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Probably
the most important conference on sustainability brings breaking news. Due to
huge interest in the topic we move to yearly conference, odd year conferences
being organised in Dubrovnik, and even year conferences organised in new and
dazzling locations. The next year SDEWES Conference will be organised in
Ohrid, one of
the top ten destinations by Lonely Planet.
The
Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES)
Conference is an event devoted to scientists, engineers, policy makers,
students and other interested parties in the field of sustainable
development. The first six SDEWES Conferences were successfully held in
Dubrovnik, organized by the University of Zagreb and Instituto Superior Tecnico
- Lisbon and under the patronage of UNESCO - Paris, European Commission, DG
RTD, FP INCO Programme - Brussels and other partner institutions,
organisations and networks. The scientific quality of the conferences is
confirmed by the fact that leading international archival scientific
journals, "Energy - The International Journal", "Applied
Energy", "Journal of Water Resource Management", "Thermal
Science", "Journal of Environmental Sciences and Health", "Waste
Management & Research" and "Management of Environmental
Quality", have in the past dedicated and published special issues for
selected and reviewed papers from the conferences, and intend to do that also
for the next SDEWES conference. The past publications resulting from the
Conferences can be found on: http://www.sdewes.org/journals.php.
The
SDEWES Conference is dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of
knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the
sustainability of development by for example 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.
The
6th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and
Environment Systems, held in 2011, was the most successful up to now, drawing
more than 400 participants from 55 countries, and 400 full papers. The
momentum also produced the 2011
Dubrovnik Sustainable Development Conference Declaration and Communiqué
We
are pleased to invite you to the 7th Conference on Sustainable Development
of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES2012) which is going to
be held in Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia from July 1 - 6, 2012. The
details about the Conference (important dates, conference fee, accommodation,
contact addresses, etc.) can be found on the web site: http://www.ohrid2012.sdewes.org
We
would highly appreciate your attendance, as well as promotion of this event
among your colleagues and co-workers that might be interested in our
conference. Please, forward this Call for Papers!
The
City of Ohrid resembles a white swan embedded in the surrounding deep blue
water and indigo mountain scenery. Suspended on the rock, the town raises on
the northern shores of the lake high above the water, reflecting its beauty
in the crystal clear waters. The Lake of Ohird, one of the deepest and oldest
in Europe, was once surrounded by 365 churches, one for each day of the year,
some dating from the 4th century. The rich architecture is embellished with
numerous monasteries, churches and mosques, and ancient relics dating back
3,800 years. Those jewels of Byzantine architecture, warm, touching and
mystical, rightfully crowned the city to as the "Balkan Jerusalem"
or "European Jerusalem"..
The
scope of the SDEWES2012 Conference will continue to successfully cover the
following areas (with examples in parentheses, but not confined to these
examples only):
- Sustainability comparisons and measurements
methodologies (metrics and indices, multi-criteria analysis, external
costs, exergy analysis, footprint methods, emergy)
- Thermodynamics in sustainability
- 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)
- 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 (wedges, policies, potentials,
models, costs and benefits, macroeconomic analysis, financial and
regulatory mechanisms, trends and predictions, models and tools, 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)
- 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)
- Agricultural policy (energy use in agriculture and
food processing, food vs. biofuels, sustainability of biofuels
production, sustainability of food subsidies, subsidies vs. free trade,
new green revolution, R&D in agriculture, sustainability of GMO(Genetically
Modified Organisms) vs. Terroir)
- Environment and corporate social responsibility
(quality management systems, environment management systems, eco
management and audit scheme, occupational health and safety assessment
systems, hazard analysis and critical control point, integrated
management systems)
- Employment and energy, transport, water and
environment systems (technology development, equipment production,
installation, maintenance, macroeconomic analysis, financial and
regulatory mechanisms, national, regional and municipal policy)
- Technology transfer and development (emerging
markets, developing countries, least developed countries, clean
development mechanism, new opportunities)
- Social acceptance (reform, NIMBY, nuclear, wind,
biofuels, hydrogen, hidden and special interests)
- Sustainable resilience of systems (resilience of
energy systems, resilience of water systems, resilience of environmental
systems, resilience of agricultural systems, resilience of social
systems, resilience of engineering systems )
- Sustainable tourism (energy systems, transport
systems, water systems, environment systems, green hotels,
certification, labelling proliferation)
- Urbanism (urban planning, zoning, transport, modal
shift, zero energy buildings and energy system planning, district
heating, district cooling, Civitas, Concerto)
- Regional planning and cooperation (energy and
environment for jobs and development, financial and regulatory
mechanisms, obligations and standards, energy and resource flow optimisation,
100% renewable regions, regional cooperation and networking, sustainable
development across international borders)
- Sustainable islands (energy and environment for jobs
and development, financial and regulatory mechanisms, obligations and
standards, energy and resource flow optimisation, 100% renewable
islands, islands networking)
- Research, innovation and development (demand side
funding, supply side funding, researchers mobility, intrasectorial
mobility, industry-academia partnership, knowledge based society)
- Education in sustainable development (governance,
environmental awareness, higher education in SD, engineering education
in SD)
- Cooperation for development (international
development mechanisms, Clean Development Mechanism, emerging markets,
least developed countries, etc.)
