Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments (ePub)

Member of the Academy of Technical Sciences (2014-), and President (2012-2015), Vice-President (2016-) and Honorary Member (2020-) of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies. She is also a member of the board of editors for six scientific journals. She is member of the Chilean Council of Foresight and Strategy, and in the Philippine Futures Thinking Society. She has developed specific futures methodologies/processes such as Futures Clinique, Creative Foresight Space, Pioneer Analysis.

Ira Verma (D.Sc. in Architecture) Senior Scientist, works in the RESCUE project in a work package focusing on how crises related to the built environment affect the social sustainability and wellbeing of people. The objective is to gain further understanding for improving community resilience. She has nearly 20 years of work experience of research and project management in the Research Group for Health and Wellbeing Architecture, SOTERA, at the Department of Architecture, Aalto University. She has been involved in various national and international projects related to housing for older people, user-centred design and Universal Design. Her doctoral dissertation was on these topics (Verma, I. 2019. Housing design for all? The challenges of ageing in urban planning and housing design - The case of Helsinki).

Raúl Castaño is postdoctoral researcher in affordable and resilient housing at Tampere University and works on providing a better understanding on the key conditions to develop a more sustainable, affordable and resilient built environment through a human-centric approach. A major component of his work - and contribution to the field - has been to develop a novel model to assess the level of energy vulnerability (energy poverty) in residential buildings, supporting decision making toward a more sustainable, resilient, and affordable housing. Raúl is also actively involved in the ECIU University at the European level as Research Field Coordinator of the Resilient Communities of practices.

Sara Wilkinson is a chartered building surveyor and Australia's first female professor of property. Her transdisciplinary research program sits at the intersection of sustainability, urban development and transformation, with a focus on green cities and preparing our urban environments for the challenges of climate change and resilience. Current projects include development of a STAR (Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse) Toolkit, a Bushfire Retrofit Housing Toolkit for older Australians, and the performance evaluation of hempcrete wall panels. Sara engages in trans-disciplinary research with colleagues from engineering, science, health, and business as well as built environment disciplines.