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

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Centre for Real Estate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Interests: sustainable design and construction; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Buildings; embodied carbon; sustainability assessment systems; sustainable urban development; climate benchmarks; climate change mitigation and adaptation

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Department of Urban Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungdae-Ro 1, Seowon-Ku, Chongju-City 28644, Republic of Korea
Interests: sustainable development; sutainability evaluation; suatainable urban planning and development; circular economy; environmental justice; climate change adaptation planning; climate change risk analysis; urban disaster planning and management; urban safety evaluation; eco-industrial park (development); industrial ecology urban regeneration; green gentrification
National Research Council (CNR), 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: biology applied to the conservation and valorization of cultural heritage and cultural landscape; iconography, management and planning of vegetation in archaeological sites and historical gardens; urban ecology
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
Interests: transportation modeling; sustainable transport; urban mobility; UAV/UAS/RPAS; Building Information Modeling (BIM); coastal engineering and management

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Institute of Geographical Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany
Interests: physical geography; human–environmental interrelations; landscape archaeology
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Head, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Interests: public administration and policy; local governance; local democracy; central–local relations; spatial inequality; regionalism and human–wild animal interaction in urban areas
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Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy
Interests: energy production and efficiency in buildings; thermal and electrical loads management in buildings; artificial neural networks; electric power systems; smart grids; renewables and storage systems; renewable energy communities; smart cities and mobility; energy economy; environmental impact of energy systems; electric vehicles; public lighting systems; lighting technology and innovative lighting systems (laser and LED technology)
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Department of Political Sciences and Communication, University of Salerno, PoliCom, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Interests: territorial systems; energy policies; environmental problems; considering geostrategies from the perspective of territorial planning; creating a balanced relationship between man and nature and economy and territory
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Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: agricultural economics; marketing of agri-food products; wine marketing; evaluation of environmental assets and natural resources; sustainable development; rural development; stakeholder analysis; tourism carrying capacity; accessibility of environmental resources; life cycle assessment (E-LCA, S-LCA)

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Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, P.O. Box 235, 3603 Kongsberg, Norway
Interests: smart cities; smart energy systems; environmental monitoring; intelligent transport systems; sustainable waste management
Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Interests: sustainable tourism; tourism carrying capacity; overtourism and social media besides tourism; ICT and sharing economy
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Interests: vital cities; GIS; GPS; spatial behavior; tourism
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Institute for Renewable Energy, Eurac Research, 39100 Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Interests: PED; urban planning; smart city strategies; climate-neutral cities; urban innovation; multiple benefits; appraisal and evaluation
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Community Development, Ohio State University Extension, Columbus, OH, USA
Interests: environmental/natural resource economics; land use

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Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Interests: thermodynamics; heat and mass transfer; heat exchangers; energy efficiency; building energy analysis; renewable energy; energy conversion and management
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Department of Ecological Safety & Sustainable Development of Regions, Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: environmental management; environmental assessment; decision analysis methods; urban development; urban planning; infrastructure; underground space use; UN system; international development organizations
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Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, 40100 Bologna, Italy
Interests: architectural technologies; energy efficiency; environmental sustainability; smart cities; resilient urban systems
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Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Interests: peatlands and microbial ecology specifically enzyme kinetics; environmental science in particular sustainability and sustainable development, planetary boundaries, nutrient cycling, environmental impacts, climate change and energy technologies; sustainable education
1. School of Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2. Energy Recovery Inc., San Leandro, CA, USA
Interests: sustainable energy; energy conversion processes; artificial intelligence; engineering applications; fire protection engineering; heat and mass transfer; CFD; physics based modeling; HVAC analysis and design; energy efficiency; energy recovery; combustion; thermal design & control; spectral radiation; remote sensing; spectroscopy; flammability; air quality & control; aerospace engineering
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Erasmus Center for Urban Ports and Transport Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: evaluation of urban interventions and transport policies; mobility behaviours and health effects; mobility and health of young people; mobility and low-emission zones; road safety; parking policies; car-free environments; tourism behaviours; benefits of nature and green infrastructure; values of cultural heritage
Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: urban social sustainability; policy studies; urban geography; urban studies; cultural policy; cultural producers; policy mobilities; urban and regional planning
Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham B4 7BD, UK
Interests: sustainable design; lighting in buildings; architectural technology; building acoustics
Department of Environmental Improvement, Warsaw University of Life Sciences—SGGW, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: construction and environmental engineering

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Department of Geography, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania
Interests: potamology; urban hydrology; tides
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School of Science and Technology and CQ-VR- Center of Chemistry of Vila Real, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: building energy efficiency; thermal comfort; thermal performance analysis; nearly zero energy buildings; water–energy nexus; passive solar design; sustainable construction; waste valorization for building materials; building materials characterization; sustainable materials
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Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Interests: ecological and environmental economics; urban and regional economics; ecosystem services

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Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5NG, UK
Interests: age-friendly housing; planning and the built environment; housing; volunteering and community participation and the strengths; limitations and applications of research methods.

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School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Interests: knowledge systems; resource management and governance; land use planning; wildlife (biodiversity) conservation; indigenous community based monitoring; youth engagement; environmental impact assessment; environmental decision-making; mining; oil and gas; arctic; Northern Canada; systematic review; mixed methods

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Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, 700050 Iași, Romania
Interests: heat pipes; heat exchangers; energy efficient buildings; energy storage systems; renewable energy; fluid flow; heat transfer; CFD analysis

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Department of Architectural Composition, Universidad de Sevilla, 41004 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: environmental design; daylighting simulation; solar radiation; indoor and outdoor thermal comfort; building energy efficiency
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