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

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Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: circular economy assessment; sustainable development; built environment; fashion; food; waste; higher education; systems thinking

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Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, University of Bergamo, viale Marconi, 5, 24044 Dalmine, Italy
Interests: smart home and building automation; smart city; energy; sustainable and intelligent transport; sustainable efficiency for the EU
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Engineering Department, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: advanced geomechanics; multiphysical testing of geomaterials for nuclear waste repositories; unsaturated soil behaviour; soil stabilization; soil microstructure characterization; landslide modelling and mitigation
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Climatology, Hydrology, Natural Hazards and Landscape Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Interests: climate change; desertification and drought; disasters management; urbanization
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Department of Civil and Building Engineering, and Architecture, UnivPM Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: urban planning; urban design; urban regeneration; GIS science; collaborative planning
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Department of Architectural Technology, School of Architecture of Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Diagonal 649, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: sustainable architecture and urban space; energy sustainability

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École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP), 75019 Paris, France
Interests: life cycle assessment; building and district; ecodesign
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Responsible Risk Resilience Centre, Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Interests: land use planning; environmental planning; GIS; ecosystem service; resilience
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Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
Interests: climate change adaptation; critical infrastructure; disaster risk reduction; sustainable urban and regional development
Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Almas Allé 8, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: modelling landscape perceptions, processes and characteristics; design of data structures to support spatio-temporal modelling tasks; spatial statistics; spatial data infrastructures; citizen science; GeoDesign

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Institute of Concrete Science and Technology (ICITECH), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain
Interests: building construction technologies; building-performance; multi-criteria analysis; digital fabrication
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Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Interests: historic landscape studies - theory; methods and case studies
Department of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Interests: water-energy nexus; CAPMIX mixing entropy battery; advanced electrochemical techniques; charging/discharging mechanisms; capacitive deionization

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy
Interests: enabling building technologies; adaptive building component; sustainable building design; history of construction; building refurbishment
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Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Interests: political economy of sustainable development; energy security and cooperation; capacity building in developing countries; climate change and growth; sustainability
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Naval Architecture, Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, University of Genova, 16126 Genova, Italy
Interests: optimization algorithms; distribution management systems; forecasting of load/renewable energy resources; load modelling; load/energy management; buildings modelling and control; artificial intelligen

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Department of Transportation and Projects and Processes Technology, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Interests: from railway infrastructure (design, calculation, construction and maintenance, from track to ballast as track on board); operational analysis; signage and safety on the railway to passenger behavior

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Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Interests: urban governance for sustainability; urban living labs; urban experimentation; participatory and collaborative forms of governance; social learning
Department of Structural Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: circular economy; urban sustainability; urban development; business model innovation; construction management; infrastructure management; project finance; sustainable innovation

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Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Landscape Art, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: landscape and population ecology; ecological succession; renaturation of degraded areas; biodiversity conservation; sustainable development
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Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, MI, Italy
Interests: real estate market; risk management; real estate investments; building management; economic valuation of real estate investment projects; environmental economics; real estate appraisal; property valuation; financial and economic analysis for investment projects; housing affordability; social housing; multiple criteria decision aid; urban and real estate economics; econometric models; sustainability assessment; Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

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Auckland Council Construction Waste Group, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: engineering resource efficiency; advanced built environment; engineering risk management
BUILDERS Ecole d'Ingénieurs, Builders Lab, 1 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 14610 Epron, France
Interests: sustainable construction materials; FRC; SCC; durability and sustainability of concrete; innovative materials for sustainable construction; precast technique
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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences; School of Civil Engineering; University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: architecture and memory; post-conflict urbanism; urban politics; Digital & Virtual Heritage; Design & co-production methods

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Department of Civil Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
Interests: characterization of asphalt concrete; Portland cement concrete and foundation soils; design and build sustainable infrastructure, greenhouse gas emission quantification during the construction and operation of highways; application of renewable energy sources to road infrastructure
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Bussiness Management Department, Social Matters Research Group, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, Spain
Interests: sustainable tourism; touristification; sharing economy; impact social value; urban studies

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Departamento Construcciones Arquitectónicas I, Higher Technical School of Architecture, University of Seville, 41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: building renovation and urban regeneration; sustainable construction systems; indoor and outdoor environmental quality in Architecture; the promotion of multidisciplinary decision support systems towards the efficient management in the built environment
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Dipartimento Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali (SAAF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: mediterranean forests; forest management and planning; land use land cover changes; geographic information systems (GIS)

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Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Interests: built environment evaluation and measurement; urban security analysis; analysis of qualitative aspects of the built environment in quantitative terms; urban regeneration
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School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WA, UK
Interests: spatial planning; policy analysis; land policy; environmental economics; transaction costs
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