EAST MEETS WEST:INNOVATION AND
DISCOVERY

July 7–9, 2017 | Brighton, UK

The European Conference on the Social Sciences
The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment
Organised by The International Academic ForumIAFOR Global Partners
www.iafor.org/about/partners

University of Belgrade

ECSS
ECSEE
2017
The European Conference on
the Social Sciences 2017
The European Conference on
Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2017

Organising
Committee Members

Anne Boddington

Eddie Bruce-Jones

Joseph Haldane

Evangelia Chrysikou

Peter McLennan

James W. McNally

University of Brighton, UK

The International Academic Forum

University College London (UCL), UK

Birkbeck College School of Law,
University of London, UK

University College London (UCL), UK

University of Michigan, USA& NACDA Program on Aging

The Organising Committee of The European Conference on the Social Sciences 2017 (ECSS2017)
and The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2017 (ECSEE2017)
is composed of distinguished academics who are experts in their fields. Organising Committee
members may also be members of IAFOR's International Academic Advisory Board. The
Organising Committee is responsible for nominating and vetting Keynote and Featured Speakers;
developing the conference programme, including workshops, panels, targeted sessions;
undertaking event outreach and promotion; recommending and attracting future Organising
Committee members; working with IAFOR to select PhD students and early career academics for
IAFOR-funded grants and scholarships; and reviewing abstracts submitted to the conference.
2 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORWelcome toECSS2017 & ECSEE2017
Dear Colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the beautiful seaside city of Brighton and Hove. The city
is a cultural and artistic hub of activity that boasts two world-class universities. Brighton and Hoveis also home to IAFOR’s European conference series, now in its fifth year, and we will welcome some
650 academics from more than 60 different countries over the two-week period in a celebration ofinterdisciplinary study. If this is your first IAFOR conference, and/or your first visit to Brighton, then I
would like to welcome you particularly warmly, and if you are a returnee, then welcome back.
Reflecting the spirit of our host city, the programme for these conferences is diverse and exciting,and I would like to thank the many people involved with the planning of the events over the past year,
from members of the Organising Committee, to members of the International Academic Advisory
Board, to the dedicated team of professionals working behind the scenes at the IAFOR offices inJapan. I would like to thank the Keynote and Featured Speakers, the IAFOR journal editors, and eachand every one of you for travelling from all corners of the earth, so we can come together today.
I would also like to acknowledge and congratulate the recipients of IAFOR scholarships and researchawards, including the 2017 recipients of the Stuart D. B. Picken Grant & Scholarship. This award was
initiated in 2017 in the name of the first Chairman of IAFOR, who sadly passed away last year, andto recognise excellence in young scholars. As well as an academic of international renown, Stuart
was a kind and generous man, and it is fitting that his commitment to nurturing young academics
from different backgrounds continues in the organisation he did so much to help found and shape.
The heuristic and reality of an international academic forum, in which peoples engage with eachother to discuss the latest research, test ideas, and take part in rigorous and challenging debates,
has never been more important. IAFOR’s mission is to promote international exchange, to facilitate
intercultural awareness, to encourage interdisciplinary discussion, and to generate and share newknowledge, and we encourage you, as academics working throughout the world, to forge friendships
and working relationships with your fellow delegates across national, religious and disciplinary
borders, and in pursuit of the research synergies that drive positive change.
It is in this spirit of friendship and international cooperation, and with the expectation of your active
participation, that I express my warmest regards to you.

Dr Joseph Haldane
Chairman & CEO, The International Academic Forum#IAFOR | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | IAFOR.ORG | 3

Welcome to
Brighton & Hove
Dear Delegates,
Welcome to the city of Brighton and Hove, a vibrant and diverse
centre of arts and culture.
Ever since the Prince Regent first visited in 1783, Brighton andHove has been England's most exciting seaside city, and today
it is as lively, eccentric and cosmopolitan as ever. As Mayor it
is my job to represent our city to others and its civic life to thepeople who live here… quite a job, considering the depth andbreadth of our offer.
Our city has a bohemian and artistic atmosphere that cannot
be found anywhere else in the United Kingdom. We combine themodern with the traditional and the outlandish with the everyday,
tempting and treating visitors and residents alike with a uniquecultural experience.
Whether this will be your first visit, or one of many, I very muchhope that you will have the opportunity whilst in the city to enjoy
the atmosphere and the wonderful array of cultural and culinary delights we have to offer in Brightonand Hove, and perhaps find time for some shopping in our historic Lanes.
If you've never visited I urge you to get out and about and make the most of the rich cultural mix –Regency architecture, pleasure pier, specialist shops, pavement cafés, lively arts and of course theexotic Royal Pavilion. Everything is within walking distance, so take time to explore and enjoy what
the city has to offer.
Our city-by-the-sea has a passion for creativity, a desire to look at things differently, and a friendlinessthat attracts visitors from all over the world.
Whether it is the sea air that changes your perspective or the lively North Laine that buzzes day andnight, I am sure that Brighton and Hove has got that special something that will inspire.
I wish you every success with your conference and hope you have a long and enjoyable stay.
Councillor Mo Marsh
Mayor of the City of Brighton and Hove

4 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORConference Theme:“East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery”
From natural phenomena and the results of climate change to pollution and societal traumas,
migrations and war, the enormous challenges that face humankind and our environment are
frequently daunting and difficult to comprehend. However, with every new challenge or disruption
comes the opportunity for innovation and discovery. Whether inventing new technologies,
implementing innovative systems, enacting better policies, legislation, or governance, or ensuring
greater cooperation and information sharing, responses are many and varied.
From incremental shift to radical change, from the local to the regional and from the national to
the global, this international conference will focus on the challenges that demand a collective
response. It will highlight the need to harness our abilities as scientists, policymakers,
practitioners, engineers and educators to find multidisciplinary solutions in pursuit of thecommon goal of a sustainable world.

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I

I C S E E H A W AIThe IAFOR International Conference on
Sustainability, Energy & the Environment – Hawaii
January 4–6, 2018 | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Conference Theme:

Surviving and Thriving: In Pursuit of a Sustainable World
Initial Abstract Submission Deadline: August 22, 2017
Early Bird Registration Deadline: September 22, 2017

Why Attend IICSEEHawaii2018?
Since 2009, IAFOR’s interdisciplinary conferences have attracted

16,000+ delegates from 100+ countries
Join IAFOR at IICSEEHawaii2018 to:– Present to a global audience in Honolulu, Hawaii– Have your work published in the Conference Proceedings and considered
for peer-reviewed, Open Access journals– Benefit from IAFOR's interdisciplinary focus by hearing about the latest
research in Sustainability, Energy & the Environment– Participate in a truly international, intercultural and interdisciplinary event– Take part in interactive audience sessions– Network with international colleagues

Find out more: iicseehawaii.iafor.org
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Friday at a Glance
July 7, 201708:00-09:00

Conference Registration | Renaissance Suite

09:00-09:30

Announcements & Welcome Address | Renaissance Suite

09:30-10:30
			
			
			

Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Suite
Inclusive Innovation in International Development: The Case of
the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)
Anke Schwittay, University of Sussex, UK

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break | Renaissance Foyer

11:00-12:00
Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Suite			
Links Between Oral and General Health: Putting the Mouth Back			in the Body			
Georgios Tsakos, University College London, UK
12:00-12:30
			

IAFOR Documentary Photography Award
followed by Conference Photograph | Renaissance Suite

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break | Atrium Restaurant (1F)

14:00-15:00

Conference Poster Session | Renaissance Suite

15:00-15:45
Spotlight Presentation | Renaissance Suite			Volunteer Tourism and the Creation of “Volunteerscapes” 					in Thailand			Nick Kontogeorgopoulos, University of Puget Sound, USA
15:45-16:30
			
			
			

Featured Presentation | Renaissance Suite
East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery in Education Reform
at an Elite Japanese University
Grant Black, University of Tsukuba, Japan

16:30-16:45

Coffee Break | Renaissance Foyer

16:45-17:45
Plenary Panel Presentation | Renaissance Suite
			Sustaining the City
			Duncan Baker-Brown, University of Brighton, UK			Anne Boddington, University of Brighton, UK
			Cat Fletcher, Freegle, UK
17:45-19:00

Conference Welcome Reception | Library Terrace (2F)

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Saturday at a Glance
July 8, 2017

10:00-12:00

Parallel Sessions

12:00-13:00

Lunch | Atrium Restaurant (1F)

13:00-14:30

Parallel Sessions

14:30-14:45

Coffee Break | Library Terrace (2F)

14:45-16:45

Parallel Sessions

16:45-17:00

Break

17:00-18:00
Featured Panel Presentation | Renaissance Suite			East Meets West – Healthy, Active and Beautiful Aging in Europe			Featured Speaker: Evangelia Chrysikou
			Moderator: Joseph Haldane
19:00-21:00
				

Conference Dinner (Optional Ticketed Event)Meeting time & location: 18:30 at Library Terrace (2F)Group leaves for restaurant at 18:45

Sunday at a Glance
July 9, 2017

09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions
10:30-10:45

Coffee Break | Library Terrace (2F)

10:45-12:15 Parallel Sessions
12:30-12:45 Closing Session | Wordsworth
13:00-14:30 Lunch | Atrium Restaurant (1F)

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Registration & Access
Registration
You will be able to pick up your registration pack and name card at the Conference Registration Desk.
The Conference Registration Desk and Publications Desk will be situated in the following locations
during the conference:
Friday, July 7			Saturday, July 8		Sunday, July 9			

08:00-16:30
09:00-17:00
08:30-12:00

Renaissance Foyer (LGF)
Library Terrace (2F)
Library Terrace (2F)

If you have any questions or concerns, IAFOR staff and hotel staff will happily assist you.

Name Badges
When you check in, you will receive a registration pack, which includes your name badge. Wearing
your badge is required for entrance to the sessions. You must wear your badge at all times during
the conference. There are four colours of badges indicating the type of conference participant:
Blue: Presenters and Audience
Yellow: Keynote and Featured Speakers
Red: Conference Exhibitors and Affiliates
Black: IAFOR Staff

Getting to the Conference Venue
By Rail from London: London is the hub of the UK’s rail network and it is easy to travel by train to Brighton
from the major London stations. The fastest direct travelling times from London to Brighton are:London Victoria – 56 minutes (direct)
London Bridge – 1 hour 3 minutes (direct)
London St Pancras – 1 hour 33 minutes (direct)
Rail services in the UK are operated by a number of private train operators. The main operators to
Brighton are Southern and First Capital Connect and all trains arrive into Brighton mainline station
on Queens Road. Regular rail connections also serve Hove, which is just a few minutes from Brighton
by rail. Central Brighton and the Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront are an easy 20-minute walk from
Brighton Station, but, if required, buses and taxis are both available at the front of the station.
If you are travelling from Europe, the Eurostar train arrives from London St Pancras, where there are
direct train connections to Brighton.
By Rail from Gatwick Airport: Trains from Gatwick to Brighton take approximately 30 minutes direct
and run regularly. The Gatwick South rail station is directly linked to Gatwick’s South Terminal andjust a few minutes away from North Terminal via a transit train link.
By Rail from Heathrow Airport: Take the London Underground to London Victoria and then a mainline
train to Brighton. Alternatively, take the Heathrow Express to Paddington and then the London
Underground to Victoria and then a mainline train to Brighton.
By Coach from Heathrow Airport: National Express is the major coach operator serving Brighton. Most
international flights arrive at Terminal 4 and 5 where a coach departs every hour. Brighton Coach
Station is located next to Brighton Pier and is a two-minute walk from the Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront.
Further information is available on the National Express website (www.nationalexpress.com).

10 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORLunch & Dinner
Lunch
Lunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is included in the conference registration fee.
Lunch will be provided in the Atrium Restaurant at Jurys Inn Brighton. Situated on the Promenade,with unrivalled views of the famous Brighton Pier and the sea, the restaurant serves a range ofmodern British and European dishes prepared by a talented team of chefs. Lunch service includes
an unlimited drinks bar (non-alcoholic), coffee station and dessert table.
Please remember to bring your name badge with you, as this will act as your lunch ticket.

Lunch Times
Friday, July 7 			
Saturday, July 8 		Sunday, July 9 		

12:30-14:00
12:00-13:00
13:00-14:30

Official Conference Dinner
The official Conference Dinner is a ticketed optional event (50 GBP). Please remember to bringyour name tag to the Conference Dinner. Conference Dinner attendees should meet at the Library
Terrace (2F) at 18:30 on Saturday, July 8, 2017. The group leaves for the restaurant at 18:45. It takes
approximately 15 minutes to walk to the restaurant.
Restaurant name: Hilton Brighton Metropole
Restaurant address: King's Road, Brighton, BN1 2FU#IAFOR | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | IAFOR.ORG | 11

General Information
Internet Access
There is free Wi-Fi internet connection throughout the conference venue. However, this canbe unreliable and we would strongly suggest that you do not rely on a live connection for yourpresentation.

Refreshment Breaks
Complimentary coffee, tea and water will be available during the scheduled coffee breaks at the
Plenary Session on Friday morning and on the Library Terrace during the rest of the conference.
Light snacks will be provided once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
Food and drink (excluding water) are not allowed in the presentation rooms.

