ICMRED 2024

Organizer

Danubius University from Galati

Chair

Professor Dr. Habil. Florian Marcel Nuţă

Professor Dr. Habil. in Danubius University from Galaţi

Florian Marcel Nuţă is a Professor Dr. Habil. at Danubius University from Galaţi, with over 17 years of teaching and research experience. He is affiliated with Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Doctoral School of Social and Human Sciences, for research and doctoral supervision. His scientific research is conducted in the following fields: Environmental Accounting, Climate Change Economics, Energy Economics, Urban Environmental Accounting, Carbon Accounting, Green Taxation, and Public Policy.

He is involved in numerous editorial initiatives as editor-in-chief, editor, member of the international scientific board, and reviewer for scientific journals and international conferences, conducting more than 500 peer-reviews during his academic career.

Dr. Nuţă worked as a reviewer for Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Efficiency, Resources Policy, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Economic Research, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Countries, Cogent Business and Management, and other peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Call for Papers

The main goal of the workshop “Green Development for Urban Communities” is to generate an intense exchange of ideas and discuss topics related to the nexus between urbanization, economic development, and climate change mitigation.

The workshop participants are welcome to submit research papers in topics such as economic development, urbanization, carbon accounting, climate change, green public policies, sustainable communities, smart urban solutions, carbon emissions mitigation, management, urban ecological footprint, rural vs urban asymmetries, and other related subjects. The central point relates to the environmental impact of urbanization, identifying and promoting policy recommendations designed to reduce the environmental impact and improve the ecological quality. Both students and faculty are welcome to participate at the debates. The workshop format will favor debates, creating the premises for future research ideas development.

Keywords

  • Urbanization
  • Sustainable development
  • Green economic growth
  • Smart communities
  • Environmental impact
  • Carbon emissions
  • Urban carbon accounting

Background

Urbanization is a key performance indicator for social and economic development contributing to human welfare. Urban regions are known for better social services, economic opportunities, public goods, and commodities. Many economic activities are concentrated around urban agglomerations serving it and, at the same time, depending on it. It is widely recognized that urbanization and economic growth are linked, this relationship creating the premises for human development. However, urban areas are responsible for approximately three quarters of the total amount of carbon emissions in the world. Under these circumstances, it is critical to review the future development patterns for urban areas in order to successfully mitigate the carbon emissions and, at the same time, to ensure a steady social and economic growth that will support further human development and a certain standard of living.

Goal/Rationale

Urbanization is not a static phenomenon but an evolving process which incorporates an important amount of resources. Additionally, urbanization have its own expansion stages, each stage with its characteristics and level of effects upon society and ecological environment. Beside the anthropic resources (human and financial) involves the transformation of ecological environment, being responsible for pollution, biodiversity loss, and natural resources usage. There is a trade-off between ecological loss on one hand, and economic and social gain on the other. Climate change and irreversible ecological degradation put the human society existence under scrutiny and the vital menace needs to be addressed. First, it is important to identify, assess, and quantify the environmental impact urbanization creates, with all its features and processes. After identifying the real measure of the relationship between urbanization and environmental quality, we have to emphasize those features that have a role in reducing the environmental degradation and contributes to the improvement of its quality. Therefore, factors such as renewable energy and technological advancements need to be promoted and public policies based on it need to be designed accordingly.

Submission

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full papers that include title, abstract, introduction, tables, figures, conclusion and references. It is unnecessary to submit an abstract in advance. The deadline for general submission is April 22, 2024.

Each paper should be no less than 4 pages. One regular registration can cover a paper of 6 pages, and additional pages will be charged. Please format your paper well according to the conference template below before submission.

Paper Template

Please prepare your paper in both .doc/.docx and .pdf format and submit your full paper by email with both formats attached directly to ws_galati@icmred.org

Workshop Date

May 15th, 2024 (GMT+3)

Submission & Payment

Type Regular Submission
Paper Submission April 22, 2024
Review Process 2 weeks
Revise & Acceptance 2 weeks
Registration & Payment 2 weeks

Fees

Items Amount (VAT Included)
Registration and Publishing Fee (6 pages included) $450
Additional Page $40/extra page

Publication

The paper accepted by this workshop will be published in Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences (Print ISSN 2754-1169) and will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, Portico, Google Scholar, CNKI, and other databases for indexing. The situation may be affected by factors among databases like processing time, workflow, policy, etc.

Participation

Poster

Besides the onsite meeting, this workshop also holds a poster session which allow for a larger number of authors to share their research. The poster session will provide an opportunity for researchers to present their work in a visual and interactive way, allowing for more engagement and discussion with other attendees. Authors of qualified papers will be invited to present their works with digital posters. We believe that this online poster session will still be a great platform for participants to share, discuss, and cooperate.

