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Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related
hazards and natural disasters.- Improved education,
awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate
change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.-
Developing countries to implement the Green Climate Fund through
meaningful mitigation actions.
About the Author
Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL,
DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and
Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change
Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany,
and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable
Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the
Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme.
Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited
more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and
papers in refereed journals.
Anabela Marisa Azul is a Researcher at the
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) and the Institute
for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra (UC,
Portugal). She holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, specializing
in Ecology (2002, UC), and pursued her investigation on biology and
ecology of fungi to pinpoint the role of mycorrhizal symbiosis for
sustainability of Mediterranean forests under different land use
scenarios at the Centre for Functional Ecology (CFE-UC), where she
became an Associate Researcher (from 2009 to 2014). At CFE-UC,
Marisa Azul developed a holistic approach that combined innovation
in food production with sustainable development and public
scientific awareness to multiple actors. At CNC, from 2014 on,
Marisa Azul focuses her investigation on basic research and
participatory research dynamics to pinpoint links between
metabolism, health/disease, and sustainability. She has broad
academic experience as a researcher working in participatory
research and interdisciplinary that link biomedical and
life/environmental sciences, social sciences,
science education, science communication, and artistic forms.
Her research interests also lie in bringing together the academy
and social/economical players. She has been successful in
attracting nationaland international funding, coordinating
projects, and mentoring young researchers on the topics mentioned.
She has co-authored over 40 scientific publications and book
chapters, co-edited 4 books on Climate Change Management Series and
1 onWorld Sustainability Series published by Springer, co-authored
4 books for children and 2 comics, and co-produced 1
animation.
Luciana Brandli, Ph.D., is an Associate
Professor in the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil, working in the
Ph.D. Program in Civil and Environment Engineering. Her current
research interests include sustainability in higher education and
green campus, management of urban infrastructure and sustainable
cities, and the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. She
supervises a number of Master’s and Doctoral students on
engineering and environment and sustainability issues and has in
excess of 300 publications, including books, book chapters, and
papers in refereed journals.
Pinar Gökçin
Özuyar is a Faculty Member of Faculty of Economics,
Administrative and Social Sciences at Istinye University, Istanbul,
Turkey. She received her B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering
from Istanbul Technical University in 1992 and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from Bogazici University Institute of Environmental
Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. Her Ph.D. thesis was based on the
“Thermodynamic Analysis of Treatment Plants for Producing Energy
from SolidWaste” which she conducted in Germany with a joint
scholarship from Forschungzentrum Jülich and TUBITAK (National
Science Foundation of Turkey). Defining herself as a pracademic,
she has more than 25 years of experience not only in academia but
also in the private sector working on environment and
sector-specific activities in Turkey and Dubai (UAE). She has
extensive expertise specifically in environmental auditing
according to World Bank Standards which is required for
international financing especiallyduring company mergers and
acquisitions (M&As) and greenfield projects. Working over the
years in projects involving different stakeholder groups with
different priorities, she has the proven capacity for establishing
a dialogue between such stakeholder groups. Although coming from a
technical background, her academic work focuses on involving
sustainable development into the strategies of corporations
including higher academic institutions. Currently, she teaches and
leads funded research on sustainability/sustainable development
especially focusing on industrial ecology and regional
development.
Tony Wall (BSc Hons, PGDip, PGCHE, MA,
MSc, EdD, MCIPD, NTFHEA) is a Professor, Founder and
Director of the International Thriving at Work Research Group in
the United Kingdom where he is the institutional lead for the
Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. His
research impact work has won multiple Santander International
Research Excellence Awards and a National Fellowship of the Higher
Education Academy. Apart from being a visiting scholar in the US
and Australia, his change work includes co-founding of the
Washington Ethical Leadership Summit and the TS Eliot Foundation’s
International Creative Practice for Wellbeing Framework.