3D. Industrial ecology, symbiosis, eco-industrial parks and resource recovery.
Industrial symbiosis draws its conceptual foundation from the ecological metaphor of biological symbiosis. Companies engaged in industrial symbiosis can be co-located in an eco-industrial park or distributed across a city or region. Industrial symbiosis offers potential environmental and economic efficiencies that have attracted policy and business interest across the world, both in terms of industrial transformation and of regional sustainability. In this area, resource recovery is also relevant and includes urban and landfill mining. This track invites state-of-the-art conceptual and methodological studies, as well as case studies. '
CALL for ABSTRACTS & PAPERS
ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference25-29 October 2010, Delft
The call for abstracts and papers for the ERSCP-EMSU 2010 conference is open. The ERSCP-EMSU 2010 conference will take place in Delft, the Netherlands, on 25-29 October 2010. It is a joint effort by TU Delft, TNO and The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The conference title is Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation and the themes include (i) Sustainable Consumption and Production, (ii) Sustainable Innovation and Design , (iii) Climate, Water, Energy , (iv) Sustainability in Higher Education, (v) Sustainable Cities and Regions . The call and the flyer can also be downloaded from the Conference website at http://www.erscp-emsu2010.org/file_download/
The European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) is a non-profit forum that provides a platform to stimulate, develop and disseminate new initiatives aimed at fostering the implementation of concepts involving sustainable consumption and production and approaches within local and regional sustainable development initiatives.
Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU) has evolved into a series of international conferences that explore the role of universities in creating new knowledge and attitudes to meet today’s environmental challenges. EMSU promotes a two way exchange of knowledge between universities and society.
The conference's organizing committee invites representatives of academia, business, government, NGOs and civil society organizations to submit abstracts for (1) paper presentations or (2) poster presentations, as well as proposals for (3) discussion workshops/roundtables or (4) paper sessions that are within the Conference's scope or themes. All proposals have to be submitted online at http://www.erscp-emsu2010.org/submissions before March 1, 2010. Full papers are due at the 1st of September. More information can be found in the call and on the website. The organising committee can be contacted at conference@erscp-emsu2010.org.
The conference themes are:
Sustainable Universities and Higher Education
Knowledge Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation, Design, Business & CSR
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Climate, Energy, Water
Sustainable Cities and Regions
Sustainable Consumption, Production and Innovation in Developing Countries
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ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference, 25-29 October, Delft, the Netherlands,
'KNOWLEDGE COLLABORATION & LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION'
www.erscp-emsu2010.org