The 11th World Sustainability Forum
Sustainable and Resilient Cities
the chairs
Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Irene Petrosillo
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Global Conference Chairs
Conference Secretariat
wsf11@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJun 30, 2025
- Abstract acceptance notificationJul 31, 2025
- EARLY BIRD Academic Registration end dateAug 17, 2025
- Academic Registration start dateAug 18, 2025
- Academic Registration end dateOct 02, 2025
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Cosimo Magazzino
Department of Political Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance, Sapienza-University of Rome, Rome, Italy;
He is currently a Professor of Economic Policy, European Economic Policy, and Environmental and Energy Economics in the Department of Political Science, Roma Tre University (Italy); International Financial Markets, LINK Campus University (Italy); Environmental and Tourism Economics, "Niccolò Cusano" University (Italy). He is a member of the Ph.D. Council on Political Science, Roma Tre University (Italy). He coordinated the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) Research program “Quality of public finances and impact on potential output”. His research interests include: public finance; energy econometrics; environmental Kuznets curve; time series econometrics; panel data models; Machine Learning experiments; Artificial Neural Network analyses; environmental sustainability; circular economy; waste management; transportation infrastructure; agricultural economics.
Prof. Dr. Weiqi Zhou
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;
Weiqi Zhou received his B.Sc. degree in environmental sciences from Peking University, Beijing, in 2001; his M.Sc. degree in cartography and geographic information systems from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 2004; and his Ph.D. degree in natural resources from the University of Vermont, Burlington. He is currently working at the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research professor. He is experienced in urban landscape dynamic analysis using geographic information system and remote sensing technologies, especially with high spatial resolution remote sensing images.
Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef
GREDEG CNRS, Université Côté d’Azur, 5 Rue du 22ème BCA, 06300 Nice, France;
Adel Ben Youssef is a Professor of Economics at the Université Côte d'Azur and a member of the CNRS research laboratory (GREDEG - CNR UMR 7321). He is also an associate researcher at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo and the Global Labor Organization in Bonn. He is an international expert on digital and ecological transitions for many international institutions. He is a founding member of the African Association of Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 (AISMA). In addition, he was a negotiator for Tunisia at COP 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 (2017-2023) in the field of climate finance. He has published more than 100 academic articles in various renowned international journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Platforms Journal (MDPI), Associate Editor of the journals Development and Sustainability in Economics and Finance (Springer) and Green and Low-Carbon Economy (GLCE). He is ranked among the top 4% of economists in the last 10 years by REPEC and the top 2% of economists by scholar GPS.
Prof. Dr. Federica Farneti
Department of Sociology and Economic Law, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;
She obtained the Bachelor of Economics and Commerce - first class honours, at the University of Bologna in 1998, then she finished a PhD in Economics and Management of Public Organisations, at The University of Salerno in 2004. In 2005, she took over the position of Assistant Professor in Business Studies, at the Department of Economics and Business Law, University of Bologna. In 2015, she earned the National (Italian) Qualification as Full Professor in Business Studies.
Prof. Dr. Sara Gonzalez Garcia
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain;
Chemical engineer as degree (USC, 2005), she got her PhD in 2009. She is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela under the Ramón y Cajal fellowship. Her main research topics include the sustainability assessment applying life cycle assessment and carbon footprint in industrial, forestry, agricultural and food sectors. These research activities have produced 3 PhD theses (currently, she is co-director of 1 Ph.D. thesis), 100 papers published in international journals (56 as first author; 88 Q1, 10 Q2 and 2 Q3), 8 book chapters and 3 national publications. She has an H-index of 27 (with 2020 total citations by SCOPUS, 03/09/2018). She obtained the Young research award “Agustin de Betancourt y Molina” medal by Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering in November 2016.
Dr. Cor Schipper
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
Dr. Cor Schipper did research as biochemist, ecotoxicologist and linked the UN Sustainable Development Goals to masterplans. He has published over 50 scientific articles (H index= 21) on the topics of environmental geochemistry, marine policy and ecotoxicology, of which several focus on the environmental risk assessment. Last years Schipper studied as expert of masterplan development and fulfill several nature based solution masterplan projects. He was program manager of wetland restorations.
