The 16th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development at Tokyo, Japan, 13-16 March 2025

The 16th ICERD Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the 16th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development, the 16th ICERD, to be held in Tokyo, Japan, 13-16 March 2025. The main objective of this conference is to discuss and develop the suitable and effective processes and strategies for sustainable agriculture and rural development taking into account of innovative approaches to enhancing community resilience, including strategies for building sustainability against climate risks. Scientists and facilitators of all disciplines belonging to international, governmental or nongovernmental organizations are invited to participate and submit contributions.

Participants who will make presentation(s) are not allowed to participate online.

【 16th ICERD Flyer 】

【 Book of Abstracts 】will be ready in February 2025

Call for Abstracts

Potential participants are invited to submit the abstract through Google Forms. Screening of abstracts by the Conference
Secretariat is based on relevance to the theme of the conference. Authors should indicate if they wish to make oral or poster presentations. Due to the limited time available, the oral presentations are selected based on the quality of the abstracts and to give a diversity of presentation topics and presenters. Those abstracts, which are accepted but could not be scheduled in oral presentations are presented as posters.

Abstracts of all conference presentations will be published and distributed at the conference, and full manuscripts will be published in the International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development, IJERD, an indexed journal in ‘J-STAGE’, ‘EBISCO’, ‘AGRICOLA’, GOOGLE SCHOLAR etc., after a peer-reviewing process. All potential authors are invited to submit the full manuscript through e-mail to the ISERD Secretariat (iserd.secretariat@gmail.com). However, please note that the full manuscript will not be accepted without attending the 16th ICERD.

Please submit the abstract (Template of Abstract) by 15 November, 2024 through Google Forms.
After the deadline period, your abstract will no longer be accepted.

VENUE: Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

LANGUAGE: English

Note: We don’t provide any poster printing service for poster presenters so please prepare your own posters by yourself.

Organized by

    • The 16th ICERD Organizing Committee

Co-organized by

    • International Society of Environmental and Rural Development
    • Institute of Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation, Japan
    • Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

Collaborated with

    • United Nations University Institute for the Advanced study of Sustainability
    • University of Queensland, Australia
    • The University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia
    • Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
    • Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
    • National University of Laos, Lao PDR
    • Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
    • Yezin Agricultural University, Myanmar
    • Bohol Island State University, Philippines
    • Visayas State University, Philippines
    • Association of Environmental and Rural Development, Thailand
    • Kasetsart University, Thailand
    • Khon Kaen University, Thailand
    • Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand
    • Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand
    • Can Tho University, Vietnam

This conference was supported by Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau from 14 to 16 March, and partially supported from Kurita Water and Environment Foundation for the pre-event on 13 March, 2025.