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Global Disaster Resilience Centre, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Interests: local governance; disaster resilience in the built environment; displacements; rebuilding communities; resilient cities; urbanisation
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Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, C/Ríos Rosas 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Interests: numerical modelling of the groundwater flow, mass and heat transport; saline systems; salt flats (salars); density-driven flow; lithium brines; arid environments; geothermal energy; geochemistry; water quality; groundwater contamination; urban hydrogeology; uncertainty and predictive analysis, inverse problem
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Interests: project management; decision support; decision support systems (DSS); multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM); construction management
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1. Intelligenter Research Association, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
2. Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: blockchain; intelligent systems; sustainable cities; smart cities
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1. Research Department, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy
2. University of Seville (IMUS), Seville, Spain
Interests: energy conversion processes; circular economy; numerical model; sustainable buildings and infrastructures; sustainable transports; physical processes in experimental tests; heat transfer; pollutant emissions; engine efficiency; combustion process; thermal systems; alternative fuels; waste management; climate changes; smart cities
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Department of Engineering Graphics, Design and Projects, Universidad de Jaen, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Interests: injection molding; additive manufacturing; MEX; sustainability in advanced polymer manufacturing technologies; industrial design; conformal cooling; characterization of materials; numerical simulation; advanced injection molding design and tooling
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Barcelona Civil Engineering School, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: travel time information; dynamic traffic management; AV acceptance and adoption; platooning; sustainable urban mobility

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Department of Architectural Constructions II, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: LCA; BIM; carbon footprint; buildings; cost estimation.
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Departamento de Economía y Administración de Empresas, University of Málaga, 29016 Málaga, Spain
Interests: construction; management; occupational health and safety; fuzzy logic; intelligent systems; data mining
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1. Center for Technology and Society, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
2. Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
Interests: urban travel behavior research; urban land-use/transportation interactions and modeling; human perceptions, lifestyles, and preferences regarding mobility; residential location choices; urban sprawl and travel behavior
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Techn&Art, Centre for Technology, Restoration and Art Enhancement, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Estrada da Serra, 2300-313 Tomar, Portugal
Interests: wastewater treatment; constructed wetlands and water reuse; circular economy; biodegradation of cultural heritage
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Madhya Pradesh Agency For Promotion of Information Technology, Bhopal 462011, India
Interests: satellite remote sensing and GIS; landscape modelling; land system studies and desertification
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy
Interests: aquaculture; fish biology; food safety and security; fatty acids; food traceability and authenticity

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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, 700050 Iași, Romania
Interests: sustainable development in civil engineering; Life Cycle Assessment; Life Cycle Costing/Whole Life Cycle Costing; Social Life Cycle Assessment methodologies; built environment; sustainable cities; traditional building materials; composite materials; hybrid structures; modern solutions for strengthening of the existing constructions; life span of buildings; recycling phase of different materials and products specific to the construction industry; energy efficiency in building sector
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Géosciences Montpellier, Université des Antilles, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Morne Ferret, BP517, 97178 Les Abymes, France
Interests: geosciences; geology; geophysics; geoheritage; geoscience education; scientific conceptions; natural hazards and risk mitigation; caribbean; small tropical islands territories

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School of Engineering, Department of Naval Architecture, University of West Attica, Attica, Greece
Interests: hydromechanical analysis and design of marine structures other than ships; hydrodynamic analysis of interconnected floating structures with applications to the design of several types of offshore structures for the ocean exploration and exploitation; solution methods for the wave current interaction problems; hydroelasticity problems; wave drift damping; optimum design of moored floating structures; design and efficiency evaluation of wave- energy converters; floating wind turbines; wind farms; wave trapping; towing tank hydrodynamic tests of ship and floating structure models
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Research Laboratory of WIG, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Military University of Technology, 2 Gen. S. Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: concrete; composite structures; mechanical properties; mortals; recycling; waste materials
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Financial and Operational Performance Group, DCU Business School, Dublin 9, Ireland
Interests: building resilient communities; risk management; major emergency management
Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Interests: geospatial big data exploration; hydraulic fracturing; landscape epidemiology; remote sensing; ecological systems; geospatial modeling
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Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: urban environment remote sensing; urban livablity; urban green space remote sensing; urban heat; remote sensing information processing; urban application
Research and Development Center, Atlas sp. z o.o., 2, Kilinskiego St., 91-421 Lodz, Poland
Interests: assessment and verification of the constancy of performance (AVCP) of construction products; sustainable development in construction; construction products
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Institute of Technology and Life Sciences Poznan Branch, Department of Environmental Management in Livestock Buildings and Air Protection ul. Biskupińska 67, 60-463 Pozna, Poland
Interests: greenhouse gases and ammonia emissions from agriculture; odours emission from agriculture; mitigation of emissions from agriculture; microclimate in livestock buildings; animal housing systems

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Research Center in Systems Ecology and Sustainability/ Universitatea din Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: ecosystem services; sustainability; co-creation; ecosystem functioning; biodiversity and conservation; land use change; protected areas; climate change; resilience; systems ecology
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: smart cities; e-learning; e-health
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Department of Management and ASK Research Center, Bocconi University, 20100 Milano, Italy
Interests: sustainability; psychosociological determinants of sustainable behaviors; decision making; circular economy; sustainable cities; organizational and individual behaviors; motivation; social identity; social network analysis; subjective wellbeing; corporate governance; firm behaviors; diversity; leadership; cultural economics

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Department of Civil Building and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: road pavements; road materials; cement concrete; environmental impacts; risk analysis; tunnel lighting
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Centre for Research and Technology Hella, Hellenic Institute of Transport, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: transportation planning models; public transport operational and quality issues and urban sustainable transport issues

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Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, Shiga University, Hikone 522-8522, Japan
Interests: city sustainability; interactions between urban and rural areas; interdisciplinary modelling; ecosytem services; GIS; health economics and policies; Japanese firm system

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Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: urban metabolism; responsive design; urban resilience; engineering economics; industrial ecology; peace engineering
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