Topics Webinar | Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
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Due to the continuous cumulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the atmosphere, climate on the Earth has been ever-changing with the increase of average temperature and the appearance of extreme events. Climate change has caused a series of disasters such as extreme heat, flooding, wildfire, and drought and significantly threatened safety and health of human beings and the prosperity and sustainable development of the society. Even though, the climate emergency with a threshold of 1.5 °C or 2.0 °C, beyond which climate-related social, economic, and environmental impacts will become irreversible, is approaching. Urgent actions relevant to mitigation and adaptation solutions should be taken to decelerate climate change and to protect people from climate-induced threats. This webinar invites three scholars to share their latest research outcomes in climate-related impact mitigation and adaptation, built environment decarbonization, and sustainable urban planning and design. This webinar also calls for the involvement and participation of all professions in society to accelerate the progress of climate change mitigation and adaptation through closing a series of gaps towards actual implementation.
Date: 10 May 2024
Time: 11:00 am CEST | 5:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 850 8892 3869
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
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Dr. Siliang Yang
Mott MacDonald, Leeds LS12 1BE, UK;
Dr. Siliang Yang is a former lecturer in Building Services Engineering in the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Prior to that, he was a Sessional Academic at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Siliang will be joining the Buildings and Cities Unit at Mott MacDonald Leeds office in the UK in May 2024, where he will be serving as a building physics practitioner. Siliang completed his PhD in Building-Integrated Renewable Energy Technologies from the School of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2020. He received a MEng (Honours) in Building Services Engineering from Northumbria University, UK, in 2013. Siliang has been a passionate research engineer with years of experience worldwide in the fields of building and construction industry and academia. Over the past 15 years, he has established vocational skills and knowledge of the design of sustainable urban energy systems and the in-depth analysis of natural and built environment in both industrial and academic settings. Siliang’s research interests are focused on sustainable buildings and low-carbon urban energy systems. He has also been the Principal Investigator of a Royal Society (UK)-funded project focusing research on smart and sustainable urban energy systems.
Prof. Dr. Ali Cheshmehzangi
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;
Ali Cheshmehzangi is a Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP) at the University of Queensland, where he leads the School and researches the fields of architecture, design, and planning/urbanism. He has been in the world’s top 2% of field leaders for two consecutive years, recognized by Stanford University. He is among the top 30 global scholars in the urban sustainability research area. Ali is internationally known for his scholarly contributions and extended work on climate resilience and sustainable urbanism research, mainly as the Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Urban Sustainability (US) book series (see https://www.springer.com/series/16930). So far, Ali has published over 500 journal papers, articles, conference papers, book chapters, and reports. To date, he has published 26 academic books, mostly focused on sustainable urban development, urbanism, and sustainability transitions. Three of his books have received awards at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. He also has received international awards and recognition for his research on urban resilience studies and sustainability research, as well as a Vice-Chancellor’s award for his impactful contribution to higher education.
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"Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability, 3rd Volume"
Topic Editors: Prof. Dr. Baojie He, Dr. Siliang Yang, Dr. K. Venkatachalam, Dr. Amos Darko
Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2024
Manuscript submission deadline: 30 September 2024