Post from Organizers of ISIE-AP conference

The 2016 ISIE Socio-economic section & Asia Pacific conference is only 3 weeks away! 

We would like to share a few updates:

The conference program is now on the website: http://isiesemap2016.org/program/schedule/  


​(​please acknowledge that this not the final version and still subject to changes​)​.

Guidelines to prepare your poster and oral presentations have also been published: http://isiesemap2016.org/program/guidelines/

If you have not registered and paid yet, please do so as soon as possible. If you plan to attend the conference without presenting you can pay until 20 September. Please note that there is no option to pay on-site when you arrive to the conference. Also note that the cancelation deadline is nearing: http://isiesemap2016.org/registration/

Have you already made your arrangements for the visit to Nagoya, etc.? The conference website has lots of information about travel, including instructions and maps to get to the conference venue from anywhere in Japan: http://isiesemap2016.org/travel/access/ As well as accommodations, visiting Nagoya, and useful information for visitors and tourists: http://isiesemap2016.org/travel/

Over 80 people marked their interest to attend the student day before the conference http://isiesemap2016.org/program/students/

​ If you are interested in joining, and you missed the opportunity to register on the payment website, please send us an email at queries@isiesemap2016.org and we will be happy to include you.

There are still a few seats left on the Toyota Factory tour http://isiesemap2016.org/program/excursions/ and conference dinner http://isiesemap2016.org/program/dinner/  Reserve your place soon!

The back to back event of ISIE SEM-AP 2016, EcoBalance 2016, has also released its conference program. EcoBalance 2016 will be held in Kyoto on 3-6 Oct. 2016. The bullet train is convenient to move from Nagoya to Kyoto, taking just 36 min. http://www.ecobalance2016.org/program/program_overview.html

Of course, if you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We’re looking forward to seeing you soon in Nagoya!

If you have any other questions please let me know,

Best regards,

Alessio​

Dear Colleagues

The joint 12th ISIE Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference and the 5th ISIE Asia-Pacific conference will be held in Nagoya, Japan from Wednesday 28 – Friday 30 September, 2016.

Abstracts for the upcoming conference should be submitted by 16 March 2016. 

To submit your abstract and to learn more about the conference, session topics, the venue, and other details please visit the conference website: http://isiesemap2016.org/

Nagoya and its surrounding area have been the heart of Japanese manufacturing since the samurai era, making it the perfect venue for our conference dealing with material efficiency, industry, environment, and globalism. 

The city is located on the main bullet train line between Tokyo and Kyoto, within fast and easy access from all of Japan’s major international airports.

For more information visit the conference website http://isiesemap2016.org/
or contact the conference organizers: queries@isiesemap2016.org


See you in Nagoya in September!

Hiroki Tanikawa

ISIE SEM-AP 2016 Conference Chair
Nagoya University, Japan
queries@isiesemap2016.org
http://isiesemap2016.org/

New Year and new SEM Section Board

Happy New Year everyone!

Back in June 2015 we announced the results of the ISIE-SEM Section Board election, which saw a mixture of familiar and new names take the reins of the Socio-Economic Metabolism section.

The 2015–2017 SEM Section Board is:

Gang Liu

Kazuyo Matsubae

Daniel B Müller

Barbara Reck

Heinz Schandl

Hiroki Tanikawa

Heming Wang

Helga Weisz

and today we can advise that the following people have agreed to take on particular roles:

Chair: Helga Weisz 
Vice-chair: Gang Liu 
Secretary: Kazuyo Matsubae 
Treasurer: Hiroki Tanikawa 

Thank you and congratulations!

2016 promises to be an exciting year for industrial ecology practitioners and students, with several conferences planned:

ISIE Americas Meeting 
(Bogota, Colombia – May 2016)

2016 Industrial Ecology Gordon Research Conference and Seminar
(Vermont, USA – June 2016)

ISIE Socio-Economic Metabolism and Asia-Pacific Conference 
(Nagoya, Japan – September 2016)

Gordon Research Conference in Industrial Ecology 2016

Opportunities for the critical decade – decoupling well-being from environmental pressures and impacts

Abstract

The second wave of industrialization and urbanization in many developing countries, and continuing economic growth and consumption in industrialized countries, have led to an acceleration of natural resource use, climate change and a suite of related environmental impacts. The supply chains for natural resources have become more complex and it is harder today to gain knowledge about the environmental footprint of certain products and processes. While the industrialization of developing countries has lifted millions out of poverty it has also contributed to increased global environmental change. To reverse this trend, and to allow the global economy to stay within the limits of the Earth’s resources and ecosystems, the new sustainable development goals call for economic activity and consumption and production processes to be underpinned by large investment and appropriate policy settings to guide decoupling of economic activity from environmental pressure and impacts. This opens a huge window of opportunity for industrial ecology to deliver the knowledge base to transition the current economic pattern to sustainable consumption and production. Industrial ecology concepts and tools support creating sustainable value chains for products and services, to build human settlements and design industrial systems to be maintained with lower material and energy throughput and with fewer emissions. For new industrial ecology technologies and practices to become economically viable and socially acceptable it will require new policy settings and business decisions supported by institutions and governance arrangements that encourage and drive innovation and experiments that ultimately serve decoupling. This conference will investigate the newest insights from the science of industrial ecology to support technological solutions, policy innovation and new business models for sustainable development. This is a critical decade for reconciling human development and environmental protection and we explore the contribution industrial ecology can make.

The 10^th biennial Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology (GRC-IE) will be held at the Stoweflake Conference Center, Stowe, Vermont, June 19 to 24, 2016. A companion meeting for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, the Gordon Research Seminar on Industrial Ecology (GRS-IE), will be held in conjunction with the GRC-IE. 

