Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmentally sustainable innovation; sustainable construction; environmental design; environmental policy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Environmental Sustainability and the Built Environment Special Issue in Sustainability: Innovation and Environmental Sustainability
Dr. Elena Cristina Rada Insubria University of Varese, Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences – DiSTA, Via G.B. Vico, 46, 21100, Varese, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: waste management; air quality; renewable energy; environmental sustainability; circular economy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Circular Economy and Sustainable Strategies
Prof. Dr. Arjen Y. Hoekstra Twente Water Centre, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Tel. +31534893880; Fax: +31-53-489-5377 Website \| E-Mail Interests: water resources management; water footprint assessment; sustainable development; water-food-energy nexus Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Water Footprints and Sustainable Water Allocation Special Issue in Water: Water Footprint Assessment Special Issue in Water: Progress in Water Footprint Assessment Special Issue in Water: 10th Anniversary of Water
Dr. Arnulf Jäger-Waldau European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Renewables and Energy Efficiency Unit, Via E. Fermi 2749, TP 450, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy E-Mail Interests: renewable energies; energy policy; material science Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Electricity
Dr. Efstratios Kelepertzis Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Economic Geology and Geochemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zographou, 157 84, Athens, Greece Website \| E-Mail Interests: agricultural soil chemistry; groundwater and surface water contamination; urban environmental geochemistry; water quality; environmental geology
Dr. Christopher J. Koroneos Unit of Environmental Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering 9, Iroon Polytechneiou St., Zographou Campus, 157 73, Athens Fax: +30 210 7723285 E-Mail 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 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Stephen Morse Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH, UK Fax: + 44 (0)1483 686671 Website \| E-Mail Interests: environment; sustainable development; environmental assessment; environmental impact; environmental indicators and indices; decoupling; economic growth; livelihood; ecosystem goods and services Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Environment in Sustainable Development
Prof. Dr. Marco Ragazzi Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, via Mesiano 77, Trento I-38123, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: Management, treatment and recovery of municipal waste, sewage sludge and biomass waste collection, aerobic and anaerobic treatment, heat treatment; Management and Waste Water Treatment; Remediation of contaminated sites; Air pollution and health risk: indoor and outdoor; Eutrophication of lakes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in Sustainability: Eutrophication and Sustainable Management of Water
Dr. Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus (OUC), P.O. Box 12794, 2252 Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus Fax: +357 22411601 Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecology and biogeography of Mediterranean islands and mountains; the links between geomorphology and vegetation distribution patterns; predictive vegetation and habitat mapping; landscape based approach to nature conservation delivery; effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity conservation; effects of landscape structure and habitat quality on biodiversity; spatial scale effects on ecosystem services and sustainability assessment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Environment in Sustainable Development Special Issue in Land: Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past
Prof. Dr. Katie Williams Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments, Department of Planning and Architecture, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: Sustainable urbanism; urban futures; urban form; urban design; compact cities; brownfield development; urban densities; urban sprawl; suburban development; climate change adaptation; sustainable behaviours
Dr. Fabio Boschetti 1. School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia 2. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecological modelling; management of natural resources; decision making Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Modelling Approaches to Support Decision Making
Prof. Dr. Lucian-Ionel Cioca Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Faculty of Engineering, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 10 Victoriei Blv., 550024, Sibiu, Romania Website \| E-Mail Interests: management; human resources management; occupational health and safety management; production systems engineering; ergonomics; circular economy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in Sustainability: Risk Assessment and Management Special Issue in Safety: Design and Development of Safety Production Management Special Issue in Sustainability: Circular Economy and Sustainable Strategies
Prof. Dr. Luis Diaz-Balteiro Department of Forest and Environmental Engineering and Management, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: forest management; forest sustainability; multi-criteria decision-making techniques; industrial forest plantations; non-timber forest products; forest economics Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Forests: Integrating Ecosystem Services into Valuation and Forest Management Decisions Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability as a Multi-criteria Concept: New Developments and Applications
Dr. Gokhan Egilmez Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516, USA Tel. 203-479-4196 Website \| E-Mail Interests: input output extended life cycle assessment; sustainability assessment of agriculture and food production systems; carbon, water, energy, and land footprint analysis; industrial ecology; circular economy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Agronomy: Sustainable Agriculture and Water Footprint
Prof. Dr. Francesco Fatone Department SIMAU, Faculty of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: wastewater treatment; resource recovery from water cycle; emerging contaminants; water reuse; anaerobic digestion; membrane technologies Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Challenges for a Sustainable Water Use and Re-Use
Dr. Helvi Heinonen-Tanski Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland Tel. +358405718562 Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental microbiology; ecological sanitation; water and wastewater treatment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Wastewater Treatment: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Lindsay Hutley Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: tropical savannas; plant ecology and botany in Northern Australia; carbon and water balance of tropical savannas; impact of fire on savanna productivity and climate; impact of invasive grasses on savanna function; blue carbon and mangrove carbon
Prof. Jian Kang UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental acoustics; building acoustics; soundscape; noise control Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Noise and Vibration Control in the Built Environment Special Issue in Environments: Sound Environments Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness Special Issue in Acoustics: Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time Special Issue in Acoustics: Indoor Soundscaping: Integrating Sound, Experience and Architecture Special Issue in Acoustics: Indoor Soundscape: Integrating Sound, Experience and Architecture
