Green Infrastructure towards Sustainable Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3792
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building information modeling (BIM); machine learning; green buildings; green infrastructures; sustainability; life-cycle energy and environmental assessment (LCA); environmental policy impact assessment sustainable & smart city; transport policy; transport behavior and network modeling; energy & environmental economics; carbon neutrality; sustainable and smart materials; climate change adaptation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: high-voltage engineering; electrical insulation and materials; condition monitoring of power apparatus; energy economics and management; renewable energy; building energy; sustainable development and resilience infrastructure; occupational health; electric vehicles; transport policy; energy and environmental economics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid urbanization and development around the globe demand the need for new infrastructure in the future. Cities infrastructure is referred to as the underlying structural foundation that supports socioeconomic activities in cities. It consists of key physical provisioning systems that provide resources and services, such as water, energy, shelter (buildings), mobility-connectivity, food, sanitation, waste management, and green and public spaces. However, cities with current infrastructure suffer from enormous challenges, including rapid urbanization, extreme weather events, higher demand for resources, etc. Therefore, there is a high need for a green infrastructure that helps to make our cities safe and sustainable. This special issue mainly focuses on designing and constructing the cities infrastructure (energy, mobility, and construction of materials and waste management) to mitigate and adapt to climate change and achieve sustainable development. It also aimed at new emerging insights to researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers on questions pertaining to sustainable design and carbon-neutral management of cities systems (i.e., energy, mobility, water supply wastewater treatment, solid waste management, buildings/shelters, food supply, and green/public spaces). We believe that this special can help gather state-of-the-art ideas and practices on achieving sustainable and smart cities and foster new knowledge that supports building low-carbon/carbon-neutral and more sustainable systems.
Dr. Muhammad Shafique
Dr. Muhammad Rafiq
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- green infrastructure
- sustainable and smart cities
- sustainable and green buildings
- green transportation
- green roads
- green buildings
- green energy technologies
- green and sustainable materials
- sustainable water management system
- sustainable and resilence infrastructure
- carbon neutral technologies
- energy and environment nexus
- trade-offs and synergies between energy use
- carbon footprint
- carbon neutral policies
- low carbon transport policies
- electric vehicles
- energy-efficient homes and transportation systems
- advance and low carbon energy
- energy, environment, and transport nexus
- sustainable construction materials
- machine learning and AI