Printing
For your convenience, there will be an iMac computer (with Microsoft Office installed) and a printer at
the conference Registration Desk. We are able to offer a complimentary printing service of up to ten
A4 sheets should you need this. Please be advised that printing may not be available at peak times.

Smoking
Smoking is not permitted in the Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront. Please smoke outside of the building
in designated smoking areas.

What to Wear & Bring
Attendees generally wear business casual attire. You may wish to bring a light jacket or sweater as
meeting rooms are air-conditioned. Tour attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable shoes andbring an umbrella or waterproof clothing in case of rain.

Photo/Recording Waiver
There may be photography, audio and video recording at the conference. By entering the event
premises you give consent to the use of your photograph, likeness or video or audio recording inwhole or in part without restriction or limitation for any educational, promotional, or other purpose
for distribution.

12 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORThe Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront
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Presentation Guide
Conference Abstracts
All conference abstracts are available online. Please visit papers.iafor.org for a searchable databaseof abstracts.

Oral & Workshop Presentations
Oral Presentation Sessions will run from 10:00 on Saturday morning. They are generally organised
into parallel sessions by streams. Oral Presentations are normally scheduled in sessions comprising
three presentations, lasting 90 minutes in total. In sessions with two Oral Presentations, the session
will last 60 minutes, and in the case of four Oral Presentations, an extended session lasting 120
minutes will be scheduled.
The time in the sessions is to be divided equally between presentations. We recommend that an Oral
Presentation should last 15–20 minutes to include time for question and answers, but should last no
longer than 25 minutes. Any remaining session time may be used for additional discussion.

Equipment
All rooms will be equipped with a MacBook computer pre-installed with PowerPoint and Keynote
and connected to a LCD projector. If you wish, you may directly link your own PC laptop, although
we advise you to use the computer provided by plugging in your USB flash drive. We recommendthat you bring two copies of your presentation in case one fails, and suggest sending yourself thepresentation by email as a third and final precaution.

Session Chairs
Session Chairs are asked to introduce themselves and other speakers (briefly) using the provided
printouts of speaker bios, hand out the provided presentation certificates at the end of the session,
ensure that the session begins and ends on time, and that the time is divided fairly between thepresentations. Each presenter should have no more than 25 minutes in which to present his or her
paper and respond to any questions. The Session Chair is asked to assume this timekeeping role,and to this end yellow and red timekeeping cards are used as a visual cue for presenters, letting
them know when they have five minutes remaining, and when they must stop.
Please follow the order in the programme, and if for any reason a presenter fails to show up, pleasekeep to the original time slots as delegates use the programme to plan their attendance.
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Presentation Guide
Poster Sessions
Poster Sessions are 60 minutes in length and take place on the Library Terrace.
The poster display boards are 1800 mm high x 1200 mm wide. Tape will be provided for putting
posters up. Please be aware that there are no on-site facilities for printing posters.

Presentation Certificates
Poster Presenters may pick up a certificate of presentation from the Registration Desk. All otherpresenters will receive a certificate of presentation from their Session Chair or a member of staff at
the end of their session.

Conference Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings are published on the IAFOR website (papers.iafor.org), and can be
freely accessed as part of IAFOR’s research archive. All authors may have their full paper publishedin the online Conference Proceedings.
Full text submission is due by August 9, 2017 through the online system. The proceedings will be
published on September 9, 2017. Authors will have PDF copies of their offprints emailed to them by
October 9, 2017.

A Polite Request to All ParticipantsParticipants are requested to arrive in a timely fashion for all presentations, whether to their own orto those of other presenters. Presenters are reminded that the time slots should be divided fairly andequally between the number of presentations, and that presentations should not overrun.
Participants should refrain from talking amongst themselves and ensure that mobile phones are
switched off or set to silent mode during presentations.

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IAFOR Journals
www.iafor.org/journals

the iaforthe iaforjournal of psychology &the behavioral sciences

journal of
education

Volume 2 – Issue 3 – Winter 2016
Editors: Sharo Shafaie & Deborah G. Wooldridge

Volume 5 – Issue 1 – Spring 2017
Editor: Bernard Montoneri

ISSN: 2187-0675

ISSN: 2187-0594

the iaforjournal of ethics,
religion& philosophy

Volume 3 – Issue 1 – Spring 2017
Editor: Michael O’Sullivan

ISSN: 2187-0624

16 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORIAFOR Journals
www.iafor.org/journals

The International Academic Forum’s journals conform to the highest academic standards ofinternational peer review, and are published in accordance with IAFOR’s commitment to make all ofour published materials available online.

How are journal editors appointed?
Journal editors are appointed by The International Academic Forum’s leadership, under the guidanceof the International Advisory Board. The term of appointment is for one issue, to be renewed bymutual consent.

How do we ensure academic integrity?
Once appointed, the journal editor is free to appoint his or her own editorial team and advisory
members. All papers published in the journal have been subjected to the rigorous and accepted
processes of academic peer review. Neither editors nor members of the editorial team are remunerated
for their work. Authors will never be asked to contribute to publication costs.

How are papers selected?
Journal editors may accept papers through an open call, and proposed articles may be sent directly tothe respective editors. A small number of papers from the associated Conference Proceedings may also
be selected by the journal editor(s) for reworking and revising, subject to normal processes of review. It is
expected that between five and ten percent of papers included in any given Conference Proceedings will
be selected for consideration and potential publication in the associated conference journal.

How are IAFOR journals related to IAFOR conferences?
IAFOR’s journals reflect the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences andare organised thematically. Papers included in the associated Conference Proceedings may beconsidered for reworking by the editor(s), and are then subjected to the same processes of peer
review as papers submitted by other means.

Journal Editors
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
Dr Alfonso Garcia Osuna, Hofstra University, USA
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
Dr Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan
IAFOR Journal of Education
Dr Bernard Montoneri, Tamkang University, Taiwan
IAFOR Journal of Business & Management
Dr Anshuman Khare, Athabasca University, Canada
IAFOR Journal of the Social Sciences
Dr Tingting Ying, Ningbo University of Technology, China
IAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion & Philosophy
Professor Lystra Hagley-Dickinson, University of St Mark& St John, UK
IAFOR Journal of Sustainability, Energy & theEnvironment
Dr Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor, University of Architectureand Urban Planning, Romania / URBAN-INCERC, Romania

IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
Dr James Rowlins, Singapore University of Design
and Technology, Singapore
IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies
Dr Seiko Yasumoto, University of Sydney, Australia
IAFOR Journal of Language Learning
Dr Ebru Melek Koç, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
IAFOR Journal of Politics, Economics & Law
Dr Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women’s University, Japan
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
Professor Holger Briel, Xi’an Jiaotung-Liverpool
University, China
IAFOR Journal of Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences
Dr Shahrokh Shafaie, Southeast Missouri State
University, USA
Dr Deborah G. Wooldridge, Bowling Green State
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The Reverend Professor
Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016)
It is with sadness that we inform our friends of IAFOR that the Chairman of the organisation, theReverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken, passed away on Friday, August 5, 2016.
Stuart Picken was born in Glasgow in 1942 and enjoyed an international reputation in philosophy,
comparative religious and cultural studies, but it is as a scholar of Japan and Japanese thought for
which he will be best remembered, and as one of the world’s foremost experts on Shinto.
Picken entered the University of Glasgow, Scotland, aged 16 to study divinity and philosophy, andhis studies culminated with a doctorate that looked at Christianity and the work of Kant. In 1966
he was ordained in the Church of Scotland, and began his career as a minister in Orkney. However,his curiosity led him from isolated rural Scotland to the world’s largest city, and following a visit toTokyo on a Rotary scholarship, Picken was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the International
Christian University (ICU) in 1972. Here he turned his western theological and philosophical training
to comparative religious and cultural studies of Japan, at a time when the country was emerging
from the shadows of the Second World War.
His groundbreaking and controversial work on suicide in Japan made his name within the country,
but it was his subsequent work on Shinto that influenced the rehabilitation of the religion at a time
when it was dismissed in the west as pagan and primitive, or unjustly caricatured for its wartime
associations.
As Japan emerged as an economic superpower in the 1970s and 1980s, and given his growing
prominence as an academic, Picken was much in demand as part of a period in which Japanesewanted to learn more about themselves as seen through the eyes of the West, and where Westernbusinesses were eager to learn from the all-conquering Japanese model. By then fluent in Japanese,
he served as a business consultant to such corporations and also served as a consultant to various
businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel and Japan Airlines.
During this period he was active in the St Andrew Society, and founded the Tokyo Highland Games,
which is still an annual event.
The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, Picken was to stay at ICU for 25 years,
where he was a popular lecturer and mentor to both Japanese and visiting scholars, serving tenures
as Chairman of the Division of Humanities from 1981 to 1983, and as Director of Japanese Studies
from 1995 to 1997, as well as concurrently founding Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at
the University of Stirling, Scotland from 1985 to 1988. A keen amateur footballer, whose devotion to
Japan was rivalled only by that he felt for Glasgow Rangers, he continued to play into his fifties at
ICU, encouraging many students to take up the sport.
18 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORHe left ICU in 1997, and from then until 2004 served as the founding Dean of the Faculty of Foreign
Languages and Asian Studies at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, and the founding
Dean of the Graduate School Division of Global Business Communication from 2002 to 2004. Uponhis retirement from his academic posts, he returned to Scotland to re-enter the ministry as ministerof the linked charge of Ardoch with Blackford in 2005, yet he continued his academic and Japaneseinterests as the Chairman of the Japan Society of Scotland.
Whether in his research or teaching, Picken devoted much of his life to increasing understanding
between his adopted country and the West, and in 2007 he was recognised with the Order of the
Sacred Treasure, an imperial decoration for his pioneering research and outstanding contribution to
the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. He also served
as the International Adviser to the High Priest of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine, one of Japan’s largest
and oldest shrines.
From 2009 he was the founding Chairman of The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) where he
was highly active in helping nurture and mentor a new generation of academics, and facilitating
better intercultural and international awareness and understanding. In the years immediately
preceding his illness, he continued to lecture throughout the world, in Europe, North America, Asiaand the Middle East.
He is survived by his wife, Hong Wen, and children, Fiona, Jeannette, William and Lynn.
Image Caption | The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken (IAFOR), Professor Arthur Stockwin, OBE (The University of Oxford) andProfessor Jun Arima (University of Tokyo) enjoy a lighter moment during a discussion on Japanese security at The European Conference
on Politics, Economics & Law 2014.

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Submit your research to the
IAFOR Journal of the Social Sciences• Fair and rigorous peer
review process• No submission or
publication fees
• Editorially independent• Freely available online
to a global academic
audience

The IAFOR Journal of the Social Sciences is an internationally reviewed
and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated with
IAFOR’s international conferences on the social sciences. Like all
IAFOR publications, it is freely available to read online, and is free of
publication fees for authors.

Volume 3 Issue 3
Submission deadline: July 31
Target publication date: December 20
For details of how to submit your paper, view the Author Guidelines
on the journal website: ijss.iafor.org

IAFOR Academic
Grant & Scholarship Recipients
We are delighted to announce the recipients of financial support as part of the IAFOR grants andscholarships programme, newly launched for 2017. Our warmest congratulations go to Stela Stoycheva,
recipient of an IAFOR Scholarship, who has been selected by the conference Organising Committee toreceive financial support to present her research at The European Conference on the Social Sciences
2017 and The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2017.
IAFOR’s grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early
career academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic
goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on the appropriateness of theeducational opportunity in relation to the applicant’s field of study, financial need, and contributions to theircommunity and to IAFOR’s mission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships are awarded based on availabilityof funds from IAFOR and vary with each conference. The Organising Committee of the relevant IAFOR
conference awards scholarships to eligible applicants who have submitted exceptional abstracts thathave passed the blind peer review process and have been accepted for presentation at the conference.
Find out more about IAFOR grants and scholarships: iafor.org/financial-support

Stela Stoycheva

IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
Stela Stoycheva is currently a PhD student in Management at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
She holds an MPhil in Management Studies degree from Ca' Foscari University of Venice and a Masterof Science degree in Tourism Management. Prior to her PhD Studies she was working as a manager inthe Meeting Incentives, Conferences and Events (MICE) department and has been involved in EU FP7
projects’ promotional, training, outreach and dissemination activities. Her research areas of interest
include sustainability management, sustainability assessment, decision analytical tools and methods,
mixed methods research, bibliometrics, MICE tourism and digital marketing. She has collaborated
internationally on the topics of decision analysis and sustainability assessment with Carnegie Mellon
University in the United States as well as with the Chinese Research Academy for Environmental Science
within the EU Marie Curie IRSES (International Research Staff Exchange Scheme) project GLOCOM.
37553 | Sunday Session I: 09:00-10:30 | Keats Room
Research Strategies for Ethnostatistics in Organization Studies: Towards a Historical Ethnostatistics
Stela Stoycheva, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Giovanni Favero, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
While quantification and performance measurement have proliferated widely in academia and thebusiness world, management and organisation scholars increasingly agree on the need for a more indepth focus on the complex dynamics embedded in the construction, use and effects of quantitative
measures. Ethnostatistics, a field of study that explores exactly how metrics are constructed andemployed, is by definition the qualitative study of quantification. Although some valuable contributions
employing ethnostatistical approach to organizational setting have appeared, management andorganisation scholars seem to be failing to deliver a proper ethnography of metrics construction (firstorder ethnostatistics) and used instead quasi-historical approaches to reconstruct the historicalcontext in which data were produced. While conducting a proper field ethnography of metrics might be
extremely rare given time and access constraints, we argue that the use of organizational histories andarchival materials must be done with caution as they tend to be used for specific organizational purposesin the present being part of a wider organizational rhetoric which can hampers their ability to represent
an unbiased view of reality. To address this issue this study aims to i) present practical strategies
for conducing ethnostatistical research in a live organizational setting and ii) discuss how proper
historical approaches which focus on source criticism and contextual reconstruction could overcome
the limitations of pure ethnographies. Therefore, it attempts to contribute to the ethnostatistical fieldby discussing the intersection between history and ethnography while suggesting strategies for theircomplementary use in organizational and management research.
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Visit to The Brighton Waste House
Thursday, July 6 | 17:30-18:30