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Huchzermeyer Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: plant biochemistry and physiology; plant biology; abiotic stress tolerance; agricultural biotechnology; plant environmental stress physiology
Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia Tel. 0770 835 6757; Fax: +61 8 8201 3300 Website \| E-Mail Interests: land use dynamics and potential impacts around increased foreign ownership of farmland in Australia; the coca/cocaine trade as a driver of land use dynamics in humid tropical forests; analysis of landscape fragmentation patterns in tropical and sub-tropical landscapes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Land: Land Systems Science Symposium at AAG 2013 Special Issue in Land: Urban Land Systems: An Ecosystems Perspective
Dr. Christian Giardina USDA-FS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 60 Nowelo St., Hilo, HI 96720, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: understanding how drought impacts fire regimes, forest hydrology and watershed health; the restoration of composition, structure, function and dynamics of forest ecosystems, especially in landscapes degraded by the interactions of fire, drought and invasive species; and community based solutions to managing threats to forests and restoring landscapes
Prof. Dr. Dino Musmarra Department of Engineering, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy Tel. +39 0815010400; Fax: +39 0815010200 Website \| E-Mail Interests: innovative applications for biomass valorisation; value-added compound production; green molecule production; advanced treatment technologies; biorefinery; green extraction processes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Molecules: Green Compounds from Bio-Sources: Characterizations, Innovative Productions and Advanced Technological Applications
Dr. Mikołaj Owsianiak Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Website \| E-Mail Interests: terrestrial ecotoxicity of metals; fate and behaviour of soil contaminants; biomass-based products and bioenergy; life cycle assessment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils: Sources, Releases and Environmental Impacts
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosário Partidário 1. Instituto Superior Técnico–Universidade de Lisboa, CEG-IST, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal2. Department of Planning, University of Aalborg, Fredrik Bajers Vej 5, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark Website \| E-Mail Interests: strategic thinking for sustainability; strategic thinking approaches in SEA; transitions to sustainability; harmonizing sustainability assessment and strategic environmental assessment; governance in SEA; social innovation; community-based development approaches; participatory research; biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate change, integrating environmental and sustainability issues in development processes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Fostering Sustainability through Strategic Environmental Assessment
Dr. Sander Scheffers Southern Cross University, National Marine Science Centre, Lismore, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: coral reef ecology; reef geomorphology; nutrient dynamics; climate change; coral and giant clam aquaculture; coral reef microbiology; coral reef restoration; coral adaptation Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Diversity: Climate Change and Human Activities on Coral Reefs
Dr. Ken Byrne Department of Biological Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland Website \| E-Mail Interests: the impact of land use; land use change on soil carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions; carbon storage in harvested wood products; forest ecosystem services; nutrient stores in forest biomass
Prof. Mario Giampietro ICREA Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: Water–energy–food nexus in relation to sustainable development goals; multi-criteria analysis of sustainability; multi-scale integrated analysis of social-ecological systems; energy policy; alternative energy technologies; bioeconomics; urban metabolism Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: A Critical Appraisal of the Concepts of Sustainable Growth, Decoupling and Decarbonization
Dr. Georgina Santos School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: transport economics; environmental economics; sustainable cities Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Prof. Cory Searcy Ryerson University, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto, Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: Corporate sustainability, Corporate social responsibility, Environmental management systems Integrated management systems, Sustainable supply chain management, Corporate performance measurement
Prof. Dr. Frank Biermann Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: pathways to sustainability； institutions for open societies
Prof. Dr. Nam C. Woo Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Sudaemoon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: environment; water quality; water resources management; hydrology; groundwater; hydrogeology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Water Resources in the Developing Cities
Prof. Dr. Christoph Zielhofer Institute of Geography, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: geoarchaeology; geomorphology; quaternary research; fluvial systems
Prof. Dr. Robert Burton Ruralis - Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Universitetssenteret, Dragvoll N-7491 Trondheim, Norway Website \| E-Mail Interests: farmer's behaviour; farming culture; agri-environmental policy
Dr. Mendel Giezen University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. 31616798421 Website \| E-Mail Interests: Circular urban responsibilities, shifting urban food systems in global perspective, spatial and ecological remote sensing for environmental urban planning, Low Carbon Urban
Prof. Alice Newton Centro de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental, Department of Earth, Faro, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: marine and environmental sciences, environmental impacts and economics, climate and the environment
Dr. Philip K. Roche National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA) Website \| E-Mail Interests: biodiversity; ecosystem services; landscape ecology; ecosystem condition and ecosystem integrity Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service: Challenges for the Future
Prof. Dr. Christophe Waterlot Yncréa Hauts-de-France, Laboratoire Génie Civil et géoEnvironnement (LGCgE), Lille Cedex, France Website 1 \| Website 2 \| E-Mail Interests: contaminated soils; pollutants; environmental availability; plant biomass; analytical chemistry; biosourced catalyst; green chemistry
Dr. Brantley Liddle Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119620, Singapore Website \| E-Mail Interests: energy economics and policy; energy and climate change; economic growth and energy/environment; transport and energy/environment; population and energy/environment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Transport: Transport, Environment, and Development Special Issue in Sustainability: Population Dynamics in the Changing Climate Systems
Prof. Dr. Luca Di Palma Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza – University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: wastewater treatment; soil remediation; nano materials for environmental remediation Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Nanotechnology for Clean Energy and Environmental Applications
Prof. Dr. Wann-Ming Wey Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Website \| E-Mail Interests: urban built environment planning and design; sustainable transportation; smart city and big data; growth management with urban development Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Urban Development and Growth Management
