Dear All, Further to the announcement below, the final deadline for abstracts for ISDRS 2018 has been announced as 7th January 2018. Early bird registration is available until the 28th February. Very best wishes of the season to all. Pauline Deutz.
The 2018 International Sustainable Development Society Conference will be in Messina, Italy 13-15 June. With the overall theme ‘Actions for a sustainable world: from theory to practice’, there are 27 tracks designed to collectively address the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The conference will be preceded by a one day workshop for PhD students and followed by a choice of optional one day sustainability tours, which take full advantage of the spectacular scenery and ancient history of Sicily. See http://www.isdrsconference.org/ for information. Conference call is below; each track has its own call for papers on the website. Conference Call: On the basis of the multi-year fruitful experience acquired by ISDRS, the theme of the 24th Annual Conference, “Actions for a Sustainable World: from theory to practice” (ISDRS 2018), aims to emphasize that we reached a cornerstone in the concept and practice of sustainable development. Indeed, the greatest challenge that humanity faces today is that we plan and carry out human activities in a manner compatible with the Earth’s resource systems. Despite the fact that the concept of sustainable development has been developed and studied for several decades now, its practical application still seems limited and meaningful targets have not been met: indeed, we are still operating unsustainably. With the awareness that we must rethink our social and economic systems in order to make economic and social development more resource efficient and more equitable to all, both across the planet and in future generations, the ISDRS 2018 will bring together leading experts, policy-makers and the academic community to translate recent scientific advances into actions on many levels, addressing how to face the global economic, social and environmental challenges of sustainability for which each and every stakeholder must play its role. The theme aims to enable the participants to focus on how scientists and researchers are developing the theory and methods of sustainable development, as well as policy-makers, private and public organizations and citizens are translating them into real practice, and if those tools and related implementation will ensure the achievement of international goals, such as those set by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Dr. Pauline Deutz Geography, School of Environmental Sciences University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX UK Tel: 44 (0) 1482 465948 p.de...@hull.ac.uk<mailto:p.de...@hull.ac.uk> @DeutzPauline CRESTING: Circular Economy: Sustainability Implications and Guiding Progress: MSC ITN Jan 18-Dec 21 @crestingITN International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology Edited Deutz, Lyons and Bi (2015) http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/international-perspectives-on-industrial-ecology ISDRS Conference 2018 Messina, Italy http://www.isdrsconference.org/
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