Description
The 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – SDEWES Conference, to be held in Dubrovnik in 2013, is dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars, as well as methods for assessing and measuring sustainability of development, regarding energy, transport, water, environment and food production systems and their many combinations. Sustainability being also a perfect field for interdisciplinary and multi-cultural evaluation of complex system, the SDEWES Conference has during the first decade of the 21st century become a significant venue for researchers in those areas to meet, and originate, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas.
Scope of work:
- Sustainability comparisons and measurements methodologies (metrics and indices,
multi-criteria analysis, external costs, exergy analysis, footprint methods, emergy)
- Sustainable development as a driver for innovation and employment
- Green economy and better governance (Green New Deal, energy and environment for
jobs and regional development, poverty eradication, macroeconomic analysis,
financial and regulatory mechanisms, trends and predictions, models and tools,
rebound effects, gender issues)
- Decoupling growth from resources (potentials, models, costs and benefits,
macroeconomic analysis, financial and regulatory mechanisms, trends and predictions,
models and tools, rebound effects, de-growth)
- Decarbonisation (policies, potentials, models, costs and benefits, macroeconomic
analysis, financial and regulatory mechanisms, trends and predictions, models and
tools, wedges, rebound effects)
- Energy policy (security of supply, climate change mitigation, renewable energy
support schemes, energy efficiency, employment generating, agriculture and forestry,
financial mechanisms, tax, cap and trade, feed-in tariffs, green certificates)
- Transport policy (urban sprawl management, traffic management, congestion and road
pricing, dynamic road pricing, modal management, alternative fuels, social aspects,
rail vs. air, autonomous mobility)
- Water policy and the energy-water interaction (water management, wastewater
management, water reuse, water pricing)
- Environmental policy (waste management, wastewater management, climate change,
air pollution policy, water pollution policy, land management, biomass management,
social aspects, emission tax, cap and trade, cap and trade vs. pollution tax)
Deadline: 15 February 2013
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