For those interested in visiting The Brighton Waste House, please meet in the lobby of the Jurys Inn
Brighton Waterfront at 17:00 and we will walk over as a group, returning to the hotel at 19:00.
The Brighton Waste House investigates strategies for constructing a contemporary, low-energy,
permanent building using over 85% “waste” material drawn from household and construction sites.
Completed in 2014, the building is Europe's first permanent public building made almost entirely
from material thrown away or not wanted. It is also an EPC “A” rated low-energy building.
This guided tour for conference delegates will be led by Duncan Baker-Brown, the architect of
The Brighton Waste House, who will also discuss The Brighton Waste house as a complement to
the Plenary Panel Presentation on “Sustaining the City” with Professor Anne Boddington and Cat
Fletcher. Further details and speaker biographies are available on page 29.
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Featured &Spotlight
Speakers#IAFOR | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | IAFOR.ORG | 23

Keynote & Featured Speakers
ECSS/ECSEE2017

The following Keynote and Featured Speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different
academic and professional backgrounds on the conference theme.

Anke Schwittay

Nick Kontogeorgopoulos

University of Sussex, UK

Georgios Tsakos

University College London (UCL), UK

University of Puget Sound, USA

Grant Black

Duncan Baker-Brown

Anne Boddington

Cat Fletcher

Evangelia Chrysikou

Joseph Haldane

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Freegle, UK

University of Brighton, UK

University College London (UCL), UK

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University of Brighton, UK

The International Academic ForumKeynote Presentation: Anke Schwittay
Friday, July 7 | 09:30-10:30 | Renaissance Suite

Inclusive Innovation in International Development: The Case of the
UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)Over the last decade, development institutions from the Gates Foundation to the UN to social
enterprises have embraced innovation as necessary to increase the impact of their work. In spiteof this broad agreement, there is less understanding of how this actually works in practice. In mytalk, I will introduce the UK’s Department of International Development’s (DFID) flagship innovation
programme to examine some of the opportunities and constraints resulting from innovative
practices in development. Amplify is an online crowdsourcing platform that aims to bring newactors into development and to connect them better with poor people, in order to design more
effective solutions. It has succeeded in opening up funding opportunities to small, communitybased organisations and in making application processes more flexible, but remains constrainedby bureaucratic and fiscal structures.

Biography
Dr Anke Schwittay is Head of International Development at the University of Sussex in the United
Kingdom, and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development at the Schoolof Global Studies. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley,and has worked at the University of Berkeley and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her
research focuses on emerging practices and actors in International Development, with a focus on
inclusive innovation, financial inclusion, digital technologies and humanitarian design, and she
has published numerous articles in academic journals on these topics. She is also the authorof New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance, which
examines the continued popularity of microfinance among supporters in the Global North, basedon financial, social and personal commitments to distant others forged via narrative and visualstories, crowdfunding platforms, microfinance tourism and volunteering.

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Keynote Presentation: Georgios Tsakos
Friday, July 7 | 11:00-12:00 | Renaissance Suite

Links Between Oral and General Health:Putting the Mouth Back in the Body
The debate about the links between oral and general health is not new. Indeed, it is over a century
since the theory of focal sepsis linked oral sepsis and tooth extractions with endocarditis. Morerecently, a growing body of literature has linked oral and general health; dental caries has been
associated with growth and development among children, while tooth loss and periodontal (gum)disease have been linked with different conditions among middle-aged and older adults. With thedemographic transition towards an ageing society, promoting “healthy ageing” has become a key
priority for policy makers and health professionals. This implies optimising opportunities for good
health and functioning, so that older people can remain independent, take an active part in society
and enjoy good quality of life. The role of oral health in healthy ageing is essential, with adults now
keeping their natural teeth into old age and having increased treatment needs.
This presentation reviews the epidemiological evidence on the burden of oral diseases on older
adults and focuses on the associations between oral conditions and general health. The importanceof maintaining good oral health and a functional dentition into older ages is highlighted in termsof general health, physical and cognitive function, dementia and well-being. Oral diseases sharecommon risk factors with most chronic (non-communicable) diseases and this creates considerable
opportunities for interventions and policies to promote healthy ageing. Public health interventions
focusing on the broader social determinants of health across the life course present the way forward.

Biography
Dr George Tsakos graduated in Dentistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and completed a PhD
at University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Reader in the Department of Epidemiology
and Public Health at UCL. He also holds Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health appointmentswith the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and with Public Health England. He isa Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK). He is currently Chair Elect of the Platform for Better Oral
Health in Europe, and Immediate Past President of the European Association of Dental Public Health(EADPH). He is also an International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Councillor representing
the Behavioural Epidemiological and Health Services Research (BEHSR) group. He has also served as
EADPH President. Dr Tsakos has been a key member of the consortium that carried out the national
adult and children’s dental health surveys in the UK. He has published more than 150 papers andbook chapters and his main research interests are on: subjective measures of oral health and qualityof life, oral health inequalities and the social determinants of health, the relationship between oral
and general health, and how oral health is linked with diet and nutrition.
26 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORSpotlight Presentation: Nick Kontogeorgopoulos
Friday, July 7 | 15:00-15:45 | Renaissance Suite

Volunteer Tourism and the Creationof “Volunteerscapes” in Thailand
Volunteer tourism is a form of travel that combines traditional leisure pursuits with opportunities
to volunteer in an organised fashion. The popularity of volunteer tourism stems from many factors,
but the one motivation that appears in virtually every study is a desire for object authenticity,
defined as the authenticity of toured objects, people, and settings. The purpose of this paper is
to explore the role played by object authenticity in the motivations and experiences of volunteer
tourists in the province of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Based on interviews with 62 volunteers
and 15 directors, managers and staff members from volunteer tourism organisations based in
Chiang Mai, this paper argues that volunteer tourists conceive of object authenticity both as a
package of cultural stereotypes focused on authentic people, and as authentic backstage settings
where “real” Thai reside. Aside from demonstrating that the desire for object authenticity is thecentral motivation for international volunteers in northern Thailand, this study indicates thatthe pursuit of object authenticity is complicated by language barriers, the potential staging ofauthenticity on the part of locals, and the need to balance familiarity with alterity in the carefully
selected “voluntourscapes” in which volunteer tourism takes place.

Biography
Professor Nick Kontogeorgopoulos earned his BA degree in International Studies as a Morehead
Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and earned his graduate degrees
in Geography at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia, Canada. Professor
Kontogeorgopoulos’s current teaching interests include the political economy of international
tourism, international development, and the political economy of Southeast Asia. His researchinterests center on the relationship between tourism, environmental sustainability and personalvalues. Professor Kontogeorgopoulos has conducted research in southern Thailand on the impact of
ecotourism on community development, the spatial and temporal relationship between ecotourism
and mass tourism, and motivational and behavioral differences between ecotourists and mass
tourists. He has also published research on the role of tourism in elephant conservation in northern
Thailand, and the relationship between volunteer tourism and development in Thailand.

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Featured Presentation: Grant Black
Friday, July 7 | 15:45-16:30 | Renaissance Suite

East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery
in Education Reform at an Elite Japanese University
Japan is one of the first countries to experience simultaneously an aging population of boomers
along with a declining birth rate. Today, more than 25% of the population is over 65. Japan is
at crossroads in time where there are just about twice as many old people as there are young
people. Stresses on the labour market resulting from population decline and the shift to a services
economy have prompted the Japanese government to pursue an aggressive strategy to reorganise
tertiary education. University reform is a policy focus of the Abe government in three areas:
innovation, business development, and global human resource skills training. Historically in Japan
achievement in these areas has been almost exclusively the domain of industry. Reform policies
that seek to promote innovation, development and global skills in the university setting represent
a transfer of responsibility from industry to education and thereby a re-envisioning of the functionof the university in Japanese society. The purpose of this paper is to explore how education reform
policy is translated into practice at an elite Japanese university. The paper finds that the demandson the university to cater to divergent customers are greatly at odds: the university is called
upon to prepare students for the domestic workforce, accommodate government aspirations forinternationalisation, become a centre for innovation and research excellence, and simultaneously
be a positive force in the local community, all the while restructuring organisational operations toaccommodate harmonization with elite international networks.

Biography
Professor Grant Black is an associate professor in the program for Modern Languages and Cultures,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, an adjunct lecturer in the
Faculties of Commerce at Chuo and Meiji Universities in Tokyo, and a consultant for interculturaland business management. He has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the Universityof California, Los Angeles and is completing a Doctorate in Social Science from the Department ofManagement in the School of Business at the University of Leicester. Previously he worked in global
management for SMEs (small & medium enterprises). His recent research interests are in global
management skills, organisational management in education and CQ (intercultural intelligence).
Professor Black is a Vice-President (at large) of IAFOR. He is a member of the Business & Economics
section of the International Academic Advisory Board.

28 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORPlenary Panel Presentation
Featured Speakers: Duncan Baker-Brown,
Anne Boddington & Cat Fletcher
Friday, July 7 | 16:45-17:45 | Renaissance Suite

Sustaining the City
'Sustaining the City' will explore the interrelationships that the College of Arts and Humanities at
the University of Brighton has developed over the past decade within the city. With a vision to turn
the College 'inside out’ and make a tangible difference to creative and sustainable learning andresearch for students and staff, we have worked in partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council
for over a decade contributing both tangible exemplars and research support that underpins thecity's One Planet Living principles and its sustainability action plan. Building from the premisethat our city is our campus, our canvas and our laboratory, we have worked closely with local
activists, communities, politicians, contractors, and other educational providers, to engage andextend experiential learning opportunities for all.
The Brighton Waste House, conceived by Architect and academic Duncan Baker Brown, supportedby the University and managed through the Dean of College, Professor Anne Boddington, is our mostambitious project to date. Over 360 design and construction students, supported by their tutors, help
build "Europe's first permanent building made of 90% discarded material", proving "that there is nosuch this as waste, only stuff in the wrong place!"
Together with Waste House partner Cat Fletcher (co-founder of Freegle UK), Baker-Brown will
discuss the rationale behind this project and it's on-going legacies. Fletcher the self-styled "resource
goddess' has set up numerous social enterprises, with Brighton & Hove City Council and others, will
also discuss her recent work raising awareness of waste reduction strategies with organisations
such as the Glastonbury music festival.
Speakers biographies are available on the following page.
*Delegates will have the option of visiting The Brighton Waste House on July 6 from 17:30 to 18:30.
Please see page 22 for further details.

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Duncan Baker-Brown
An expert in contemporary methods of ecology-friendly building design, architect and academic Duncan BakerBrown leads the practice BBM Sustainable Design, and brings sustainable design practice and philosophy toteaching and scholarly projects at the University of Brighton, UK. His research tests the viability of a number ofpractices and materials, recognising the potential of discarded “waste” as a valuable resource in the future ofbuilding, as well as live projects as valuable teaching aides. Through his projects he fosters community development
and regeneration, drawing on apprentice builders and students, informing young people of all ages as to their rolein sustainable living. He is notably the architect of The Brighton Waste House*, a “living laboratory” for ecologicalarchitectural design which investigates strategies for constructing a contemporary, low-energy, permanent building
using over 85% “waste” material drawn from household and construction sites. Now fully completed, the building
is Europe's first permanent public building made almost entirely from material thrown away or not wanted, and isalso an EPC “A” rated low energy building. His most recent work, The Re-use Altas: A Designer’s Guide Towards a
Circular Economy​, was published earlier this year​by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Anne Boddington
Professor of Design Innovation and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Professor Anne Boddington
was educated as an architect and cultural geographer. She has particular interests in the spaces of learningand research and the symbiosis of arts and humanities education as agents of cultural, social and civictransformation. The founding Head of the School of Architecture & Design (1999–2006) and since 2006, as
Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities, she was also the Director of the University’s Centre for Excellencein Teaching and Learning through Design (CETLD) (a unique partnership between the University, the V&A,
the Royal College of Art and the RIBA) and co-director of the HEA’s Subject Centre in Art Design and Media.
A registered architect, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and an affiliate member of the RoyalInstitute of British Architects (RIBA), she has been an independent governor, trustee, chair and an elected
member of many regional and national councils in the cultural sector and in higher education including
as a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council Advisory Board (AHRC); Vice Chair of Council forHigher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD) and a trustee of the Design Council/CABE. Working with HEFCE
she was a panel member of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) and Deputy Chair of D34 forthe Research Excellence Framework (REF) panel in 2014 as well as a member of the REF 2014 Equality &Diversity Panel. Her research has been supported and funded by the EU, EPSRC, AHRC, the HEA and HEFCE.
She has an international profile as a speaker and advisor for research development, quality assurance,enhancement and teaching innovation in Architecture, Art and Design across Europe, the Middle East andAsia. She undertakes regular peer review and research assessment for academic journals and conferences
and has worked with and for research councils of Portugal, Iceland, Austria, Germany, Israel and Canada.
Professor Boddington is a member of the Arts & Humanities section of IAFOR’s International Academic
Advisory Board.

