Sustainability

Prof. Dr. Michael L. McKinney

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Room 607 Strong Hall, 1621 Cumberland Ave., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Interests: urbanization; biodiversity; urban conservation; sustainable cities; invasive species; rewilding
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Prof. Dr. Phil McManus

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School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, ‎Sydney, Australia
Interests: sustainable cities; environmental issues; human/animal relations

Dr. Laura Moretti

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Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: pavements; road materials; life cycle analysis; risk analysis
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Dr. Karel F. Mulder

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1. The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Faculty Technology, Innovation & Society, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands
2. TU Delft, Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Jaffalaan 5, 2628bx Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: sustainable cities; urban metabolism; urban infrastructures; strategy; systems innovation; lock In; urban symbiosis
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Prof. Dr. Beniamino Murgante

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School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: urban planning; spatial analysis; computational intelligence; e-learning; environment; sustainable development; sustainability; mapping; urban sustainability; modeling; simulation
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Dr. Juan Miguel Navarro

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Research Group in Advanced Telecommunications (GRITA), Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), 30107 Guadalupe, Spain
Interests: sustainable acoustics; environmental acoustics; noise mapping; noise control and management; sound processing; internet of things for environmental monitoring; wireless sensor networks; smart cities services for sustainability; machine learning for sound and acoustics
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Prof. Dr. Jan Nijman

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1. Urban Studies Institute and Geosciences Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
2. Department of Geography, Planning, and International Development Studies, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NC Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Interests: urban and regional development; urban theory; comparative urbanism; social sustainability; India; North America; West Europe

Prof. Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon

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Department of Development and Sustainability, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
Interests: systems approach and management for urban sustainability; urban competitiveness and resilience; climate change, coastal urbanization and tourism; waste recycling and circular economy; strategic water and infrastructure development; economic and environmental sustainability assessment
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Prof. Dr. David J. O’Brien

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Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Interests: rural sustainability; survey research; social networks; social capital; American Midwest; Post-Soviet Russia; East Africa
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Prof. Dr. Karina Pallagst

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Department International Planning Systems, Faculty of Urban and Environmental Planning, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Pfaffenbergstr. 95, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Interests: comparative urban and regional development; shrinking cities; regional policies; border studies; green infrastructure; structural change
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Dr. Anastasia Paschalidou

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Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Interests: urban meteorology; atmospheric pollution; air quality indices; wildfire climatology; air pollution climatology; biometeorology-environmental epidemiology

Dr. Awais Piracha

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School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, 56 Second Avenue, Sydney, NSW 2747, Australia
Interests: liveability of cities; sustainable transport; planning support systems
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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. 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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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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Prof. Dr. Darren Robinson

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School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Interests: statistical modelling; energy modelling; multi-agent simulation; integrated urban modelling
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Prof. Dr. John Robinson

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Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, South Building, Room 258, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7, Canada
Interests: sustainable buildings; urban sustainability; community engagement; role of university in society; behaviour change; sustainability transitions

Prof. Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros

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Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Interests: architecture; artificial intelligence; biophilia; biophilic design; complexity; design; healing environments; patterns; resilience; sustainability; urbanism
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Prof. Dr. Luca Salvati

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Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, Via Armaroli 43, I-62100 Macerata, Italy
Interests: climate change; desertification; land-use; sustainable agriculture; urban sprawl; urban and rural geography
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Dr. Francisco Sánchez

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Biology Program, Faculty of Basic Sciences and Engineering, Universidad de Los Llanos, Villavicencio, Colombia
Interests: urban ecology; animal ecology; agroecology; biodiversity in human-dominated environments

Prof. Dr. Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez

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Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Oakland, CA, USA
Interests: global environmental change; environmental issues in urban areas; sustainable development; environmental policies and practices; climate change; urbanization

Dr. Bryant Scharenbroch

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College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI 54481-3897, USA
Interests: pedology; soil quality; soil carbon; urban soils; frozen soils; wetland soils

Prof. Dr. Ming Shan

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School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
Interests: construction professional ethics; sustainable construction management; project assessment
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Dr. Gerald G. Singh

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Faculty of Social Science, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
Interests: sustainable development; uncertainty; cumulative impacts; expert elicitation; coastal management; conservation
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Dr. Daniela Smiraglia

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Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome, Italy
Interests: change detection; spatial pattern analysis; land degradation; vegetation ecology; ecoregion classification; remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. Darren Smith

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Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Interests: population studies; rural/urban studies; studentification; gentrification; migration

Prof. Dr. Behzad Sodagar

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School of Architecture and the Built Environment, College of Arts, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK
Interests: sustainable architecture; low energy building design; building performance analysis; post occupancy evaluation; user comfort and satisfraction; whole life cycle assessment; carbon foot-printing
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Prof. Dr. Gernot Stöglehner

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Institute of Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning and Land Rearrangement (IRUB), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: climate change adaptation and mitigation; energy transition planning; integrated spatial and energy planning; sustainable spatial planning; development of planning methods and planning tools; environmental and sustainability assessments; participatory planning; planning theory; quality of planning
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Prof. Dr. Hong Tang

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Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: remote sensing of natural disasters; environmental remote sensing and digital city; image processing and pattern recognition; deep learning
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Prof. Dr. Jacques Teller

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Local Environment Management and Analysis (LEMA), Urban and Environmental Engineering, University of Liege, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Interests: urban planning; landscape; land use; governance
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