Sustainability Transitions and Regional Economic Restructuring in New Contexts
Date:
January 9th, 2025 (UTC+8)
Organizer:
January 9th, 2025 (UTC+8)
Symposium Chair:
Personal Bio:
Dr. Hu Xiaohui is a Professor at Nanjing Normal University and holds a PhD in Economic Geography (2015) from Kiel University, Germany. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Lethbridge, Canada. His research integrates Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies. He has led three national-level projects (NSFC, NSSF), two international grants (British Academy + World Resources Institute). He has published over 100 publications in economic geography and urban studies journals, including more than 30 SSCI/SCI papers. He serves on the editorial boards of the SSCI journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, and the Sage journal Transactions in Energy and Sustainability.
Symposium Members:
| Associate Professor Di Wu | Nanjing Normal University | diwu@njnu.edu.cn |
| Associate Professor Xu Huang | Nanjing Normal University | 09432@njnu.edu.cn |
| Associate Professor Qianqian Liu | Nanjing Normal University | 09430@njnu.edu.cn |
Call for Papers
Background:
Sustainability transitions have emerged as a critical framework for understanding the shift towards more sustainable and resilient socio-technical systems, particularly in response to climate change and resource constraints. Simultaneously, regional economic development increasingly focuses on how regions can restructure their socio-technical systems to align with environmental goals and equity while maintaining economic competitiveness. Recent global disruptions, such as geopolitical shifts, supply chain reconfigurations, and accelerated digitalization, have created new contexts and pressures for these transitions. This symposium examines how regions navigate these complex challenges, integrating ecological imperatives with economic restructuring in an evolving landscape, and explores the policies and strategies that could support just and inclusive transitions.
Goal / Rationale:
The central problem this research addresses is the tension between the urgent need for sustainability transitions and the profound challenges of regional economic restructuring in new contexts of disruption. While transitioning to low-carbon and circular economies is imperative, it risks exacerbating regional inequalities, job losses in traditional industries, and social exclusion if not managed inclusively. Recent advances in sustainability transitions and evolutionary economic geography provide frameworks, but they often lack granular insights for regional adaptability. This symposium aims to bridge this gap. By convening experts in transition studies, economic geography, and policy, it will explore integrative strategies and governance models to steer restructuring processes that are not only environmentally sustainable but also economically resilient and socially just.
Scope and Information for Participants:
This symposium invites contributions that critically explore the intersection of sustainability transitions and geographical regional economic development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: the spatial unevenness of low-carbon transitions; regional innovation systems for green technologies; governance of just transition in industries; labor market shifts and skills development; the role of financial and policy instruments in steering place-based restructuring; grassroots innovation and niche experimentation; and path creation in resource-dependent regions. Participants are encouraged to present theoretical frameworks, empirical case studies, or policy analyses that deepen our understanding of how regions can navigate socio-technical transformations. We seek to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars in economic geography, innovation studies, environmental economics, and related fields.
Topics
The main topics of this symposium are listed below.
Applied Economics
- Aggregate Demand and Supply
- Economic Growth
- National & Regional Economies
- Green Business
- Capital Markets and Capital Market Efficiency
- Business Engineering
- Sharing Economy
- Cross-Cultural Business
- Logistics, Transportation and Tourism
- Business with Deep Learning and Machine Learning
- E-Business
- Asset Pricing
- Entrepreneurship
- Cross-Border Investments and Insolvency
Public Administration
- Public Production and Distribution
- Income Distribution
- Analysis of Tax Reforms
- Transformation in the Public Sector
- Public Finance and Government Functions
- Organizational Behavior and Communication
- Public Sector Accounting in Theory and Practice.
- Accountability and Social Responsibility
- Taxation
- Human Resources Management
- Public Budgeting and Choice
- Applications of Social Network Analysis
Policy, Law and Business Ethics
- Business Policy, Standards, Regulations, and Legal Issues
- Regulatory and Supervisory Rules
- Sustainable Development and Employment
- Fairness and Efficiency
- Policy and Productivity
- Regulation and Self-Regulation of Organizations
- Objectives of Tax Law and Policy
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Air Pollution Policy
- Data Privacy Protection
- Anti-Trust and Competition Law
- Banking Law and Policy
- Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Labor Law and Social Policy
- Cultural Policy and Globalization
- Discourses and Interpretive Policy
- Policy Change, Design and Evaluation
- Monetary Policy
- Politics and Policy
Meanwhile, submissions aligned with the overall conference theme are also welcome.
Enterprise Management
- Corporate Governance
- Strategic Management in E-Commerce Enterprise
- Global Business Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Technology and Innovation Management
- Business Collaboration and Collaborative Business Systems
- Organizational Design, Modeling and Simulation
- Joint Ventures and Other Collaborative Investment Structures
- Strategy Implementation and Control
- Total Quality Management
- Contemporary Issues in Cost Accounting and Budgeting.
- Decision Making
Finance, Accounting and Banking
- Marketing Trends in Insurance, Banking and Fintech
- Digital Money and Cryptocurrencies
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Engineering
- Global Financial Crisis
- SME Finance
- Cost Accounting
- Trade Credit
- Credit Risk
- Stock Market
- Savings and Loan Bailout
- Securities and Exchange
Submission
All submitted papers should report original and unpublished work, experimental or theoretical, and are not under consideration for publications elsewhere. All papers should be no less than 4 pages in length and must strictly follow the format of the symposium template. All papers are subject to reviews and edits. Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers that includes title, abstract, introduction, tables/figures and references. Other styles of papers are not accepted. Please submit your papers in both .doc/.docx AND .pdf formats as attachments via email to sympo_nanjing@confbps.org by the given deadline. It is unnecessary to submit an abstract in advance.
Dates & Fees
| Submission Deadline | January 2, 2026 |
| Symposium Date | January 9, 2026 |
| Notification of Acceptance | 7-20 workdays |
| Registration Fee | USD 450 (cover 6 pages) |
| Additional Page | USD 40/extra page |
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences (AEMPS) (Print ISSN: 2754-1169) and will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, CNKI, Portico, Google Scholar, and other databases for indexing. The situation may be affected by factors among databases like processing time, workflow, policy, etc.
Proceeding Title: Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences (AEMPS)
Press: EWA Publishing, United Kingdom
ISSN: 2754-1169 2754-1177 (electronic)
* The papers will be exported to production and publication on a regular basis. Early-registered papers are expected to be published online earlier.
This symposium is organized by CONF-BPS 2026 and it will independently proceed the submission and publication process
Venue:
No. 122, Ninghai Road, Gulou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China
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