Prof. Dr. Olivier Pourret AGHYLE, UniLaSalle, 60026 Beauvais cedex, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: Biogeochemistry: Low-temperature geochemistry from water, to soil and plants
Prof. Dr. Jose Navarro Pedreño Agroquimica y Medio Ambiente, Univ. Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Alicante, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental sciences, land management, organic carbon, pollution, remote sensing and GIS, soil organic matter, soil, wastes management, water Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Management of Heavy Metals
Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany; Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: sustainability sciences, social-ecological systems, cultural ecosystem services, landscape change, multifunctional land use
Prof. Dr. George P. Kraemer Department of Environmental Studies, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: non-native species impacts; marine ecology; aquaculture
Prof. Dr. Andrea Nicolini Engineering Department, CIRIAF, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti 67, Perugia, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: sustainable development; energy saving; renewables; energy storage; environmental impact; energy efficiency in buildings Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: 17th CIRIAF National Congress—Energy–Environmental Sustainability and Seismic Retrofit of Built Heritage
Prof. Dr. Peter L. M. Goethals Aquatic Ecology Research Unit, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium Tel. 09 264 37 68 Website \| E-Mail Interests: aquatic ecology; monitoring; assessment; ecological modelling; water quality management; ecotechnology; decision support tools; sustainability Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Advances in Ecological Water System Modeling: Integration and Leanification as a Basis for Application in Environmental Management Special Issue in Water: Sustainable Development of Lakes and Reservoirs
Assist. Prof. José Virgilio Cruz IVAR - Research Institute for Volcanology and Risk Assessment and Department of Geosciences – Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Azores, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: hydrogeology; groundwater; geochemistry; water management
Dr. Marine Elbakidze Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, School for Forest Management, PO Box 43, 73921 Skinnskatteberg, Sweden E-Mail Interests: environment; biodiversity; sustainability; sustainable development; natural resource management; systematics; forest management; geography; forestry; environmental governance; restoration ecology; ecosystem services; social-ecological systems
Prof. Dr. Seppo Kellomäki School of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science and Forestry, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland Website \| E-Mail Interests: forest ecology, forestry, forest management, silviculture, boreal forest, climate change, adaptive management to climate change, climate change impacts to dynamics of boreal forest ecosystem
Prof. Dr. Dudley Shallcross Biogeochemistry Research Centre, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Website \| E-Mail Interests: air pollution; atmospheric dispersion; chemical mechanism development; climate change; atmospheric trace gases; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; biogeochemical cycles. Public engagement of science; transition in science education; situated cognition; maths in context
Prof. Dr. Martin De Jong 1. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology PO Box 5015, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands 2. School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China Website \| E-Mail Interests: urban planning; transport planning; eco cities; smart cities; public policy; governance; policy implementation; policy transfer; China Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Energies: The Governance of Sustainable Cities and Innovative Transport Special Issue in Sustainability: Smart, the New Sustainable? The Smart City and Its Implications for Sustainable Urbanism
Prof. Dr. José Alberto Herrera-Melián Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, Edif CCBB, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: contamination; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation technologies; ponds; constructed wetlands; environmental management Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Recent Advances in Water Management: Saving, Treatment and Reuse Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Systems Special Issue in Water: Water Disinfection: Safe Water for All
Prof. Anton Imeson Foundation 3D Environmental Change, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: water; infiltration; runoff; erosion; soils; ecology; land degradation; forest fires; soil conservation and protection; land use change; climate change; laboratory and field measurements; policy; law and human impact governance; land use change Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Soil Erosion and the Sustainable Management of the Landscape
Prof. Dr. Franco Ajmone Marsan Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), Università Degli Studi di Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: soil science, soil contamination, urban soils, heavy metals, soil redox
Prof. Dr. Fernando A.L. Pacheco DG-CQVR-UTAD – Department of Geology, Chemistry Research Centre, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001–801 Vila Real, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: groundwater management; groundwater contamination risk; water–rock interactions; groundwater flow modeling; groundwater–surface water interactions; rainwater harvesting; land degradation and surface water quality; spatial decision support systems in water public supply planning Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Use of Soils and Water: the Role of Environmental Land Use Conflicts Special Issue in Water: Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Watersheds in a Changing Climate Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Allocation of Rainwater Harvesting Sites in Catchments Special Issue in Water: Integrated Management of River Basins: Interaction between Aquatic Ecosystems and Forestry Environment Special Issue in Water: Nitrates Pollution in Water: Sources, Pathways and Receptors
Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Renella University of Florence, Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, P.le delle Cascine 18, I-50144 Florence, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: soil ecological functionality and soil/plant interactions, and on problems related to the impact of environmental pollution on soils and sediments and sustainable management of polluted environment; bioremediation approaches for a sustainable management of polluted soils and sediments; induction of fertility in remediated soils and sediments; analysis of functional activity of remediated soils and sediment by genomic, proteomic and volatilomic techniques, and biosensors
Prof. Dr. Silvia Secchi Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa, IA 52242, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental impacts of agriculture; water sustainability; floodplain policy; conservation policy; adaptation and mitigation to climate change; land use science; integrated modeling
