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

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Agricultural Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, P.O. Box 22016, 1516 Nicosia, Cyprus
Interests: treated wastewater reuse; contamiants of emerging concern; antibiotic resistance; potentially toxic elements; phytotoxicity; plants stress responses
Department of Urban Planning & Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University, Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
Interests: urban heat Island; environmental planning; spatial big data analysis; spatial econometrics; machine learning

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Interests: agriculture (water and land use especially); agribusiness management; game theory; price analysis

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Department of Energy Production and Use, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, RO-060042 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: air quality and human health risk assessment; risk-based land management; environmental monitorin; soil remediation; waste management
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DESTEC Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: hybrid renewable energy systems; energy efficiency in buildings and HVAC systems; geothermal energy; heat transfer in the ground and exergy analysis
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Research Center in Systems Ecology and Sustainability (UB-RCSES), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: environmental science; environment; ecosystems; land use; ecosystem services; agricultural policy

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Doctoral School of Transport, National University of Science and Technology “Politehnica” Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: sustainable mobility; public transportation; city logistics; spatial analysis; network design
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Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0C2, Canada
Interests: using the principles of heat-exchanger design to develop new building materials that integrate many functions
Centre for Research in Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks (GREEN), L. Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 20136 Milan, Italy
Interests: urban policies; environmental sustainability; climate change mitigation and adaptation; urban development strategies; economics; policy instruments

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Polymer and Food Protection Consortium, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: sustainable packaging; recycled polymers; compostable polymers; biobased polymers; food nutrient retention
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Interests: energy and buildings; life cycle assessment; circular economy; renewable fuels and technologies; energy storage systems
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Department of Industrial Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
Interests: mobility; UAV; smart cities; stochastic modeling
School of Engineering and Energy, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia
Interests: wastewater; greywater; constructed wetlands; urban water systems
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Department of Fire Protection, Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 2117/24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: materials engineering; room and building acoustics; wood science; physics of musical instruments; materials research on fire protection and safety

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GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: gas geochemistry; origin of fluids; post-genetic processes affecting the fluids; mechanisms and processes taking place in crust and mantle within the context of plate tectonics; interaction of fluids and seismicity

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Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: land management; land administration; cadaster; land information systems
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Laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions - UMR CNRS 7267, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Interests: citizen science; climate changes; conservation biology; land use changes; pollination ecology; species interactions; sustainable agriculture; urban ecosystems

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Department of Energy Engineering, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; characterization and integration of renewable energy and heat sinks into the environment (passive heating and cooling)
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Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Constrction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: cultural heritage; planned conservation; management; reuse; historical buildings

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
Interests: polymer degradation; polymer repurposing; polymers in energy production; polymers for carbon reduction; polymers for sustainable materials processing
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Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: landscape architecture; art of gardens; urban and environmental design; urban forestry; water design; landscape and literature; landscape and arts
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Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Construction and Chemistry Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: real estate appraisal; urban planning; sustainable land use; enhancement of buildings in disuse; redevelopment initiatives of degraded and abandoned urban areas; decision-support systems; public–private partnership procedures; plans and investment valuation and public–private partnerships in urban planning
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Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 8, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: sustainability development; sustainability construction; sustainability management; sustainability assessment; recycling; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); maintenance and rehabilitation
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via Giovanni Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, PD, Italy
Interests: shallow geothermal energy; thermal properties of rocks and sediments; heat exchangers; heat transfer; geothermal resources; subsurface urban heat island; underground temperature; affordable and clean energy; sustainable cities and communities
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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Rome, Italy
Interests: zero energy buildings; building simulation; energy audit; energy efficiency; thermal comfort
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GTDS Research Group, Faculty of Law, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: metrics and assessment frameworks of sustaianble development; sustainable urban development; resilience; smart cities; vulnerability; social impacts; business sustainability management; rural development; adaptive systems
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Department of Architecture, University of Florence, 50100 Florence, Italy
Interests: vernacular architecture; earthen architecture; stone architecture; timber architecture; risk management; heritage management; sustainable architecture; sustainable conservation; building management

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Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: sustainability; education for sustainability; transformative and holistic approaches; narratives; capacity building; sustainability transitions; transdisciplinary approaches; collaboration and co-creation in sustainability science; teaching and learning; professional development; teacher training

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Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Interests: rapid urbanization; urban expansion modeling; spatiotemporal analysis of urbanization; urban development policy; urban environmental policy; transit-oriented development
Built Environment Engineering Department, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: Building Information Modelling (BIM); green/sustainable buildings; construction & demolition waste; system dynamics modelling
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