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- a. Environmental Sustainability
- b. Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Economic Sustainability
- c. Social Values for a Sustainable Economy
- d. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources
- e. Sustainable Urban Development
- f. Sustainable Development Policy, Practice and Education
- g. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Innovation
- h. Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Management of Land and Biodiversity
- i. Related Topics
- Event Details
Call for Papers
Conference Chairs
Marc Rosen
[Not defined]
[email protected]
Milos Cuculovic
MDPI AG
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Samanta La Russa
MDPI AG
[email protected]
Stefan Schneider
MDPI
[email protected]
Cedric Madoerin
MDPI
[email protected]
Sessions
A. Environmental SustainabilityB. Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Economic Sustainability
C. Social Values for a Sustainable Economy
D. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources
E. Sustainable Urban Development
F. Sustainable Development Policy, Practice and Education
G. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Innovation
H. Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Management of Land and Biodiversity
I. Related Topics
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.
1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 16 September 2013.2. The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for 3rd World Sustainability Forum.
All authors will be notified by 27 September 2013 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper, until the submission deadline of 13 October 2013.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on sciforum.net/conference/wsf3/page/call for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 1 – 30 November 2013.
5. The Open Access Journal Sustainability will publish the proceedings of the conference as a Special Issue. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
First page:
Title
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
(Acknowledgements)
References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer – [email protected] to get to know more about the procedure. This is an unique way of presenting your paper and discuss it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!
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Accepted File Formats:
MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the World Sustainability Forum Microsoft Word template file must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
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Manuscript Preparation
Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
Formatting / Style: The paper style of the Journal Sustainability should be followed. You may download a template file to prepare your paper. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section. It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
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List of accepted submissions (50)
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sciforum-001838 | Life Cycle Approach: A Critical Review in the Tourism Sector | , , | N/A |
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Sustainability is a key factor of competitiveness. It is important that sustainability assessments are effectively addressed in a global perspective. Therefore, beside instruments such as, for example, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment, which analyze the environmental, economic and social impacts throughout the life cycle of a product/process or a service, different tools and approaches are adopted as strategic tools for the management to evaluate more in detail and in an organic manner the impacts in terms of sustainability. Among these, it is particularly significant that the Life Cycle Management, being still in its early stage of development, is not applied by means globally shared, but presents extremely promising methodological features. For these reasons, it seemed interesting to propose an application to tourism activities, for the particular characteristics of service delivery, which better than others lend themselves to the development of data related to sustainability. The main goal of this paper is to present a wide theoretical review in literature for the tourism sector application, characterizing gaps and critical issues and, at the same time, outlining the well-established assumptions and the unexplored themes by the international community about this topic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
sciforum-001253 | An Energy and Economic Analysis of Energy Crops Processing into Bioethanol as a Gasoline Substitute |
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Two crops, energy cane and sweet sorghum which could be cultivated at marginal lands in subtropical climate (southeast U.S.) were analyzed to determine their potential to be processed into bioethanol as a gasoline substitute. A solution of sucrose and reducing sugars (shortly sugars) separated in the form of "juice" by squeezing those crops is a well known semi-product to be converted into bioethanol by a greatly established in Brazil technology (1G-technology). The residue is called bagasse and consisted of fiber and moisture. Fiber (mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) could be employed in the process of its lignocellulosic conversion to make a solution of sugars as an intermediate step in their fermentation into bioethanol. This technology (2G-technology) is yet at a development stage. Bagasse, on the other hand, is an energy carrier required to generate electricity and steam essential for both technologies. The analysis was done for the case when all the necessary energy demand is satisfied by the internally generated bagasse what makes the process of bioethanol production fully renewal and self-sufficient (sustainable). Due to a seasonal character of harvesting and continuous bioethanol manufacturing, the calculated energy balance accounts for sugars storage in the form of their concentrated solution (syrup). The economic efficiency for bioethanol production as a gasoline substitute was determined in comparison with the power generation option in dependence on gasoline and electricity prices meaning that both crops could be combusted to generate renewable electricity. As was shown by the analysis, manufacturing of bioethanol from sugars in "juice" compared to the sugars obtained through lignocellulosic conversion is associated with 2.5-4 times higher economic efficiency. In order to stay competitive with renewable electricity, bioethanol from fiber should include both cellulose and hemicellulose conversion into fermentable to bioethanol sugars. In spite of a higher sugars percentage in the sweet sorghum "juice", the relative selling cost of one tonne of energy cane supposed to be higher due to greater (more than three times) fiber content. The analysis showed that sugars in crops have value about three times higher than fiber; therefore, taking into account this proportion, increasing sugars content at the expense of fiber could be the way to improve quality of energy cane varieties. A greater yield of energy cane also favors a better economic land-use efficiency to produce bioethanol as a gasoline substitute. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
sciforum-002654 | Fear to Fail and Entrepreneurship: A Deterrent Factor for Sustainable Development in Middle East? |