Cat Fletcher

Founding Member, Elected National Representative and Head of Media for Freegle UK (UK-wide organisation,
formed in 2009 by experienced volunteers and members of the free reuse community with over 1.4 million
members), Cat Fletcher is also working with Brighton University on The Waste House project.
Super scavenger Cat helped to set up the Waste Zone at Ecobuild. The Waste Zone was a temporary place
dedicated to the discussion of the issues & huge potentials of seeing waste as a future resource. Students,
activists, film-makers and designers of all kinds presented their ideas, showing examples of products,
buildings, furniture etc – all made from waste.
Cat was shortlisted in the Living Lab Global Awards, an international competition to find innovative solutions
for unique problems from 22 cities from around the world. The awards programme was developed by anarchitect, originally to accelerate innovative action to address real urban problems. Her submitted solution
was an online and real world system of community engagement, reward and resourcefulness (a supersonicversion of what she has successfully been engaged in for six years locally and more recently with the
University of Brighton). Her solution was shortlisted for two cities: Rosario in Argentina and Terrassa in
Spain. She attended a 3-day summit in San Francisco in where 250 plus city leaders and solution shortlisters
gathered to share knowledge and establish relationships.
30 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORFeatured Panel Presentation
Featured Speaker: Evangelia Chrysikou
Moderator: Joseph Haldane
Saturday, July 8 | 17:00-18:00 | Renaissance Suite

East Meets West – Healthy, Active and Beautiful Aging in Europe
How any society deals with aging can be a contentious issue, one on which questions of culture,
convenience and even expedience are brought to bear. Economic prosperity and peace in developed
countries has lead to unprecedented levels of healthcare provision for a population that, as aresult, is living far longer. Coupled with falling birthrates, Western Europe and Japan are witnessing
demographic changes that bring unparalleled challenges but also unexpected opportunities foraging populations, as innovations and discoveries help people lead active and healthy lives, toinclude discussion of the concepts of healthy, active and beautiful aging.
In a featured presentation, Dr Evangelia Chrysikou will look at being ill and old at the fringes of our
spatial territories', and focus on inequality and health, old life in the UK and Europe, old age andisolation in rural areas and isolated areas, before Dr Haldane responds, comparing and contrasting
outlooks for the aged in Japan and Asia, and inviting participation and feedback from the audience.
Speakers biographies are available on the following page.

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Evangelia Chrysikou
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou is a registered architect and senior research fellow at UCL, United
Kingdom. She owns the awarded SynThesis Architects (London – Athens), which specializes inmedical facilities. Her work has received prestigious awards (Singapore 2009, Kuala Lumpur 2012,
Brisbane 2013, Birmingham 2014, London 2014). Parallel activities include teaching at medical
and architectural schools, research (UK, France, Belgium, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Greece
and the Middle East) and advisory. She advised the Hellenic Secretary of Health and is the authorof the new national guidelines for mental health facilities. Dr Chrysikou is the author of the bookArchitecture for Psychiatric Environments and Therapeutic Spaces, healthcare architecture editor,
reviewer, active member of several professional and scientific associations and a TED-MED
speaker. She is a Trustee, Member of the Board and Director of Research at DIMHN (UK) andMember of the Board at the Scholar’s Association Onassis Foundation.

Joseph Haldane
Dr Joseph Haldane is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of The
International Academic Forum (IAFOR).
One of the founders of IAFOR, he was Academic Director from its inception in 2009 until 2011,
Executive Director from 2011 to 2014, and President from 2014 to 2016. He is responsible for devisingstrategy, setting policies, forging institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing
the organisation’s business and academic operations, including research, publications and events.
Dr Haldane holds a PhD from the University of London in 19th-century French Studies, and has
held full-time faculty positions at the University of Paris XII Paris-Est Créteil (France), Sciences
Po Paris (France), and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), as well as visiting
positions at the French Press Institute in the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France), The
School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris (France), and the School of Journalism at Moscow
State University (Russia).
Dr Haldane’s current research concentrates on post-war and contemporary politics and international
affairs, and since 2015 he has been a Guest Professor at The Osaka School of International Public
Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, where he teaches on the postgraduate Global Governance Course.
He is also a Co-Director of the newly founded OSIPP-IAFOR Research Center at Osaka University.
From 2012 to 2014, Dr Haldane served as Treasurer of the American Chamber of Commercein Japan (Chubu Region) and he is currently a Trustee of the HOPE International Development
Agency (Japan). In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in 2015 a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Introducing IAFOR’s Academic
Grants & Scholarships
IAFOR is dedicated to helping young scholars achieve their research and academic
goals, while also encouraging them to apply the principles of interdisciplinary study
to their work. From spring 2017 IAFOR is offering travel and accommodation grants
and full or partial scholarships covering conference registration fees to PhD students
and early career academics who might not otherwise have the financial resources tobe able to attend our academic conferences.

Who can receive an IAFOR grant or scholarship?
Awards are based on the appropriateness of the educational opportunity in relation
to the applicant’s field of study, financial need, and contributions to their community
and to IAFOR’s mission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships will be awarded based on
availability of funds from IAFOR and will vary with each conference.

How are recipients of an IAFOR grant or scholarship selected?
The Organising Committee of the relevant IAFOR conference will award scholarships toeligible applicants who have submitted exceptional abstracts that have passed the blind
peer review process and have been accepted for presentation at one of our conferences.

How can I apply for an IAFOR grant or scholarship?
If you are eligible for an IAFOR grant or scholarship and would like to be considered,please submit your abstract to the conference you would like to attend and select thecheckbox for the relevant award during the submission process. Abstracts must be
submitted by the initial submission deadline of the relevant conference in order tobe considered for funding. Applicants will be notified of results within three to fourweeks of the initial submission deadline.
For more information please visit

www.iafor.org/financial-support
34 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORFriday Plenary Session

09:00-17:45 | Renaissance Suite (LGF)
08:00-09:00

Conference Registration | Renaissance Suite

09:00-09:30

Announcements & Welcome Address | Renaissance Suite

09:30-10:30
			
			
			

Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Suite
Inclusive Innovation in International Development: The Case of
the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)
Anke Schwittay, University of Sussex, UK

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break | Renaissance Foyer

11:00-12:00
Keynote Presentation | Renaissance Suite			
Links Between Oral and General Health: Putting the Mouth Back			in the Body			
Georgios Tsakos, University College London, UK
12:00-12:30
			

IAFOR Documentary Photography Award
followed by Conference Photograph | Renaissance Suite

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break | Atrium Restaurant (1F)

14:00-15:00

Conference Poster Session | Renaissance Suite

15:00-15:45
Spotlight Presentation | Renaissance Suite			Volunteer Tourism and the Creation of “Volunteerscapes” 					in Thailand			Nick Kontogeorgopoulos, University of Puget Sound, USA
15:45-16:30
			
			
			

Featured Presentation | Renaissance Suite
East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery in Education Reform
at an Elite Japanese University
Grant Black, University of Tsukuba, Japan

16:30-16:45

Coffee Break | Renaissance Foyer

16:45-17:45
Plenary Panel Presentation | Renaissance Suite
			Sustaining the City
			Duncan Baker-Brown, University of Brighton, UK			Anne Boddington, University of Brighton, UK
			Cat Fletcher, Freegle, UK
17:45-19:00

Conference Welcome Reception | Library Terrace (2F)
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Friday Poster Session
14:00-15:00 | Library Terrace

33701 | Library Terrace

Academic Entrepreneurship in Thailand: A Case Study of University-Based Social Venture
Sutti Sooampon, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

This study explores the enabling context for birth and growth of university-based entrepreneurial venture in Thailand where science
commercialization is not yet flourishing. The theme of investigation is to know how academic entrepreneurship originated and grown inless technologically developed region. Qualitative data was obtained from working staffs in one entrepreneurial unit within the university's
dental school under single case study approach. Since other departments solely pay attention to academic works, the entrepreneurial
efforts seen in selected case study look unusual and worth exploring under the theoretical foundation of academic entrepreneurship. The
triggers for academic entrepreneurship seen in case findings are closely aligned with the socially driven entrepreneurial model. Rather thantechnologically oriented triggers seen in previous literature, social constraints within local regions were found to be key enabling conditions
for the birth of university-based social ventures. The findings from this study have implications for the socially oriented role of universitybased ventures that tackle problems of local regions. In addition to the technological dimensions typically studied, such findings theoretically
imply a further research agenda on the socioeconomic dimension of academic entrepreneurship among different regions.
36184 | Library Terrace

Physical and Chemical Implications for Carrying Capacity in the Amazon Conservation Units – The Jamari
National Forest Case
Alexis Bastos Alexis, Centre of Studies Rioterra & Rondônia Federal University, Brazil
Vanderlei Maniesi Vanderlei, Rondônia Federal University, Brazil
Fabiana B. Gomes Fabiana, Centre of Studies Rioterra, Brazil

The objective of this paper was to relate the physical characteristics of the Jamari National Forest and its surrounding areas to the environment
carrying capacity and occupations modes in order to understand the resulting environmental impacts. Geoprocessing works were conducted.
Posteriorly field activities were carried out to validate information and collect soil samples. Soils proved physically fragile and with low
bioavailability of labile phosphorus (P) to sustain intensive agricultural activities. Soils with high content of sand-fraction grains, which arealso rich in quartz, were detected. The values of P ranged from 1 to 3 mg/dm3 in forest and from 2 to 4 mg/dm3 in pasture, values lower than
the 10 mg/dm3 minimum reference threshold for any crops. Physically, the forest shows a fragile balance between vegetation, soil and thedissected terrains. Thus, disturbing this balance by changing any of these elements may accelerate the action of erosive processes and lossof nutrients such as P, taking them deeper into groundwater, adversely affecting the carrying capacity. Soil structural, chemical, and mineralcharacteristics show striking limitations for agriculture given the low volume of weathered material. Aspects that favour pedogenic balancechanges in detriment of morphogenetic balance were found, related to land occupation modes, such as deforestation of riparian woodlands andheadwater areas close to sub-basin watersheds. The trend is for this situation to worsen small farmers' economic and social conditions due towater scarcity and lower soil quality, which will end up directly impacting the national forest as it faces growing anthropic pressure.
36697 | Library Terrace

On-Site Production of Electricity and Hydrogen for the Energy Needs of Rural Areas
Javier Carroquino, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Francisco-Javier García-Ramos, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jesús Yago, Intergia Energía Sostenible SL, Spain

In both developed and developing countries, energy supply in rural areas is needed in an economical and environmentally sustainable way.
On the one hand, extensions of the power grid are often inadequate due to their high cost and landscape impact. On the other hand, diesel
generator sets have high greenhouse gas emissions and other undesirable environmental impacts. As a result, on-site renewable energy
generation becomes the best option. The two main types of energy required are electricity for stationary uses and diesel for mobility. Therefore,
the European project LIFE REWIND proposes the implementation of off-grid renewable energy systems, producing both electricity and hydrogen.
A prototype has been designed and installed in a vineyard, to carry out the validation in a real case. It includes three photovoltaic sets: one is on
the terrain, other is floating on an irrigation pond and the last one is on a solar tracker. The electrical system is configured as a micro-grid, withthe same characteristics of the utility grid. The electricity is supplied to a wastewater treatment plant, a drip irrigation system and other uses likeair conditioning and lighting. Moreover, with the surplus energy, an electrolyser produces hydrogen by electrolysis of water. An off-road vehicle
with fuel cell feeds on that hydrogen and carries people in the vineyard. In conclusion, electricity and hydrogen are produced from renewable
resources on the farm itself. In addition, it is expected to obtain positive effects on the rural economy and employment.
37024 | Library Terrace

Studying the Effect of Fungal Cellulases and Bacterial Hemi-Cellulases for Saccharification of Lignocellulosic
Biomass in Bio-Ethanol Production
Ramiya Baskaran, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Chandraraj Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Bio-ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass has been recognized as a potential alternative to petroleum due to depletion of fossil
fuels. Hence, cellulosic materials such as agro-residues have been attractive feedstocks for bio-ethanol production. Cellulolytic enzymes
produced by fungal strains of Trichoderma sp. attracted interest for conversion of biomass to fermentable sugars. Here, a new isolate of
Trichoderma gamsii M501 was used for the production of enzymes and was employed for biomass hydrolysis.The culture supernatantof T. gamsii contained endoglucanase activity of 55U/ml and endoxylanase activity of 800U/ml. The zymogram analysis of the enzyme
mixture showed the presence of a cellulase (55kDa) and a xylanase (25kDa) but isozymes were not produced. The enzyme mixture
efficiently hydrolyzed ammonia pretreated sugarcane bagasse, napier grass and sorghum bagasse with >90% conversion of glucan andxylan. So far, T. gamsii cellulase has not been used for saccharification of lignocellulose to simple sugars. Further studies were conductedon synergy with fungal cellulases and bacterial hemicellulases to reduce the enzyme loading in enzymatic hydrolysis. The present results
showed the potential of cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic enzymes produced by T. gamsii and C. polysaccharolyticus respectively forsaccharification of lignocelluloses to fermentable sugars in cellulosic ethanol production.

