As the global community continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, issues of sustainability and development remain as critical to wellbeing as ever. Indeed, the experience of the pandemic only brings home how progress on such sustainability and development goals as ecosystem conservation, greater equality and justice, stronger institutions, and transformative actions are necessary to improve our common future. The Sustainability and Development Initiative at the University of Michigan is excited to announce a call for abstracts for the 3rd Sustainability and Development Conference. The SDC will be held virtually, January 24-28, 2022. The virtual gathering will capitalize on the enhanced ability to connect global colleagues and aims to revive, establish, and sustain knowledge production, sharing, and collaboration around sustainability and development.

In addition to parallel paper presentation sessions, the event will feature debate style plenary events, skill/tool-based workshops, journal editor roundtable conversations, a poster gallery, and opportunities for informal conversations and networking.

While the conference will continue to explore the central themes of our fields, we welcome work that explicitly examines the challenges and opportunities brought to the fore by the pandemic: Building Institutions for Sustainable Development; Biodiversity and Conservation; Education; Energy Provision and Access; Equality, Equity and Development; Infrastructure and Industrialization; Conflict, Security, and Development; Mobilizing the Private Sector; Development and Climate Change; Financing the Sustainable Development Goals; Reshaping Economic Geography; Developing Sustainable Development Goal Indicators; Agriculture for Development; Pandemics, Health, and Sustainability.