{"id":32676,"date":"2020-04-30T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=32676"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:15:09","slug":"call-for-abstracts-international-conference-on-sustainable-development-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/call-for-abstracts-international-conference-on-sustainable-development-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Abstracts: International Conference on Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I invite you to join me in submitting an abstract for the\u00a0Eighth Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD)<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 September 21-22, 2030 organized by the\u00a0Global Association of Master’s in Development Practice Programs (MDP)<\/b><\/span><\/a>, in collaboration with the UN\u00a0Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)<\/b><\/span><\/a>,<\/div>\n
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The conference theme is\u00a0Cross-Cutting Solutions for the Decade of Action<\/b>. The aim of the conference is to bring together persons involved in research, policy, practice, and business. Participants will share practical solutions for achieving the SDGs at local and national levels.<\/span><\/div>\n
We just received the terrific news that the conference will go ahead in a completely virtual format to foster broad participation.\u00a0 More information about the event is at\u00a0https:\/\/ic-sd.org\/<\/a>. There is no fee to participate!<\/div>\n
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If you would like to present at the conference, you must submit an abstract as directed below.\u00a0<\/b>The conference is also open to observers (i.e. non-presenters). Simply register on the conference website to join us.<\/div>\n
The call for abstracts for all sessions at the conference is open until May 1 (info on how to submit abstracts also at\u00a0https:\/\/ic-sd.org\/<\/a>).<\/div>\n
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There are 19 tracks for presentations.<\/div>\n
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Amanda C. Graham, Ph.D., Academic Director, Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, Dartmouth College, Jennie Stephens, of Northeastern University and Greg Poelzer at the U of Saskatchewan are organizing a energy education session \u2013 the description is pasted below.<\/div>\n
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Session Description:\u00a0 Multidisciplinary Energy Education for Societal Well-being<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Transforming both the societal and physical dimensions of energy systems is fundamental for addressing climate change, community welfare, and environmental justice. This session will extract lessons from<\/span><\/div>\n
diverse examples of multidisciplinary energy education, particularly university-level and online forums, that hold promi<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,19,21,7,12,13,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}