Call for Abstracts

Deadline extended until the 31st of March!
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The joint SEM-AP Nagoya 2016 conference will host parallel sessions for oral presentations as well as poster sessions.
Abstract contributors may indicate their preferred presentation style (oral presentation OR poster), which will be taken into account by the reviewing committee in their final decision announcements.

Abstract submission dates

Extended abstract submission deadline: 31 March, 2016.
Abstract acceptance announcement: 16 May, 2016.

Required contents

Abstract: text only, in English, no more than 300 words.
It is advisable to include the following information in your abstract:
- The research question and hypothesis
- Methods and data used
- Results (may be preliminary or expected results)
- Novelty or significance of the research
Short personal biography: of all collaborating authors, no more than 100 words in total (700 characters including spaces).

Topics

You will be asked to choose a topic which most closely relates to your abstract. Being a joint conference of the SEM section and the ISIE Asia-Pacific, the topics list covers themes related to all Industrial Ecology research interests, and more detailed specific themes of Socio-Economic Metabolism (SEM).

Methodological and analytical advances in socio-economic metabolism
Material flows, waste and recycling management
Modeling and scenarios of stock and flow relationships
Low carbon urban development and planning
Critical materials (including energy carriers, water, metals, agricultural nutrients and biomass)
Industrial ecology of mining and minerals
Trade, global flows, and their embodied environmental impacts
Sustainable resource management
socio-economic metabolism and economic / environmental policies and theory
Environmentally Extended Input-Output analysis
Carbon-, material-, and water-footprints
Linking socio-economic metabolism with climate change / green economy
Industrial symbiosis
Eco-industrial development

Submission

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Please use this username for abstract submission and later on for conference registration (and optional accommodation booking).

Reviewing process

All abstracts will be blind double-reviewed. Notification of results will be sent by e-mail on 16 May 2016.

Conference Proceedings

To have an abstract included in the conference proceedings, at least one author must be registered by the registration deadline and present the work at the meeting.