Advanced Science and Technology of Sustainable Development for Cities, Infrastructures, Living Spaces and Natural Environment: Including Collections from the Latest Papers of KRIS 2023

Dear Colleagues,

Humanity faces numerous challenges that have never been faced before. There are fears that if we continue on this way, humanity will not be able to continue living in this planet. People from all field around the world have discussed and established specific goals to be achieved by 2030: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Various technologies are needed to achieve the SDGS as natural energy system, natural disaster mitigation, environmentally friendly civil, marine, material engineering and architecture. In this special issue, we welcome submissions of papers on the science and technology of above technologies.

National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) that is, Japan's largest higher education institution for science and technology, will host KRIS 2023: KOSEN Research International Symposium 2023 in March 2023. One of the major themes of this international conference is SDGS. The papers relating to the above technologies to be discussed at this international conference will be published in this special issue. The editors of this special issue are happy to receive submissions from colleagues around the world.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

natural energy system

natural disaster mitigation

environmentally friendly civil

marine

material engineering and architecture

Prof. Dr. Masaho Yoshida
Prof. Dr. Kenichi Kurumada
Prof. Dr. Tatsumasa Kaita
Dr. Ryushi Kimura
Dr. Ryoichi Furuta
Guest Editors

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