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ioannis Katsoyiannis Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of chemical and environmental Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Tel. +30-2310-97977 Website \| E-Mail Interests: water treatment processes for removal of inorganic and organic contaminants: role of sorption and oxidation in contaminant removal; design and application of novel sorbents; oxidation processes in drinking water treatment; wastewater treatment and reuse; solid waste management Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Recent Advances for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse with Emphasis in Applications in Vulnerable Communities Special Issue in Water: Recent Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment with Emphasis in Membrane Treatment Operations Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Innovative Approaches for Drinking- and Waste-Water Treatment
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sara Egemose Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Website \| E-Mail Interests: treatment of runoff to recipients from point sources and diffuse runoff; environmental effect of urban runoff; development of environmental efficient methods to treat water and avoid negative effects on the recipients Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Climate Adaptation from an Environmental Perspective
Prof. Dr. António Dinis Ferreira CERNAS (Research Center on Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Coimbra Agriculture Polytechnic School, Coimbra Polytechnic Institute, Coimbra, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: hydrology and soils; forest fires; desertification; environmental management; ecoefficiency; global change; urban agriculture; circular economy; environmental services Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Coping with Climate Change at Regional Level
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Ar. Kormas Department of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece Tel. +30-242-109-3082 Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecology of aquatic prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes; animal–microbe associations in the aquatic environment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Microorganisms: Gut Microorganisms of Aquatic Animals Special Issue in Water: Selected Papers from HydroMediT 2018 Special Issue in Water: Advancing Knowledge on Cyanobacterial Blooms in Freshwaters
Prof. Dr. Laura Airoldi Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali (CIRSA), University of Bologna, UO CoNISMa, Via San Alberto 163, Ravenna 48123, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: marine urbanization, global climate change, marine biodiversity conservation and restoration, nature-based solutions, resilience of coastal and marine systems
Prof. Dr. David John Gibson Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: plant ecology, climate change, agroecology, restoration ecology
Prof. Dr. Jesús M. Mercado Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Puerto Pesquero s/n, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: coastal eutrophication, nutrient pollution, phytoplankton, ocean acidification, pelagic ecosystems, oceanography Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Eutrophication Management: Monitoring and Control
Prof. Dr. Pablo Peri Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Río Gallegos, Argentina Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecosystem services; carbon fixation; grassland monitoring; climate change; ecology and Silviculture of native forest; silvopastoral systems
Prof. Dr. James J. Opaluch Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental economics, sustainable energy; natural resource damage assessment
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Polymeros Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece Website \| E-Mail Interests: gricultural and fisheries economics and policy; agricultural, fisheries and food marketing; common agricultural and fisheries policy of the E.U. international trade of agricultural and fisheries products; consumer behavior in agricultural and fisheries products; rural development
Prof. Dr. Roland Jansson Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Website \| E-Mail Interests: biodiversity; evolutionary macroecology; biogeography; climate change; river ecology
Prof. Atul K. Jain Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, 1301 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: Land Use Land Cover Change; Remote Sensing; Land surface processes; Biogeochemistry and Biophysical processes
Prof. Dr. John (Jack) C. Schmidt Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: geomorphology; water resources
Prof. Dr. Changha Lee School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: water treatment; water chemistry; advanced oxidation/reduction
Prof. Dr. Jiming Jin Department of Watershed Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: regional weather and climate modeling and analysis; hydrological modeling; and the interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Vezzoli Laboratory for Provenance Studies, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: fluvial sedimentology; sediment provenance; impact of human activities on the river sediments
Prof. Dr. Arun Agrawal School of Environment and Sustainability, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: political economy; natural resources; governance; renewable energy; development; sustainability
Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener Water and Soil Resource Research Group, Institut für Geographie, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: soil and water resources; biochemical cycles; soil redistribution; soil conservation
Mr. Mark J. La Guardia Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: Preserving natural resources through the identification of natural and anthropogenic contaminants; understanding their mobility, toxicity and persistence within the environment
Dr. Alexander Sun Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: water resources management, sustainability, optimization, decision support
Prof. Dr. Bellie Sivakumar School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Tel. +61-2-93855072; Fax: +61 2 9385 6139 Website \| E-Mail Interests: hydrology; water resources engineering; climate change impacts; complexity; nonlinear dynamics; chaos; fractals; complex networks Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering Special Issue in Sustainability: Large-scale Water Projects, Socio-economic Development, and Environmental Sustainability Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering II Special Issue in Hydrology: Future of Hydrology
Prof. Dr. Meire Patrick Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Website \| E-Mail Interests: Estuarine ecology and management; ecosystem services; integrated water management; ecohydrology and wetlands; wetland biogeochemistry; Si-cycle; Arctic Ecology
Prof. Dr. Max Rietkerk Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: spatial ecology; environmental sciences; complexity; global change; self-organization
Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Zavala Departmento de Ciencias de la Vida, Edificio Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: forest ecology; climate change adaptation; sustainability; biodiversity; mathematical ecology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Forests as a Key Climate Solution
Prof. Joshua Tewksbury 1. Future Earth Colorado Global Hub 2. Environmental Studies Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 3. School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: Sustainability science in global environmental change

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Prof. Vincenzo Torretta Section Editor-in-Chief Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University of Varese, via G.B. Vico 46, 21100 Varese, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: waste management; air quality management; human health risk assessment; water management; wastewater treatment; environmental engineering Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Resources Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Innovative Approaches for Drinking- and Waste-Water Treatment Special Issue in Sustainability: Waste Management and Application of the Principles of the Circular Economy
