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

Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

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

Research Network Chairs

Victoria Hurth

Victoria Hurth

Senior Associate, Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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

The Seventeenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses 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

Moderators: 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, Blue Community Consortium, U.S.A

T.H. Culhane

T.H. Culhane

Sustainability Programs Consultant, Blue Community Consortium, 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

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:

Francis Ayensu

Francis Ayensu

Jiangsu University, China

(In-Person)

Essien Oku Essien

Essien Oku Essien

Drexel University, USA

(In-Person)

Kelvin Tang

Kelvin Tang

The University of Tokyo, Japan

(In-Person)

Pedro Diaz Peralta

Pedro Diaz Peralta

Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

(In-Person)

Suman Acharya

Suman Acharya

University of Central Florida’s RISES Center, USA

(In-Person)

Arseniy Braslavskiy

Arseniy Braslavskiy

University of Maryland, USA

(Online Only)

Charalampia Mikropoulou

Charalampia Mikropoulou

Aix-Marseille University, France

(Online Only)

​Stephanie Rost

​Stephanie Rost

Gothenburg University, Sweden

(Online Only)

Maya Lis

Maya Lis

University of California, USA

(Online Only)

Auranzaib Noor Ali

Auranzaib Noor Ali

University College London, UK

(Online Only)

Conference Partners