Citation
(2014), "Diary", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 15 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-09-2013-0126
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Diary
Article Type: Diary From: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 15, Issue 1
1st International Conference on Non Conventional Energy (ICONCE 2014), New Delhi, India, 16-17 January 2014
The 1st International Conference on Non Conventional Energy (ICONCE 2014) in field of renewable energy source is being organized by JIS College of Engineering in New Delhi, India. The ICONCE 2014 technical program will consist of plenary and keynote lectures, workshops/tutorials, oral and poster presentation sessions, in which leading experts from all around the world will present state-of-the-art reviews of rapidly-developing and exciting areas, report the latest significant findings and developments in all the major fields of renewable energy and discuss government and industry related issues. Topics for the conference include, but not limited to.
Track 1 – solar energy
Solar photovoltaic technology, solar-thermal energy, solar energy technology, solar architecture.
Track 2 – hydro energy
Sea energy, wave energy, wave energy system, tidal energy, tidal sea current, turbo machinery, mini hydro.
Track 3 – bio energy
Bio fuels, energy from waste, bio mass and bio gas.
Track 4 – hydrogen energy
Hydrogen and energy storage, hydrogen and fuel cell.
Track 5 – energy from depth of earth
Geothermal energy, ocean-thermal energy.
Track 6 – wind energy
Wind turbine, wind mill, wind firm, wind potential assessment (including off-shore).
Track 7 – energy and solar passive architecture
Energy conservation in built in system, solar heating and cooling, zero energy building.
Track 8 – energy conservation measures
Optimization techniques, application of artificial intelligence in energy system, grid interactive system, micro grid and smart grid, energy storage, fuel cell, electric and hybrid vehicles, efficiency in irrigation.
Further details can be seen at: http://www.iconce.in
World Congress on Agroforestry 2014
New Delhi, India, 10-14 February 2014
To accelerate the contribution that trees can make to world development, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the World Agroforestry Centre, together with the Indian Society of Agroforestry and Global Initiatives, are organising the World Congress on Agroforestry 2014 to be held in New Delhi, India on 10-14 February 2014.
The Congress, entitled "Trees for Life: Accelerating the Impacts of Agroforestry", follows on from the 1st World Congress on Agroforestry in 2004 and the second in 2009. Over 1,000 selected participants drawn from the private sector, research and development will share the current state of knowledge and seek to accelerate the positive financial, environmental and social impacts of agroforestry.
Offering a unique opportunity for the business and research communities to interact, the Congress will be built around a structure dealing with science and innovation; food and nutrition; environmental protection; enterprise; knowledge and policy environment, and climate change. It will produce a global roadmap for agroforestry in the context of world development and create a deliberate and tangible legacy in terms of recognition, partnership, investment and impact.
Further details can be seen at: http://www.wca2014.org
1st International Conference on Renewable Energy Gas Technology (REGATEC 2014)
Malmö, Sweden, 22-23 May 2014
The conference REGATEC 2014 has a technical and industrial focus and is directed towards production of biomethane through microbial and thermo-chemical conversion of biomass and waste. REGATEC 2014 is organized by Institute for Biogas, Waste Management and Energy and Renewable Energy Technology International AB and takes place on 22-23 May 2014 at Scandic Triangeln, Malmö, Sweden. The speaker list includes leading high profile experts from three continents and representatives from the European Commission, IEA Bioenergy and unique first-of-a-kind industrial bioSNG projects. The speakers are personally invited to create a well composed conference focused on biomethane production.
REGATEC 2014 includes plenary and parallel sessions, a poster session, an exhibition, the conference gala dinner and excellent opportunities to network.
Further details can be seen at: http://www.regatec.org.
Resilient Cities 2014
Bonn, Germany, 1-3 June 2014
The 5th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation will take place in Bonn, Germany from 1 to 3 June 2014.
The event focuses on resilience approaches in the urban environment.
Participants coming from a wide array of backgrounds are given the opportunity to take an active part in exchanging strategies and sharing experiences:
* mayors and vice mayors;
* councillors, commissioners and governors;
* chiefs of sustainability units;
* heads of policy development;
* directors of urban planning and development;
* disaster risk and emergency managers;
* directors of resource and environmental development;
* water and sanitation specialists;
* global climate change and adaptation experts;
* urban and regional planners;
* senior technical advisors;
* consultants;
* civil engineers;
* senior finance analysts;
* infrastructure and utilities managers;
* professors and academics: urban development, town planning and engineering, etc.;
* private sector solutions providers;
* development bank and financial institution representatives;
* international organization representatives;
* non-governmental organization practitioners;
* municipal associations and network representatives;
* university students and researchers; and
* think tank analysts and private sector researchers.
Further details are available at: http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/index.php?id=773
Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of Nature
Hong Kong, 9-12 June 2014
Papers are now invited to this conference, to investigate urbanism, nature, and ecological sustainability in Asian cities and towns. It will explore the ways that urban social processes intersect with assessments of urban environmental order and disorder in specific cities by asking, how are relationships between urban environments and urban societies made, and made meaningful? How do biophysical properties, rules, and histories of nature matter in the city? How is the urban environment used to construct social identities and demarcate political spaces?
The papers will engage cases grounded in the cities and towns of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and South China. We seek submissions in the following thematic areas: the political ecology of the city, urban environmentalism, nodes and networks, and the social lives of infrastructure.
Further details are available at: http://www.ihss.hku.hk/conference/index.html