Dr. Johannes Barth Applied Geology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Schlossgarten 5, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: large-scale water balances; ground-surface water interaction; carbon cycle in water systems; stable isotope techniques; biogeochemistry of rivers Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Groundwater
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 Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmentally sustainable innovation; sustainable construction; environmental design; environmental policy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Environmental Sustainability and the Built Environment Special Issue in Sustainability: Innovation and Environmental Sustainability
Dr. Elena Cristina Rada Insubria University of Varese, Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences – DiSTA, Via G.B. Vico, 46, 21100, Varese, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: waste management; air quality; renewable energy; environmental sustainability; circular economy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Circular Economy and Sustainable Strategies
Prof. Dr. Arjen Y. Hoekstra Twente Water Centre, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Tel. +31534893880; Fax: +31-53-489-5377 Website \| E-Mail Interests: water resources management; water footprint assessment; sustainable development; water-food-energy nexus Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Water Footprints and Sustainable Water Allocation Special Issue in Water: Water Footprint Assessment Special Issue in Water: Progress in Water Footprint Assessment Special Issue in Water: 10th Anniversary of Water
Dr. Arnulf Jäger-Waldau European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Renewables and Energy Efficiency Unit, Via E. Fermi 2749, TP 450, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy E-Mail Interests: renewable energies; energy policy; material science Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Electricity
Dr. Efstratios Kelepertzis Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Economic Geology and Geochemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zographou, 157 84, Athens, Greece Website \| E-Mail Interests: agricultural soil chemistry; groundwater and surface water contamination; urban environmental geochemistry; water quality; environmental geology
Dr. Christopher J. Koroneos Unit of Environmental Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering 9, Iroon Polytechneiou St., Zographou Campus, 157 73, Athens Fax: +30 210 7723285 E-Mail 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 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Stephen Morse Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH, UK Fax: + 44 (0)1483 686671 Website \| E-Mail Interests: environment; sustainable development; environmental assessment; environmental impact; environmental indicators and indices; decoupling; economic growth; livelihood; ecosystem goods and services Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Environment in Sustainable Development
Prof. Dr. Marco Ragazzi Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, via Mesiano 77, Trento I-38123, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: Management, treatment and recovery of municipal waste, sewage sludge and biomass waste collection, aerobic and anaerobic treatment, heat treatment; Management and Waste Water Treatment; Remediation of contaminated sites; Air pollution and health risk: indoor and outdoor; Eutrophication of lakes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in Sustainability: Eutrophication and Sustainable Management of Water
Dr. Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus (OUC), P.O. Box 12794, 2252 Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus Fax: +357 22411601 Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecology and biogeography of Mediterranean islands and mountains; the links between geomorphology and vegetation distribution patterns; predictive vegetation and habitat mapping; landscape based approach to nature conservation delivery; effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity conservation; effects of landscape structure and habitat quality on biodiversity; spatial scale effects on ecosystem services and sustainability assessment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Environment in Sustainable Development Special Issue in Land: Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past
Prof. Dr. Katie Williams Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments, Department of Planning and Architecture, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: Sustainable urbanism; urban futures; urban form; urban design; compact cities; brownfield development; urban densities; urban sprawl; suburban development; climate change adaptation; sustainable behaviours
Dr. Fabio Boschetti 1. School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia 2. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecological modelling; management of natural resources; decision making Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Modelling Approaches to Support Decision Making
Prof. Dr. Lucian-Ionel Cioca Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Faculty of Engineering, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 10 Victoriei Blv., 550024, Sibiu, Romania Website \| E-Mail Interests: management; human resources management; occupational health and safety management; production systems engineering; ergonomics; circular economy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in Sustainability: Risk Assessment and Management Special Issue in Safety: Design and Development of Safety Production Management Special Issue in Sustainability: Circular Economy and Sustainable Strategies
Prof. Dr. Luis Diaz-Balteiro Department of Forest and Environmental Engineering and Management, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: forest management; forest sustainability; multi-criteria decision-making techniques; industrial forest plantations; non-timber forest products; forest economics Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Forests: Integrating Ecosystem Services into Valuation and Forest Management Decisions Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability as a Multi-criteria Concept: New Developments and Applications
Dr. Gokhan Egilmez Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516, USA Tel. 203-479-4196 Website \| E-Mail Interests: input output extended life cycle assessment; sustainability assessment of agriculture and food production systems; carbon, water, energy, and land footprint analysis; industrial ecology; circular economy Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Agronomy: Sustainable Agriculture and Water Footprint
Prof. Dr. Francesco Fatone Department SIMAU, Faculty of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: wastewater treatment; resource recovery from water cycle; emerging contaminants; water reuse; anaerobic digestion; membrane technologies Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Challenges for a Sustainable Water Use and Re-Use
Dr. Helvi Heinonen-Tanski Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland Tel. +358405718562 Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental microbiology; ecological sanitation; water and wastewater treatment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Wastewater Treatment: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Lindsay Hutley Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: tropical savannas; plant ecology and botany in Northern Australia; carbon and water balance of tropical savannas; impact of fire on savanna productivity and climate; impact of invasive grasses on savanna function; blue carbon and mangrove carbon
