Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions'

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Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, 8333 Volos, Greece
Interests: institutional economics; commons; real estate; urban economics
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Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture, Sapienza, University of Rome, Via Flaminia 72, 00196 Rome, Italy
Interests: urban land; sustainable development dimensions and urban agglomeration
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Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701, Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de la Huerta, Morelia 58190, México
Interests: urban fitness; land suitability; agricultural aptitude; environmental suitability; land evaluation; soil organic matter; karst environments; soil magnetism; heavy metals
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Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: land systems; agroecology; nature conservation; political ecology; environmental justice; rural development

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Department of Civil Engineering Sciences and Architecture (DiCAR), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: urban economics; urban management; decision support systems in planning; urban democracy; sustainable development models; social studies
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The Urban Institute, Faculty of Social Science, University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
Interests: sustainable design; urban ecology
Institute for Geography, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Interests: urbanisation; India; periurban; transformation; livelihoods; vulnerability; urban health; migration

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Instituto Universitario de Urbanística de la ETSA de Valladolid, University of Valladolid, 47014 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: urban regeneration; urban renewal; urban planning

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College of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: housing; infill; adaptive reuse; residential land use

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Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: spatial analysis; GIS; urban planning; urban sustainability; urban development; urbanism; city planning; spatial planning; sustainable development
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School of Built Environment, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: urban planning; sustainable cities; green infrastructure
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Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, R. Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: spatial planning; regional and urban planning; evaluation of public policies; data collection and monitoring systems; health cities
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Department of Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Universidad de Cantabria | UNICAN, Santander, Spain
Interests: rural area dynamics; cultural landscapes of rural and urban areas; rural depopulation; rural development
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Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Mattonaia, 8, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: participative planning and design; rural urban interactions in territory planning; bioregions in sustainable development of resilient territories
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Department of Local Government Economics, University of Lodz, Narutowicza, 68 90-136 Lodz, Poland
Interests: evidence based land-use planning; local governance; city and regional land-use planning; geographic information system; rural development; local infrastructure, sustainable development and European Union

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Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: periurban agriculture; innovation and smart agriculture; agricultural policy; agricultural economics; rural development; food policy; local food systems; food supply chain; food security
Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Al. Hrabska 3, 05-090 Raszyn, Poland
Interests: blue-green infrastructure; ecological resilience; hydrological modeling; nature-based solutions; urban ecology; water-sensitive urban design (WSUD); xeriscaping
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1. Associate Professor, Architecture, Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
2. PostDoc, Architecture, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, D-80333 Munich, Germany
Interests: green construction; data-driven design; knowledge-based decision support; urban ecology and agriculture
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Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
Interests: urban planning; urbanism; spatial planning; human geography regional planning; urban geography regional development planning; creative cities spatial development; development planning; urban and regional planning; urban studies

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USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, NYC Urban Field Station, New York, NY 10007, USA
Interests: urban ecology; human-environment relationships; environmental governance; social-ecological systems; land use change

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Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw, 3/21, 51-149 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: suburbanization and reurbanization in CEE in a comparative perspective; cultural heritage in CEE; cultural mega events (like ECOC) and their socio-economic impacts; rural revival in peripheral/marginal areas
Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 2 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: historical geography; cultural geography; regional geography; landscape transformations; settlement transformations; regional identity; rural areas; mountain areas
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School of Public Administration, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710064, China
Interests: natural resource management; environmental sciences; land use and cover change; coupled-natural-and-human-systems; urban-rural integrated development

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Department Economics, Sociology and Management (DESG) Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD), University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Polo II da ECHS, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: decision-making processes regarding uptake of innovation for sustainability transitions in farming and agrifood systems; agricultural and rural knowledge and innovation systems; environmental and ecosystem services valuation; agri-environmental policies and ecosystem services payment systems; rural and sustainable development studies
Department of Engineering and Architecture, Università di Parma, 43125 Parma, Italy
Interests: urban design; urban morphology; sustainability; public space; new technologies; water cities
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1. Center for Technology and Society, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
2. Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
Interests: urban travel behaviour; land use/transportation interactions; transportation modeling; urban sprawl
Institute for Urban and Regional Development, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Interests: neighborhood determinants of health; greenspace; urban health; health equity

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Institute of Landscape Architecture, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: landscape architecture; system of green infrastructure; rural landscape; small cities
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