Rethinking Approaches to Sustainability Challenges by Sharing Solutions among Areas

Dear Colleagues,

Whenever we face a new challenge, whether in the field of the company or the university, should we start from scratch or could we take advantage of solutions from other areas of knowledge? Could it happen that what we seek has already been developed by others for other needs? Or do we have the intuition that our idea, our prototype, our system, could be used in other fields?

Could water saving solutions in agriculture be applied to the cities of the future? Could the thermoelectricity of the airplanes be applied in the buildings? The air conditioning control systems of a vehicle could improve those of the offices? Are there outstanding solutions in the hidden history of engineering that could be applied to the sustainability of the future? How many concrete lessons can be extrapolated from biology to the spaces occupied by humanity? Can water be saved in fire protection systems using solutions from other areas? Can a boat's energy saving procedures be moved to hospitals? Could the ventilation systems in mines be optimized for use in the agri-food industry?

This Special Issue is open to those works that postulate cross-cutting solutions between areas of knowledge, in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of elements and systems without the need to invent everything again, but taking advantage of the knowledge generated by others.

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