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14:00-15:00 | Library Terrace

37050 | Library Terrace

CFD Simulation of Natural Ventilation in Urban Buildings Due to Wind EffectZhengtao Ai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Cheuk Ming Mak, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Da Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Hai Ming Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Previous studies regarding natural ventilation in buildings were mostly limited to isolated buildings. Considering an urban context, thisstudy investigates the wind-induced single-sided natural ventilation in buildings near a long street canyon under a perpendicular winddirection using CFD method. Four aspect ratios (AR) of the street canyon, from 1.0, 2.0, 4.0 to 6.0, are investigated to examine the influenceof street configuration. Ventilation rate of rooms in buildings is analyzed. AR influences ventilation rate and its distribution among rooms
along height of buildings. The percentage decrease of ventilation rate of buildings reaches 67% when AR of a street canyon is increased
from 1.0 to 6.0. The findings of this study are intended to increase the understanding of natural ventilation performance in urban buildings.
37052 | Library Terrace

A Study on Electric Arc Furnace Tin-Making Slags Utilized as Aggregates of Controlled Low Strength Materials
Ming Sheng Ko, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Ding Shun Lin, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

In this study, the physical, engineering, chemical and leaching characteristics of the slags produced from the process of electric arc
furnace (EAF) tin-making were analyzed to evaluate the feasibility and environmental compatibility of EAF tin-making slags utilized
as aggregates of controlled low strength materials (CLSM). The production parameters of CLSM were designed according to Taguchi
experimental design method and then the CLSM specimens were further fabricated. Finally, the S/N ratio analysis was used to evaluate
the performance of CLSM made by replacing the natural aggregates with EAF tin-making slags. The results showed that the EAF tinmaking slag was mainly composed of calcium, silicon, aluminum and iron oxides and the f-CaO content of the composition was only
0.46%–0.57%. The results of the test for potential expansion of aggregates from hydration reactions meant that EAF tin-making slags
should not possess the potential of volume expansion. The leachability analysis result of EAF tin-making slag was in accordance withthe specification standard. According to the results of S/N analysis, the order of three factors for influencing the performance of EAF
tin-making slags utilized as aggregates of CLSM was: cement content > ratio of coarse to fine aggregates > fine aggregates replacement
ratio. According to the specification requirements of CLSM, the higher ratio of fine aggregate replacement and the lower cement content
in factor combination could be the better operating parameters. Based on and the above results, most factor combinations could achieve
20–90 kgf/cm2 of CLSM specification requirements.
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Analysis and Improvement of the Management of Stocks in “Vasco Da Gama” Frigates – A Practical Study
Jose Miguel Soares, ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Fernanda Mendes, European University/Laureate International Universities, Portugal

Vessels, as an autonomous system, require the provision of maintenance needs, and transport the spare parts necessary to meet thoseneeds. The existence of stocks and the type of lots on board are intertwined with the type of mission assigned, and according to theduration of the mission, often the ship cannot be supplied by land. For this reason, the normal time in the supply chain requires stocks,
since in the Portuguese Navy, and in particularly on ships during its voyages, it is not possible to implement the “Just-in-Time” system,
which limits the time factor. Thus, in order to guarantee the autonomy of the missions with the supply cycle available, board batches
to “Vasco da Gama” frigate’s engines, allow the ship's systems to be permanently operational. This study includes, in a first phase, anestimate of the maintenance needs of the main propulsion engines of the “Vasco da Gama” Class Frigates using the arithmetic mean
method and the least squares method. This is followed by an approach to stock management using the ABC analysis to determine
which spare parts require more detailed control. Finally, the optimum quantity of spare parts per board batch, to be used for autonomous
navigation missions up to a maximum of one year, is determined. The aim of this study is to reduce maintenance costs by calculating the
optimal size of on-board batches, and also to improve sustainability by reducing the impact on the environment by not overloading thevessels with too many spare parts.
37444 | Library Terrace

Analysis and Improvement of Distribution Routes and the Associated Vehicle Fleet – Application to a Real
Case in Portugal
Jose Miguel Soares, ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Fernanda Mendes, European University/Laureate International Universities, Portugal

Logistics management plays a key role in improving business efficiency, since it is the part of supply chain management that plans,
implements and controls the flow of goods, services and information between the point of origin and the point of consumption. Customers
are more demanding and want the right products, in the right place, at the right time and in the right quantity. Consequently, logistics plays
a fundamental role because it allows adding value to the product, and is always seeking to minimize the total costs. In the field of supply
chain management, the use of vehicles to deliver products to customers is one of the largest operations. However, before delivering the
products it is necessary to optimize the routes of the vehicles, in order to provide an efficient and low cost service. This study intends toanalyze and propose improvements in the distribution network of ABC, a Portuguese company dedicated to the commercialization anddistribution of home decoration products. The main objective of this work is to provide a model that allows the company to optimize
the distribution routes and the associated fleet, in order to minimize the total costs of the distribution, maintaining the level of service
provided to the customer. Finally, a model was developed that allows the definition of optimal routes for the various delivery points,
resulting in a reduction in the number of vehicles to be used, the total distance traveled and the time of the journeys, leading to a real
reduction in logistics costs.

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Friday Poster Session
14:00-15:00 | Library Terrace

37807 | Library Terrace

The Dynamics of Large Publicly Traded Corporations in Santa Catarina, Brazil
Luiz Carlos Valente Junior, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

The research comprised the study of three public companies: BRF SA, Tupy SA, and WEG SA. These companies present a high level oftechnological development, with administrative headquarters located in Santa Catarina, Brazil, with business in several countries. The aim
was to accompany historical development, geographic expansion, and business evolution of such companies in Brazil and in the world.
Moreover, to identify the role of stock market for their development, and the activity of large pension and investment funds (holders oflarge global shareholdings – by 2013, both accounted for the equivalent to 75.5% of world GDP). For this purpose, visits and interviews
were carried out at the companies’ headquarters, at stockbrokers, and at the stock exchange of Sao Paulo (in 2015, 52.8% of investors of
BM&FBovespa SA were foreigners). It was observed the high development capacity acquired with the implantation of such corporations
for local and regional society. Expansion and emergence of significantly populous neighborhoods occurred, as well as the establishmentof colleges and technical schools for local labor qualification, among others. Certainly, the creation of a solid stock market was of great
importance for the expansion of industrial activity (investment in new manufacturing parks, technological upgrading, verticalization,
among others). The current phase of world capitalism evidences the expansion of international trade, fluctuating exchange rates, andgreater liquidity of markets. Therefore, the insertion of the economy of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is a dynamic reality, where each step isrequired to improve management, production and technology of big companies.
37845 | Library Terrace

Study on the Key Problems and Solutions of Cross-Subsidy of Electricity Price in China
PeiPei You, State Grid Energy Research Institute of China, China
Xiao Gao, State Grid Energy Research Institute of China, China

The regulated electricity price for China's various type of users seriously deviated from its actual cost. The cross-subsidized electricity
tariff distorts price signal, causes unfair treatment, produces a huge economic loss, and restricts the electricity market reform. In 2015
China started a new round of electricity market reform, stipulating the tariff reform process and roll out cross-subsidy method for different
types of tariff. However, the scientific and reasonable method for cross-subsidy hasn't matured yet which causes chaos and become thedifficult issue of electricity market reform. Based on the analysis of cross subsidy theory in China's electricity price, this paper proposesa calculation method of cross-subsidy for a province as an example. Finally, the paper proposes cross-subsidy methods and steps which
promotes the smooth progress of China's electricity market reform. The conclusion of the study shows that the scale of cross subsidy in
China is huge which seriously increases the burden of industrial and commercial users and causes the decline of social welfare level. It is
proposed to establish cross subsidy based on the voltage level, user category, and consider the power supply node, load characteristicsof the transmission and distribution. Cross subsidy should be calculated province by province and subsidy way is changed from “implicitmode” to “explicit mode”. The level of commercial and commercial electricity prices is gradually reduced while the level of residents isincreased. In addition, power axillary service is introduced as national policy to support resolving cross subsidy issue in China.
37879 | Library Terrace

Effects of Aerobic Dance with 9 Square on the Cardiovascular Endurance System and Percentage of Body Fat
Napasorn Neelapaijit, Silpakorn University, Thailand
Iyarush Kaesman, Silpakorn University, Thailand

This experimental research was one group pretest-posttest design. The purpose of the study was to compare the effects of nine-squareaerobic dance on the cardiovascular endurance system and percentage of body fat before and after the implementation. Simple random
sampling was employed to select a sample group of 50 students who studied in Silpakorn University and enrolled in the Principle of
Exercise for Health course in the first semester of 2012. The main instrument was aerobic dance with nine-square program. The samples
were trained by aerobic dance with nine-square program for eight weeks, three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), one houra day (17.00–18.00 hours) Pre- and Post-tests were implemented before and after the experiment to test the subjects' cardiovascular
endurance and percentage of body fat. Statistics used in analyzing data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test
dependent. The results showed that aerobic dance with nine-square program had a positive impact on cardiovascular endurance andpercentage of body fat. Subjects' heart rate while exercising was 137.74 BPM (Beats Per Minute), and after training, it was 113.04 BPM. It
showed that students' cardiovascular endurance and percentage of body fat after training was proved significantly better than the result
before training statistically (p<.05).

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Saturday Session I
10:00-12:00 | Shelley Room

Energy Economics & Ecological Economics
Session Chair: Gianluca Trotta
37134 10:00-10:30 | Shelley Room

Non-Invasive Field Scale Characterisation of Methane Dynamics in South-West Indian Tropical Peat Lands
Using Ground Penetrating Radar Method
Devi K., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Rajesh R. Nair, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-invasive hydro-geophysical method utilized comprehensively to investigate peatland studies.
However, this technique has not been used to explore the distribution and release of biogenic gas in Indian Peatlands. In this backdrop, thecurrent research aims to identify the presence and saturation of biogenic methane in humid tropical peatland of Southern Kerala Sedimentary
Basin (SKSB) using GPR. The survey was conducted with the GSSI GPR system, using 100 and 200 MHz frequencies shielded antennas. The
variations in electromagnetic wave velocity and amplitude of radar signals were analysed to identify the thickness and geometry of the peat
layer and presence of shadow zones with EM velocities of 0.036-0.039 m/ns. We have adopted GPR common offset measurements for thedelineation of vertical and spatial variabilities of in-situ biogenic gas saturation with depth from the deviations in the two-way travel time ofreflections and by petro physical model. Our results show variations in biogenic gas content in shallow (5m) and deep (17–22m) portionsof the stratigraphic column with estimated volume of 0–80% saturation within the peat column which is sandwiched between clay richconfining layers. The results are pertinent in the current scenario of global carbon dynamics to the atmosphere.
35651 10:30-11:00 | Shelley Room

Optimization of Electrical Generation Cost Using Differential Evolutionary Algorithm for Large Four Regions
Electrical Grid
Muhammad AlHajri, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Abido, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

In this paper, a techno-economic assessment of electrical generation cost optimization for four region large electrical grid is presented. This
optimization was attained by using the Differential Evolutionary Algorithm (DEA). The study is the first of its kind as none of the previous
studies were conducted in the context of a real fuel value and system constraints. In each of the large grid four regions there is generation
fleet with different technology and large load center. The four regions are connected via transmission lines with power flow constraints. The
performance the DEA in optimizing the generation cost is bench-marked with business as usual (BAU) case. The problem was articulated
as a constrained nonlinear problem. The constraints were all real values reflecting the system equipment and components' limitations andoperation constraints. The results obtained from the research show the efficiency and prospects of the proposed research in optimizing thegeneration cost. Also addressed in this study the annual cost avoidance, due to the study objectives' optimization.
37166 11:00-11:30 | Shelley Room

Energy Efficiency in the Residential Sector of the European Union: Identification of Promising Policy Instruments
and Private Initiatives
Gianluca Trotta, University of Vaasa, Finland
Sylvia Lorek, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany
Joachim Spangeberg, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany

The article is based on updated findings of the Horizon 2020 EUFORIE Project (European Futures for Energy Efficiency). This study draws on fivecase studies from selected European countries – Finland, Italy, Hungary, Spain, United Kingdom – and evaluate the policies and the role of theprivate sector to stimulate investments in energy efficiency in the residential sector. From an analysis of the National Energy Efficiency Action
Plans, it clearly emerges that there is a wide disparity in terms of content, level of detail in describing, and the level of ambition about the energy
efficiency instruments in place and planned for the next years among Member States as well as in the role of the private sector in stimulatingenergy efficiency improvements in the residential sector. When compared to what has been done in the last years in Finland, Spain, Italy, and
Hungary, the UK government seems to have implemented a better balanced set of energy efficiency policies targeted at the residential sector,
with the participation of diverse private actors. However, its existing conditions appear to be more problematic than other countries. In particular,
the prevalence of older dwellings in the national stock built to lower standards of energy efficiency combined with a high share of the private
rented sector in the housing market, leaves larger untapped potential for improvements than the other countries under investigation.
36189 11:30-12:00 | Shelley Room

East and West: Past, Present and the Future of Energy and Sustainability Relationships
Ben D. Radhakrishnan, National University, USA
Shekar Viswanathan, National University, USA

The demand for energy is increasing in this rapidly globalizing world, and energy consumption rate has become a key metric for a country's
economic growth. The consumption includes energy needed for two major activities – human's increasing standard of living and for industries
to compete globally. Technology has helped to create a more level playing field across the world for global business. This has led the easternpart of the world to generate and consume energy at a higher rate and it is getting closer to that of the western world. During the industrializationera, the Western economy impacted elements of sustainability in specific ways – positive on economics, and negative on environment andequity. During this current era, manufacturing has shifted from the west to the east. As a result, the eastern nations are experiencing the positive
impact of significant economic growth rate. At the same time, they are also experiencing severe negative ecological impacts on environment andinequality. This research paper will quantify the relationship between the economic growth of nations in the east and the west, and the ecologicalimpacts due to increase in energy consumption. It will also propose solutions that recommend the use of Western innovative technologies sothat Eastern nations can move towards better economic futures with the least possible ecological impacts. Review Eastern practices that might
apply for the Western world. In addition, the successes of moving towards renewable energy will be analyzed and quantified for both sides.