- Energy system analysis (energy system analysis
models, tools and methodologies, energy system analysis surveys and
results)
- Water system analysis (models, tools and methodologies,
surveys and results)
- Life cycle assessment, environmental impact
assessment, eco-design and eco-labelling, product cycle assessment
- Transport system analysis (models, tools and
methodologies, survey and results)
- Energy planning (power system planning, smart energy
networks, natural gas system planning, high penetration of renewables,
island energy systems, development of energy planning tools,
internalizing environmental externalities, electrification of transport)
- Transport management (modelling, optimisation,
tracking, GPS/mobile systems, dynamic road pricing system
implementation, electrification of transport)
- Renewable energy resources (forest and agricultural
biomass, biofuels, second generation biofuels, biogas, hydro, wind,
solar, geothermal, wave and ocean, technical and economic potentials,
barriers, cost and benefits)
- Primary energy resources (oil, gas, coal, uranium,
thorium, oil peaking)
- Water resources (surface, ground, desalination, etc.)
- Food and agriculture (energy and water use, environmental
impact, financial mechanisms, subsidies, free trade, impact of biofuels,
new green revolution, R&D, GMO, biogas, using renewables in
agriculture, solar and wind energy in agriculture)
- Renewable electricity generation systems (biomass,
grid and fluidized bed, biofuels, biogas, hydro, wind, photovoltaic,
concentrated solar thermal power, geothermal, wave, tide, ocean thermal)
- Thermal power plants (clean coal, fluidized bed,
combined cycles, advanced cycles)
- District heating and/or cooling infrastructures in
future energy systems (Integration of renewable energy heat supply,
cogeneration, waste incineration and CHP, heat pumps, integration of CHP
with district heating and electricity markets).
