Hello,
I have been asked to guest edit an edition of Biomimetics Journal entitled: ‘Biomimicry and Sustainable Urban Design’
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomimetics/special_issues/biomimicry_urban_design
'Humanity faces an unprecedented convergence of ecological and climatic changes that are and will profoundly affect civilisation. At the same time, the growing human population is now mostly urbanised, and urbanisation rates are increasing, particularly in developing nations. Although cities occupy only approximately 3% of the global land area, it is well known that they are large consumers of ecosystem services. Cities are typically sites of tremendous concentrations of energy use, water use, materials, greenhouse gas emissions, and other pollutants. It is clear that the way we build and live in our cities must change rapidly.
How can we create and remediate cities so they become complex self-regulating systems that produce and regenerate ecological and societal health? How can our cities and buildings be designed to evolve over time to become more, rather than less fit for place and purpose? How can cities become responsive ‘living’ entities that can become resilient even as context changes? This Special Issue investigates the potential of biomimicry, of emulating the processes and functions of the living world, from individual organisms through to whole living biomes, as a way to consider some of these questions.
This Special Issue aims to investigate how biomimicry can be applied at urban scales in the design of sustainable, resilient cities through the translation and practical application of biological and ecological knowledge, along with an understanding of human–nature relationships. We invite urban designers, planners, landscape architects, architects, and scientists to reimagine the most common human habitat, i.e., the city, by submitting stimulating, speculative, and forward-thinking original research, case studies, and articles that begin to forge a new way to understand, construct, and live in urban contexts.'
Deadline for submissions is December 31 2019.
I can instruct the journal to give a 50% discount in fees for people I invite. I would like to make use of this as much as possible. So my question is, who are the people that I should invite?
(I have invited a lot of people already, but assume I have missed some)
Thanks very much
Dr Maibritt Pedersen Zari
I would be interested in submitting a paper within this scope. I've written papers on bio-mimicry and nano-technology in architecture and sustainability, and my major is in Urban Planning and City Planning. I can surely submit an abstract of a research by December 31st.
As for your question, there are a number of ways to invite people to submit their work to you journal, one of them is what you have done already or mentioned (i.e. using researchgate and similar websites, and offer 50% discount), other than that you can try to contact authors individually, or contact large research institutions and universities who might be interested. Alternatively, you might find it useful to announce some sort of conference (even if it was virtual) were people can submit there work to it. Please keep in mind though, that enough time must be given in order to receive good quality papers.
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