Livable Cities

Prof. Dr. Mohsen Aboulnaga is a Professor of Sustainable Built Environments with the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt. He has thirty-seven years of experience working in higher education, government, senior management, and consultancy on the issues of sustainable cities, climate change adaptation, sustainable development, and energy policies. Professor Aboulnaga is a senior expert on sustainable urban development (SUD), including green and smart cities and green buildings. His areas of competency encompass strategy planning, policy development, low-carbon society, and sustainable energy. Other areas of expertise include executive capacity building for local governments and coaching and training on strategic planning and leadership, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reporting, innovation, and urban farming in cities. Professor Aboulnaga is an associate member of the European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) Association, Austria (2010-present); a senior policy expert at the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab., Paris, France; a member of the Asian Institute for Environmental Research & Energy (A.NERGy), Incheon National University, South Korea (since 2015); and a registered expert with UNEP and ESCWA (since 1997). He has also been a selected member of the UrbanFarm Scientific Committee since 2019 and a member of the Jury of the UF Challenge in 2020 and 2021 at the University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum, Italy. Professor Aboulnaga has developed many Concept Notes for leading international organizations, namely the ENI ZOHR Sustainability Initiative (2019), European Union (EU) funded projects (2018-2019),  and SUD for The Union for the Mediterranean - UfM (2017). He has been appointed by the European Union and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) as a Senior Adviser and National Expert on the "Clean Energy Savings Mediterranean Cities (CES-MED) project (2015-2018) - a funded project by the European Union (2011-2018). Professor Aboulnaga has also been appointed a Senior Expert by the Human Dynamics Consortium-KG and developed the CES-MED National Recommendation Report (NRR) on Sustainable Urban and Energy Savings Actions (SUESA) for Egypt as part of the CES-MED project (2015). He has been appointed by the EU and MOFA (May 2016) as the National Expert of CES-MED project in Egypt - Associated to Transitions Sustainability Consultant in Paris, France, and developed the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs) for two cities. In 2020, Professor Aboulnaga organized with the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the University of Florence, Italy, the international design competition "HOME-KIT Sustainable Modular Houses for Slum Dwellers amidst COVID-19", July 2021, Lisbon. Prof. Aboulnaga is the author of four books published by Springer and 40 chapters in books published by Springer and Elsevier. He has also been an invited keynote speaker to more than 400 international and regional conferences, seminars, workshops, and training programs. He has over 180 international publications and presentations and has reviewed 80 articles for many international journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy Efficiency in Built Environments from the University of Leeds, UK, and an M.Sc. and  BSc. (Arch.) from Cairo University.

Prof. Antonella Trombadore has been a Professor of Environmental Design with the School of Architecture (DIDA) at the University of Florence, Italy, and the University of Tirana (Albania) since 1999. She is a qualified Associate Professor (2018), a Researcher RTDb in Energy Management, and a qualified architect in sustainable and green architecture, responsive design, resilient cities, and sustainable immersive tourism. She is the Director of Research Laboratory BeXLab Building Environmental Experience, responsible for stimulating the interdisciplinary approach of Living Lab and the participatory process for bu

1. Liveability - the Direction to Mitigating Urban Heat Islands' Effect, AchievingHealthy, Sustainable, and Resilient Cities, and the Coverage.- 2. Understanding Urban Heat Island Effect - UHIE: Causes, Impacts, Factors and Strategies for Better Liveability, and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation.- 3. Urban Green Coverage as a Strategy for Mitigating High Temperatures in Cities.- 4. Global Cities' Plans to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effect Exploiting Urban Green Coverage.- 5. Urban Heat Islands Assessment and Urban Green Coverage in Large Cities - Cairo, Egypt and Rome, Italy.- 6. Environmental Framework for Mitigating High Temperatures in Global Cities by Exploiting Urban Green Coverage - Two Case Studies: Cairo, Egypt and Rome, Italy.- 7. Urban Green Coverage and its Role in Post COVID-19 Regulations and Recommendations.