Prof. Dr. Jim Lynch
Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences Emeritus, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK;
Jim graduated in industrial chemistry from Loughborough University in 1968, took a PhD from Kings College London in 1971 (both on BP Scholarships) and a DSc from Kings in 1984. After 12 years at Letcombe Laboratory (Oxfordshire) as Head of Microbiology, in 1983 he became Head of Microbiology and Crop Protection at Horticulture Research International. From 1993-2003 he was Professor of Biotechnology and Head of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Surrey; since 2004 he has been Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences in the Centre for Environment and Sustainability. During his tenure as Head he trebled the income and led it to become the top Biomedical Sciences School in the UK. He was a Member of the University Board (budget £200m pa) and also served on the Board of the Surrey Research Park, which was the largest in Europe. Between 2003 and 2007 he was a Board Member of the Forestry Commission (budget £200m pa), and Chief Executive of the Research Agency. From 2007-2010 he was Senior Advisor to the South East England Development Agency (budget £200m pa) and he created the Thames Gateway Institute for Sustainability. From 2011-2013 he was Director at DMC International Imaging at Surrey Satellite Technology (a Division of Airbus Space and Defence) and since 2017 he has been Head of Global Landscapes at Earth-i based on the Surrey Research Park. He has been Visiting Professor in Europe (Oxford, Reading, Kings College London, Imperial College and Helsinki) and in the USA employed by USDA (Washington State and Oregon State). He has published fifteen books, over 300 papers and given over 60 keynote international lectures. He was awarded the UNESCO Microbiology Prize and was the first recipient of the Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Specialists.
Prof. Dr. Brian D. Fath
Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA;
Brian D. Fath is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University, Maryland, USA. He teaches courses in ecosystem ecology, environmental biology, networks, and human ecology and sustainability. He has taught courses on ecological networks and modeling in Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and South Africa. Fath is also a Principal Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria and serves as Scientific Coordinator of IIASA’s Young Scientist Summer Program. He held Fulbright Distinguished Chair positions at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy (2012) and Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic (2019).
Professor Fath’s scholarship explores the patterns and processes of social-ecological system sustainability using network analysis and environmental systems modeling. He has published over 200 research papers, reports, and book chapters and has co-authored the books Explaining Technology (2023); A New Ecology: Systems perspective (2020); Foundations for sustainability (2018); Flourishing within limits to growth (2015); and Ecological Modelling 4th ed. (2011). He is also the editor-in-chief for both the four-volume Encyclopedia of Ecology 2nd ed. (2018) and the six-volume Environmental Management Handbook 2nd ed. (2021). Furthermore, he serves as editor-in-chief for Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management, and he is the past editor of the journal, Ecological Modelling. Fath was also the 2016 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for outstanding work in systems ecology.
- S1. Emerging Technologies Implementation for Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities
- S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector
- S3. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Systems
- S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape
- S5. Circular Economy
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| Start Time | Plenary | Start Time | Break Out Room 1 | Break Out Room 2 | Break Out Room 3 |
| 08:30 | Registrations are Open! | ||||
| 09:00 | Welcome! | ||||
| S1. Emerging Technologies Implementation for Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities | S3. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Systems | S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape | S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector | ||
| 09:10 | Keynote: Integrating Industry 4.0 with sustainability: Opportunities, challenges, and contemporary debates (Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef) | ||||
| 09:50 | From High Intrinsic Motivation to Sustainable Resilience: Childcare for School-Age Children in Household-Registration-Based Communities—A Field Investigation of the Multi-Actor “Tongxin Post” Volunteer Network in S Garden, L-Community, Guangdong Province (Wang Xiaochun) | 09:50 | Invited Speaker: Climate Change in Calabria: Evidence, Challenges, and Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (Dr. Tommaso Caloiero) | Keynote: Sustainability reporting in private and public sector organisations (Prof. Dr. Federica Farneti) | |
