Themes & Sub-Themes

Conference (sub)themes include, but are not limited to:

• Sustainable consumption and lifestyles
  • Experiments, interventions, and case studies in sustainable lifestyles
  • Lessons from the COVID19-pandemic about lifestyle changes
  • Digitalization of work and consumption 
  • Social innovation and sustainable practices
  • Defining a fair living space: an international perspective
• Sustainable production, sustainable business, innovation & design for sustainability 
  • Methods for sustainable production and industry research
  • Sustainable industry and eco-industrial parks
  • Sustainability assessment and indicators
  • Sustainable innovation, business models, and sustainable management
  • Design for sustainability and sustainable behavior
• Governance for sustainable consumption and production
  • The roles of local, regional, and (inter)national policy-making in transitioning to sustainable consumption and production systems
  • Policy in action: empirical case studies   
  • Interactions between science, society, and policy
  • Drivers of change toward sustainable lifestyle: from international to local to cross-cultural perspectives
  • Engaging middle actors in advancing system change: professionals, experts,  tradesmen, educators, business owners, etc.
• Circular economy, circular society, and critical materials
  • Circular systems and circularity management
  • Circular business models
  • Circular design and circular products
  • Circular & closed-loop supply chains & value chains
  • Circular and sustainable procurement
  • From circular economy to circular society
  • Consumption in the circular society
  • Methods for circularity and circular economy
• Alternative, diverse, and plural economics for sustainability transitions
  • Feasibility, desirability, and likelihood of transitioning to 1.5-degree lifestyles and economy
  • Wellbeing and care-centered approaches as frameworks for social transformations
  • Lessons from experiments with alternatives to GDP
  • Advances in steady-state economy and degrowth: research and practice
  • Experiments with guaranteed basic income and guaranteed basic services
• Sustainable cities and regions and local action
  • Sustainable consumption and production in urban contexts
  • Urban design, buildings, and transportation for sustainable lifestyles
  • Making density attractive: theory and practice 
  • Sustainable consumption and production in rural areas and sustainable tourism
• Social movements, social learning, and social innovations
  • Discourses, dialogue, narratives, and social learning for strong sustainable consumption and production systems
  • Grassroots and social innovations for sustainable consumption and production
  • Societal impact of sustainable consumption and production research
• Sustainable food, agriculture, and agri-business
  • Agri-food system transitions and biodiversity-positive agri-business
  • Sustainable food security and valuing water 
  • Sustainable protein consumption and production (protein transition) and the shift to plant-based diets