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

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Institute of Urban Design and Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology, 811 07 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: landscape architecture; landscape planning; urban development; spatial planning; cultural landscapes; landscape change; sustainability
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Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: hydrogeology; groundwater protection; hydrodynamical modelling; groundwater vulnerability to pollution; groundwater risk; urban area; water deped ecosystems
Faculty of Civil Engineering Osijek, osip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek 31000, Croatia
Interests: building technology; energy efficiency; building maintenance

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Department of Ecology, Agronomy and Aquaculture, University of Zadar, M. Pavlinovica 1, 23000 Zadar, Croatia
Interests: marine biology; fish ecology; fish behavior; underwater experimentation; bionik; biomimicry; applied computer vision; landscape ecology; microbial ecology (field studies)
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Radmile Matejcic 3, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Interests: flood hazards; pluvial floods; coastal floods; compound floods; low impact development; sustainable urban drainage systems; hydraulic modeling; hydrological modeling
Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: smart cities; social entrepreneurship; hybrid organizations and innovation management

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: land use; landscape; sustainable development; smart city; urban, city; planning; design; tourism
Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Korea
Interests: construction management and engineering; building maintenance; construction cost; construction safety
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Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: built environment; facilities management; corporate social responsibility; circular economy; sharing economy

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Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, 24044 Dalmine, Italy
Interests: urban logistics; urban freight transport; industrial logistics; logistics 4.0; logistics optimization models
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Department of Civil, Chemi-cal, Environmental and Mate-rials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Interests: 3D data from un-manned aerial and submarine vehicles; data integration in GIS environment
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School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Interests: flood; reduce flood risk
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Social-Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, Department of Regional Economics and Environment, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, POW 3/5 street, 90-255 Lodz, Poland
Interests: spatial econometrics; spatial analysis; environmental justice; ecogentrification; hedonic pricing; urban green spaces
Division of Applied Science, College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Interests: environmental sustainability; environmental education; environment and human health; health literacy and communication
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Department of Architecture, Built environment and Construction Engineering (ABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: sustainability and sustainable buildings; sustainable construction and building materials; construction methods and techniques; life cycle as-sessment; green building rating systems; circular economy
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Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Interests: urban liveability, resilience and sustainability—with a specific interest in the link between the built environment, infrastructure and wellbeing—and how these aspects can be usefully determined, measured and communicated to decision makers
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: adaptation to climate change; landscape fragmentation; landscape planning; rural buildings; rural landscape analysis and planning; spatial planning; strategic environmental assessment; green infrastructure
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Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Ryton Gardens, Wolston Lane, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire CV8 3LG, UK
Interests: sustainable food systems; sustainable diets; sustainable livelihoods; sustainable development; Right to Food; food and nutrition security; governance of natural resources; gender and gender-based discrimination; women's land rights; intersectionality; participatory; transdisciplinary; rights-based and gender-transformative approaches.

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1. Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), New York, NY 10025, USA
2. Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, 80135 Naples, Italy
Interests: sustainable design and technological retrofitting of buildings and public spaces; impact assessment of natural hazard on build environment and communities; environmental design and building technologies for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; decision support tools for DRR and CCA in cities
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Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: ecohydrology; land use change; river basin management
Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
Interests: urban sustainability; urban planning; urban form; applied gis; big data analytics
Division of Industrialized and Sustainable Construction, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: sustainable building; energy efficiency in buildings; zero energy buildings; building renovation/retrofit; building energy simulation; life cycle assessment for buildings; life cycle costing for buildings; factors which influence implementation of sustainable building practices in the building sector

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, School of Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia
Interests: construction economics; construction management; maintenance of built environment; maintenance of construction entities; housing management; facilities management
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Department of urban water, AQUATEC – SUEZ Advanced Solutions, 08038 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: hydraulic and hydrological modeling; urban drainage; urban flooding; water supply networks; groundwater modeling; sustainable urban drainage systems; water quality; contaminant transport; risk analysis; urban resilience; socio-economic assessment

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Northeast Institute of Geography and agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
Interests: wetland vegetation and plant ecology; temperal and spatial pattern and maintenance mechanism of wetland plant species diversity on local and regional sacle

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Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: earthquake engineering in low to moderate seismic regions; mitigation of existing building stock to counter risks of earthquake related damage; cross-laminated timber; durability issues in structures
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Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico CIIDETEC-UVM, Universidad del Valle de México, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco 45601, Mexico
Interests: smart cities; internet of things; innovation; engineering education; unmanned aerial systems; drones; robotics; computer vision; robust nonlinear control; intelligent control
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Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Department of Environmental Geosciences, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Interests: numerical modelling; geothermal energy; coastal aquifers; lithium; brines; salt flats; density-driven flow; arid environments; bank filtration; groundwater quality; enmerging contaminants; groundwater management; urban hydrogeology.
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Department of Integrated Geodesy and Cartography, AGH University of Krakow, 30349 Krakow, Poland
Interests: geodesy; spatial analyses; GIS; real estate; real estate valuation
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School of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Interests: water management; water quality; soil and groundwater; developing countries and water security; sediment and land use change
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