Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems Best Paper Award

About the Award

The journal Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems recognises excellence in research through the annual Best Paper Award. The award is given for the work published in the previous year that best meets the goal of the journal to publish work of long-lasting value in the study of civil engineering and environmental systems. There is no nomination process and all papers will be considered. The editors will make a decision on the award, and will call in members of the editorial board to assist in the case of potential conflicts of interest. Offers for sponsorship for the annual award will be considered. The first award was made for work published in 2019. For more information on making a submission to the journal, please visit the journal website.

Judges' comments

Sundling and Szentes’ paper develops interesting insights into complex, intractable, open-ended, and unpredictable systems where the most crucial aspect is the human aspect fueled by the diversity of the stakeholders. Systems thinking is challenging in such conditions and that is where the concept of wicked problems is shown to be quite useful. The paper shows its potential as an analytical tool, a creative tool, and an emancipatory tool in the context of renovation decisions within “wicked” urban environments with conflicting technical viability, financial viability, and environmental performance objectives.

Year	Winner(s)	Article	Volume	Isssue
2021	Rikard Sundling and Henrik Szentes	Why are we not renovating more? An elaboration of the wicked problem of renovating apartment buildings	38	3
2020	David G. Carmichael	Bias and decision making – an overview systems explanation	37	1-2
2020	David Elms	Discussion of ‘Bias and decision making – an overview systems explanation’ by David G. Carmichael, Civil engineering and environmental systems 2020, v. 37, nos. 1-2, 48–61	37	3
2020	David G. Carmichael	Author's reply to: David Elms’ discussion of ‘Bias and decision making – an overview systems explanation’	37	3
2019	Linda Nielsen, Sebastian Tølbøll Glavind, Jianjun Qin & Michael H. Faber	Faith and fakes – dealing with critical information in decision analysis	36	1

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Thank you for flagging, Morty, we're taking another look at this as a matter of urgency.