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We are happy to announce the Symposium on Sustainability in the Curriculum and Operations of Universities in Brazil to be held at the Federal University of Uberlândia, in Uberlândia, Brazil
The Symposium aims to provide a platform for researchers and educators engaged with sustainability education and operations, to exchange their knowledge and perspectives. It will also facilitate networking and the development of partnerships and promote collaborative efforts for those working on implementing sustainability in their curriculum and campus operations.

The Symposium will be of special interest to researchers, educators and communication specialists working in the field of sustainable education and operations in Brazilian universities.

As an output and long-term documentation of the event, selected papers will be published in the book "Sustainability in the Curriculum and Operations of Universities”, part of the World Sustainability Series https://www.springer.com/series/13384, published by Springer Nature, which is fully indexed. All papers are peer-reviewed and publications in the book series have been officially counting for promotion and tenure purposes over the years.

Abstracts should be submitted by 10th September 2024, and full papers are due by 31 January 2025.

Further details can be seen here: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/university/newsroom/news-details/news/news/show/symposium-on-sustainability-in-the-curriculum-and-operations-of-universities-in-brazil/

Best regards,
The Organisers

In recent decades, tourism has experienced unprecedented growth, emerging as one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries. While this growth has brought numerous benefits, it has also raised significant concerns about its environmental, social, and cultural impacts. Traditional tourism practices often contribute to environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, exploitation of natural resources, and cultural commodification. Moreover, communities in popular tourist destinations frequently face challenges such as overcrowding, pollution, loss of traditional livelihoods, and cultural erosion.

In response to these challenges, sustainable tourism has gained traction as a viable alternative to conventional tourism models. Sustainable tourism, also known as responsible tourism or eco-tourism, seeks to minimize tourism's negative impacts while maximizing its benefits for host communities, the environment, and future generations. At its core, sustainable tourism aims to strike a balance between economic growth, environmental conservation, and socio-cultural preservation.

As awareness of sustainability issues continues to grow, there is a growing momentum within the tourism industry to embrace sustainable practices and initiatives. Governments, businesses, non-profit organizations, and civil society actors are increasingly recognizing the importance of integrating sustainability into tourism planning, development, and management processes.

Against this background and in order to cater to a wide discussion on sustainability aspects in tourism, the “World Symposium on Sustainable Tourism (WSST)” is being organised by:

• The Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/ftz-nk/;
• Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) https://www.mmu.ac.uk/
• School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting at Ribeirao Preto https://www.fearp.usp.br/en/ of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, https://www5.usp.br/english/institutional/ which is kindly hosting the event.

With cooperation with:

• Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme, IUSDRP (Germany) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iusdrp/
• German-Brazilian Science and Technology Network, GERBRAS-SCIENCENET (Germany) https://gerbras-science.net/
• European School of Sustainability Science and Research, ESSSR(Germany) https://esssr.eu/

The symposium serves as a timely and essential event for stakeholders to come together, share knowledge, and chart a course towards a more sustainable future for tourism. By fostering collaboration, innovation, and collective action, WSST aims to catalyse positive change within the tourism industry, ensuring that tourism remains a force for good for both people and the planet.

Publishing Opportunities:

As an output of the Symposium, Participants who wish to submit a paper will be invited to contribute to an edited volume entitled "Forecasting Sustainable Tourism: Challenges, Strategies and Innovations." This book will be aimed at a wide readership, notably those on the front line of sustainability efforts at universities and companies, along with policymakers, researchers, and students.
The book will be a further volume of the award-winning “World Sustainability Series” (https://www.springer.com/series/13384) published by Springer. Since its creation in 2008, it has become the world’s leading book series on sustainable development. The editors' decision as to which papers may be selected and undergo peer review for the book is final.
Some of the papers may also be submitted for peer-review in the Journal “Discover Sustainability” published by Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/journal/43621

Submissions:

Expressions of interest to attend the event, initially consisting of a 200-word abstract outlining the paper and with the full contact details (Name, Email, Institution) of the author(s) should be registered at the page of the event: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/university/newsroom/news-details/news/news/show/world-symposium-on-sustainable-tourism-wsst-2025/
Alternatively, abstracts can sent to the organising team at Joao.Eustachio@haw-hamburg.de and FTZ-Events@hamburg.de

Deadlines:

The deadline for abstract submission is 30 October 2024. Full papers are due by 30 January 2025. The details will be discussed with the selected authors.

Further details of the event can be seen on the webpage of the event: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/university/newsroom/news-details/news/news/show/world-symposium-on-sustainable-tourism-wsst-2025/

Best Regards,
Organisation Team

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), a pivotal event in the global fight against climate change, will be held in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in 2025. This historic decision underscores the urgency of addressing environmental issues directly within one of the world's most vital ecosystems. The Amazon will provide a fitting backdrop for international leaders to convene and formulate strategies aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change and promoting sustainable development.

