Beth Jones

Conference theme: Decarbonise or Demise - implementing zero carbon now. This year we ask:What must we do now to enable transformation towards carbon conscious communities; enabling a resilient carbon neutral future?The International SEEDS Conference aims to bring together experts from around the world to focus on changes required to minimise the impact of human activity on the environment. This year, the conference invites papers aligned to the three main themes of the Suffolk Sustainability Institute. The themes are interdependent and resonate with the imperatives we face in addressing the climate crisis, whether through technological transformation, community collaboration or resource management – each theme addresses issues that we know are vital when changing and challenging practice within our built environment. The arguments are well rehearsed, and this year we have witnessed another COP meeting. SEEDS provides an opportunity for us to share knowledge and experience to implement the research and evidence-based change needed within society to respond to and address ecological and climate impacts.Three main conference themes:Blue/Green Infrastructure (Technology – Smart Solutions for Future Smart Cities and Buildings, Data Science and IOT; Ecology – Nature Based Solutions, Ecosystems Services, Natural Systems, Biodiversity Net Gain)Sustainable Healthy Communities (Community Engagement; Smart Healthy Living/Health and Wellbeing; Behavioural Science to embed Change)Energy and Resource Management (Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Production; Materials Engineering within the Built Environment; Resource Efficient solution and a Circular Economy)

Conference Theme: United Nation’s Sustainable Development GoalsIt has been thirty-five years since the seminal report Our Common Future (often referred to as the Brundtland Report), published by the World Commission on Environment and Development, proposed progressive environmental strategies and recommendations towards the attainment of the United Nations “A Global Agenda for Change”. Since then, we have seen many pivotal international actions, summits, frameworks, protocols, conventions, and declarations proposed. Amongst the most important was the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established by the United Nations in 2000, with 191 nations committing towards their delivery by 2015. Moving forward, the United Nations “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, adopted by all Member States in 2015, proposed a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, both now and into the future. At its core are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries to join in a global partnership towards their achievement. We are almost mid-way through the timeframe for the delivery of the seventeen SDGs so it is apt that society takes an opportunity to reflect on many of the triumphs towards their realisation and also seek steer on the directions of their future travel.Drawing on the themes of all the SDGs, the 2022 International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) conference offers an integrated platform for academics and practitioners to reveal their personal and collective contributions towards the seventeen priorities.

Conference Theme: United Nation’s Sustainable Development GoalsIt has been thirty-five years since the seminal report Our Common Future (often referred to as the Brundtland Report), published by the World Commission on Environment and Development, proposed progressive environmental strategies and recommendations towards the attainment of the United Nations “A Global Agenda for Change”. Since then, we have seen many pivotal international actions, summits, frameworks, protocols, conventions, and declarations proposed. Amongst the most important was the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established by the United Nations in 2000, with 191 nations committing towards their delivery by 2015. Moving forward, the United Nations “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, adopted by all Member States in 2015, proposed a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, both now and into the future. At its core are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries to join in a global partnership towards their achievement. We are almost mid-way through the timeframe for the delivery of the seventeen SDGs so it is apt that society takes an opportunity to reflect on many of the triumphs towards their realisation and also seek steer on the directions of their future travel.Drawing on the themes of all the SDGs, the 2022 International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) conference offers an integrated platform for academics and practitioners to reveal their personal and collective contributions towards the seventeen priorities.

Conference theme: Decarbonise or Demise - implementing zero carbon now.This year we ask:What must we do now to enable transformation towards carbon conscious communities; enabling a resilient carbon neutral future?The International SEEDS Conference aims to bring together experts from around the world to focus on changes required to minimise the impact of human activity on the environment. This year, the conference invites papers aligned to the three main themes of the Suffolk Sustainability Institute. The themes are interdependent and resonate with the imperatives we face in addressing the climate crisis, whether through technological transformation, community collaboration or resource management – each theme addresses issues that we know are vital when changing and challenging practice within our built environment. The arguments are well rehearsed, and this year we have witnessed another COP meeting. SEEDS provides an opportunity for us to share knowledge and experience to implement the research and evidence-based change needed within society to respond to and address ecological and climate impacts.Three main conference themes:Blue/Green Infrastructure (Technology – Smart Solutions for Future Smart Cities and Buildings, Data Science and IOT; Ecology – Nature Based Solutions, Ecosystems Services, Natural Systems, Biodiversity Net Gain)Sustainable Healthy Communities (Community Engagement; Smart Healthy Living/Health and Wellbeing; Behavioural Science to embed Change)Energy and Resource Management (Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Production; Materials Engineering within the Built Environment; Resource Efficient solution and a Circular Economy)