sustainability-logo

Journal Browser

Journal Browser

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

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

Members

Applied Materials Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Interests: energy storage devices; lithium metal batteries; lithium-ion batteries; supercapacitors; sodium-ion batteries; lithium-sulfur batteries
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Athena – Research and Innovation Centre in Information Communication and Knowledge Technologies / Institute for Language and Speech Processing, University Campus at Kimmeria, GR-67100 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: 2D/3D imaging; CBIR; machine learning and artificial intelligence; multimedia technologies; human-computer interaction; intelligent user interfaces; multi- sensory environments and ambient intelligence; 3D digitization and reconstruction; 3D-GIS and mixed/augmented/virtual reality
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Lindholmspiren 7 A, 417 56 Göteborg, Sweden
Interests: water pollution and sanitation; system analysis methods, including life cycle assessment and management; sustainable chemistry; sustainable utilization of resources such as land, water, atmosphere and other biological resources; new and renewable sources of energy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Department of Transport Economics, University of Gdansk, 80-309 Gdańsk, Poland
Interests: sustainable transport development; transport policy; smart city; sustainable city development; renewable energy resources
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3NB, UK
Interests: transit urbanism; urban design of transit nodes in rapidly growing cities; urban morphology; urban mapping; informal transport; informal street trading; temporary urbanism; gendered public spaces and politics of place
DICATAM, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Interests: soil hydrology; water scarcity; irrigation; slope stability; heavy metals; climate change

Website
Department of Construction Engineering and Civil Engineering Projects, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: building technology; building retrofit; building vulnerability; sustainability; conservation and maintenance of structures; concrete repair; occupational risk prevention; health & safety

Website
Physical and Sports Education Department, University of Valencia, 46010 València, Spain
Interests: physical activity; prevention and rehabilitation of pathologies; the use of free time and sustainable mobility in cities and natural environments

Website
1. Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal
2. INESC Coimbra – Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: power systems analysis and simulation; power system reliability; power generation expansion planning; sustainability; distributed generation; renewable energy; electricity markets
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Laboratory of Biogeochemistry, Scientific Center "Innovative Chemical and Biotechnologies", Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, 300026 Tula, Russia
Interests: bioavailability and speciation of trace elements in soils; adsorption of metals and metalloids by abiotic and biotic soil components; construction of model ternary bio-mineral; organo-mineral systems to study heavy metals behavior
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Wellington School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Interests: sustainable building materials; toxicity of building materials; ethical and ecological building materials; perception of sustainability in architecture; applications of digital technologies to achieve sustainability; history of interdisciplinarity in architecture

Website
School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: public transport management; cost and quality; transport externalities; urban and regional accessibility; traffic calming and safety; transport systems planning; urban road system management

Website
Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, Institute of Ecology and Silviculture, 31-425 Kraków, Poland
Interests: forest ecology; forest dynamics; forest structure; forest protection; biodiversity; disturbance; riparian forests; riverine forests; swamp; alluvial forest; molecular ecology; landscape ecology; community ecology

Website
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: heat transfer; heat transfer at chimney-roof penetration; building insulation; dynamic behavior of buildings; storage tanks for district heating networks; energy and exergy analysis; improved cookstoves for developing countries
Department of Civil Engineering, School of Technology & Management, Campus de Repeses, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
Interests: thermal comfort; building rehabilitation; natural ventilation; tracer gas method; indoor environment quality

Website
Lab of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment (GeoSat ReSeArch), Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), 74100 Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Interests: GIS; remote sensing; spatial analysis; (geo)statistical analysis; environmental modeling; natural hazard assessment; landslides; soil erosion; land use/land cover monitoring; social sciences; machine learning
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: traffic flow analysis; traffic data management and analysis; transportation modeling and simulation; traffic engineering operations and highway capacity; time-dependent queue theory in transportation engineering
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, Technische Universitat Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Interests: building physics; building construction; environmental protection; building ecology; building informatics
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Interests: geomechanics; mechanics of multiphase porous media; fundamental behaviors of geomaterials; computational geomechanics; wave analysis; geohazards (landslide, earthquake, and climate change); permafrost; renewable geothermal energy; non-destructive-testing techniques; soil-structure;interaction; bio-inspired solutions toward sustainable and smart geotechnics; sustainable infrastructure
Shiley School of Engineering, University of Portland, Portland, OR 97203, USA
Interests: stormwater; water quality; green infrastructure; urban development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
1. Center for Social and Economic Research, Ural Institute of Management RANEPA, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2. Department of Economic Theory, Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of RAS Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Interests: smart city economics; shared economy; inter-firm interactions; institutional modeling
Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: chemistry of groundwater; landfill leachate; soil and water contamination; environmental biodegradation; carbon isotope
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: climate research; food systems; bioeconomy; sustainable development; urban systems and transitions
Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, 1 Nicolae Bălcescu str., 010041 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: land degradation; desertification; climate change; environmental pollution; environmental disturbances; environmental impact assessment; sustainable land management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra, Italy
Interests: digital platforms; distribution grids; smart grids; power system analysis; renewable energies; electricity markets and sustainable development; energy efficiency; agent-based modeling

Website
Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: environmental science and technology; wastewater treatment and management; constructed wetlands; atomic force microscopy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Department of Land Management and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
Interests: sustainable development; land use changes; numerical taxonomy; spatial analysis; geoinformation; evaluation of rural areas; cultural heritage of small homelands
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Föra Forest Technologies S.L.L., Universidad de Valladolid, Campus de Soria, 42004 Soria, Spain
Interests: big data; remote sensing; forest decision support systems; computing; artificial intelligence; forest sustainability; forest inventory; forest monitoring
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Website
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Interests: smart-city analytics and operations

Website
Swiss Federak Institute of technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: sustainable timber construction; digital fabrication; construction with bio-based materials; structural engineering; numerical simulations; digital architecture and parametric modeling; digitization of the workplace
Back to TopTop