Please see the websites for more information:

2016 Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology

2016 Gordon Research Seminar on Industrial Ecology  

Heinz Schandl 

CSIRO, Australia

2016 GRC Conference Chair 

First announcement of ISIE SEM Asia-Pacific conference in Nagoya in 2016

Planning for the next ISIE Socio-Economic Metabolism/Asia-Pacific conference is now underway! It will be held in Nagoya, Japan.

Dates: 28–30 September 2016

Venue: Nagoya University, Japan

Website: http://isiesemap2016.org

Chair: Professor Hiroki Tanikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Co-Chair: Professor Tsuyoshi Fujita (NIES, Japan)

Hiroki TANIKAWA

Head of Global Environmental Leader Program, NUGELP

Graduate School of Environmental Studies,

Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Env. and Civil Eng.

Nagoya University, JAPAN

World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan in August 2015

The upcoming World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan from 3 to 7 August 2015 features a session on the potential for socio-economic metabolism research in economic history. The session is entitled 'Long run economic growth and the environment: international comparison from a socio-metabolic perspective' and is organised by Iñaki Iriarte Goñi (Zaragossa University) and Fridolin Krausmann (Inst. of Social Ecology, Vienna). It invites empirical papers presenting results from case studies investigating patterns and trends of material and energy flows or comparing different countries or regions. It will also be open to papers discussing concepts, sources and methods. Please see the call for papers for Session S20042 at the conference web page (www.wehc2015.org/second_call.html) or contact fridolin.krausmann@aau.at for more information. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the session organisers is 15 March 2015.

Fridolin Krausmann
Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna

2016 Gordon Research Conference in Industrial Ecology announced!

The 2016 Gordon Research Conference in industrial ecology will be held at the Stoweflake Resort and Conference Center, Stowe, Vermont, from 19 to 24 June 2016. The meeting chair will be Heinz Schandl and the vice chair will be Stefanie Hellweg.

Please see the Gordon Research Conferences website for more information about this event and how to apply.

Melbourne conference program now available

We’re delighted to announce that the conference Industrial Ecology in the Asia-Pacific Century: Interdisciplinary science for building sustainable industrial systems and human settlements, to be held in Melbourne, Australia on 17 to 19 November 2014, is now less than a week away! We have 131 participants from 19 countries and a really exciting line-up of keynote presenters, speakers and poster presenters. The program is now available for download from here:

http://wp.csiro.au/isie2014/conference-program/

People attending in person will receive a printed copy of the program, plus a USB stick containing the program with hyperlinked abstracts.

If you can’t make it to the conference but would like to keep up with the activities, all is not lost! The Student/Early Career Researcher Organising Committee have set up the Twitter hashtag #isiesem to share info during the conference. Please Tweet if you’re at the conference, and feel free to follow the Twitter feed if you’re not.

Best wishes

Karin Hosking (on behalf of the conference organisers)

Two exciting upcoming conferences

Dear Colleagues

We wish you all a Happy New Year and a good start into 2014. May the New Year be a very successful one for all of you. This is also a good time to plan for two important conferences of our society, the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) for Industrial Ecology in Lucca, Italy, 1 to 6 June 2014 and the joint Socio-Economic Metabolism and Asia-Pacific Conference in Melbourne, Australia, 17 to 19 November 2014.

The GRC is open for registration at www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=industeco and a preliminary list of topics and speakers has been provided by the chair.

The Melbourne Conference now invites abstracts and registrations at http://wp.csiro.au/isie2014/. The deadline for abstracts is 15 February 2014.

Both meetings will be very important and joyful opportunities for all of us to catch up and share progress in our research field.

All the best for the new year,

Heinz Schandl (for the SEM section board)

Melbourne Conference 2014 website launched!

The joint 11th International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference and the 4th ISIE Asia-Pacific conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia from Monday 17 to Wednesday 19 November 2014. The conference topic is Industrial Ecology in the Asia-Pacific Century: Interdisciplinary science for building sustainable industrial systems and human settlements.

We’re delighted to announce that the conference website is now live at http://wp.csiro.au/isie2014/ and accepting registrations and abstracts. More information will be added as it gets closer to the conference; we are currently negotiating with several hotels (in a range of price brackets) and hope to offer accommodation suggestions soon.

Hope to see you in Melbourne in November 2014!

Best wishes from the organisers, Heinz Schandl, Sarah King and Tsuyoshi Fujita

Gordon Research Conference ‘Transforming the Industrial Metabolism’ in Italy, June 2014

The forthcoming Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology ‘Transforming the Industrial Metabolism’ chaired by Helga Weisz (vice chair Heinz Schandl) will be held in Lucca, Italy from 1 to 6 June 2014. 

The GRC is always a great opportunity for intensive dialogue testing the frontiers of the IE research field and a very rewarding experience for all participants. The focus on industrial metabolism and process of transforming systems of consumption and production of this GRC may well especially appeal to socio-economic metabolism section members. 

Applications to attend the GRC must be submitted by 4 May 2014 at the latest. Early applications are recommended as some meetings become full before this deadline. The conference program will be available in early December at www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=industeco.

Save the date ...

We are pleased to announce that the next ISIE Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference will be held from 17 to 19 November 2014 at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will be organised by the CSIRO and will be hosted jointly with the ISIE Asia-Pacific meeting.

Industrial Ecology in the Asia-Pacific Century: Interdisciplinary science for building sustainable industrial systems and human settlements

11^th SEM Conference and 4^th ISIE Asia-Pacific Conference

Conference co-chairs: Heinz Schandl (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences), Sarah King (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering), and Tsuyoshi Fujita (NIES).

We will announce a conference website shortly and launch a call for abstracts by 30 November 2013.