15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference

The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS, www.isdrs.org) is pleased to announce its 15th annual conference to be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Netherlands provides a very exiting platform and context for global sustainable development scientific research, policy and practice. The  central theme of the conference is ”Taking Up the Global Challenge: Analysing the implementation of innovations and governance for sustainable development".

We have a very attractive plenary program, with amongst the international speakers Prof. Dr R.K. Pachauri (Director General TERI, India, Chairman IPCC) and the famous Prof. Dr. Dennis Meadows (Institute for Policy and Social Science Research, University of New Hampshire, USA), author of Limits to Growth and many subsequent works.

We organize many track sessions, grouped in 5 main themes:

• Sustainability Science;
• Climate Change and Energy;
• Sustainable Land Use & Regional Approaches;
• Innovation for Sustainable Production
• Consumption and Governance for Sustainable Development.

Calls for Papers are available for all track sessions.

The deadline for abstracts is January 1st, 2009. About 400-500 environmental scientists from all around the world will participate in this event. The general scope of the debate, as well as the 25 track calls are described in detail on the conference website

Please now also note the very exciting excursion program. On the website you can find various alternatives for post conference excursions which will enable you to experience the various front running examples of implementing sustainable development strategies in The Netherlands.

The conference works with double blind peer reviewed papers and also has an option for poster presentations. Deadline for submitting abstracts to the call for papers is January 1st, 2009.

The full registration fee also covers a one year membership in the International Sustainable Development Research Society, ISDRS (www.isdrs.org) including a one year subscription, with six issues a year, of the academic journal Sustainable Development.