Deforestation is a major problem in the Amazon region as a whole, and in Brazil in particular. To date, nearly 800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4 million km² of Amazon forest has been depleted due to a variety of economic activities. These include uncontrolled logging, large-scale farming, mining, large road construction project and dams, among others. Together, these activities have raised serious concerns about the stability of the Amazon rainforests, some of which has already been converted into drier savannahs known as cerrado.

There is a need to discuss not only the causes but also the possible solutions to the problems the Amazon region is facing today, and to identify sustainable solutions. Against this backdrop, and as COP30 offers a unique opportunity to bring global attention to the Amazon's challenges, the 2nd Symposium Amazon 2030 – Sustainability Issues in the World's Largest Rainforest Region is being organized by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Programme (IUSDRP), the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme (ICCIRP), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and the University Nilton Lins (Brazil), in collaboration with various organisations, including the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR). The event is also organized by the German-Brazilian Science and Technology Network (GERBRAS-SCIENCENET).

The first edition of this Symposium was held at the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Brazil, on 4-5 September 2023. This event, the “2nd Symposium Amazon 2030 – Sustainability Issues in the World's Largest Rainforest Region”, will be held in the University Nilton Lins, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on 6-7 November 2025. The dates make it convenient for delegates interested in joining COP30 (10-21 November) after the Symposium.

The Symposium has the following objectives:

i. to disseminate information on ongoing research projects and practical projects in the field of climate change, environmental conservation and sustainability taking place in the Amazon region;
ii. to present innovative approaches in teaching and research focusing on the Amazon rainforests;
iii. to facilitate the exchange of experience and information between researchers from universities, but also from research centres, NGOs, companies and other institutions;
iv. to provide opportunities for further networking and contact building.
The Symposium will present state-of-the-art projects and initiatives in the nexus Amazon rainforests and sustainability, as well as innovative teaching and research approaches. In particular, projects that are "cross-sectoral" and innovative and serve as examples of inter-institutional cooperation will be presented at the Symposium.

The deadlines are as follows:
-Final deadline for submission of abstracts: 30th May 2025
-Deadline for registrations: 30th July 2025
-Deadline for the submission of papers: 30th November 2025

Further details can be seen here: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/university/newsroom/news-details/news/news/show/2nd-symposium-amazon-2030-sustainability-issues-in-the-worlds-largest-rainforest-region/

Best regards,
The Organisers

Climate change is among the major challenges of modern times. Both the Six Assessment Report (AR6) produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the COP 29 recommendations call from action not only from government, but also from various stakeholders in tackling climate change.

Apart from the knowledge offered by modelling and forecasts which allows us to understand the problem and how it develops in the future, we need to know more about approaches, methods and tools, which may help us to cope with the social, economic and political problems posed by climate change now. In order words, we need to speed up developments in the field of climate change adaptation.

It is against this background that the “5th World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” is being organised. The event is organised by the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme (ICCIRP) in cooperation with the University of the South of Santa Catarina (UNISUL), with support from various international organisations. The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, covering some of the key areas in the field of climate change adaptation.

The “5th World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” will be held in Florianópolis and Palhoça, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, as a side event of the 30th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will be held in Belém, also in Brazil, on 10th-21st November 2025. It is thus a good time to take stock, review progress and pave the way for future developments. Consistent with this need, the theme of the Symposium is "Adapting the World to a Changing Climate". As the title suggests, the event will offer a platform to introduce and discuss the latest ideas, trends and innovative approaches and methods to move forward the climate agenda, especially in respect of climate transformation, and the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, helping the world to adapt to climate change.

AIMS

Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interactions among the various stakeholders working in the field of climate change adaptation, the aims of the “5th World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation” are as follows:

i. to provide research institutions, universities, NGOs and enterprises all round the world with an opportunity to display and present their works in the field of climate change adaptation and technologies which may mitigate climate change;
ii. to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of climate change adaptation projects, especially successful initiatives and good practice;
iii. to discuss methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which aim to show how the principles of climate change adaptation may be implemented in practice;
iv. to network the participants and provide a platform so they can explore possibilities for cooperation.
Last but not least, a further aim of the event will be to document and disseminate the wealth of experiences on climate change adaptation available today across the world. To this purpose, papers submitted and accepted will be published in the book "Adapting the World to a Changing Climate". This will be a further volume of the award-winning book series “Climate Change Management” published by Springer, which since its creation in 2008 has become the world´s leading book series on climate change management.

In addition, a set of papers selected by the coordination team will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (a fully indexed journal). The decision of the editors as to which papers may be selected -and undergo peer review- for the book and for the special issue of the journal, is final.

DEADLINES

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10th May 2025
Deadline for submission of papers: 20th July 2025
Deadline for the submission of revised papers: 20th September 2025
Deadline for registrations: 30th September 2025

Since the book is expected to be launched shortly after the event, the deadlines need to be followed. Delegates may also attend the event, without submitting a paper.