| 10:05 | Sustainable site selection for urban eVTOL vertipads: A two-stage group decision-making model based on social network analysis (Xinjing Huang) | 10:30 | Interplay of Climate Change, Population Growth, and Building Stock Expansion in Egypt: Pathways to Energy-Efficient Buildings Development (Hebatallah Abdulhalim Mahmoud Abdulfattah) | Urban Sprawl and Socio-Spatial Inequality in Mexico’s Largest Cities: Implications for a Sustainable Urban Landscape (Reynaldo Hinojosa Contreras) | Developing and monitoring socio-environmental indicators for the INOV.AM Consortium: a baseline approach (Samara Costa) |
| 10:20 | Strategic Pathways to Sustainable Development: A Novel Mixed Method Approach to SDG Progression in the Caribbean (Shaherah Jordan) | 10:45 | Investigating the potential of Community Gardens to foster shared ownership of Public Green Spaces in Malta (Ryan Debono) | ||
| 10:35 | Embedded Sensors for Corrosion Control in Concrete Structures: A Case Study in Valencia (Josep Ramon Lliso-Ferrando) | ||||
| 11:00 BREAK | |||||
| S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape | S3. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Systems | S1. Emerging Technologies Implementation for Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities | S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector | ||
| 11:30 | Keynote: A scaling law for predicting urban tree canopy cooling efficiency (Prof. Dr. Weiqi Zhou) | ||||
| 12:10 | Upcycling Prefabricated Building Materials to Develop Pavilions for Community Gardens in Huddersfield, UK (Ayana Ifeorah) | 12:10 | Transforming Higher Education: Universities as Living Laboratories for Sustainable Development Goals Integration (Stella Apostolaki) | From Stone to Pixels: Sustainable Tourism and Heritage Management Through The Digital Twin of Göbeklitepe, Turkey (Ceren Başaranoğlu Sevindi) | Environmental Management Control: A bibliometric analysis (Moussa Traore representing Fatima Zahrae Moudrikah) |
| 12:25 | Land surface temperature and land cover in Valencia with Landsat 9 (Ana Fernandez-Garza) | 12:25 | Exploring Planetary Health Resilience to Air Pollution across exposure durations using nationally representative data from Korea (Sujin Ma) | The EU’s Regulatory Approach to Advancing Net-Zero Technology Manufacturing as a Sustainable Emerging Sector (Raquel Carvalho) | Analysis of Communication strategies in Sustainability reports to foster Stakeholders’ Sustainability Mindset (Viktorija Jakubauskyte-Andriuliene) |
| 12:40 | 12:40 | Environmental Security as a Wide Concept in Sociology (Andreja Sršen) | Stakeholder Participation in an Innovation Ecosystem in the Philippines: A Human-Centric Approach to Localized Innovative Urban Planning (Dina Magnaye) | ||
| 13:10 LUNCH | |||||
| S6. Renewable Energy | S5. Circular Economy | S1. Emerging Technologies Implementation for Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities | S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector | ||
| 14:40 | Keynote: Sustainability: a configuration of autocatalytic processes (Prof. Dr. Brian Fath) | ||||
| 15:20 | ***Circularity and Renewables in Sustainability: Challenges to Modern Growth Patterns (Eugene Eteris) | 15:20 | Strategies for Improving the Interconnection Performance of Regional Transport Infrastructure (Yiting Wang) | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Digital Age: A Systematic Bibliometric Analysis (Moussa Traore representing Dikra El Maguiri) | |
| 15:35 | Model of the new active customer relationship within the framework of the energy communities defined by the European Union in Catalonia (Eduard Falco-Artieda) | 15:35 | Bridging theory and practice: service collaboration and evaluation frameworks for inclusive circular cities (Roberto Viviani) | Balancing Heritage and Comfort: Optimizing Energy Efficiency through Sustainable Retrofitting of Traditional buildings in Tropical Warm-Humid Climate (Olutola Funmilayo Oyebanji) | Self-Rated Health and Environmentally Conditioned Needs: A Dynamic Model for Sustainable Urban Well-being (Darja Kobal Grum) |
| 15:50 | Key findings on organizational and planning challenges across different actors on PEDs (Enric González Gonzalo) | 15:50 | Early-Stage Circularity Assessment in the Manufacturing Industry: The Circularity Score (Ottavia Aleo) | ||
| 16:05 | Towards Energy Prosumers: a National-Scale Residential Profiling for Solar Potential Assessment in Italy (Paola Catalano) | 16:05 | Machine Learning for Resilient Cities: Mapping of Food Accessibility and Shock Vulnerability in Metropolis Hong Kong (Andrew Ka Tsui) | ||
| 16:35 MDPI World Sustainability Awards. Join Us For Networking And Drinks. | |||||
| 17:05 Stefan Tochev - CEO of MDPI | |||||
| 17:15 Emerging Leader Sustainability Award Presentations and Q&A | |||||
| 18:45 World Sustainability Awards Presentations and Q&A | |||||
| 21:00 End of Day 1 | |||||
| Start Time | Plenary | Start Time | Break Out Room 1 | Break Out Room 2 | Start Time | Break Out Room 3 |
| 08:30 | Registrations are Open! | |||||
| 09:00 | Opening Day 2 | |||||
| S3. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Systems | S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector | Poster Sessions | ||||
| 09:10 | Keynote: Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity (Dr. Cor Schipper) | |||||