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Saturday Session I
10:00-11:00 | Keats Room

Environmental Sustainability & Environmental Management: Land Use & Misuse
Session Chair: Yee Keong Choy
36190 10:00-10:30 | Keats Room

Protected Areas and Biodiversity Protection: The African Conservation Paradox
Yee Keong Choy, Keio University, Japan

Covering 20% of the Earth's surface, Africa is one of the most biologically rich and diverse regions in world. It is home to some one quarterof the world's 4,700 mammal species, more than 2,000 bird species, at least 2,000 fish species, 950 amphibian species, 40,000 and
60,000 plant species and about 100,000 known species of insects and other arachnids. In an attempt to conserve these biodiversities,
the African governments have set aside large portions of their land and forests as protected areas such as national parks and wildlife
reserves. Hunting in these areas is legally prohibited. Despite these environmental protection initiatives, however, biodiversity continues
to decline at an unprecedented scale. This article examines through content analysis and statistical description, the state of biodiversity
and the primary drivers for species decline and extinction in the African region. Specific attention will be paid to assessing the status ofbiodiversity and conservation efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which contains the second largest continuous blockof tropical rainforest in the world after the Amazon. This specific case study reveals that the root cause of the environmental problems
in Africa as a whole is mainly attributed to the lack of ethical considerations for the environment on the part of the stakeholders when
optimizing its economic use. The article concludes that any realistic protected area solution to the biodiversity conservation problems will
have to involve four interwoven factors, namely, protected area initiatives, legislation, environmental ethics and environmental education.
37093 10:30-11:00 | Keats Room

A GIS Model for Assessment of Outdoor Recreational Facilities
Raghdaa Eissa, Lund University, Sweden
Ulrik Martensson, Lund University, Sweden
Safaa Ghoneim, Cairo University, Egypt

Egypt is one of the largest Arab developing countries, where government policies headed towards constructing new urban communities
to absorb the vast increase in population. Although the physical planning of new urban settlements took into consideration the existenceof outdoor recreational facilities, the adequacy of these services cannot be measured only by their presence. The study developed aGeographical Information Systems model that acts as a decision support tool for assessment of recreational facilities based on thedimension of physical geography. The model focuses on Sufficiency and accessibility of recreational facilities in the city. The Ratio Modelis applied to assess sufficiency of service based on national and international standards; however Least Cost Path Analysis is applied
to assess accessibility through pedestrians and mass transportation routes. The research integrated capabilities of GIS especially the
network analysis tools to develop the proposed model. The developed model was tested through a case study methodology, as it uses
imperial and documentary data of 10th Ramadan City. The results show that the city suffers from lack of recreational facilities where therecreational facilities are sufficient for only one sixth of its population. The accessibility model implied that the number and distributionof recreational facilities in 10th Ramadan City is inconvenient for users in addition to the high concentration of uses other than theresidential use within the service areas. The findings highlight a serious need to consider aspects of sufficiency, and accessibility in theplanning of future recreational facilities in Egypt’s new communities.

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10:00-12:00 | Coleridge RoomInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences
Session Chair: Patricia Levy
36850 10:00-10:30 | Coleridge Room

What are Eco-Innovations?

Deepika Verma, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Runa Sarkar, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Due to the challenges associated with measuring eco-innovations from patent information and surveys, the literature-based innovation
output (LBIO) indicator, built from a database of new product announcements in technical and trade journals, has emerged as a feasible
alternative. Eco-innovation is a fuzzy concept because it is often synonymously used with green, sustainable and environmental
innovations. Therefore, researchers face difficulty in creating a database for eco-innovations. Also, business practitioners may not be able
to clearly define or revise their vision/mission statement(s) with respect to what constitutes an eco-innovation especially during the timesof business dilemma. Thus, it becomes imperative to develop an exhaustive and objective definition of eco-innovations that can be usedby all. This paper tries to do this in three steps. In the first step, the authors examine the nuanced differences between the four concepts.
In the second step based on the nuanced relationship, the authors develop lexicographic definition of eco-innovations in relation to theother concepts. The definition is imputed from the abstracts of academic journal papers extracted from the EBSCO database using the“tm" package in R software. In the final step, the authors validate the imputed definition to demarcate the boundaries of eco-innovations
that will facilitate the creation of databases through LBIO using the descriptors as identifiers.
36889 10:30-11:00 | Coleridge Room

Application of Comprehensive Nursing Intervention to Improve Mothers' Breastfeeding Skills in China
Hong-Xia Dai, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of the application of “comprehensive nursing intervention” on mothers' breastfeeding skills in
China. Method: The study was a prospective clinical experimental research. 313 postnatal women were recruited from 3 hospitals in
Guangzhou by using a cluster sampling method. The control group received general care with verbal education about breastfeeding
without handbook, standard breastfeeding skills instruction and telephone follow-up. The treatment group received comprehensive
nursing intervention, which was composed of a practical handbook on breastfeeding, instruction of breastfeeding skills through faceto-face and one-on-one methods at bedside within 24 hours postpartum. The participants accepted a telephone follow-up related tobreastfeeding at 5 weeks postpartum. They completed two questionnaires on LATCHES-breastfeeding charting system on the third day
and 6 weeks after delivery. The ICC of LATCHES is 0.808 and Cronbachs is 0.826. LATCHES assess mothers' latch, audible swallowing,type of nipple, comfort (breast/nipple), hold (positioning), excretion and satisfaction. Total 12 items, grade range from 12 to 36. The
higher grade means good breastfeeding skills. The SPSS 20.0 software, T test and X2 test were used. Results: At 6 weeks postpartum,
the exclusive breastfeeding rate of the treatment group (52.7%) were higher than the control group (29.7%), p values were 0.034. The
LATCHES mean grade of the treatment group at 6 weeks postpartum (33.55 2.39) were higher than the control group (31.98 4.29),
p <0.001. Conclusions: Comprehensive nursing intervention of exclusive breastfeeding improved exclusive breastfeeding rate andmother's breastfeeding skill at 6 weeks postpartum.
37824 11:00-11:30 | Coleridge Room

Human Sustainability in the Face of Mass Violence: The Psychological Effects of Emergency Response Totrauma
Patricia Levy, Fort Hays State University, USA

This presentation will discuss two underlying theoretical approaches, stress theory and trauma theory, to better understand what
accompanying strategies may be used to intervene with traumatized survivors in the event of a mass violence attack. In particular, an
Adult Psychological First Aid (PFA) model illustrating specific risk assessment techniques will be presented as a means of identifying andresponding to critical stressors impacting both emergency responders and survivor populations during a mass violence situation. Overall
implications affecting immediate rescue and recovery efforts to sustain survivor populations and their communities will be focused upon.
36866 11:30-12:00 | Coleridge Room

Property Rights vs. Right to Knowledge: The Multi-Faceted Dilemma (Case Study: Software Piracy in
Development Countries)
Zoheir Tafer, University of Bechar, Algeria
Mohamed Abbar, University of Bechar, Algeria

Innovation is often described as a key factor in competitiveness, as the driving force of the economy or as the basis of growth. Thismay be somewhat exaggerated, but it must be admitted that there cannot be any scientific advances without innovations; both aresomewhat synonymous and correlated by a causal link. However, a paradox lies behind this reasoning: Property rights, measures toprotect innovation and creativity and aims to encourage more innovations and creativity, but do these protective measures not hamper
the development of knowledge and its dissemination? Did not property rights become a shovel that serves to deepen the know-how
gap between the South and the North? It is widely known that only those who pay have the right to educate themselves, while the lessfortunate remain held hostage and forced and obliged to follow in order to survive. Indeed, some of the arguments put forward above arepure sophistry, but are often used either by the adepts of the Robin Hood ideal or by the defenders of the sacrosanct right of property. This
work aims to ascertain what, why and how not to respect the right to property, and notably software piracy, not to justify the practice, but
to confront this phenomenon with the arguments of property rights and to demonstrate the selfishness and deception that lie behind thecurtain of each camp, and subjecting them to the socio-cultural and economic realities of developing countries, and demonstrate withconcrete cases that a consensus is possible.

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Saturday Session I

10:00-11:30 | Wordsworth Room
Teaching & Learning
Session Chair: Chia-Wei Tang
33921 10:00-10:30 | Wordsworth RoomThe Study of English Reading Strategies on English Reading Self-Efficacy, Reading Anxiety, and Reading
Comprehension
Ya-huei Wang, Chung-Shan Medical University, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Hung-Chang Liao, Chung-Shan Medical University, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

English reading strategies definitely serve as effective tools to increase students' English reading self-efficacy and decrease reading
anxiety in comprehending English reading. However, little research has been conducted to investigate the English reading strategies
in relation to English reading comprehension, reading self-efficacy, and reading anxiety. This study was to examine whether the
implementation of English reading strategies could bring any positive contribution to students' English reading anxiety and increase theirEnglish reading self-efficacy and reading comprehension. In order to verify the proposed hypotheses, a quasi-experimental design over
15 weeks was used, with 62 students participating in the study. The instruments included English Reading Anxiety Scale (ERAS), English
Reading Self-Efficacy Scale (ERSES), and English Reading Comprehension Test. The results showed that the students using English
reading strategies had less English reading anxiety than those not using the strategies. They also performed better in English reading
self-efficacy in terms of “self-affirmation”, “perseverance”, “verbal persuasion”, and overall sections. In addition, they had significantly
better reading comprehension performance than those not using the reading strategies.
36134 10:30-11:00 | Wordsworth RoomThe Gap Between Teachers’ Job Involvement and Students’ Learning Involvement?: The Moderating Effect ofTeachers’ Teaching Style
Chia-Wei Tang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Learning involvement is crucial for students' learning outcomes as it is the foundation of learners' cognitive and emotional systems andthe teacher can play a crucial role in students' learning process. This study aims to explore the relationship between university teachers'job (teaching) involvement and their students' learning involvement and the moderating effect of teachers' teaching style on the mentioned
relationship. A survey was conducted with cluster sampling with 446 students at four universities in southern Taiwan. The main findings ofthe current study can be summarised as follows: 1) teachers' job involvement and teaching styles differ significantly among varies groupsof teachers in terms of their institutional types, academic status, ages and years of service; 2) teachers' job involvement significantly
predict students' learning involvement; 3) expert and delegator teaching style can significantly predict students' learning involvement; 4)formal authority teaching style moderates the relationship between teachers' job involvement and students' learning involvement. Basedon findings, it is suggested that teacher might consider adopting the expert and delegator teaching styles and related teaching strategies
to improve their students' learning involvement. More experienced teachers must note whether their expert and delegator teaching styles
are insufficient, while younger/amateur teachers must be careful not to neglect class management as it may lead to insufficient student
learning involvement.
37204 11:00-11:30 | Wordsworth RoomPuzzling Law: A Personal Analysis of the Pedagogic Use of Word Puzzles in the Teaching of Law
Los Watkins, Middlesex University, UK

The current view of academic pedagogy is that a variety of teaching methods should be used, and that, rather than the “chalk and talk”
approach, the involvement of the student should be seen as essential in his/her learning. This paper is concerned with the relative successof the employment of different word puzzles in seminars over a teaching year in an undergraduate Law module, in order to aid student
learning, understanding and retention of knowledge. It examines the way in which these aims might be achieved, the engagement of thestudent relative to the particular type of word puzzle utilised, and suggests possible best practice in the engagement of the strategy. In
addition to providing an account of my personal teaching practice, the paper engages with current learning and teaching literature andreferences the current UK Legal Education and Training Review.

