Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, and Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Florida International University, Miami, USA, 23-25 January 2025
Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, and Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Florida International University, Miami, USA, 23-25 January 2025
Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, and Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Florida International University, Miami, USA, 23-25 January 2025
Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, and Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses, Florida International University, Miami, USA, 23-25 January 2025

Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

  • Sustainable Development for a Dynamic Planet: Lessons, Priorities, and Solutions
  • 23-25 January 2025
  • Florida International University, Miami, USA + Online

Research Network Chairs

David Humphreys

David Humphreys

Professor of Environmental Policy, The Open University, United Kingdom

(English)

José Gutiérrez-Pérez

José Gutiérrez-Pérez

Professor, Educational Research Methodology, Faculty of Science Education, Universidad de Granada, Spain

(Spanish)

Local Conference Chair

Carolin Lusby

Carolin Lusby

Associate Professor and Co-director Global Sustainable Tourism, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Florida International University, USA

Plenary Speakers (In English)

The Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Leslie Paul Thiele

Leslie Paul Thiele

Distinguished Professor, Political Science; Director, UF CAIRES and UF Sustainability Studies, USA

"Sustainability and Self-Organization"

Tayba Hatimy

Tayba Hatimy

Creator and Director, Baus Taka Enterprises (BTE), India

Plenary Panel: Coastal Restoration and Resilience

Moderator: Carolin Lusby, Associate Professor and Co-director Global Sustainable Tourism, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Florida International University, USA

David Randle

David Randle

Managing Director of the Blue Community Consortium, U.S.A

T.H. Culhane

T.H. Culhane

Associate Professor, Patel College of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida, U.S.A

Carter Henne

Carter Henne

President, Sea & Shoreline, U.S.A

Doug Heske

Doug Heske

Chief Executive Officer, Newday Financial Technologies, Inc; U.S.A

Plenary Speaker (In Spanish)

Enrique Ugalde Vargas

Enrique Ugalde Vargas

Profesor, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2025 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Malcolm Roy Weaich

Malcolm Roy Weaich

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

(In-Person)

​Rohana Swihart

​Rohana Swihart

Prescott College, USA

(In-Person)

Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes

Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes

Administrative Law Department of the School of Law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

(In-Person)

Tracy Mae Ildefonso

Tracy Mae Ildefonso

Dublin City University, Ireland

(In-Person)

Walter Spezzano

Walter Spezzano

University of Palermo, Italy

(In-Person)

Francis Ayensu

Francis Ayensu

Jiangsu University, China

(In-Person)

Gloria Schmitz

Gloria Schmitz

Northeastern University, USA

(Online Only)

Meinrad Haule Lembuka

Meinrad Haule Lembuka

Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania

(Online Only)

Hamidreza Harati

Hamidreza Harati

RMIT university, Australia

(Online Only)

Mark Akrofi

Mark Akrofi

United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Japan

(Online Only)

Rita Saleh

Rita Saleh

Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland

(Online Only)

​Alessia Vacca

​Alessia Vacca

University of Lincoln, UK

(Online Only)

Prince Dacosta Aboagye

Prince Dacosta Aboagye

Nagoya University, Japan

(Online Only)

Christopher Ashley Burkett

Christopher Ashley Burkett

California State University, USA

(Online Only)

Conference Partners