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Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Sustainable Urban and Rural Development'

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Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649 Poznan, Poland
Interests: integrated water resources management; metropolitan areas; urbanisation; urban sprawl; sustainable development; ecosystem services; spatial planning; metropolitan governance; green infrastructure
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1. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C8, Canada
2. Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: ecohydrology; greenhouse gases; biogeochemistry; boreal forests; climate change; wetlands/peatlands; agricultur

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Department of Architecture and Arts, University Iuav of Venice, 30135 Venice, Italy
Interests: urban planning and topics of sustainability; urban regeneration; policy design; urban resilience; climate change and strategies of mitigation and adaption (climate proof design and planning)
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Spatial Planning and Sustainability Group, Institute of Geography, Münster University, 48149 Münster, Germany
Interests: urban sustainability; critical sustainability approaches; mobility transition; post-growth

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Department of Geography, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza (UAIC), Bulevardul Carol I nr. 11, Iași, Romania
Interests: risk assessment; natural hazards; landslides; soil erosion; gullies; remote sensing; risk perception; sustainable development; rural areas; LiDAR; UAV; DEMs
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Research Group Climate Change and Security, Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Interests: migration and big data; energy and poverty; climate finance; urban climate change
Department of Construction Materials and Technologies, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 3. Műegyetem rkp, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: building physics; energy performance; construction materials; thermal insulations; building constructions; construction technology; numerical modelling; building information modelling
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: urban food security; sustainable city; controlled environment horticulture; plant physiology; food quality; re-use of resource; phytochemicals and antioxidant rich food; indoor vertical farming; led light; vegetables; medicinal herbs and small fruits

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Accountancy Economics and Finance, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: renewable energy; energy; sustainability; renewable energy technologies; waste management; climate change; energy efficiency; economy; econometrics; electricity
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
Interests: industrial symbiosis; industrial and urban symbiosis; eco-industrial parks; sustainability; waste; circular economy; cleaner production; industrial management; metallic structures
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Institute of Civil Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Interests: building diagnostics; durability and life cycle of buildings; service life prediction; predictive maintenance; renovation needs; degradation of buildings; assessment of the technical condition; rehabilitation of buildings; building materials in historical buildings
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Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
Interests: smart cities and sustainability; local economic development; microfinance and enterprise development; disasters, emergencies and traumatic events and sustainability; sustainability of government finance

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Faculty of Law and Business and Economic Sciences, University of Cordoba, Puerta Nueva s/n, 14002 Cordoba, Spain
Interests: urban real estate market; corporate social responsibility; tourism; artificial neural networks
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Interests: urban flood resilience; blue-green cities; climate change adaptation; social learning; public perceptions
SuTran (Sustainability Transition) Limited, Grays RM16 6BE, UK
Interests: sustainability and climate action; sustainability science; capacity development
Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: land use change; cultural landscapes; landscape ecology; spatial analysis; ecosystem mapping and modelling; ecosystem services; green infrastructure; urban ecology; ecological conservation; sustainable cities

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Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings Research Group, Universiteit Antwerpen, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Interests: asphaltic concrete technology; composite mixture constituents; recycling asphalt pavement; construction

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School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Dynnyrne, TAS 7005, Australia
Interests: plant ecology; landscape ecology; fire ecology; remote sensing
Departamento de Arquitectura, UPV Irakasle atxikia, University of the Basque Country(UPV/EHU), 48940 Leioa, Biscay, Spain
Interests: life cycle assessment; building thermal behaviour; thermal confort; user behaviour; energy simulation; simulation tools; district energetic assessment
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Group of Railways and Transportation Engineering, Departament of Civil Engineering, University of A Coruña, ES-15071 A Coruña, Spain
Interests: transport planning; urban and metropolitan mobility management; urban transport systems; transport demand models; railways
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School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne 3000, Australia
Interests: health and well-being in the built environment; safety science; fire safety; disaster vulnerability; ethnographic research

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Architecture & Energy Research Group. ETS Arquitectura, Universidad de Valladolid. Avda. Salamanca 18, 47014 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: CFD; outdoor air change; outdoor air quality; building efficiency; building ventilation; lightshafts

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CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: urban sustainability; urban and regional planning; energy efficiency; climate change; mitigation; climate change adaptation; sustainable drainage systems; urban policies; urban governance; best management practice; sustainable mobility; land use and transport integration; transit oriented development
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School of Business, Maynooth University, W23 F2K8 Kildare, Ireland
Interests: energy; decarbonisation; sustainability; sustainable energy communities; optimisation; demand response; software engineering; data analytics; transport; artificial intelligence; machine learning; buildings

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Building of Strength of Materials - Annex A', Department of Construction Engineering & Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 9, Iroon Polytechniou st, 157 70 Zografou, Athens, Greece
Interests: construction management; project management; scheduling; competences

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAR), University of Catania | UNICT, 95124 Catania, CT, Italy
Interests: sustainable spatial planning; urban risks assessment and management; climate change mitigation and adaptation; spatial analyses and GIS application; environmental policy; green infrastructure planning; flood risk management planning
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Urban Forests Division, National Institute of Forest Science, Hoegiro-57, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea
Interests: aerosol behavior in forests; wildlife ecology
Department of Geography, Instiute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Interests: land use planning; vegetation; climate change; ecology

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Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB11PT, UK
Interests: complex economics; human behaviour; resource scarcity; climate change; food security; financial risk; systemic risk; Limits to Growth
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