Acknowledgements

 

The Advances in Cleaner Production Network is extremely grateful to the invited speakers and their kind participation:

 

Henrik Lund
Aalborg University – Denmark
Editor-in-Chief of Energy

 

Renato Boero
CEO of Gruppo Iren - Italy

 

Ming Xu
University of Michigan – USA
Editor-in-Chief of Resources, Conservation & Recycling

Lu Ding
Tokyo Institute of Technology – Japan
East China University of Science and Technology

Sergio Ulgiati
Parthenope University of Naples – Italy
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management

 

Weslynne Ashton
Illinois Institute of Technology - USA

 

Yutao Wang
Fudan University - China
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cleaner Production

Cecília M. V. B. Almeida
Paulista University - Brazil
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cleaner Production

Giovanni Baiocchi
Maryland University - USA
Associate Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production

Gang Liu
Southern Denmark University
Associate Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production

Linda Hancock
Deakin University
Honorary Professor of Deakin University

Lei Shi
Tsinghua University - China
Associate Editor of Resources, Conservation & Recycling

Thank you the authors and to all the participants who have made this event possible. Special thanks are addressed to:

 

Hosting institutions: Guangdong University of Technology, Beijing Normal University, and Hainan Tropical Ocean University

Co-organizing Institutions: Paulista University, Dongguan University of Technology, Parthenope University, University of Sheffield, Deakin University

Thank you to all the staff of Guangdong University of Technology, Beijing Normal University and Hainan Tropical Ocean University who has contributed to the preparation of the event.

Special acknowledgements are addressed to

 

Prof. Zhifeng Yang

(Chair of the 8th IWACP, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Deputy chairman of Sanya Municipal Federation of World Academician) who, from the beginning, fully supported this project.

 

Special thanks are addressed to Prof. Gengyuan Liu, Chair of Local Organizing Committee, and team of researchers, students and staff whose work resulted in a perfect event.

Finally, thanks to Dr. Yugo Okida, the Vice-Rector of Post Graduation and Research of Universidade Paulista, Dr. Marília Ancona-Lopez, the Vice-Rector of Graduation of Universidade Paulista, and to Dr. Marina Soligo, Main Coordinator of Post Graduation and Research of Universidade Paulista, for their unconditional support since the first event in 2007.

 

Best Regards

Biagio F. Giannetti
General Chair and Founder of ACPN