All accepted authors will receive an invitation email to present a poster at this workshop. Please note that all poster presenters must submit the poster before May 10, 2024.

Guidelines for Poster Presentation

  1. Poster presentations must be prepared using the template provided:
  2. *Poster layout template for poster presentation (download)
  3. *Poster layout background (download)
  4. Posters should generally be in A1 size (width: 594mm x height: 841mm) and include the followings:
  5. Title, author and co-author names, and the affiliation(s) information.
  6. Body parts, including "Abstract", "Introduction", "Methods", "Results", "Discussion" and "Conclusions".
  7. Presenters are suggested to set the font size properly and avoid placing anything at the margin part of the poster as it will be difficult to view.
  8. Posters should be well illustrated. All the pictures used should be high quality and with high resolution.
  9. All the posters will be displayed online on the official website. Each poster will have both a small thumbnail and a full-size version.
  10. Posters will be displayed during the online session. After the presentation is over, the full-size version of all posters will become invisible. But thumbnails still can be seen on the website.

(You can refer to the instructions for more detailed information. Additional presentation guidelines may be announced by workshop committees.)

Highlight

The workshop Green development for urban communities took place as planned, on May 15, 2024, at the premises of Danubius University.

The topics covered by the workshop: urbanization, carbon accounting, climate change, green public policies, sustainable communities, smart urban solutions, carbon emissions mitigation, urban pollution, urban ecological footprint, rural vs urban asymmetries, and other related subjects.

The main presentation entitled, was followed by discussions and launched the debates among participants. The participants involved freely in debates starting from the topics covered by the main speaker. There were 12 registered participants and 10 participants present in person in the meeting room. The participants (mostly students) were glad to find out in their university there are research and practical interests related to climate change action and environmental protection, subjects very significant for the younger generation. They were interested in various mitigation actions presented and asked many questions on the topic.

After the presentation, the Q&A session was intense, discussing issues such as: “making urban areas more environmental-friendly without affecting the standard of living”, “smart options for green cities”, “the role of innovation in shaping green villages”, etc.

Among those present, there were also entrepreneur students, that recognized the necessity for urban planner to acknowledge the role of cities in climate change mitigation actions and sustainability targets.

Access to Workshop: ICMRED 2024 Workshop -- Galati - YouTube

Venue

*Since the seats are limited, if you would like to attend the workshop, please contact ws_galati@icmred.org in advance.

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Danubius University from Galati, Bulevardul Galati 3, Galati 800654, Romania

VISA

Acasa (mae.ro)

Officials who hold diplomatic, service and official passports, as well as their family members, who travel to Romania for official purposes, can directly contact the chosen diplomatic mission/consular post of Romania. The contact details of the diplomatic missions and consular posts of Romania can be consulted here.

It is highly recommended that visa applications be lodged at least 2 weeks before the estimated date of departure and not more than 3 months before that date. The date from which the period of taking a decision upon a visa application is the date when the visa applicant presents oneself at the diplomatic mission/consular post of Romania.

Before you begin

In order to be able to apply online you must:

  • Have a valid e-mail address
  • Use a computer which fulfills certain technical requirements. For further information see About the E-VIZA portal.
  • Have the possibility of uploading the required supporting documents.

If you wish to print or save a copy of your application you must have access to Acrobat Reader or other similar .pdf readers.

Attachments

It is advisable that your supporting documents be translated into Romanian or English by an authorized translator. All documents you submit must be legible. All attached documents must be presented in original and copy when you visit the Romanian diplomatic mission / consular post.

  • Each document must not exceed 2 Megabytes (2 MB).
  • Only Latin characters are allowed in the filename.
  • We accept files in the following formats: jpeg, jpg, tif, png, bmp, txt, rtf or pdf.

How it works

The visa application consists of a number of fields which you have to fill in. Note that you cannot use the "back" and "forward" buttons from your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer). Use only the buttons in the electronic form to move forward and backward between pages.

Visa applications can be lodged only individually. In case more people travel together, each person must apply for an individual visa. In addition, please note that individual visa applications must be lodged for people included in the same travel document (e.g.: underage children included in the parents' travel documents).

If you started registering an electronic application file it is possible to interrupt the application process and save it. You can resume the registration and continue filling in the application at a later stage. An application saved temporarily is stored for 30 days.

When your visa application is decided upon, you will receive a notification by e-mail to the address you supplied when you started your application.

Attend in person:

If you want to attend the workshop on-site, please email the Conference Committee: info@icmred.org.