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Department of Architectural Construction, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Interests: construction materials; building and environment; construction and demolition waste recycling

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Department of Animal Sciences and Aquatic Ecology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: river management; biodiversity; water quality; ecosystem services; river basin modelling and analysis; Bayesian belief networks; natural retention measures; nature-based solutions; ecotechniques; sustainable islands; sustainable development
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Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Energética y de los Materiales, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: SDG; sustainability education; higher education; tecnhology education; science education; ethics; machine learning; smart cities
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Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: sustainable sanitation; Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); menstrual health management (MHM); climate vulnerability; collective action; adaptive capacities; gender

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Water Centre WULS, Warsaw University of Life Sciences—WULS, 6 Ciszewskiego Street, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: application of soil mechanics in geotechnical and civil engineering; geotechnical laboratory investigations of mechanical parameters of soils; evaluation of shear-stress-strain characteristics based on laboratory tests; application of anthropogenic materials in road construction; development of soil strength during the stabilization process; stabilization processes of different cohesive soils with cement; lime; and by-products; improvement of base layers for civil engineering constructions and road pavements; vibrations of the subsoil and the phenomena of the damping process of seismic waves in the subsoil
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1. Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Chittagong 4349, Bangladesh
Interests: earth system processes and disaster management; flood risk modeling; GIS/remote sensing and earth system dynamics; geo and natural hazards; urban and regional planning
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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia
Interests: construction management; lean construction
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: human geography; urban expansion and regeneration; rural development and land use; regional inequality and housing prices

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Department of Engineering and Construction Projects, Terrassa School of Industrial, Aerospace and Audiovisual Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Barcelona Tech – UPC, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Interests: sustainability in smart cities; societal–technological challenges in energy efficiency; energy audit

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Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: LCA BIM-based method; life cycle sustainability assessment of building and urban systems
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Fundación CARTIF, 47151 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: energy efficiency; building retrofitting; building energy; performance; sustainable built environment; integration of renewable energy sources; building information modelling; smart cities

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Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Interests: sustainable development; sustainable land use; spatial analysis; GIS; urban and regional planning; natural hazard and risk assessment; climate change impacts

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Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Università degli Studi di Torino, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: geographic information systems; photogrammetry and drones; urban planning
CDRSP, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Campus 2, Morro do Lena—Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4163, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal
Interests: digital construction; sustainable materials; construction processes
Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Interests: high performing building envelopes; energy efficiency; analysis of construction and operating energy; adaptation and climate responsive strategies; LCA and service life of buildings and components; innovation and smart buildings; smart districts and smart cities
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Department of Building Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Bratislava, Radlinského 11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: technology of construction processes; integrated management systems; non-destructive testing
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School of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK
Interests: intelligent transportation systems; transportation modeling; data analytics for urban mobility; behavioral modeling; transport economics; transport demand analysis
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Department of Statistics, Computer Science Applications, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: risk models applied in the economic and social field; economic growth and financial market development; construction of compound indicators; GDP and alternative measures; quantitative aspects of economic well-being, objective and subjective well-being; well-being and education; born-mortality of companies and success factors; indicators of local territorial development and analysis of territorial disparities; analysis and modeling of the performances of educational systems; effects of innovation on school systems; measurement of economic uncertainty and relationship with fertility

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Research Unit of Energy Efficiency in Buildings, CIEMAT, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: building envelope; adaptive facades; energy efficiency in buildings; climate change; thermal comfort; energy refurbishment; climate trends; microclimate conditions; advanced materials; CFD
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Department of Architecture and Territory dArTe, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: architectural technologies; circular design; environmental sustainability; advanced materials; smart building envelope
Department of Political History, Theory and Geography, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: democracy; artificial intelligence; citizen participation; local politics; smart cities

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National Research Council—Institute of Agricultural and Forest Systems in Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFoM), 87036 Rende, Italy
Interests: landscape, material, and immaterial heritage; traditional rural practices
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Faculty of Engineering and Technology, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5UA, UK
Interests: civil engineering; construction; structural engineering
School Of Built Environment, Engineering And Computing, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK
Interests: energy; sustainability; renewable energy technologies; energy efficiency in building; green building; sustainable architecture; built environment; sustainable construction; urban sustainability; housing
School of Art Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Interests: landscape planning; urbanism; tourism planning; land use; urban design; sustainable development; placemaking; public space

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Department of Public Policies and Economic History, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Av. Lehendakari Agirre, 83, 48015 Bilbao, Spain
Interests: gender; labour market; urban regeneration

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Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), 26006 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Interests: wastewater treatment and management; water reclamation and reuse; emerging pollutants; membranes; environmental science and technology; circular economy; sustainability
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Department of Business Administration (ADO), Applied Economics II and Fundaments of Economic Analysis, Rey-Juan-Carlos University, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Interests: Industry 4.0; circular economy; sustainability; social sustainability; industrial district (ID); circular business models (CBMs); eco-design; circular economy (CE); industrial symbiosis; circular supply chain (CSC); absortive capacity; organizational learning: open innovation

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Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20. 8830 Tjele, Denmark
Interests: water governance; agro-ecological resource analysis; sustainable nitrogen management; agroecology; sustainable land management; participatory governance; collaborative decision processes; food geography; agricultural geography

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Architettura - Sezione di Architettura e Territorio, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Interests: building technologies for sustainable architecture; the University Building and the Colleges; the accessibility and valorization of the Cultural heritage
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