Sustainability

Prof. Dr. Alan Randall

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The Sustainability Institute, The Ohio State University, 3018 Smith Laboratory, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: sustainability criteria; weak sustainability; resilience; environmental economics; resource economics; valuation of environmental services; cost benefit analysis; integrated assessment modeling; environmental markets; conservation; restoration; biodiversity
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Prof. Dr. Muyiwa S Adaramola

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Renewable Energy Research Group, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
Interests: renewable energy systems and technologies; wind energy resource assessment; wind turbine performance and wake; solar energy resource assessment and renewable energy based energy systems

Dr. Vanessa Bach

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Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Sustainable Engineering, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Interests: life cycle impact assessment; resource use; criticality; water foot-printing; LCA case studies; decarbonization; climate neutrality
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Prof. Dr. Tomas Baležentis

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Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, Vilnius University, 01113 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: sustainable development; sustainability assessment; efficiency and productivity; energy economics; assessment of willingness to pay
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Prof. Dr. Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga

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Laboratory of Engineering Sciences for Environment, UMR CNRS 7356, La Rochelle University, 17042 La Rochelle, France
Interests: reliability; deterioration; climate change; maintenance; sustainability; reinforced concrete; corrosion; timber
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Dr. Anna Björklund

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Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Teknikringen 10B, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: application of Life cycle assessment (LCA) for policy, planning, and assessment of technology; application areas: local and national waste planning; waste valorisation and resource recovery; emerging technology and materials; circular economy; transport infrastructure and vehicle design

Dr. Michal Borecki

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The Institute of the Theory of Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: lightning protection; electromagnetic compatibility; safety of electrical and electronic devices; risk management
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Prof. Dr. Fausto Cavallaro

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Department of Economics, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: multi-criteria; fuzzy set; soft computing; renewable energy; sustainability; circular economy; technology assessment; hypersoft sets; sustainable development goals
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Dr. Saeed Chehreh Chelgani

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Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: mineral processing; flotation; surface chemistry; rare earth processing; coal preparation; graphite processing; leaching; modeling; neural network; random forest
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Prof. Dr. Agostina Chiavola

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Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Sapienza, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: water and wastewater treatments and reuse; sludge management, minimization and treatment; biological, chemical and physical processes for environmental engineering
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Prof. Dr. Giovanni De Feo

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Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIN), University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Interests: circular economy; environmental communication; life-cycle assessment; recycling; waste management; water and wastewater in ancient civilizations; water supply
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Prof. Dr. Rodney C. Ewing

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Department of Geological Sciences in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6165, USA
Interests: energy; international development; nuclear risk; nuclear safety

Prof. Dr. Fabio Giannetti

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Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00186 Roma, Italy
Interests: fusion and fission power plant design and analysis; deterministic safety analysis; two-phase thermal-hydraulics; TH-NK coupled simulations; liquid metals thermal-hydraulics; Nuclear BoP design; UQ in severe accidents; decommissioning

Dr. Subhasis Giri

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Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Interests: watershed hydrology; water quality; green infrastructure; ecohydrology; climate change; water sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Raymond Gradus

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School of Business and Economics and Tinbergen Institute, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: local government; privatization; circular economy; plastic waste; waste pricing

Dr. Bradley Hiller

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Consultant, Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong 1550, Metro Manila, Philippines
Interests: ecosystem restoration; sustainable development; climate change; poverty alleviation
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Dr. Mashor Housh

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Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Interests: sustainable design, operation and monitoring of water supply systems; planning and management of water resources systems under uncertainty; optimization under uncertainty; robust optimization; large-scale optimization of infrastructure systems
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Dr. Ihsanullah Ihsanullah

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Center for Environment & Water (CEW) Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Interests: water treatment; membrane separations; adsorption; nanomaterials; carbon-based adsorbents; desalination; MXenes
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Dr. Gabriela Ionescu

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Departement of Energy Production and Use, Faculty of Power Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei 313, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: integrated waste management; circular economy; waste to energy; renewable energy; energy and environmental sustainability; intermediate bioenergy carriers; environmental impact assessment
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Dr. Jaehak Jeong

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BREC, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, Temple, TX, USA
Interests: crop model; water; irrigation; drainage; agricultural water management; salinity; sustainable water use; water efficiency; water productivity; water reuse; climate change; water quality
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Prof. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Jyothi

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CSIRO Mineral Resources (CMR), Australian Minerals Research Center (AMRC), Waterford, WA 6152, Australia
Interests: resources to materials via environmental management; sustainable secondary resources innovation; hydrometallurgy & urban mining; clean energy technology applications & sustainable energy solutions; establish policy for resources recovery and recycling
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Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia

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Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: biocatalysis and enzyme engineering; biofuel; biomaterial; biochemical engineering; antibiotics; metabolic engineering; glycosylation; bioencapsulation; mutagenesis; protein purification; molecular biology
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Dr. Dimitrios Komilis

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Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, GR 671 32 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: municipal solid waste management; composting; biorefining of solid waste; life cycle analysis
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Dr. Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos

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Photometry Laboratory, Electric Power Division, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: engineering; environment; energy; renewable energy sources; waste management from organic pollutants; properties of polymer materials; business administration; education; culture; human resource management; psychology; urban and regional development; forest resource management; extroversion and internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs); development economics; environmental systems; circular economy; behavioral ecology
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Dr. Marco Lauteri

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National Research Council, Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems, 05010 Porano, Italy
Interests: stable isotope ecophysiology; landscape ecology; sustainability; agroecology; socio-ecological systems
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Dr. Baoqing Li

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School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430051, China
Interests: coal geochemistry; coal mineralogical; critical metal deposits in coal measures; comprehensive utilization of coal measure resources; oil-rich coal
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Dr. Jing Li

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Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: coal geology; critical elements in coal and coal combustion products (CCPs); coal geochemistry; coal mineralogy; environmental geochemistry of CCPs; sustainable and high value added utilization of CCPs
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Dr. Xiaowei Li

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School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Interests: biological treatment and resource utilization of organic solid wastes; such as sewage sludge; food waste; rural human faeces; fate and potential risk of emerging pollutants such as microplastics; PPCPs during the resource utilization of organic solids wastes
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Dr. Guannan Liu

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Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
Interests: heavy metals; soil; mine; tailings; pollution; comprehensive utilization; remediation
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Dr. Zhengjia Liu

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: land use and land cover change; agriculture geography and climate change; regional agriculture sustainablity development modeling; spatial production allocation modeling; agricultural production and water resource; agricultural remote senisng and big data

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