Prof. Jian Kang UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental acoustics; building acoustics; soundscape; noise control Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Noise and Vibration Control in the Built Environment Special Issue in Environments: Sound Environments Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness Special Issue in Acoustics: Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time Special Issue in Acoustics: Indoor Soundscaping: Integrating Sound, Experience and Architecture Special Issue in Acoustics: Indoor Soundscape: Integrating Sound, Experience and Architecture
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Huchzermeyer Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: plant biochemistry and physiology; plant biology; abiotic stress tolerance; agricultural biotechnology; plant environmental stress physiology
Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia Tel. 0770 835 6757; Fax: +61 8 8201 3300 Website \| E-Mail Interests: land use dynamics and potential impacts around increased foreign ownership of farmland in Australia; the coca/cocaine trade as a driver of land use dynamics in humid tropical forests; analysis of landscape fragmentation patterns in tropical and sub-tropical landscapes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Land: Land Systems Science Symposium at AAG 2013 Special Issue in Land: Urban Land Systems: An Ecosystems Perspective
Dr. Christian Giardina USDA-FS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 60 Nowelo St., Hilo, HI 96720, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: understanding how drought impacts fire regimes, forest hydrology and watershed health; the restoration of composition, structure, function and dynamics of forest ecosystems, especially in landscapes degraded by the interactions of fire, drought and invasive species; and community based solutions to managing threats to forests and restoring landscapes
Prof. Dr. Dino Musmarra Department of Engineering, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy Tel. +39 0815010400; Fax: +39 0815010200 Website \| E-Mail Interests: innovative applications for biomass valorisation; value-added compound production; green molecule production; advanced treatment technologies; biorefinery; green extraction processes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Molecules: Green Compounds from Bio-Sources: Characterizations, Innovative Productions and Advanced Technological Applications
Dr. Mikołaj Owsianiak Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Website \| E-Mail Interests: terrestrial ecotoxicity of metals; fate and behaviour of soil contaminants; biomass-based products and bioenergy; life cycle assessment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils: Sources, Releases and Environmental Impacts
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosário Partidário 1. Instituto Superior Técnico–Universidade de Lisboa, CEG-IST, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal2. Department of Planning, University of Aalborg, Fredrik Bajers Vej 5, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark Website \| E-Mail Interests: strategic thinking for sustainability; strategic thinking approaches in SEA; transitions to sustainability; harmonizing sustainability assessment and strategic environmental assessment; governance in SEA; social innovation; community-based development approaches; participatory research; biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate change, integrating environmental and sustainability issues in development processes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Fostering Sustainability through Strategic Environmental Assessment
Dr. Sander Scheffers Southern Cross University, National Marine Science Centre, Lismore, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: coral reef ecology; reef geomorphology; nutrient dynamics; climate change; coral and giant clam aquaculture; coral reef microbiology; coral reef restoration; coral adaptation Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Diversity: Climate Change and Human Activities on Coral Reefs
Dr. Ken Byrne Department of Biological Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland Website \| E-Mail Interests: the impact of land use; land use change on soil carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions; carbon storage in harvested wood products; forest ecosystem services; nutrient stores in forest biomass
Prof. Mario Giampietro ICREA Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: Water–energy–food nexus in relation to sustainable development goals; multi-criteria analysis of sustainability; multi-scale integrated analysis of social-ecological systems; energy policy; alternative energy technologies; bioeconomics; urban metabolism Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: A Critical Appraisal of the Concepts of Sustainable Growth, Decoupling and Decarbonization
Dr. Georgina Santos School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: transport economics; environmental economics; sustainable cities Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Prof. Cory Searcy Ryerson University, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto, Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: Corporate sustainability, Corporate social responsibility, Environmental management systems Integrated management systems, Sustainable supply chain management, Corporate performance measurement
Prof. Dr. Frank Biermann Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: pathways to sustainability； institutions for open societies
Prof. Dr. Nam C. Woo Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Sudaemoon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: environment; water quality; water resources management; hydrology; groundwater; hydrogeology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Water Resources in the Developing Cities
Prof. Dr. Christoph Zielhofer Institute of Geography, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: geoarchaeology; geomorphology; quaternary research; fluvial systems
Prof. Dr. Robert Burton Ruralis - Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Universitetssenteret, Dragvoll N-7491 Trondheim, Norway Website \| E-Mail Interests: farmer's behaviour; farming culture; agri-environmental policy
Dr. Mendel Giezen University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. 31616798421 Website \| E-Mail Interests: Circular urban responsibilities, shifting urban food systems in global perspective, spatial and ecological remote sensing for environmental urban planning, Low Carbon Urban
Prof. Alice Newton Centro de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental, Department of Earth, Faro, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: marine and environmental sciences, environmental impacts and economics, climate and the environment
Dr. Philip K. Roche National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA) Website \| E-Mail Interests: biodiversity; ecosystem services; landscape ecology; ecosystem condition and ecosystem integrity Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service: Challenges for the Future
Prof. Dr. Christophe Waterlot Yncréa Hauts-de-France, Laboratoire Génie Civil et géoEnvironnement (LGCgE), Lille Cedex, France Website 1 \| Website 2 \| E-Mail Interests: contaminated soils; pollutants; environmental availability; plant biomass; analytical chemistry; biosourced catalyst; green chemistry
Dr. Brantley Liddle Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119620, Singapore Website \| E-Mail Interests: energy economics and policy; energy and climate change; economic growth and energy/environment; transport and energy/environment; population and energy/environment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Transport: Transport, Environment, and Development Special Issue in Sustainability: Population Dynamics in the Changing Climate Systems
