Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. We encourage submission of cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in the areas of,
1. Smart cities and resilient environments;
2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management;
3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management);
4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities;
5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments;
6. Green infrastructure and BMPs;
7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management;
8. Urban agriculture and forestry;
9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure;
10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy;
11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities;
12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities;
13. Health monitoring and improvement;
14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies;
15. Smart city governance;
16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society;
17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies;
18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems.
19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management;
20. Waste reduction and recycling;
21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling;
22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;
We support a wide range of methodological and technical approaches including experimental, observational, monitoring and management studies and policy analysis. In addition to fundamental and applied papers, review articles on important developments will be considered.
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
- Professor F. Haghighat
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Associate Editors
- Enrico Fabrizio
Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy - Benjamin C. M. Fung
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Kaveh Madani
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States - Ryozo Ooka
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Editorial Board
- Leonidas Anthopoulos PhD
University of Thessaly Department of Business Administration, Larissa, Greece - Niccolò Aste
Polytechnic of Milan, Milano, Italy - Umberto Berardi PhD
Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Shi-Jie Cao
Southeast University, Nanjing, China - Rui Alexandre Castanho
WSB University, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland - Zhi Chen PhD
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Ruchi Choudhary PhD
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Mehmet Esen
Firat University, Technology Faculty, Energy Systems Engineering Department, Elazığ, Turkey - Dagmar Haase PhD
Humboldt-University of Berlin Department of Geography, Berlin, Germany - Aya Haghishima
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan - Carlos Henggeler Antunes
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal - Koizumi Hideki
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Shahram Jadid
Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of - Nadeem Javaid
COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan - Gwanggil Jeon
Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea, Republic of - Peleg Kremer PhD
Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States - Borong Lin
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Jesus Lizana
University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain - Janaina Macke PhD
University of Caxias do Sul, CAXIAS DO SUL, Brazil - Ali Nazemi
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Jose Orosa PhD
University of A Coruna, A Coruna, Spain - Cristina Pronello
University of Applied Sciences for Technology Compiegne, Compiègne, France - David J. Sailor
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States - Ferdinando Salata
University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy - Uroš Stritih
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Theocharis Tsoutsos
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece - Ramalingom Velraj
Anna University Chennai, Chennai, India - Jun Xia
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China - Tan Yigitcanlar
Queensland University of Technology Civil Engineering and Built Environment School, Brisbane, Australia - Zhun Yu
Hunan University, Changsha, China - Yanping Yuan
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China - Z. John Zhai
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States - Jie Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore