The 13th Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics on “Ecological Restoration for a Resilient Society: Economics, Policies and Institutions” is going to be held during 11-14 January 2026 at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. If you are an academic or practitioner working on ecological restoration, we invite you to submit your abstract.
Ecological restoration is about preventing, halting and reversing the loss of nature. 1.56 billion ha of the world’s land is already degraded, and degradation is increasing at 4% every four years (UNCCD data dashboard 2023). This has proven implications for poverty reduction efforts, biodiversity and water availability. Restoring degraded ecosystems to their functional and productive state while ensuring equitable and sustainable access to the resource-poor has become inevitable for a progressive and development-oriented society. United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on land) emphasises the social need to restore degraded ecosystems, with target 15.3 further envisaging a “Land Degradation Neutral” world by 2030. To accomplish this target, UNCCD declared 2021-2030 as the decade of Ecosystem Restoration.
We invite submissions that make focused conceptual and methodological contributions of a theoretical or empirical nature, as well as those contributing to the practice dimension of restoration. Research and praxis on the topics listed below could be on restoration of Land (Forest, Agriculture, Village commons, Mountains, etc.), Waterbodies (Oceans, Rivers, Ground water, etc.) or Urban landscapes (Wetlands, Parks & Plantations, Farming, Waste management, etc). Specific studies undertaken in any of these landscapes could cover any of the following topics.
Policy and governance for restoration
Social institutions and restoration
Gender dimensions of restoration
Livelihoods and restoration
Science and technology for restoration (includes energy, biodiversity etc)
Restoration economics
Methods of evaluating degradation and restoration
Other relevant topics related to the theme
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