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Saturday Session II
13:00-14:00 | Shelley Room

Environmental Sustainability & Environmental Management
Session Chair: Patricia Blazey
35401 13:00-13:30 | Shelley RoomChina's Move to Increasing Renewable Energy Production under Its 13th Five Year Plan as a Result of the Paris
Agreement
Patricia Blazey, Macquarie University, Australia
Hope Ashiabor, Macquarie University, Australia

Addressing the problem of global warming is one of the main problems faced by world governments in the twenty-first century. This is
the result of unprecedented levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases which as causing detrimental changes to the world's climate. In
order to address this issue the United Nations has facilitated the Paris Agreement 2015, which has been ratified by over 100 parties. One
of its long-term goals is keeping the increase in global average temperatures well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. China, one of theworld's main polluters, has ratified this agreement, which will require its government to promote a new era of clean energy production andenergy-efficient technology. It will need to cut its carbon emissions by 60–65% per unit of GDP by 2030 compared with 2005 levels andboost its use of non-fossil fuels by 20% of total energy consumption. This paper examines the reasons why the Chinese government has
agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement and critically examines how China intends to achieve its commitment to the Agreement through its
13th Five Year Plan and Climate Change Regime. The paper will evaluate China's intended move to increasing the production of renewableenergy and embracing an era of cleaner production through advanced technology. As China mainly relies on coal for the production ofenergy, the government’s approach to reducing coal consumption will be explored and critically examined. The paper will finally determine
whether the goals set by the Chinese government can be achieved over the next five years.
37106 13:30-14:00 | Shelley Room

From Junk Bonds to Green Bonds: Do Sustainability Ratings Matter?
Gábor Gyura, University of Pécs, Hungary

The market for green bonds has been growing rapidly in recent years globally, thereby making them one of the most promising financial
instruments to support environmental sustainability. For traditional corporate or sovereign bonds, rating agencies have been key actors
to reduce information asymmetry to facilitate the development of debt markets. Sustainability ratings, audits and second or third party
opinions (“sustainability ratings”, hereinafter) can play a similar role to verify the sustainable feature of green bonds which in turn can
inform credit analysis and impact investment decisions. However, while there is no uniform definition for green bonds yet, common criteria
and methodology for sustainability ratings is also lacking. The paper analyses the theoretical economic functions of sustainability ratingsfor green bonds and the current practical approaches in Europe and Asia for them. By the means of an empirical study of outstanding green
bonds it aims to assess the actual impact of sustainability ratings on green bond issues. Based on these results, the paper concludes bydrawing some policy recommendations on the possible future development of green bond sustainability ratings.

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Saturday Session II
13:00-14:30 | Keats Room
Environmental Sustainability
Session Chair: Ayten Genc
37038 13:00-13:30 | Keats Room

Future of Protein Supply Strategies in Animal Feed Production Through Consequential Life Cycle
Assessment Modelling
Christine Dasanayake, University of Southern Denmark Life Cycle Engineering, Denmark
Henrik Wenzel, University of Southern Denmark Life Cycle Engineering, Denmark

A consequential Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was carried out with an aim of modelling the future protein supply strategies in animal feed
production by means of evaluating the environmental consequences of different protein supply strategies specially by reducing land use
in the production of feed for animals in future. A case study was performed for compound piglet feed manufactured in Northern Europe
analyzing the environmental consequences in producing one tonne of feed for four piglet categories (weighing 20–35 kg, 10–20 kg, 6–10
kg and 4–6 kg), using three main scenarios of supplying protein (Business As Usual (BAU), Local and Bacterial Protein Meal (BPM)), which
comprised of 12 main scenarios. The Business As Usual (BAU) scenario has soybean meal as the key protein ingredient, whereas the
Local scenario involves a maximum of local protein ingredients such as fava beans. The BPM scenario involves the incorporation of a
maximum of BPM which is a Single Cell Protein (SCP) produced by fermentation; through the availability of Oxygen and a Nitrogen source,
the microorganisms convert a carbon source (natural gas) to protein. For each scenario/ compound feed, amounts of crop and noncrop ingredients were determined. The 12 scenarios were analyzed using Simapro 8.1.0.60 software after including the impacts of land
use changes and manure management. Preliminary results show that, though the inclusion of BPM reduced the use of crops and theirassociated land use changes, it did not lead to an overall reduction of the environmental consequences, as compared to the BAU scenario.
37015 13:30-14:00 | Keats Room

A Sustainable Alternative Water Supply: Comparative Analysis and an Integrated Infrastructure System Modelfor Seawater Desalination
Ranahansa Dasanayake, Institute for Applied Material Flow Management, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Stefan Bringezu, Centre for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany

Water is an abundant resource on Earth. Yet, its useable form – freshwater – for human consumption is not only limited in supply by
default but is also becoming scarcer due to anthropogenic pressure. Water being a basic need, more of it is required to sustain the
exponentially growing population. It is also a cardinal input sustaining the economies that sustain this growing population. Circa one
seventh of the world population is experiencing severe water stress. This number is growing rapidly with the increasing demand, systeminefficiencies, and conflicting allocation mechanisms. Therefore, relying on the natural hydrological cycle alone to alleviate the impending
water crisis seems an unwise solution. This notion was fundamental to accessing the backstop supplies of water such as oceans anddeveloping water quality improvement technologies such as desalination. Given the enormous potential of this source and consideringthat over 50% of the world population lives in the coastal zones, seawater desalination has become an important alternative water supply
technology with boundless future potentials. However, its environmental and economic sustainability is fiercely criticized. This paper
presents, sequentially, a comparative analysis of the sustainability aspects of seawater reverse osmosis [SWRO] desalination followed byan integrated infrastructure system [IIS] model for SWRO that improves its overall sustainability performance. According to the results,
renewable energy powered SWRO has the highest lifecycle-wide impact reduction potential whereas the IIS model delivers system-wide
optimisation of material and energy flows through synergies in metabolic processes with multilevel possibilities for social and economic
value addition to the system.
36905 14:00-14:30 | Keats Room

Electrochemical Treatment of Oily Wastewater Using Three Dimensional Steel Wire Electrodes
Ayten Genc, Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey
Sercan Goc, Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey

Electrochemical technologies have been successfully applied for the removal of heavy metals, dyes, organics and oils from wastewater.
In the present study, a sample of wastewater containing cutting oils were treated by applying potential difference to the electrodes,
which were formed by two beds made of steel wire pieces. In order to improve separation efficiency different forms of electrode beds
were tested. In addition, the experiments were performed by using steel plate electrodes under same operating conditions. The electrodeconfigurations were compared depending flow characteristics, turbidity and COD removal efficiencies. The residence time distribution
experiments were performed in the analysis of flow. The separation efficiency was also discussed based on operating parameters such as
the strength of applied voltages, electrode area, pH, conductivity and volumetric flow rate. The highest attained turbidity and COD removal
efficiencies were 85% and 80%, respectively, in the experiments. It has been observed that similar turbidity and removal efficiencies canbe achieved with the use of the bed of steel pieces electrodes rather than plate electrodes by consuming less energy.

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Saturday Session II

13:00-14:30 | Coleridge RoomBusiness Administration & Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
Session Chair: Hung-Chang Chiu
36622 13:00-13:30 | Coleridge Room

Does Value Co-Creation Behavior Contribute to Happiness for Individualism/Collectivism Customers?
Yi-Ching Hsieh, National Central University, Taiwan

Happiness, a state of well-being and contentment, might be a human being’s goal in life, and increasing customers' happiness might
be a goal of businesses. Value co-creation is one way to fulfill the goal of customers and businesses at the same time. Researchers
argue that customer value co-creation is critical for marketing success, because customers are contributing to the process of searching,communicating, delivery, and consumption of products/services. Customer co-creation benefits customers (e.g. faster speed andlower prices) as well as firms (e.g., enhanced operating efficiencies and greater service value). Value co-creation might also contributeto customers’ inner satisfaction. Based on previous research, customer value co-creation behavior is classified into two categories:
customer in-role participation behavior which refers to required behavior which is necessary for successful services; and customer extrarole citizenship behavior which refers to voluntary behavior which provides extraordinary value to the firm. This study proposes thatthese behaviors can raise customers self-efficacy and the satisfaction with their contribution to co-creation, and then lead to customers’
happiness. It is expected that customers orientation of individualism and collectivism plays a role in this relationship, because individualists
are competitive and goal-oriented, whereas collectivists attribute more importance on group goals and they favor altruism and being
helpful. The results indicate that both customer participation behavior and customer citizenship behavior in value co-creation positively
relate to customers’ happiness. In addition, collectivists have higher level of the extra-role citizenship behavior while individualists havehigher level of the in-role participation behavior.
37097 13:30-14:00 | Coleridge RoomAnalysis of Logistics Service Quality (LSQ) Factors Among B2B Customers of Third Party Logistics (3PL)
Industry in Jordan
Luay Jum'a, German Jordanian University, Jordan

Logistics Service Quality (LSQ) has received considerable attention in the last few decades, since it is considered one of the most crucial
factors that contribute to B2B customers' satisfaction in the logistics industry. As such, Third Party Logistics service providers (3PLs)
seek to achieve greater customer satisfaction levels through delivering more customized services due to the heterogeneity and changing
nature of 3PL market. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a comprehensive LSQ evaluation framework to better understand thepreferences of B2B customers in the 3PL market. Moreover, the study is focused on identifying the differences in LSQ factors' importanceamongst different B2B segments that are classified using Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a latent segmentation variable. The study utilized
systematic literature review (SLR) process in order to identify all LSQ factors that contribute to B2B customers' satisfaction throughsearches in 14 well-known online databases in management and logistics fields. Moreover, the data were collected through conducting
a survey and a total of 293 questionnaires were returned from B2B customers of 3PLs in Jordan. The study resulted in developing acomprehensive LSQ evaluation framework that includes 14 LSQ factors combined from previous works. Moreover, the findings of thestudy showed a statistical significant difference in the importance of LSQ factors amongst three NPS segments (promoters, passives anddetractors) in the Jordanian logistics market.
36616 14:00-14:30 | Coleridge Room

App Aesthetics and User Brand Experience

Hung-Chang Chiu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yun-Chia Tang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Design aesthetics has attracted considerable attention in various research such as store environment, product design, and website
design. While design aesthetics affects the experience and behaviors in internet-based context, this research intends to discuss whether
design aesthetics also works in mobile-based context, because users are restricted by the smaller graphical display of a mobile device
and the overall aesthetic impression is not limited in visual appeals. In tradition, aesthetics is an important factor in system design.
However, aesthetics in mobile apps is different with that in web-based context. The mobile device permits a better examination of somecomponents by rotating or enlarging the objects on the screen; users can also interact with it by voice-activated functions. Therefore, thisresearch intends to investigate the influences of design aesthetics of mobile apps on users' brand experience. To examine the proposed
framework, we conduct a series of experimental design in Taiwan. The results indicate classical aesthetics influence brand experience;
the higher the expressive aesthetics, the higher sensory and affective experience the user will perceive. Furthermore, high interactive
aesthetics allows user to perceive every aspect of the brand experience. Finally, the higher brand experience users perceive the higher
customer satisfaction and their behavioral intentions through the brand apps. The findings of this research can be applied to marketingstrategy and decision-making for brand developers.

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Saturday Session II

13:00-14:30 | Wordsworth RoomInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences
Session Chair: Val Colic-Peisker
37741 13:00-13:30 | Wordsworth Room

Reviewing Community Resilience: From Community Capital to Rediscovering Communities in South Africa
Rashid Ahmed, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Maghboebah Mosavel, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Resilience research provides an alternative and complementary narrative to the dominant risk framework. At the community level, theidea that in spite of adversity, communities can thrive is a potentially useful framework for current global challenges, especially forresource constrained contexts. However, community resilience while applied to problems ranging from natural disasters to violence,seems narrowly confined to relatively similar dimensions, often summarized as different forms of capital that communities possess.
The main aim of this presentation is to assess the utility of this framework for diverse contexts. It begins with a review of the risk andprotective factor discourse and the underlying assumptions and values associated with the notion of community resilience. Drawing on
the South African context it argues that current conceptualization are ahistorical and acontextual, do not sufficiently engage with diversity
and inequities and limited to specific hegemonic Western frameworks. The socio-political context, the diverse responses to oppression
and the dynamic and contradictory forms of community systems and knowledge seldom emerge in these conceptualizations. In the South
African context the rich history of resistance from communities and the dynamic role of spirituality in communities are two significant
gaps. A reinsertion of political activism and altruism, rediscovering indigenous worldviews, and complementing secular foci with a focus
on spirituality are some of the areas that need to be incorporated into current resilience frameworks.It is therefore imperative that thetwain shall meet, not only to enrich our understanding, but to also foreground a social justice agenda.
37885 13:30-14:00 | Wordsworth Room

Mass Media and Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Role of the Bosnian Mass Media after Dayton Accords, 1995
Mustafa Taha, American University of Sharjah, UAE

