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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow an announcement on the 5th World Sustainability Forum for your kind attention.

Amir Kassam

Moderator

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Subject: The 5th World Sustainability Forum - Call for Participation and Panels

WSF5 Conference

The 5th World Sustainability Forum: Transitioning toward Sustainability

7–9 September 2015, Basel, Switzerland

Dear Dr. Kassam,

The year 2015 is important for all of us. We are taking stock of the accomplishments based on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were adopted in the year 2000. The results of these efforts are immensely positive. However, not all goals have been achieved and some regions have benefitted less. The period marked by the MDGs will end in December 2015.

As part of the post-2015 development agenda, the international community is working intensely on a new set of goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be adopted at the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in the second half of September 2015.

Conference Themes

The 5th World Sustainability Forum aims to be a platform for researchers to present and engage with others on issues relating to sustainability in three thematic areas:
  • Science, Technology, and Energy
  • Consumption, Lifestyles, Mobility, and Cities
  • Economics, Business, and Management
We seek to contribute to policy-relevant, change-oriented, and transdisciplinary research and collaboration from science and technology, the life sciences, and the social sciences across these three thematic areas and covering the following sustainability dimensions:

Economic
Development
Social
Development
Environmental
Protection
Sustainable Science, Technology, and Energy Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3
Sustainable Consumption, Lifestyles, Mobility, and Cities Panel 4 Panel 5 Panel 6
Sustainability in Economics, Business, and Management Panel 7 Panel 8 Panel 9

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

  • Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Special Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
  • Prof. Klaus Leisinger, Special Advisor on business ethics to the Global Compact of the United Nations and on the post-2015 development policy.
  • Prof. Mark Rosen, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

How to Contribute?

Registration:

Registration information can be found on Sciforum.net.
If you have questions or need assistance, please email the Conference Secretariat.
Registration fees are listed on Sciforum.net

Panel Proposals

  • Submit a 300 word abstract in English on the focus and purpose of your panel.
  • Indicate at least two paper presenters who will participate in your panel.
  • Indicate which panel would be your first and second choice, referring to the table above (Panel 1 to Panel 9).
  • Add your name, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address.
  • Submit the panel proposal not later than 15 April 2015 to [log in to unmask]. You will be notified by 30 April 2015.

Paper Proposals

  • Create an account on Sciforum.net and follow the procedure to "Submit a New Abstract" in your User Home
  • Indicate which thematic area is best suited for your paper (Science, Technology, and Energy; Consumption, Lifestyles, Mobility, and Cities; Economics, Business, and Management)
  • Submit a 300 word abstract in English, including the focus and contribution to sustainability. If it is an empirical paper, include information about the data and data analysis, as well as the most relevant findings.
  • Submit the paper proposal not later than 15 April 2015. You will be notified by 30 April 2015.
Once your abstract is accepted:

The draft of your paper should be submitted until the day of the conference.
In agreement with the organizing committee, the final version of the article will be have to submitted until 31 December 2015, either for publication in one of the three edited books, or for peer-review and possible publication in the Special Issue of Sustainability.

Posters

  • Create an account on Sciforum.net and follow the procedure to "Submit a New Abstract" in your User Home
  • Indicate which thematic area is best suited for your poster (Science, Technology, and Energy; Consumption, Lifestyles, Mobility, and Cities; Economics, Business, and Management)
  • Submit a 200 world abstract in English, including the focus and contribution to sustainability. If it is an empirical poster, include information about the data and data analysis, as well as the most relevant findings.
  • Submit the poster proposal not later than 15 April 2015. You will be notified by 30 April 2015.

Publication Opportunities

  • Special issue relating to this conference in the journal Sustainability.
    Sustainability is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and has an Impact Factor of 1.077 (Journal Citations Reports, 2013).
  • Three edited books, one for each of the three thematic areas, of a new book series entitled Frontiers in Sustainability. A DOI number will be registered for each paper published in the edited books.
  • All Panel abstracts, paper abstracts, posters and presentations will be available online in Open Access on Sciforum.net.
We, the co-chairs of the conference and I, as well as the organizing institutions, are looking forward to welcoming you at The 5th World Sustainability Forum at the University of Basel from 7 to 9 September 2015.

Max Bergman, Chair

Sponsors

www.mdpi.com                     sustainability-logo                     www.unibas.ch

Conference Secretariat

Dr. Franck Vazquez
Matthias Burkhalter
Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland
Office: Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34
Fax +41 61 302 89 18
www.mdpi.com
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