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All over the world scientists agree that entrepreneurship plays a significant role for the sustainable development and well-being of society. New business creation is undoubtedly one of the most relevant aspects for the economic growth, social development and competitiveness of countries (Wennekers, Thurik, 1999; Wennekers et al., 2005; Audretsch, Keilbach, 2004; Stel et al., 2005). Entrepreneurship can stimulate economy with the dynamism on macro level, future job creation and innovation. Positive entrepreneurial attitudes are generally linked to higher business start-up rates, but in the end – actual entrepreneurial actions (owning or co-owning) reveal the state of entrepreneurship in particular country. Therefore the aim of this paper is to analyse the state of entrepreneurial attitudes in 2009 – 2012 in Middle East region.Empirical data analysis is based on representative quantitative Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Adult Population Surveys and it includes countries like Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, UAE, and Yemen. Data analysis shows that entrepreneurship in this region is interpreted as very desirable career choice. Despite this fact, not so many individuals have entrepreneurial intentions or/ and some of them also fear to fail, which could be interpreted as one of the deterrent factors for starting a new business. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
sciforum-001104 | Industrial Risk in Thessaloniki and Urban Regeneration Context |
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The venture of Industrial Risk concerns life, natural – built environment and socio-economic activities. The aim of the research is to identify the threat, its awareness and to ensure the protection of residents. Activities that can lead to a Major Accident (MA), installation process of new units – establishments and responsibilities of investors and the state, are indicated in European Directives, called SEVESO. Employers have responsibility for safety within the industrial establishment; the state is responsible for the perimeter. So governments are responsible for the methods determining the Protection Zones (PZ), the expected impacts of a MA per zone and the Major Accident Prevention Policy (MAPP). In Greece these arrangements are not a result of institutionally entrenched methodological choices. For the first time, new SEVESO installations are related to Land Use Planning in the Directive SEVESO II of 1996, without referring to the existing proximity of corresponding activities to the urban fabric.Western Thessaloniki is the territory in danger and especially the Urban Units (UU) 4 and 5 of Elefterio Kordelio. It is established the fact that the parameter of industrial risk is absent from the urban planning of the area. The urban paradox of residents ’ coexistence to the risk (threat) is probably caused by the diachronic vicinity of urban tissue with industries, without any relative preoccupation, despite occasional incidents. There is not a fauve impact just because of ignorance and lack of information, despite any clear provision from Directives SEVESO. The parameter of industrial risk is completely absent from the urban planning of that region. The correlation of existing protection zones with urban areas, where anticipated impacts in case of major accident, shows a series of conclusions concerning terms and conditions of coexistence.SEVESO installations are obliged to reduce effectively the width of PZ I and II (best practices, closing down, relocation), habitants of UU 5 must be removed directly (changing accommodation, relocation) and finally a plan of Urban Regeneration must be applied in UU 4 in order to temporarily remove urban activities (utilities), disperse land uses, enforce building shells and reuse them, create open spaces, form evacuation plans, create digital info – systems (Information and Communication Technologies ICT), etc. The measures of the above framework will remain active, until the reduction of protection zone II, so that the urban unit 4 will not be covered. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
sciforum-002625 | The Role of Community Values and Social Capital in Combating Soil Degradation in Central Chile Dryland Region. | N/A |
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The unirrigated Mediterranean region of Central Chile is characterized by high levels of soil degradation and rural poverty. However, in most cases, these issues have been approached and analyzed separately. In one hand, soil degradation has been mainly attributed to “poor agricultural practices” conducted through the years by the small farmers and peasant communities that inhabit the region. In the other hand, rural poverty is commonly attributed to the low access to economic opportunities and quality education. The public proposals to address these problems have taken a linear and common path; promoting the entrance of the forest industry and the migration to urban areas. Besides these actions, from a macro point of view, it has been established the introduction of agricultural machinery and intensive agricultural methods as an answer for development, which are far from being suited for the ecological and cultural context. This paper analyze the main historical and socio-cultural factors behind this socio-environmental issue, emphasizing in how qualitative factors related to the loss of social capital and the disintegration of communities have had fundamental implications in the environmental problem of soil degradation. Also it attempts to propose causes and solutions that go beyond the technical and neo-Malthusian explanations for this case, presenting social cohesion and territorial empowerment as the bases for a sustainable agriculture in environmentally vulnerable regions. |
List of Authors (92)
Proceedings & Editors
Chair of the 3rd World Sustainability Forum
Scientific Advisory Committee
Organizing Committee
Ms Samanta La Russa, MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
List of Keynotes & Videos
Energy Research for Sustainability
Sustainable Food Systems in the 21st Century
A. Environmental Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Miklas Scholz, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom
Session Chair
Professor Miklas Scholz, The University of Salford
B. Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Economic Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Henning Madsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Session Chair
Dr. Henning Madsen
C. Social Values for a Sustainable Economy
Dr. Michael J. Heckenberger, University of Florida, USA
Session Chair
Professor Michael Heckenberger
D. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, CSIC-UCM, Spain
Dr. Vladimir Strezov, Macquarie University, Australia
Session Chairs
Professor Vladimir Strezov
Professor Jesus Martinez-Frias, Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM)
E. Sustainable Urban Development
Dr. Michael J. Heckenberger, University of Florida, USA
Session Chair
Professor Michael Heckenberger
F. Sustainable Development Policy, Practice and Education
Prof. Dr. Christopher Koroneos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Session Chair
Professor Christopher Koroneos
G. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Innovation
H. Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Management of Land and Biodiversity
Prof. Dr. Daniele Riccio, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Session Chair
Professor Daniele Riccio
I. Related Topics
Prof. Dr. Marc Rosen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada