<p>Theme 1: Emerging facets of urban ecology – urban and urbanization, theory and concepts<br>1. Urban ecology – current state of research and concepts<br>2. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers and the research agenda ahead</p> <p>Theme 2: Urban land use/land cover<br>3. Urban growth pattern detection and analysis<br>4. Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern using PSO-SLEUTH and identifying its effects on surface temperature</p> <p>Theme 3: Social-ecological systems<br>5. Stressors of disaster-induced displacement and migration in India<br>6. Ecological economics of an urban settlement: an overview<br>7. Urban greenspace, social equity and human wellbeing</p> <p>Theme 4: Urban Environment<br>8. Urbanization, urban agriculture and food security<br>9. Carbon reduction strategies for the built environment in a tropical city<br>10. Trends in active and sustainable mobility: experiences from emerging cycling territories of Dhaka and Innsbruck<br>11. Air quality and its impact on urban environment<br>12. Sustainable water management in megacities of the future<br>13. Comparing invasive alien plant community composition between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; the city of Cape Town as a case study</p> <p>Theme 5: Urban material balance<br>14. Types, sources and management of urban wastes<br>15. Nutrient recovery from the municipal waste stream: status and prospects<br>16. Determinants of soil carbon dynamics in urban ecosystems</p> <p>Theme 6: Cities: healthy, smart and sustainable <br>17. Urban ecology and human health: implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus<br>18. Cities management and sustainable development: monitoring and assessment approach<br>19. Challenges in assessing urban sustainability</p> <p>Theme 7: Sustainable urban design <br>20. Towards sustainable urban redevelopment: urban design informed by morphological patterns and ecologies of informal settlements in cities<br>21. Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India<br>22. 'Green building' movement in India: study on institutional support and regulatory support<br>23. Challenges and innovations of transportation and collection of waste<br>24. Critical assessment and future dimensions for the urban ecological systems</p>
