The ISDRS Best Sustainable Development Article Award shortlist is now available to read.

These articles have been shortlisted by our jury from 34 nominated best sustainable development articles published in 2022.

Please visit our page to read and then vote for your favourite.

The winner will be announced at the #ISDRS2023 conference in Malaysia  on the 11th-13th July. Congratulations to all those nominated!

Click here to read the shortlist

Click here to vote

A special thanks to the jury of ISDRS BAA 2022:

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 1st April 2023

The ISDRS 2023 Organizing Committee is happy to announce: Extended deadline for abstract submissions: 1st April 2023

Submit your abstract via Oxford Abstracts.

For more information about tracks and themes, please visit: Track & Themes

If you have any questions, please contact committee at isdrs2023@isdrsconferences.org and we will be happy to help you if we can.

Call for Abstracts Open!

We are delighted to announce that the call for abstracts is now open for the 29^th annual ISDRS conference, to be held on the 11-13th July 2023, hosted by the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). This year’s conference theme is:

‘Half-way through Agenda 2030: Assessing the 5Ps of SDGs (people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership)’

Please click here to submit your abstract

Find a detailed description of your track here

If you have any questions, please get in touch with track chairs or isdrs2023@isdrsconferences.org, and we will be happy to help you.

The ISDRS serves as a central knowledge hub on research in sustainable development. To strengthen our role, we identify and honour the best research paper written every year. With this we intend to further stimulate solid research, but also their applicability to support introduction of solutions to our immense challenges. We will work with a participatory approach: everyone connected to the ISDRS can suggest nominations for such a ‘best research article’. A Jury with decide on a short list of nominated papers and after that again ISDRS members will vote to select the best article. The winners will be honoured during our annual Conference.

Vote here

See criteria here

IMPORTANT DATES

1/1/2023: Opening of call for abstracts
1/2/2023: Opening of registrations
1/3/2023: Deadline for abstract submission
1/4/2023: Deadline for early bird registrations
1/7/2023: Deadline for normal registrations
1/7/2023: Full manuscript submission

Keep checking the ISDRS2023 webpage for news

Sustainability Field Trips

After the Conference, on Friday 14th of July 2023, choose to enjoy one of our sustainability guided tour. The tours are an occasion to get in touch with the most important natural and cultural destinations near Kuala Lumpur and with the sustainable activities implemented for their preservation.

Please note that limited places are available so book early.

Simply select your preferred tour as an add-on to your conference registration!

Click here to see tours

Conference program is now available

We are happy to announce that the ISDRS 2022 Conference program is now published!

Follow the link below and log in. When setting up your conference program account, make sure that you set your time zone according to where you will be when joining the conference. The program adjusts the times shown in the program according to this. Instructions on how to set up your conference program account can be found here: https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/registering-for-the-virtual-program

Conference platform: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/2619/program

On the conference platform you will find the program, poster gallery and all attendees. In the program you can use the ‘Bookmark’ function to mark the sessions that you wish to attend over the course of the three conference days. All bookmarked sessions will gather in ‘Your bookmarks’, which can act as a personal schedule to use during the conference. The tracks have been placed in numerical order to allow you to easily find the tracks you are interested in.

Finding your sessions online: Most sessions will be available for online participation. These will have a zoomlink added to the session. The links are being created and added at the moment.

Book of abstracts is now available

Click here

Today the Russian government has intensified its military operations in Ukraine, a nation invaded by Russia since 2014. The ISDRS Board and community are deeply disturbed and saddened by this militaristic Russian expansion, fuelled by purposive misinformation and false interpretations of historical realities, and deeply antithetical to genuine sustainable development and social justice.

We declare our strong solidarity with the free Ukraine and its people, and fully reject the military aggressions imposed by the Russian government. This represents a blatant violation of international law and a denial of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

As a global scientific community, ISDRS is committed to global peace and sustainable development, not war and overexploitation of nature and people. We harshly condemn this ongoing attack and demand an immediate end to all violence. We are in strong solidarity with the bright scholars and students at many higher education institutions in Ukraine.

The Board of the International Sustainable Development Research Society
February 24, 2022

The International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) is pleased to announce its 28th annual conference to be held on:

June 15-17, 2022

Quick links:

ISDRS2022 Welcome page

Themes and Tracks

Oxford Abstracts for abstract submission

About ISDRS 2022

Hosts for the conference 2022 is a consortium of six universities based in Stockholm: Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm School of Economics, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm University of the Arts, Södertörn University and University College Stockholm.

Conference special topic:

The cultural dimensions of sustainable development  based on four keywords: culture, art, human rights and courage.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND COURAGE: CULTURE, ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Sustainable development is often referred to by mentioning the ecological, economic and social dimensions of sustainable development. Cultural issues are often brought forward as a widespread suggestion to a fourth dimension, allowing research not only on scientific grounds, but also on artistic grounds.

We come together with a conviction that changes towards a sustainable development need leaders and a leadership that build on courage to break with taken for granted practices and experiences. Not seldom, people leading change are persecuted and human rights are broken.

The conference in Stockholm in 2022 would like to bring forth knowledge, insights and experience from humanities to enrich and exchange with scholars from natural and social sciences; it would like to facilitate knowledge exchange between scholars undertaking research based on scientific grounds and scholars undertaking research based on artistic grounds.

THE ROAD TO 2022

While current ISDRS tracks will be offered as usual we also want to take the opportunity to encourage new collaborations. For the conference we are now looking for a wide range of speakers, panelists and workshop managers. The invitation goes out to researchers and other leading actors in academia, the cultural sector, the public sector, the business community and civil society – everyone is welcome to submit their notice of interest. Our ambition is to bring together researchers active in both scientific and artistic research and to be a meeting place for the exchange of knowledge between the same.

Early on we will work closely with longstanding track chairs and involve local track chairs from the consortium universities to enrich and further develop the research topics and agendas.

On June 14, 2022 a PhD Day will be held, as well as workshops that bring together scholars interested in performing sustainability.

On June 18, 2022 a number of Sustainability tours will be offered, both in the proximity of Stockholm and online.