Call for abstracts

The organizing committee is pleased to invite authors to submit papers for EcoBalance 2018.

The theme of the conference is:

"Nexus of ideas: Innovation by linking through life cycle thinking"

Recently, issues relevant to sustainability have become diversified, while individual study areas have become highly specialized. EcoBalance 2018 seeks to share and promote innovation by linking ideas from different research fields through life cycle thinking towards unraveling sustainability issues which are highly intertwined.

Submissions are therefore particularly invited for papers addressing, but not limited to, one or more of the following featured coupled-topics or topics of interest. For all topics, both theoretical and practical contributions are welcome. We are calling for abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

Abstract must be submitted by February 28, 2018 and should not exceed 300 words in plain text. Abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 15, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be released on May 15, 2018.

Full paper submission will only be required for poster presenters who apply for the Poster Award competition. The full paper (within 7000 words) will be used for review only. The detailed format for the full paper will be announced later. Poster presenters who do not apply for the competition do not need to submit a full paper.

We hope to create a nexus of ideas, and discuss relevant challenges and results at the conference.

EcoBalance 2018 organizing committee

Featured coupled-topics

During the abstract submission process, you will be requested to select one of the following coupled-topics that is most relevant to your paper, if any. Even if your paper only addresses one component of the coupled-topic, you are encouraged to select it as a potential session.

  1. Business opportunities & Supply chain risks
  2. Artificial intelligence & Sustainability
  3. Green technologies & Material criticality
  4. Circular economy & Chemical risks
  5. Sustainable design & Behavioral science
  6. Local sustainability & Renewable energy
  7. Global mitigation & Local adaptation
  8. Water-energy-food nexus
  9. Policy-making & LCA
  10. Innovative policy design & Sustainability
  11. Technology as enabler of collective wisdom for LCA
  12. National hotspot analysis & Global supply chains
  13. Environmental Footprint - comprehensiveness of analysis vs. simplicity of communication

Topics of interest

During the abstract submission process, you will also be requested to choose two or three of the following topics that are relevant to your paper. In addition to the above featured coupled-topics, we hope that new linked-topics will emerge from these participant-generated combinations.

  • Resource resilience/efficiency
  • Sustainable energy supply
  • Corporate value chain
  • Social value of materials
  • Social hotspots
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Environmental education
  • Environmental footprint
  • Environmental labeling
  • Sharing/on-demand economy
  • Green ICT/IoT
  • Sustainable cities/communities
  • Remanufacturing
  • Recycling/waste management
  • Biomass/forestry
  • Food/agriculture
  • Biodiversity/ecosystem
  • Water use impacts
  • Developing/emerging economies
  • Methodologies/indicators for sustainability assessment
Abstract submission

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