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

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Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Interests: political economy of sustainable development; energy security and cooperation; capacity building in developing countries; climate change and growth; sustainability
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Naval Architecture, Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, University of Genova, 16126 Genova, Italy
Interests: optimization algorithms; distribution management systems; forecasting of load/renewable energy resources; load modelling; load/energy management; buildings modelling and control; artificial intelligen

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Department of Transportation and Projects and Processes Technology, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Interests: from railway infrastructure (design, calculation, construction and maintenance, from track to ballast as track on board); operational analysis; signage and safety on the railway to passenger behavior

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Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Interests: urban governance for sustainability; urban living labs; urban experimentation; participatory and collaborative forms of governance; social learning
Department of Structural Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: circular economy; urban sustainability; urban development; business model innovation; construction management; infrastructure management; project finance; sustainable innovation

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Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Landscape Art, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: landscape and population ecology; ecological succession; renaturation of degraded areas; biodiversity conservation; sustainable development
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Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, MI, Italy
Interests: real estate market; risk management; real estate investments; building management; economic valuation of real estate investment projects; environmental economics; real estate appraisal; property valuation; financial and economic analysis for investment projects; housing affordability; social housing; multiple criteria decision aid; urban and real estate economics; econometric models; sustainability assessment; Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

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Auckland Council Construction Waste Group, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: engineering resource efficiency; advanced built environment; engineering risk management
BUILDERS Ecole d'Ingénieurs, Builders Lab, 1 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 14610 Epron, France
Interests: sustainable construction materials; FRC; SCC; durability and sustainability of concrete; innovative materials for sustainable construction; precast technique
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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences; School of Civil Engineering; University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: architecture and memory; post-conflict urbanism; urban politics; Digital & Virtual Heritage; Design & co-production methods

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Department of Civil Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
Interests: characterization of asphalt concrete; Portland cement concrete and foundation soils; design and build sustainable infrastructure, greenhouse gas emission quantification during the construction and operation of highways; application of renewable energy sources to road infrastructure
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Bussiness Management Department, Social Matters Research Group, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, Spain
Interests: sustainable tourism; touristification; sharing economy; impact social value; urban studies

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Departamento Construcciones Arquitectónicas I, Higher Technical School of Architecture, University of Seville, 41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: building renovation and urban regeneration; sustainable construction systems; indoor and outdoor environmental quality in Architecture; the promotion of multidisciplinary decision support systems towards the efficient management in the built environment
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Dipartimento Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali (SAAF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: mediterranean forests; forest management and planning; land use land cover changes; geographic information systems (GIS)

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Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Interests: built environment evaluation and measurement; urban security analysis; analysis of qualitative aspects of the built environment in quantitative terms; urban regeneration
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School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WA, UK
Interests: spatial planning; policy analysis; land policy; environmental economics; transaction costs
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Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University, King Edward VII Ave, Cardiff CF10 3NB, UK
Interests: smart design to support human-centric planning of urban districts; with an emphasis on health and well-being
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Division of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
Interests: smart habitat for humanity; smart city and ICT; urban simulation using GIS and VR; planning policy and process of urban and regional planning
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Institute of Information Systems (IWI), University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 5, 200146 Hamburg, Germany
Interests: transportation; game theory; complex networks; port operation; maritime shipping; smart city
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School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Interests: construction technology; design methodologies; resource efficiency and reuse; maritime archaeology; cultural heritage; digital heritage
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5502, USA
Interests: urban anthropology; Zero Hunger; urban social-ecological systems; ethnobiology; land use change; deforestation; geographic information science; poverty; sustainable urbanization; agrarian societies; remote sensing; participatory research methods; ethnoecology; vulnerability; climate change and adaptation; international development; food systems

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Faculty Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: soil erosion modelling; rainfall-runoff modelling; remote sensing for land cover change analysis; land degradation and natural hazards; soil conservation
Faculty of Applied Science, School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
Interests: sustainable construction materials; rammed earth; carbon capture; waste to value; biocomposites
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Department of Water Resources and Climatology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: water quality; wastewater treatment; heavy metals; bottom sediments; pollution control; sediment remediation; water management; aquaculture
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Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Interests: restoration; wetlands; mangrove; ecology; management; plante cology
Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Interests: landscape architecture; urban design and planning; housing environments; sustainability
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Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: hazard mitigation; disaster recovery; climate change adaptation; public policy; land use planning; design

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Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, State University of New York, Amherst, NY, USA
Interests: sustainable architecture; sustainable urban design; passive design strategies; urban social sustainability
Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Interests: urban and economic geography; transportation; crime mapping and analysis; quantitative analysis; GIS applications; China
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: smart and connected communities; human-building interaction; energy-efficient buildings; sustainable construction; construction safety
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