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Special Issue by invitation only: Green Urban Transition Towards Low-Carbon Development
Climate change poses a significant, long-term threat to humanity. Transitioning from carbon-emission-intensive urban development to low-carbon solutions is crucial for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Future city planning should incorporate low-carbon concepts for sustainable green urban development. To attain climate-related SDGs, integrating sustainable urban design, advanced green technologies, and circularity concepts is essential. Inclusive and integrated city planning is vital for green urban development, ensuring resilience and stability while achieving low-carbon context. Recognizing the importance of green urban development, this special issue will present papers assessing recent advancements in temporal, spatial, and technical aspects of green urban technologies and policies for low-carbon emissions mitigation.
Potential topics are listed below:
• Renewable energy use
• Thermal energy in the manufacturing process
• Water and wastewater treatment
• Solid waste management
• Sustainable production and consumption
• Green transportation/low-carbon mobility
• Green urban design
• Green building/township development
• Climate mitigation and adaptation strategies
• Urban agriculture
• Smart IoT for low-carbon development
• Low-carbon policy development
Editors
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Woon Kok Sin
Dr. Woon Kok Sin (Vincent) is Assoc. Prof. and Head of the PhD Program of New Energy Sci. & Eng. at Xiamen University Malaysia. He is passionate about utilizing sustainable process and systems-analytical approaches to environmental-economic-social nexus issues. He has been Chief Investigator in transdisciplinary research projects focusing on waste-to-resources management, low-carbon policy, and circular economy. Before, he worked as a project analyst at Accenture and a lead consultant for green architectural technologies development of new townships in Malaysia and Indonesia. He received his PhD in Environ. Eng. from HKUST.
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Cheng Tung Chong
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (ctchong@sjtu.edu.cn)
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Yee Van Fan
Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic (fan@fme.vutbr.cz)