| 09:50 | 09:50 | Invited Speaker: esg2go: a way to improve coherence, credibility and practicality of sustainability ratings for SMEs (Prof. Dr. Phillip Aerni) | POSTERS: S5. Circular Economy & S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape (09:50-11:25) | |||
| 10:05 | Child-Nature-based Experiences in Urban Preschools: A Comparative Analysis of Intervention Using User Participation Design (Farhana Mohammed Isa) | 10:30 | The Role of NGOs, Media, and Customers in Driving Alignment and Accountability in CSR and ESG Reporting (Agus Fahrurrozy Abdillah) | |||
| 10:20 | Does climate policy kill jobs? Assessing the gap between the objective and perceived job transition risk in Canada (Ekaterina Rhodes) | 10:45 | The quest for a Spatial ESG Framework for the Real Estate Sector (Thomas Blaschke) | |||
| 10:35 | Ecosystem benefits in emergencies in peri-urban areas in contexts of climate variability: northern Bogotá-Sabana de Bogotá (Nohra Leon) | |||||
| 11:00 BREAK | ||||||
| S5. Circular Economy | S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector | Poster Sessions | S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape | |||
| 11:30 | Keynote: Economic Slowdowns and Green Outcomes: Testing the Environmental Phillips Curve in Advanced Economies (Prof. Dr. Cosimo Magazzino) | POSTERS: S1. Emerging Technologies & S6. Renewable Energy (12:05-14:50) | ||||
| 12:10 | Life Cycle and Cost Analysis of Eco-Friendly Telecommunication Poles: From Waste to Infrastructure (Hector Gabriel Vieira Nunes) | 12:10 | Reporting for urban biodiversity from an ecology-for-the-city perspective (Sotirios Karatzimas) | 12:10 | Invited Speaker: The fragility of special areas of conservation to enhance habitat resilience (Prof. Dr. Donatella Valente) | |
| 12:25 | The Role of Environmental Regulations in Driving Corporate Eco-Innovation in China (Xuelian He) | 12:25 | Integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework in Marine Protected Area Management: A Comparative Document Analysis of Tubbataha and Apo Reefs Natural Parks (Jelica Refuerzo Enriquez) | 12:50 | Analysis of urban mobility on a University Campus: Greenhouse gas emissions at the Brusque University Centre (UNIFEBE), Brazil (Karol Diego Carminatti Baumgärtner) | |
| 12:40 | Sustainability through Sport: A Conceptual Framework for Circular Economy and SDG-Aligned Behavioral Learning in Youth Clubs (Ghada Ibrahim) | 12:40 | Enhancing AI Literacy and Sustainable Development Attitudes through AI-assisted Digital Storytelling among Higher Education Students in China (Di Chen) | 13:05 | Empowerment of Urban and Peri-Urban Youth through Traditional Apprenticeship Program: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Apprenticeship Program under the RAISE Project for Youth from Low-Income Households in Bangladesh (Alisha Pradhan representing Amartaya Das) | |
| 12:55 | Orange peel waste in the Circular Economy: an integrated assessment approach (Silvia Fiore) | Monitoring and Reporting the Progress of Sustainable Development Goals at the Regional Level: Evidence from Greek Regions (Efstathios Devves) | ||||
| 13:10 | Design and Implementation in Sustainable Business Model Innovation: The Uncaptured Value (Senad Osmanovic) | |||||
| 13:25 Lunch | ||||||
| S5. Circular Economy | S1. Emerging Technologies Implementation for Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities | Poster Sessions | S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape | |||
| 14:50 | Keynote: Loops of Change: How Dairy Waste Can Power the Circular Bioeconomy (Associate Professor Dr. Sara González García) | POSTERS: S2. Sustainable Reporting & S3. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Systems (15:30-end) | ||||
| 15:30 | Analysis of the management of textile waste at full scale in Italy (Silvia Fiore) | 15:30 | Invited Speaker: Prof. Dr. Cristina Baglivo | 15:30 | Assessing Artificial Shading and Evaporative Cooling for Enhanced Outdoor Thermal Comfort at the American University of Beirut (Zahraa Abdullah Diab) | |
| 15:45 | Development and Characterization of Sustainable Bio-Resins from Agricultural Waste for Eco-Friendly Lightweight Industrial Applications (Alhayat Getu Temesgen) | 16:10 | Climate, Culture, and Craft: Reclaiming Timber as an Architectural Signifier (Kalpanee Jayatilake) | 15:45 | Analysis of the relationships between NDVI, LST, and land use: comparison between urban and forest areas (Erica Maria Lovello) | |
| 16:00 | Valorisation of Red Mud: Disclosing the Potential of an Abundant Residue (Carlos Vielma Leal) | 16:25 | Optimizing multiple tier supplier networks with recurrent neural network model in reducing Scope 3 carbon footprint in a product supply chain (Eugene Yin Cheung Wong) | 16:00 | Jin'An Park, Fuzhou, China: Integrating Sustainable Development Goals with Traditional Landscape Aesthetics in Urban Blue-Green Space Planning and Design (Wenkui Wang) | |
| 16:15 | 16:40 | Reinforcement-Learning Control of Hybrid Ventilation for a Climate-Resilient Mediterranean Classroom (Hussein Krayem) |
16:15 Climate Change And Industry: A Systematic Literature Review And Bibliometric Insights On Mitigation And Adaptation (Timothy B. Palmer) |
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| 16:30 | Freeze–Thaw and Sulphate Resistance of Micro-Concrete with Recycled Brick as Fine Aggregate (Josep Ramon Lliso-Ferrando) | 16:55 | Leveraging Digital Infrastructure for Cultural Sustainability in Bangladesh (Alisha Pradhan) | |||
