2025 International Conference on Resource Sustainability (icRS 2025)

July 16-18, 2025, Adelaide, Australia

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.

icRS 2025, hosted by The University of Adelaide, will include invited keynote speeches, parallel sessions, and poster presentations on a variety of topics related to resource sustainability.

To encourage participation, we will ONLY call for abstracts to submit for the conference. However, authors will have options to select to submit full papers in addition to abstracts to be considered for special issues in supporting journals.

We also welcome proposals to organize special sessions at icRS 2025.

icRS 2025 is in-person only. There will be no option for online presentations.

icRS 2025 is sponsored by the flagship journal in sustainable resources management Resources, Conservation & Recycling (RCR; 2023 Impact Factor: 11.2) and its sister journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances (RCRADV; 2023 Impact Factor: 5.4). High quality papers presented at icRS 2024 will be recommended to special issues in these journals as well as other supporting journals.

Awards:

Best Student Oral Presentations
Best Student Posters
Most Welcomed Posters

Special sessions:

Editor Panel

Important Dates

~~February 1, 2025~~ March 1, 2025: Deadline for abstract submission
~~March 1, 2025~~ April 1, 2025: Acceptance notification for abstracts
May 15, 2025: 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; an author can only register for no more than two accepted presentations)
June 20, 2025: Deadline for full paper submission through the conference system (optional)
July 16-18, 2025: Conference
October 6, 2025: Deadline for submitting papers to journal special issues (by invitation only)

Committees

icRS 2025 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 and RCRADV Editorial Board)

Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge
Annick Anctil, Michigan State University
Sergio Angulo, University of Sao Paulo
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, Ghent University
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, Baruch College, City University of New York
Monzur Imteaz, Swinburne University of Technology
Md Tasbirul Islam, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Kannan Govindan, University of Southern Denmark
Alissa Kendall, University of California, Davis
Yasushi Kondo, Waseda University
Simonov Kusi-Sarpong, University of Southampton
Gang Liu, Peking University
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, Vienna University of Technology
Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues，Cardiff University
Heinz Schandl, CSIRO
Lei Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rafat Siddique, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
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
Timothy Townsend, University of Florida
Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Ming-hung Wong, The Education University of Hong Kong
Ernst Worrell, Utrecht University
Beidou Xi, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
Zhifeng Yang, Guangdong University of Technology
William Young, University of Leeds
Lixiao Zhang, Beijing Normal University
Tieyong Zuo, Beijing University of Technology

Supporting Organization

The Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM)

Scientific Committee (RCR and RCRADV Editors)

Gisele Azimi, University of Toronto
Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky
Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
Zhi Cao, Nankai University
Wei-Qiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven De Meester, Ghent University
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
Andrea Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Brandenburg University of Technology
Mitchell Jones, Vienna University of Technology
Ramzy Kahhat, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh
Junbeum Kim, University of Applied Sciences 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
Gara Villalba, Autonomous University of Barcelona
George Wells, Northeastern University
Yufeng Wu, Beijing University of Technology
Yuan Yao, Yale University
Steven Young, University of Waterloo

Conference Chair

Jian Zuo, The University of Adelaide

icRS General Chair

Ming Xu, Tsinghua University

Local Organization Committee

Ruidong Chang, University of Adelaide
Daniel Oteng, University of Adelaide
Ehsan Sharifi, University of Adelaide
Prince Antwi-Afari, University of Adelaide
Navodana Rodrigo, University of Adelaide
Chamitha Wijewickrama, University of Adelaide
Hossein Omrany, University of Adelaide
Philip Kwong, University of Adelaide
Rameez Rameezdeen, University of South Australia

Organization Committee

Lirong Liu, University of Surrey
Chenyang Shuai, Chongqing University
Tiantian Feng, China University of Geosciences
Bu Zhao, University at Albany, SUNY
Xueliang Yuan, Shandong University
Xiaowei Zou, Chang'An University

Call for Submissions

icRS 2025 welcomes submissions of abstracts, full papers, and special session proposals on topics related to sustainable management of resources from any discipline.

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 papers (optional)

Only accepted abstracts can submit full papers. Full papers are optional, but are required if to be considered for one of the special issues sponsoring icRS 2025. Full paper template can be downloaded here.

Special session proposal

icRS 2025 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, special session proposals, or full papers via https://www.conftool.org/icrs2025

Publication procedure

Authors who want their presentations to be considered for publication in the conference proceedings or one of the journals supporting the icRS 2025 conference (either special issue or regular issue) need to follow the publication procedure below.

