Call for Participation 

 

We are thrilled to share that we have received approximately 500 submissions from researchers and practitioners spanning the globe. Our team is diligently working to curate an exceptional program that showcases your valuable contributions and maintains a high standard of quality.

Please note that notification regarding the acceptance of your submission will be sent out by mid-March.

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Conference (sub)themes include, but are not limited to:

Themes & Sub-Themes

• Sustainable consumption and lifestyles
  • Experiments, interventions, and case studies in sustainable lifestyles
  • Lessons from the COVID19-pandemic about lifestyle changes
  • Digitalization of work and consumption 
  • Social innovation and sustainable practices
  • Defining a fair living space: an international perspective
• Sustainable production, sustainable business, innovation & design for sustainability 
  • Methods for sustainable production and industry research
  • Sustainable industry and eco-industrial parks
  • Sustainability assessment and indicators
  • Sustainable innovation, business models, and sustainable management
  • Design for sustainability and sustainable behavior
• Governance for sustainable consumption and production
  • The roles of local, regional, and (inter)national policy-making in transitioning to sustainable consumption and production systems
  • Policy in action: empirical case studies
  • Interactions between science, society, and policy
  • Drivers of change toward sustainable lifestyle: from international to local to cross-cultural perspectives
  • Engaging middle actors in advancing system change: professionals, experts, tradesmen, educators, business owners, etc.
• Circular economy, circular society, and critical materials
  • Circular systems and circularity management
  • Circular business models
  • Circular design and circular products
  • Circular & closed-loop supply chains & value chains
  • Circular and sustainable procurement
  • From circular economy to circular society
  • Consumption in the circular society
  • Methods for circularity and circular economy
• Alternative, diverse, and plural economics for sustainability transitions
  • Feasibility, desirability, and likelihood of transitioning to 1.5-degree lifestyles and economy
  • Wellbeing and care-centered approaches as frameworks for social transformations
  • Lessons from experiments with alternatives to GDP
  • Advances in steady-state economy and degrowth: research and practice
  • Experiments with guaranteed basic income and guaranteed basic services
• Sustainable cities and regions and local action
  • Sustainable consumption and production in urban contexts
  • Urban design, buildings, and transportation for sustainable lifestyles
  • Making density attractive: theory and practice 
  • Sustainable consumption and production in rural areas and sustainable tourism
• Social movements, social learning, and social innovations
  • Discourses, dialogue, narratives, and social learning for strong sustainable consumption and production systems
  • Grassroots and social innovations for sustainable consumption and production
  • Societal impact of sustainable consumption and production research
• Sustainable food, agriculture, and agri-business
  • Agri-food system transitions and biodiversity-positive agri-business
  • Sustainable food security and valuing water 
  • Sustainable protein consumption and production (protein transition) and the shift to plant-based diets