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Circular Material Strategies for Temporary Urban Interiors: Reframing Micro-Scale Design through the New European Bauhaus (Sükran Büsra Ümütlü) |
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17:00 Shaping Sustainable and Resilient Cities: OECD Insights |
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Poster Session A
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Sessions 4 and 5 - Location: Break-out room 2
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Posters: A1 – A23
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Friday, 03 October 2025 | 09:50–11:25
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Posters should be set up on Friday morning and must be removed by 11:30 on the same day.
Poster Session B
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Sessions 1 and 6 - Location: Break-out room 2
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Posters: B1 – B24
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Friday, 03 October 2025 | 12:05 – 14:50
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Posters should be set up on Friday after 11:30 and before 12:00, and must be removed by 15:00 on the same day.
Poster Session C
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Sessions 2 and 3 - Location: Break-out room 2
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Posters: C1 – C22
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Friday, 03 October 2025 | 15:30 – end
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Posters should be set up on Friday after 15:00 and must be removed by 17:30 on the same day.
Guidelines:
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Please print your poster before the conference and bring it with you. We will not provide on-site printing services or print it for you in advance.
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Posters should not be hung up or taken down during sessions with ongoing presentations. Please do so only during breaks, before sessions begin.
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Each presenter will be provided with a vertical poster board. Note that the maximum poster size is limited to A0: 84 x 120 cm / 33 x 47 in (width x height) in vertical orientation (portrait).
The list of posters, along with the poster numbers, titles, and presenting author, can be found below. Please contact us if the poster presenter's name is incorrect in this list (last updated on 30 September 2025).
By clicking on the button below, you can view and download the list of posters.
S1. Emerging Technologies Implementation for Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities
This session will address innovative practices, challenges in adoption, and their potential to create a better urban future.
- Session Presenter: Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef, GREDEG CNRS, Université Côté d’Azur, 5 Rue du 22ème BCA, 06300 Nice, France
S2. Sustainable Reporting and Communication in the Private and Public Sector
Topics will include best practices for ESG reporting, stakeholder engagement, and fostering accountability in both private and public sectors.
- Session Presenter: Professor Federica Farneti, Department of Sociology and Economic Law, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
S3. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Systems
This session will highlight adaptive strategies, ecosystem conservation, and policies to build resilience against climate impacts.
- Session Presenter: Dr. Tommaso Caloiero, National Research Council of Italy - Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI), Rende (CS), Italy
- Session Presenter: Dr. Cor Schipper, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Session Presenter: Professor Jim Lynch, Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences Emeritus, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
S4. Sustainable Urban Landscape
This session focuses on sustainable urban planning and design, emphasizing green infrastructure, biodiversity, and nature-based solutions.
- Session Presenter: Professor Donatella Valente, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salente, Lecce, Italy
- Session Presenter: Professor Weiqi Zhou, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
S5. Circular Economy
This session will focus on closed-loop systems to achieve sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Session Presenter: Prof. Dr. Cosimo Magazzino, Department of Political Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance, Sapienza-University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Session Presenter: Professor Sara Gonzales Garcia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
S6. Renewable Energy
Explore advancements in renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind, and biomass. This session will examine energy transition strategies and their role in reducing carbon footprints and fostering energy independence.
- Session Presenter: Professor Brian D. Fath, Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA
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