Authors should submit full papers to the conference by the appropriate deadline.
The conference Scientific Committee will evaluate all submitted full papers and decide which paper is invited to which journal for consideration. The notification will be sent shortly after the conference.
The authors can choose whether to accept the invitation. Once submitted, invited papers will go through the appropriate editorial and review processes by the corresponding journals. Receiving an invitation does not guarantee publication.
If the authors choose to publish the submitted full paper in the conference proceedings (different from journal publications), additional fees will be applied (details can be found in the "Proceedings" below). A paper published in the conference proceedings can still be considered for journal publications, but substantial differences should be made.

Registration Information

Registration Link

To register, please visit https://www.conftool.org/icrs2025

Registration Fees

Early Bird rate (on or before May 15, 2025)

Regular: US$600
Student: US$500

Full rate (after May 15, 2025)

Regular: US$750
Student: US$650

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. An author can only register for no more than two accepted oral presentations.

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 (email) will be accepted. 75% of the registration fee will be refunded if cancellation is received before May 15, 2025. After May 15, 2025, no refund will be issued for cancellation.

Supporting Journals (updating)

These journals (more to come) will support icRS 2025 by inviting selected papers to submit for regular or special issues.

Conference Program

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

To be updated

Sabrina Spatari

Sabrina Spatari is a Professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. Her research and expertise focus on the development and application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods to guide engineering decision making and public policy. Her specific interests include evaluation of early-stage technology through bottom-up process engineering models. Her work has included study of renewable energy and materials; green chemistry in the pharmaceuticals sector; green design in process engineering; and evaluation of low impact development for urban green infrastructure, focusing on macro-level goals in water management. Spatari studied Chemical Engineering and received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto. She continued her post-doctoral research with the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and was on the Faculty at Drexel University in Philadelphia until joining the Technion. Her research projects have included life cycle evaluation of green and grey stormwater management strategies and nutrient recovery in wastewater treatment plants. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and monographs; advised over 30 graduate students and senior researchers; and currently leads sustainability research for 6 major interdisciplinary projects, include EU Project Impactive on scaling mechanochemistry processes in pharmaceuticals. Professor Spatari serves as an associate editor for Resources, Conservation and Recycling and GCB Bioenergy.

Host

The University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide—a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight research-intensive universities—stands tall among the world’s leading institutions of learning and innovation by every measure.

The clearest indication of this is the consistently high rating by the most respected international assessment bodies: QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education and Shanghai Jiao Tong’s Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU). All consider the University one of the top 1% of universities worldwide.

Venue

Conference Venue

The University of Adelaide's North Terrace campus is located in the cultural heart of the CBD (5 minutes from tram and bus stops, 10 minutes from Adelaide Railway Station). The North Terrace campus lies adjacent to many of South Australia's major arts and cultural institutions, including the State Library of South Australia, the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, the South Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Adelaide Festival Centre and Adelaide Zoo.

As well as being the main site for teaching and research facilities, the North Terrace campus is home to the student hub and Barr Smith Library. You'll find central services such as disability support, health and counselling, accommodation services and Ask Adelaide. There are also amenities including ATMs, post office, student co-op and campus general store. If you are hungry there are plenty of places to grab a bite to eat, sit down and relax, or get some extra study in.

About Adelaide

Adelaide is bursting with culture, flavours, events and entertainment. Taste your way through world-famous wine regions only minutes away from the city or soak up the sun at one of our picture-perfect metropolitan beaches. Join the party at our immersive festivals and events or spend the night exploring Adelaide attractions and a thriving restaurant and bar scene. Adelaide is a gateway to some of Australia’s best wine country and is dotted with historic buildings, lush parklands and sprawling botanic gardens.

Weather in July

Temperatures in South Australia in July hover around 17°C, although July is in winter. Check Adelaide weather forecast from Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/forecasts/adelaide.shtml

Wine Experience

Adelaide has been recognised as one of the Great Wine Capitals of the World – a network of nine major global cities that share a common feature: their internationally renowned wine regions. With 200 stunning cellar doors only a short drive away from the city centre and 18 world-renowned wine regions nearby, it’s no surprise why.

Places to Visit

Additional Information about Adelaide

Tourism SA: https://southaustralia.com/places-to-go/adelaide

Pre and Post Touring Information provided by Adelaide Convention Bureau.

Travel, Accommodation and Visa

International Flights to Adelaide

Adelaide is serviced by the world's best international airlines including:

Domestic Flights to Adelaide

Public Transport with Adelaide Metro

Choose from trains, trams and buses with Adelaide Metro: https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au

A tram ride through the city’s centre is free and will take you between the South Terrace tram stop and the Entertainment Centre at Hindmarsh.

Explore with the free City Connector Loop-Bus which runs frequently until about 6pm each day and Fridays until 9pm seven days a weeks.

Hotels

To be updated

Visa

Please check visa options from Department of Home Affairs: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-finder

Visa invitation letter will be available after you complete the online registration. When registering, you will be asked for information to prepare your visa invitation letter. You can download the letter from the online registration system once your registration is complete.