Prof. Dr. Luca Di Palma Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza – University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: wastewater treatment; soil remediation; nano materials for environmental remediation Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Nanotechnology for Clean Energy and Environmental Applications
Prof. Dr. Wann-Ming Wey Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Website \| E-Mail Interests: urban built environment planning and design; sustainable transportation; smart city and big data; growth management with urban development Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Urban Development and Growth Management
Prof. Dr. Olivier Pourret AGHYLE, UniLaSalle, 60026 Beauvais cedex, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: Biogeochemistry: Low-temperature geochemistry from water, to soil and plants
Prof. Dr. Jose Navarro Pedreño Agroquimica y Medio Ambiente, Univ. Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Alicante, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental sciences, land management, organic carbon, pollution, remote sensing and GIS, soil organic matter, soil, wastes management, water Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Management of Heavy Metals
Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany; Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: sustainability sciences, social-ecological systems, cultural ecosystem services, landscape change, multifunctional land use
Prof. Dr. George P. Kraemer Department of Environmental Studies, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: non-native species impacts; marine ecology; aquaculture
Prof. Dr. Andrea Nicolini Engineering Department, CIRIAF, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti 67, Perugia, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: sustainable development; energy saving; renewables; energy storage; environmental impact; energy efficiency in buildings Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: 17th CIRIAF National Congress—Energy–Environmental Sustainability and Seismic Retrofit of Built Heritage
Prof. Dr. Peter L. M. Goethals Aquatic Ecology Research Unit, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium Tel. 09 264 37 68 Website \| E-Mail Interests: aquatic ecology; monitoring; assessment; ecological modelling; water quality management; ecotechnology; decision support tools; sustainability Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Advances in Ecological Water System Modeling: Integration and Leanification as a Basis for Application in Environmental Management Special Issue in Water: Sustainable Development of Lakes and Reservoirs
Assist. Prof. José Virgilio Cruz IVAR - Research Institute for Volcanology and Risk Assessment and Department of Geosciences – Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Azores, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: hydrogeology; groundwater; geochemistry; water management
Dr. Marine Elbakidze Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, School for Forest Management, PO Box 43, 73921 Skinnskatteberg, Sweden E-Mail Interests: environment; biodiversity; sustainability; sustainable development; natural resource management; systematics; forest management; geography; forestry; environmental governance; restoration ecology; ecosystem services; social-ecological systems
Prof. Dr. Seppo Kellomäki School of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science and Forestry, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland Website \| E-Mail Interests: forest ecology, forestry, forest management, silviculture, boreal forest, climate change, adaptive management to climate change, climate change impacts to dynamics of boreal forest ecosystem
Prof. Dr. Dudley Shallcross Biogeochemistry Research Centre, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Website \| E-Mail Interests: air pollution; atmospheric dispersion; chemical mechanism development; climate change; atmospheric trace gases; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; biogeochemical cycles. Public engagement of science; transition in science education; situated cognition; maths in context
Prof. Dr. Martin De Jong 1. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology PO Box 5015, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands 2. School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China Website \| E-Mail Interests: urban planning; transport planning; eco cities; smart cities; public policy; governance; policy implementation; policy transfer; China Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Energies: The Governance of Sustainable Cities and Innovative Transport Special Issue in Sustainability: Smart, the New Sustainable? The Smart City and Its Implications for Sustainable Urbanism
Prof. Dr. José Alberto Herrera-Melián Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, Edif CCBB, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: contamination; wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation technologies; ponds; constructed wetlands; environmental management Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Recent Advances in Water Management: Saving, Treatment and Reuse Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Systems Special Issue in Water: Water Disinfection: Safe Water for All
Prof. Anton Imeson Foundation 3D Environmental Change, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: water; infiltration; runoff; erosion; soils; ecology; land degradation; forest fires; soil conservation and protection; land use change; climate change; laboratory and field measurements; policy; law and human impact governance; land use change Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Soil Erosion and the Sustainable Management of the Landscape
Prof. Dr. Franco Ajmone Marsan Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), Università Degli Studi di Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: soil science, soil contamination, urban soils, heavy metals, soil redox
Prof. Dr. Fernando A.L. Pacheco DG-CQVR-UTAD – Department of Geology, Chemistry Research Centre, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001–801 Vila Real, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: groundwater management; groundwater contamination risk; water–rock interactions; groundwater flow modeling; groundwater–surface water interactions; rainwater harvesting; land degradation and surface water quality; spatial decision support systems in water public supply planning Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Use of Soils and Water: the Role of Environmental Land Use Conflicts Special Issue in Water: Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Watersheds in a Changing Climate Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Allocation of Rainwater Harvesting Sites in Catchments Special Issue in Water: Integrated Management of River Basins: Interaction between Aquatic Ecosystems and Forestry Environment Special Issue in Water: Nitrates Pollution in Water: Sources, Pathways and Receptors
Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Renella University of Florence, Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, P.le delle Cascine 18, I-50144 Florence, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: soil ecological functionality and soil/plant interactions, and on problems related to the impact of environmental pollution on soils and sediments and sustainable management of polluted environment; bioremediation approaches for a sustainable management of polluted soils and sediments; induction of fertility in remediated soils and sediments; analysis of functional activity of remediated soils and sediment by genomic, proteomic and volatilomic techniques, and biosensors
Prof. Dr. Silvia Secchi Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa, IA 52242, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental impacts of agriculture; water sustainability; floodplain policy; conservation policy; adaptation and mitigation to climate change; land use science; integrated modeling
