The sustainable development of human society depends on resources. Addressing critical societal challenges, such as climate change, resource depletion, and environmental protection, requires sustainable management of resources using interdisciplinary approaches.
The International Conference on Resource Sustainability (icRS) series serve as an international platform for researchers and practitioners around the world with diverse background and expertise to share the most recent ideas, outcomes, and practices on resource sustainability.
icRS embraces interdisciplinarity, welcoming contributions from ANY discipline including natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering on ANY aspect of resource sustainability. We define resource broadly, including physical resources, biological resources, and "misplaced" resources:
physical resources: metals, non-metallic minerals, energy, water, etc.
biological resources: food, forestry, land, ecological systems, etc.
"misplaced" resources: air emissions, water pollutants, solid waste, etc.
Although COVID restrictions have been eased in many countries, there are still critical challenges for many to travel due to health and cost concerns. At the same time, environmental impacts caused by large in-person events have been extensively debated for concerns such as substantial carbon footprint. Therefore icRS 2022 will be held completely online to accommodate attendees who cannot travel and help reduce our footprint on the environment.
icRS 2022 is sponsored by the flagship journal in sustainable resources management Resources, Conservation & Recycling (RCR; 2022 Impact Factor: 10.204) and its sister journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances (RCRADV). High quality papers presented at icRS 2022 will be recommended to special issues in these journals as well as other supporting journals.
Important Dates
April 15, 2022: Submission and registration portal opens
June 1 June 10, 2022 (extended): Deadline for special session proposal submission
June 7 June 17, 2022 (extended): Acceptance notification (special session proposals)
June 15 June 25, 2022 (extended): Deadline for abstract submission
July 1, 2022: Acceptance notification (abstracts)
July 15, 2022: Early-bird registration ends (at least one author should register before Early Bird ends; otherwise an accepted abstract will be removed from the conference program and not be considered for journal special issues)
July 20, 2022: Deadline for full paper submission (optional)
August 1-5, 2022: Conference
August 12, 2022: Invitation for journal special issues
Committees
icRS 2022 is pleased to have its Advisory Committee composed by the Editorial Boards of RCR and RCRADV and its Scientific Board composed by the Editors of RCR and RCRADV.
Advisory Committee (RCR Editorial Board)
Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge
Annick Anctil, Michigan State University
Sergio Angulo, University of Sao Paulo
Robert U. Ayres, INSEAD
Chunguang Bai, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
David Broadstock, National University of Singapore
Jorge de Brito, University of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute
Ichiro Daigo, University of Tokyo
Jo Dewulf, Universiteit Gent
Liang Dong, City University of Hong Kong
Matthew Eckelman, Northeastern University
Jose-Luis Galvez-Martos, IMDEA Energy
Nishant Garg, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alexandre Bacelar Gonçalves, University of Lisbon
Thomas Graedel, Yale University
Willi Haas, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Seiji Hashimoto, Ritsumeikan University
Gang He, Stony Brook University
Monzur Imteaz, Swinburne University of Technology
Md Tasbirul Islam, RMIT University
Kannan Govindan, University of Southern Denmark
Alissa Kendall, University of California, Davis
Jiří Jaromír KlemeŠ, Brno University of Technology
Yasushi Kondo, Waseda University
Simonov Kusi-Sarpong, University of Southampton
Gang Liu, University of Southern Denmark
Yanchen Liu, Tsinghua University
Rui Cunha Marques, University of Lisbon
Daniel Beat Müller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Kok Siew Ng, University of Oxford
Chi-Sun Poon, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Helmut Rechberger, Technische Universität Wien
Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues
Heinz Schandl, CSIRO
Lei Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rafat Siddique, Thapar University
Avishreshth Singh, India Institute of Technology Tirupati
Matthew Stasiewicz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Guido Sonnemann, University of Bordeaux
Meng Sun, Tsinghua University
Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jinping Tian, Tsinghua University
Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Ming-hung Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University
Ernst Worrell, Utrecht University
Beidou Xi, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
Zhifeng Yang, Guangdong University of Technology
Lixiao Zhang, Beijing Normal University
Tieyong Zuo, Beijing University of Technology
Scientific Committee (RCR and RCRADV Editors)
Gisele Azimi, University of Toronto
Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky
Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
Wei-Qiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven De Meester, Universiteit Gent
Xiangzheng Deng, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Elham Fini, Arizona State University
Luca Fraccascia, Sapienza University of Rome
Magnus Fröhling, Technical University of Munich
Pezhman Ghadimi, University College Dublin
Oliver Heidrich, Newcastle University
Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Brandenburg University of Technology
Mitchell Jones, Vienna University of Technology
Ramzy Kahhat, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh
Junbeum Kim, Université de Technologie de Troyes
Shihong Lin, Vanderbilt University
Ruth Mugge, Delft University of Technology
Rupert Myers, Imperial College London
Keisuke Nansai, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Elsa Olivetti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sergio Pacca, University of Sao Paulo
Shen Qu, Beijing Institute of Technology
Veena Sahajwalla, University of New South Wales
Joseph Sarkis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sabrina Spatari, Israel Institute of Technology
William Tarpeh, Stanford University
Timothy Townsend, University of Florida
Gara Villalba, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Yufeng Wu, Beijing University of Technology
Yuan Yao, Yale University
William Young, University of Leeds
Conference Chair
Organizing Committee
Chenyang Shuai, Chongqing University
Bu Zhao, University of Michigan
icRS 2022 welcomes submissions of abstracts, full papers, and special session proposals on topics related to sustainable management of resources from any discipline. For specific topics covered by icRS 2022, please refer to the Aims and Scope of Resources, Conservation & Recycling and Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances.
Abstract
All authors who wish to present at the conference should submit an abstract. Abstracts should be submitted in plain text with no more than 300 words. The abstract should be written in clear and concise English. At least one author of an accepted abstract should register in order to keep the presentation in the program.
Full paper (optional)
Full papers are optional, but are required if to be considered for special issues in supporting journals. Please prepare the full paper using this template.
Special session proposal
icRS 2022 welcomes proposals to organize special sessions which focus on topics that are highly relevant and timely to the conference. Special session organizers should solicit interested authors to prepare abstracts on related topics and, if the special session proposal is approved, coordinate submission of the abstracts. A special session is confirmed when the proposal is approved and at least four presentations are accepted and registered.
Special session proposal should include the proposed session title (no more than 80 characters with space), short acronym (no more than 20 characters), rationale of the special session (no more than 300 words), organizer(s) information (name, title, affiliation, email), and information on at least four expected presentations (title, author name, author affiliation).
Submission
Please submit your abstracts or special session proposals via https://www.conftool.org/icrs2022
Registration Fees
Early-bird rates (on or before July 7, 2022)
Non-student: $250 USD
Student: $200 USD
Regular rates (after July 7, 2022)
Non-student: $350 USD
Student: $300 USD
At least one author should register before Early Bird ends; otherwise an accepted abstract will be removed from the conference program and not be considered for journal special issues.
To be qualified for the student rates, attendees will be asked to provide evidence of student status at registration (e.g., letter from school authority, student ID card showing name and expiration date).
Cancellation and Refund
Cancellations received by the conference secretariat in writing will be accepted. 75% of the registration fee will be refunded if cancellation is received before July 15, 2022. After July 15, 2022, no refund will be issued for cancellation.
Registration portal will open on April 15, 2022.