- Nano and micro technologies and science for sustainable
development of energy, water, and environment systems
- Carbon capture and storage/sequestration (oxy-fuel
combustion, pre-combustion capture, post-combustion capture, CO2
transport, enhanced oil/gas recovery, enhanced coal bed methane
recovery, chemical fixation, aquifer storage, bedrock storage, ocean
storage, leakage)
- Nuclear energy (new power plant designs, waste,
proliferation, fusion, transmutation, sustainability, policies, social
acceptance)
- Advanced sustainable energy conversion systems (fuel cells,
thermoelectric, thermionic, organic, ORC, waste heat recycling)
- Pyrolisis, torrefaction
- Renewable heat systems (biomass, biofuels, biogas,
solar, geothermal)
- Biofuels and biorefineries (biodiesel, bioethanol,
second generation biofuels, anaerobic digestion, BTL, biorefineries,
vehicles, infrastructure, combustion modeling, sustainability
assessment, pyrolisis, torrefaction)
- Hydrogen production and use technologies (stationary,
mobile, small applications, electrolysis, reforming, nuclear hydrogen,
infrastructure)
- Hybrid and electric vehicles (first generation, plug
in, charging, batteries, infrastructure)
- Other alternative fuels (BTL, DME, CNG, resources,
production, vehicles, infrastructure)
- Water treatment (methods, health issues, standards, grey
water)
- Water desalination (distillation, reverse and forward
osmosis, electrodialysis, energy recovery, discharge management)
- Wastewater treatment (municipal, industrial,
agricultural)
- Waste treatment (composting, incineration, landfill,
anaerobic digestion, gasification, mechanical biological treatment,
mechanical heat treatment, plasma arc waste disposal, pyrolysis,
recycling)
- Waste to energy (incineration, landfill gas capture,
biogas, RDF, cement industry, tyres, combustion modelling)
- Recycling waste (glass, paper, metals, containers,
tyres, textiles, batteries, biodegradable waste, electronic waste,
separation, financial schemes)
- Pollution modelling (CFD models, air pollution
spreading, water pollution spreading, combustion modelling)
- Heat and mass transfer modelling (CFD models, energy
efficiency)
- Cogeneration (heat and power, water and power,
biofuels and power, transport and energy, food and energy, waste to
energy)
- Trigeneration, polygeneration
- Storage (heat storage, hydrogen storage, hydropower
as storage, pump storage, compressed air storage, batteries, water
storage, biofuels storage, storage optimisation modelling, financial
support mechanisms, maximising renewables, optimising load, power market
arbitrage)
- Electricity transmission (grid extension and
robustness, long distance transmission, automation)
- Smart energy networks (smart meters, dynamic
electricity pricing, ICT, network-user interface)
- Energy efficiency in industry and mining (cement and
lime, construction material, glass, pulp and paper, food industry,
metallurgy, chemical industry, process optimisation, kilns, boilers,
heat exchangers, pinch analysis, exergy and exergoeconomic analysis,
energy audits, waste minimisation)
- Energy efficiency in agriculture and aquaculture
- Energy efficient appliances (smart appliances,
labelling and standards, user interfaces, user behaviour)
- Buildings (zero energy buildings, passive buildings,
smart buildings, smart metering, ICT, load and demand side management,
green buildings, building standards, heating, ventilation,
air-conditioning, cooling, insulation, renewables, heat pumps, storage,
sustainable architecture, buildings certification)
- Energy markets (liberalisation, deregulation, spot
markets, pools, storage, renewables, merging and acquisitions,
modelling)
- Emission markets (Emission trading system, carbon
taxing, carbon markets, GHG, SOx, CER, ERU, AAU, EUA, certification
standards, VER, air transport participation)
- Political aspects of sustainable development (long
term planning, the role of political leaders and of voters,
international conflict vs. sustainable development)
In
addition, acknowledging that regional coordination is the only feasible
solution for gaining synergy effects for the small and only partially
connected emerging energy markets of the South East European Region, the
Conference will address the core goals of the Energy Community (which
regional aspects, after the recent enlargement, go beyond the geographic
Western Balkan area):
- Competitive integrated regional energy market
(regional cooperation, market opening, price reform, regulatory
framework and independence, coordination on regional projects)
- Security of supply (diversification of fuels, energy
efficiency, oil and gas storages, regional emergency response)
- Climate change and environment (regional emissions
reduction plans, fuel mix in power generation – renewable energy –
gasification – energy efficiency, intelligent use of energy)
- Infrastructure development (investment projects of
regional interest – minimum definition criteria, investments in the gas
sector, electricity interconnections, grid access and integration of
renewable energy)
- Social dimension (definition of vulnerable customers,
protection schemes, stepwise phasing out of regulated energy prices)
- External relations in light of sustainable
development (enlargement - EU neighbours, cooperation with other
international organizations)
Authors
willing to present a paper should submit an abstract in English, up to one
page, using web form:
http://www.ohrid2012.sdewes.org/call.php
These
abstracts will then be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.
The full paper will be peer-reviewed. The full papers will be directly
submitted via electronic submission system.
Please,
submit your abstract before the December 15, 2011 deadline.
Other important dates:
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