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ioannis Katsoyiannis Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of chemical and environmental Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Tel. +30-2310-97977 Website \| E-Mail Interests: water treatment processes for removal of inorganic and organic contaminants: role of sorption and oxidation in contaminant removal; design and application of novel sorbents; oxidation processes in drinking water treatment; wastewater treatment and reuse; solid waste management Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Recent Advances for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse with Emphasis in Applications in Vulnerable Communities Special Issue in Water: Recent Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment with Emphasis in Membrane Treatment Operations Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Innovative Approaches for Drinking- and Waste-Water Treatment
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sara Egemose Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Website \| E-Mail Interests: treatment of runoff to recipients from point sources and diffuse runoff; environmental effect of urban runoff; development of environmental efficient methods to treat water and avoid negative effects on the recipients Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Climate Adaptation from an Environmental Perspective
Prof. Dr. António Dinis Ferreira CERNAS (Research Center on Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Coimbra Agriculture Polytechnic School, Coimbra Polytechnic Institute, Coimbra, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: hydrology and soils; forest fires; desertification; environmental management; ecoefficiency; global change; urban agriculture; circular economy; environmental services Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Coping with Climate Change at Regional Level
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Ar. Kormas Department of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece Tel. +30-242-109-3082 Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecology of aquatic prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes; animal–microbe associations in the aquatic environment Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Microorganisms: Gut Microorganisms of Aquatic Animals Special Issue in Water: Selected Papers from HydroMediT 2018 Special Issue in Water: Advancing Knowledge on Cyanobacterial Blooms in Freshwaters
Prof. Dr. Laura Airoldi Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali (CIRSA), University of Bologna, UO CoNISMa, Via San Alberto 163, Ravenna 48123, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: marine urbanization, global climate change, marine biodiversity conservation and restoration, nature-based solutions, resilience of coastal and marine systems
Prof. Dr. David John Gibson Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: plant ecology, climate change, agroecology, restoration ecology
Prof. Dr. Jesús M. Mercado Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Puerto Pesquero s/n, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: coastal eutrophication, nutrient pollution, phytoplankton, ocean acidification, pelagic ecosystems, oceanography Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Water: Eutrophication Management: Monitoring and Control
Prof. Dr. Pablo Peri Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Río Gallegos, Argentina Website \| E-Mail Interests: ecosystem services; carbon fixation; grassland monitoring; climate change; ecology and Silviculture of native forest; silvopastoral systems
Prof. Dr. James J. Opaluch Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: environmental economics, sustainable energy; natural resource damage assessment
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Polymeros Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece Website \| E-Mail Interests: gricultural and fisheries economics and policy; agricultural, fisheries and food marketing; common agricultural and fisheries policy of the E.U. international trade of agricultural and fisheries products; consumer behavior in agricultural and fisheries products; rural development
Prof. Dr. Roland Jansson Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Website \| E-Mail Interests: biodiversity; evolutionary macroecology; biogeography; climate change; river ecology
Prof. Atul K. Jain Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, 1301 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: Land Use Land Cover Change; Remote Sensing; Land surface processes; Biogeochemistry and Biophysical processes
Prof. Dr. John (Jack) C. Schmidt Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: geomorphology; water resources
Prof. Dr. Changha Lee School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: water treatment; water chemistry; advanced oxidation/reduction
Prof. Dr. Jiming Jin Department of Watershed Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: regional weather and climate modeling and analysis; hydrological modeling; and the interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Vezzoli Laboratory for Provenance Studies, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: fluvial sedimentology; sediment provenance; impact of human activities on the river sediments
Prof. Dr. Arun Agrawal School of Environment and Sustainability, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: political economy; natural resources; governance; renewable energy; development; sustainability
Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener Water and Soil Resource Research Group, Institut für Geographie, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: soil and water resources; biochemical cycles; soil redistribution; soil conservation
Mr. Mark J. La Guardia Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: Preserving natural resources through the identification of natural and anthropogenic contaminants; understanding their mobility, toxicity and persistence within the environment
Dr. Alexander Sun Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: water resources management, sustainability, optimization, decision support
Prof. Dr. Bellie Sivakumar School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Tel. +61-2-93855072; Fax: +61 2 9385 6139 Website \| E-Mail Interests: hydrology; water resources engineering; climate change impacts; complexity; nonlinear dynamics; chaos; fractals; complex networks Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering Special Issue in Sustainability: Large-scale Water Projects, Socio-economic Development, and Environmental Sustainability Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering II Special Issue in Hydrology: Future of Hydrology
Prof. Dr. Meire Patrick Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Website \| E-Mail Interests: Estuarine ecology and management; ecosystem services; integrated water management; ecohydrology and wetlands; wetland biogeochemistry; Si-cycle; Arctic Ecology
Prof. Dr. Max Rietkerk Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: spatial ecology; environmental sciences; complexity; global change; self-organization
Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Zavala Departmento de Ciencias de la Vida, Edificio Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Universitario, 28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: forest ecology; climate change adaptation; sustainability; biodiversity; mathematical ecology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Sustainability: Forests as a Key Climate Solution
Prof. Joshua Tewksbury 1. Future Earth Colorado Global Hub 2. Environmental Studies Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 3. School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: Sustainability science in global environmental change