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 20, 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 25, 2022: Deadline for full paper submission (optional)
• July 25, 2022: Deadline for oral presentation video upload (optional)
• August 1-4, 2022: Conference
• August 12, 2022: Invitation for journal special issues

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).

Oral Presentation

Each oral presentation is 12 minutes followed by a 3-minute Q&A. For each oral presentation, there are two options:

• Pre-recording: The presenter pre-records the presentation as a .mp4 file and uploads to the submission system before July 25, 2022. At the conference, the video will be played by the conference staff and the presenter is expected to be there to answer any questions from the audience.
• The presentation should be made in English.
• The video can be recorded using any popular video recording software or videoconferencing software such as zoom. Make sure the presentation is full screen and the voice of the presenter is clear.
• We can only accept .mp4 file with no more than 230 megabytes each.
• Presentation video files need to be uploaded to the submission system before July 25, 2022. Once you log in, select “Your Submissions”, then click “Upload File(s) [Optional]”.
• Live presentation: The presenter presents live at the conference, but is responsible for any technical difficulties. In case of technical difficulties preventing the presenter to present live, the conference will go on as scheduled

Submission

Please submit your abstracts, special session proposals, presentation videos, or full papers via https://www.conftool.org/icrs2022