Conferences

Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2021, Aug 31-Sept 3.
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) is the learned society and professional body for geography. Geography, by its very nature, looks outwards and acts inclusively. As an independent, self-financing learned society and professional body, so does the RGS-IBG. We are absolutely committed to the importance of international collaboration in research, scholarship, teaching and field science and the value of sharing ideas, understanding and perspectives widely. The annual conference is international in nature and outlook. Each year we welcome hundreds of colleagues from around the world, with a third of attendees coming from outside the UK. We are committed to continuing this open and outward-facing approach, and particularly welcome contributions by international delegates to the conference programme.

Webinar: Food-Water-Energy: Nexus approaches for
sustainable development and improved living standards, March 4th 2021
This webinar is one of a series organized by ENRICH in LAC and JPI Urban Europe on sustainable urbanization. The aim of this workshop series is to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and experiences between some Latin American countries and Europe. The webinar will build upon previously organized events in the series on Positive Energy Districts, organized within the ANPEI 2020 Conference and Urban Living Labs.

Heuristics and Decision-Making in the Circular Economy – Taking steps towards a more sustainable future, February 25 2021
Transitioning towards a more sustainable future requires overcoming our current linear approach to resources use. However, transitioning to a Circular Economy (CE) is not unproblematic and comes with its own challenges. In this workshop, we will present a Circular Decision Tree developed at DRIFT, a leading Dutch research institute in the field of sustainable transitions. We invite you to reflect with us on the uncertainties, paradoxes and dilemmas of decision making in CE transition, and to learn and discuss about the proposed heuristic, and to identify its potential practical benefit within your and other fields.

Second Utrecht Degrowth Symposium: From Circular Economy to Circular Society, March 11 2020 | Utrecht, The Netherlands.
From their website: "The second Utrecht Degrowth Symposium: From Circular Economy to Circular Society will be held at Utrecht University on Friday, May 15. During the event we will discuss what a circular society can look like and how it can be achieved from the perspectives of practitioners and academics alike. The symposium will stimulate timely and much needed debate on a holistic societal transformation.
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Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, February 25-26 2021| Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 
​This conference will take stock of existing knowledge and practical solutions from all disciplines around the challenge of rapidly innovating, experimenting, scaling up and accelerating the global transition to sustainability. The conference will also explore how best to integrate the experimental and deductive lines of reasoning of the natural sciences with the holistic and critical perspectives of the humanities and social sciences and the appropriate communication skills to disseminate this knowledge to policymakers and the public.

Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Conference 2020, September 21-22, 2020 | Freiburg, Germany. 
​This conference aims to open the current circular economy debates more towards critical engagement with the socio-political realities that circular economy efforts face and the multi-faceted effects of implementation. Ultimately, the conference seeks to provide policy and practice with the critical insights needed to achieve socio-ecologically sustainable outcomes.

International Degrowth Conference, 1-5 September 2020 in Manchester, UK. 
​This conference will bring together academics from the Degrowth and Ecological Economics communities, voices from the Global North and Global South, civil society actors, activists, artists and policy-makers. It aims to break down silos and stimulate dialogues between and within different perspectives, disciplines and social movements.

Dresden Nexus Conference 2020  Circular Economy in a Sustainable Society, 3-5 June 2020, Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden. 
​DNC is a one-of-a-kind event, bringing together actors from academia, civil society, industry, and government from all over the world to discuss the sustainable management of environmental resources in Dresden. DNC2020 aims to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy by focusing on identifying and discussing the concepts that nexus thinking offers to support the transition towards a circular economy. For more information on the conference theme and stakeholders, we encourage you to visit our website 2020.dresden-nexus-conference.org.

Financing Greener Cities 8-9 October 2019, Athens, Greece.
ICLEI Europe, in cooperation with the EKLIPSE project, is hosting a two-day capacity-building workshop titled,“Financing Greener Cities – Strengthening the capacity of local authorities and practitioners for making informed decisions on financing nature-based solutions.” Representatives of local and regional governments, practitioners, academic experts, and representatives of not-for-profit organisations interested in learning about financing arrangements for biodiversity, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions are invited to apply to participate in this workshop. Link to conference here

African Climate Risk Conference 7-9 October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. JPI Urban Europe session on  “SUGI: Tackling urban challenges by co-creating knowledge on food-water-energy nexus”. With this session we aim to discuss how the work conducted in your SUGI projects can be used in the context of African urbanization and climate change. Furthermore, the session will aim at distilling issues where research/innovation is needed for solving challenges in African urban areas. Link to conference here

Gordon Research Conferences on Urbanization, Water and Food Security, Integrative Urbanization, Water and Food Security, July 21-26, 2019, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. Link to conferences site here

10th International Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, from July 7 to 11, 2019. Link to conference here

 American Association of Geographers (AAG), Participatory mapping and modelling in urban resource and infrastructure governance  &  The Food – Water – Energy Nexus in an urban context, Washington, DC , April 3-7 2019