Ernest Alexander Author

Johan Woltjer is Professor of Urban Infrastructures, University of Westminster, UK. He was affiliated with the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, until 2014. He concentrates his research work on institutional innovations for urban regions and infrastructure development, and, among other things, the role of capacity, governance and resilience. Ernest Alexander is Professor of Urban Planning emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, and now practices in Israel. His research focuses on decision making, organizations, institutions and institutional design, and design and evaluation in the planning process. Angela Hull holds the Chair in Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. She carries out research on spatial planning and governance, and institutional triggers to sustainable urban management (transport, energy, housing, etc.). Matthias Ruth is Professor of Public Policy and of Environmental Engineering, and the director of the Resilient Cities Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. His research focuses on dynamic modeling of natural resource use, industrial and infrastructure systems analysis, and environmental economics and policy.