Book of Abstracts of the 2nd International Conference on Resilience and Sustainable Regions
Year: 2026
Type: book
Abstract: The Book of Abstracts of the 2nd International Conference on Resilience and Sustainable Regions (ICRSR 2025) bring together a diverse collection of extended abstracts presented at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (Portugal), held from 2 to 4 July 2025.This second edition further consolidates the conference as an annual forum for interdisciplinary dialogue on how territories (urban, periurban, coastal, and rural) can strengthen their adaptive capacity and pursue sustainable development pathways in a context of increasing uncertainty and systemic risk.ICRSR 2025 was organised by the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, with the participation of national and international institutions and contributions from partner networks, including the E³UDRES² Alliance, Businet, and the International Business Week Network.The conference was designed to foster exchange between research and practice, encouraging cross-fertilisation of ideas, methods, and evidence across scientific domains that shape regional resilience and long-term sustainability. Why resilience and sustainability matter for regions and stakeholdersRegions face interconnected pressures: climate risks, demographic change, disruptions in value chains, technological transitions, and widening social inequalities.In this landscape, resilience should be understood not merely as recovery, but as the capacity to anticipate, adapt, transform, and learn, while safeguarding social cohesion and ecological systems.Sustainability, in turn, requires that economic development respects environmental limits and embraces responsibility towards both present and future generations.The Setúbal region and its wider metropolitan and coastal context provide a particularly pertinent setting for these discussions.The coexistence of industry, services, tourism, agriculture, mobility corridors, and environmentally sensitive areas underscores the need to integrate management decisions with technological, engineering, and environmental solutions: an orientation that lay at the heart of this edition of the conference. Programme structure and thematic organisationThe programme combined plenary moments with thematic sessions, creating space for shared reflection and specialised discussion.Two keynote addresses served as conceptual anchors:• "Climate Modelling and AI for a Resilient Earth in the Context of Climate Change" (Pedro Matos Soares), highlighting the growing role of modelling and artificial intelligence in supporting resilience-oriented decision-making;• "Resilience as Relationship: Rethinking Sustainability in Times of Systemic Change" (Antje Disterheft), proposing a relational and transformative approach to resilience, centred on care, learning, mutuality, and alignment between policy and lived realities.The conference featured five parallel-session slots, with three sessions running concurrently in each slot, totalling 15 thematic sessions hosted across multiple rooms.These sessions covered a multidisciplinary agenda connecting management, technology, engineering, environmental approaches, and the social dimensions of sustainable development.The 15 sessions were organised around the following themes (as per the official programme): 1. Collaborative Strategies for Regional Sustainability 2. Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Innovation 3. Organizational Well-being and Leadership 4. Infrastructure and Logistics for Resilient Territories 5. Educational Innovation and Digital Tools for Sustainability 6. Branding and Organizational Innovation 7. Innovation in Agri-Food Sustainability 8. Youth, Emotions and Innovation 9. Inclusion, Gender and Social Equity 10.Biotechnologies for Environmental Remediation 11.Teaching and Participatory Innovation 12. Smart Technologies for Environmental Resilience 13.Circularity, Waste and Water Strategies 14. Health, Environment and Lifestyle 15.Sustainable Innovation in Food and Beverage Systems About this volumeThis volume compiles the 50 extended abstracts presented across the parallel sessions, reflecting a wide range of approaches: conceptual frameworks, qualitative and quantitative analyses, methodological developments, and applied case studies.Collectively, the contributions converge on a central message: regional resilience and sustainability do not result from isolated interventions, but from coordinated strategies that link governance, innovation, technological capacity, social inclusion, and environmental stewardship.References
DOI: 10.60546/by4b-x124
Institution: Universidade Politécnica de Setúbal
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7127888564