Guest editorial
Article Type: Guest editorial From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 21, Issue 1
About the Guest Editors Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DL) is a Director of the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where he undertakes a number of environment-related projects across the world.
Andrew Price (BSc, PhD, FCIOB, FICE, CEng), Professor of Project Management, Director of Postgraduate Studies with over 30 years design, construction and industry-focused research experience. Co-Director and LU PI for HaCIRIC a £9.6M Research Centre. He has been principal or co-investigator on 24 completed research projects and has supervised 41 graduated PhD/EngDoc students from 25 countries.
Primali Paranagamage is a Chartered Architect who had worked in academia and industry on a wide range of projects. After her doctoral studies in housing at UCL, Bartlett School of architecture and planning, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, London investigating into the current UK housing policy. She works as a Research Associate in the SUE-MoT team of Loughborough University.
Fahmida Khandokar is a graduate Urban Planner. Following her graduation she worked as a researcher at the Centre for Hydrology, Micrometeorology and Climate Change, National University of Ireland. Prior to joining the EPSRC funded SUE-MoT team at Loughborough University as a Research Associate, she worked as a Planning Officer in the Environment Directorate of the Lancashire County Council.
This special issue contains a set of papers presented at the “Second International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment”,held on 22-24 April 2009 in Loughborough, UK. The event was organised by the SUE-MoT Consortium (Dundee University, Glasgow Caledonian University,Loughborough University and St Andrews University), funded under the UK EPSRC's Sustainable Urban Environment Programme to develop Metrics Models and Toolkits for Whole Life Sustainable Urban Development.
The aim of the event was to bring together leading international researchers,professionals, tool developers, policy makers and other stakeholders who are involved in the field of urban sustainability assessment to exchange ideas and knowledge on how to meet the assessment needs of urban decision makers. The Conference dealt with a wide range of papers dealing with:
Urban planning and design for sustainability.
Sustainable buildings: design, performance and assessment.
Quality of life in the urban environment.
Stakeholder participation.
Urban sustainability and the move to low-carbon developments.
Measures, assessment theory, complexity and uncertainty.
A selection of these papers and presented in this special issue. We would like to thank the inputs from the authors for this cooperative effort.
Enjoy your reading!
Walter Leal Filho, Andrew Price, Primali Paranagamage, Fahmida KhandokarCo-Editors