The paper examines the role that mass media played in Bosnia-Herzegovina after Dayton Accords 1995. It provides a theoretical frameworkand explores how Bosnian media outlets contributed to the peace process and national reconciliation. To envisage the difficulty ofretooling the Bosnian mass media to promote peace, the paper reflects to the destructive role that mass media played during the Bosnian
war. It highlights the roles of media outlets controlled by Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Serbs, and Bosnian Croats. Because these rival ethnic
groups had used mass media to fan war before Dayton Accords, the paper examines efforts aimed at utilizing these media organizations
to serve the cause of peace. The paper also sheds light on newscasts convergence, namely between Belgrade's media and Bosnian Serb
media on the one hand, and Zagreb's media and Bosnian Croat media on the other hand. This newscast convergence influenced the peace
process in Bosnia-Herzegovina and affected its multi-ethnic and multicultural heritage. The paper underscores the assistance that UnitedStates and the European countries provided to Bosnian media to sustain the peace process. It discusses the role that the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) played in regulating the Bosnian media to promote peace and democratization. The paper pays
a special attention to role of The Media Experts Commission (MEC) in regulating the Bosnian media and utilizing it as a tool for enhancing
peace during the 1996 elections.
37357 14:00-14:30 | Wordsworth Room

East Meets West in the Suburbs: Islamophobia and Muslim Visibility Close-Up
Val Colic-Peisker, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Karien Dekker, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

This paper reports preliminary findings from a large empirical project investigating the relationship between religious visibility, Islamophobia
and social capital in two ethnically diverse Melbourne suburbs with high proportions of Muslim residents. The project collected quantitativeand qualitative data through a face-to-face survey of 300 residents and 50+ in-depth interviews with key informants and residents in
2016–17. This paper reports on the levels of Islamophobia in two suburbs, recorded through survey responses to the “Islamophobia
scale”. The two suburbs with large Muslim minorities (about 30% according to the 2011 Census, compared to 2.2% nationally) werechosen because Suburb 1 contains a mixture of first and second-generation “invisible” Muslim residents from predominantly Turkish
and Lebanese backgrounds, while in Suburb 2 the Muslims who recently arrived from Indian subcontinent countries predominate, manyof them “religiously visible”. The visibility refers to wearing traditional Islamic hair and face covering and/or clothing by which a person
can be recognised as Muslim in public. The paper elaborates why our data do not support the starting assumption that the levels ofIslamophobia would be higher in Suburb 2 due to the presence of a large number of visible Muslims.

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Saturday Session III
14:45-16:45 | Shelley Room

Renewable Energy & Environmental Solutions
Session Chair: Syed Monjur Murshed
37877 14:45-15:15 | Shelley RoomThe Role of the 2008 Economic Partnership Agreement on the Development of Renewable Energy Technologies
in Caricom and Oecs States
Alana Malinde S. N. Lancaster, University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Guyana

The member states of CARICOM, and its sister sub-grouping the OECS, are located in the West Indies and are former colonies of European
powers. Guided by means of two similar, but distinct regional trading agreements (RTAs): the 2001 Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas andthe 2011 Revised Treaty of Basseterre respectively; they maintain a key trading relationship with the European Union by means of the 2008
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). As part of the Meso-American and Caribbean biodiversity hotspots, they possess a significant
reservoir of biodiversity and natural resources, which may promote sustainable social, economic and environmental development of
the region. The region's resource base holds the potential to be a market for renewable energy, given a diverse natural endowment inrenewable energy sources: hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, solar and wind potential, and is in consonance with the overriding goalof both unions to develop competitively and sustainably. The EPA could present both Caribbean and European states with a unique
opportunity to establish a competitive Renewable Energy Technology (RET) industry, with the concomitant benefits that accompany
development: job security, rural development, competitive export revenues, and increased tax revenues.This article will examine thepotential implication for the EPA on renewable energy technology in the CARICOM and OECS regions, by positing whether the agreement
could promote or prohibit the embryonic renewable energy industry of the region. Further, it will examine whether the developments within
the sector in the European Union may be utilised positively and beneficially by both regions.
36744 15:15-15:45 | Shelley RoomThe Influence of Skycourt As Part of A Combined Ventilation Strategy in High‐Rise Office Buildings
Saba Alnusairat, Cardiff University, UK
Phil Jones, Cardiff University, UK

Skycourts are recognised nowadays as essential transitional, movement and social interaction spaces in high-rise and mid-rise buildings.
The paper reports on analytical research into the energy saving promising associated with modification of air movement strategy inskycourt zones. Heating and cooling in office buildings devour a high percentage of the overall energy consumption. Nevertheless,ventilation is addressed vastly according to cooling loads without considering its actual influence. The study aims to investigate theskycourt as a ventilated buffer space in high-rise office buildings and explore its impact on reducing energy demand for heating andcooling. Using a theoretical reference model of an office building in London, energy and CFD simulations are carried out over two modes;
an air conditioning skycourt and a ventilated, unheated and uncooled skycourt. Results are compared with respect to energy reduction
besides thermal comfort. Three spatial configurations of skycourt are investigated to define the optimal prototype of the skycourt intemperate climate exemplified by London. Overall, the simulation's results highlight that the incorporation of skycourt as a ventilated
buffer zone reduces the annual heating and cooling demand remarkably. Furthermore, the comparison between the skycourt prototypes
shows a variation in the energy performance of the building and the thermal conditions inside the skycourt.
37911 15:45-16:15 | Shelley RoomJapan with Europe: Where Next for Renewables in Japan?
Caroline Kocel, PwC Japan, Japan

Japan has committed to increase its use of renewables to 24% by 2030 – how can it achieve this target? Can European companies advancing
renewables offer solutions to the energy sector of Japan? This sector may be perceived by those outside of Japan to be relatively closed,
demanding regulations in a market dominated by a few key players, coupled with linguistic and cultural conventions, making market entry
seem highly challenging for foreign companies. However, deregulation is stimulating competition and diversification in Japan's power
markets, while recently set national targets for 2020 and 2030 demonstrate high-level commitment in specific sectors including fuel cells,
high-efficiency lighting and combined heat-power generation. Does the shift to renewables represent a genuine change in Japan's energy
sector and how far does this present opportunities for European companies? What are the barriers for renewable energy in Japan and how
can businesses get around them? This presentation responds to these questions from the business perspective of Japan. With reference toboth English and Japanese literature, the opinions of government, traditional and emerging players, and NGOs in Japan are analyzed.
37905 16:15-16:45 | Shelley Room

Investigating the Energy Performance of Buildings with a 3D City Model and Thermal Simulation: Results fromthe Urban Transition Lab
Syed Monjur Murshed, European Institute for Energy Research, Germany
Amar Abdul-Zahra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Andreas Koch, European Institute for Energy Research, Germany
Jochen Wendel, European Institute for Energy Research, Germany
Kai Mainzer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Beata Sliz-Szkliniarz, European Institute for Energy Research, Germany
Andreas Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Reduction in consumption of non-renewable energy resources at the local level (e.g. district or neighborhood) is one of the effective
manners to support sustainable development. To achieve this goal, engagement of citizens and other actors in the early stage of research
is important. In this regard, the “Urban Transition Lab 131” (R131), which acts as a platform to identify problems and to set goals forsustainable development, was established to engage both the citizens of Karlsruhe through participatory processes and the expertise of
researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Within the framework of R131 and its energy concept topic, at first, energy
performance of the buildings in the Oststadt, a district of the city of Karlsruhe was investigated by using a 3D city model and exploratory
cluster analyses. Second, the heating energy needs of the residential buildings were simulated at different spatial and temporal resolutions.
Finally, as a proof of concept, three scenarios for the reduction of non-renewable energy consumption in a multi-family building and acomparative assessment were performed. The data was collected from multiple sources, e.g. field surveys, interviews with landlords andlocal utility companies as well as expert and literature reviews. This integrated research approach and the results from this project will
help the citizens and local policy makers to identify different options for sustainable energy concepts. Furthermore, this knowledge will
also contribute to the sustainable energy policy agenda in the short and long term, across different districts, cities and regions.

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Saturday Session III
14:45-16:45 | Keats Room

Environmental Sustainability & Human Consumption: Human & Life Sciences
Session Chair: Patricia Prado
37030 14:45-15:15 | Keats RoomThe Design and Development Application for Learning an ASEAN Language on Social Media
Pensri Pukkasenung, Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Thailand

This paper proposes a new method for learning an ASEAN language on social media for Thai students under the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations or ASEAN Declaration for ASEAN Community (ASEAN Political and Security Community – APSC, ASEAN Economic
Community – AEC, ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community – ASCC). The paper addresses the design and development an application fora learning ASEAN language on social media by creating an ASEAN Link application with evaluation of satisfaction and achievementof learning goals. A sample of 100 participants from Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University was selected by purposive sampling. The
experiment was conducted in the second semester of 2016, four days per week, and one hour per day. The test on social network andin the classroom was implemented. The comparison between the students learning by traditional methods and learning by ASEAN link
application was conducted and found that the students who learned by ASEAN Link application can get the better achievement.
37839 15:15-15:45 | Keats RoomDAIAD: Trialing Different Engagement Approaches for Point-Of-Use Feedback on Water Usage Technology
Aaron Burton, Waterwise, UK
Hazel Lewis, Waterwise, UK
Dani Jordan, Waterwise, UK

The DAIAD philosophy is that in order to drive innovation, accelerate the adoption of efficient water use and reuse, and induce sustainablechanges in water consumption at a larger scale, we must empower consumers. The DAIAD programme enables consumers to selfmonitor their water consumption through low-cost sensing technologies, independently from their water provider. The hope is that thisleads to more sustainable water consumption. Bamberg University, The Fraunhofer ISI and The Athena Research Centre are the academic
partners in the DAIAD trial, with Waterwise being one of the three non-academic partners. The DAIAD project has run multiple trials, indifferent countries, with multiple aims: to determine top-down or bottom-up approaches work best in recruiting, retaining and engaging
participants; to gather point-of-use residential water usage information; to test and develop point-of-use monitoring technology; tostudy big-data management in the context of water usage. Waterwise carried out a bottom-up trial in St Albans, United Kingdom, andis now working on partnership style and competition lead approaches in other areas of the United Kingdom. We would like to take thisopportunity to disseminate the findings of our own trial and compare them to the other DAIAD trials. In particular we will focus on thelessons we have learned in communications and engagement strategies. Please note: Whilst many papers have come out of this (or arein the process of being published) this presentation is intended to give an overview of multiple aspects of the project.
37533 15:45-16:15 | Keats Room

The Needs of Sustainability Solid Waste Management in Perhentian Island, Terengganu
Siti Aisyah Saat, University Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Perhentian Island, located in the South China Sea at the northeastern corner of Peninsular Malaysia, has been one of the favorites whose
tourism activities have increased considerably. The large amount of wastes produced by tourists is a difficult problem for small islands
particularly since it is typically generated over a short period, thereby often overloading existing disposal and treatment facilities. The current
practice of hauling the waste to be landfilled on the mainland 21 km away is viewed by many to be uneconomical and is putting unwanted
stress on the fast-shrinking landfill space. The local authority administering the island is now looking for a better way of managing thiswaste. Therefore, protection of the environment from pollution is extremely important on small islands, since aside from other reasonsthat are common to all countries, two important industries, tourism and fisheries, depend on a pristine environment. This paper gives an
overview of the current waste management plans of Perhentian Island in Malaysia and the problems that are being encountered, both bylocal municipal and chalet owners and its effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to investigate the collection system and handlingof solid waste in Perhentian Island. The study outline strategy laid out ways to improve the current waste management plan, such as
focusing and going back to composting and recycling methods, which is seen as more economical and environmental friendly.
37004 16:15-16:45 | Keats Room

Eco-Innovations: Kick-Starting the Circular Economy

Wladmir Motta, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Patricia Prado, University of York, UK
Liz-Rejane Issberner, Brazilian Institute of Information on Science and Technology, Brazil
The generation of goods and services depends on the use of natural resources and generates discards throughout the productive process.
The current economic model based on overproduction and overconsumption caused global warming and the growing depletion of natural
resources. Deteriorating living conditions on the planet made discussions on sustainability and environment become an urgent issue.
Among other actions from different agents, this context requires companies to adopt innovative ways of producing, considering the current
social and environmental demands. Reviewing industrial practices is now a crucial element to disclose the areas where the innovative efforts
must focus. In this sense, circular economy emerges as an alternative to the current linear approach, in which resources are used and thendiscarded. It is a way of (re)organising economic activities through a "resource-production-resource regeneration" feedback vector. The
concept may lead to a new circular production system where there is minimal waste, since all discards would potentially serve as input for a
new productive cycle. The challenge of circular economy is to develop an innovative approach to overcome the current trade-off between ourmodel of economic development and the environmental crisis. In this context, could eco-innovations contribute to build this approach? How
could the implementation of eco-innovative practices by firms change the current linear approach? The present study aims to shed light tothis discussion through a literature review analysing the generation of eco-innovations to stimulate the circular economy.

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Saturday Session III
14:45-16:45 | Coleridge Room

Identity, Human Geography & Population Studies
Session Chair: Uchenna Akpom
37809 14:45-15:15 | Coleridge Room

Insularity and Territoriality Within the Context of the European Union: The Case of the Azores
Veronique Santos, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

It is widely accepted that identities and differences in the European Union are marked by cultural diversity and socioeconomic inequalities.
Within such context of maintaining regional cohesion, islands and ultraperipheral regions play a specific role due to their geographicalconstraints. Defining features of the ultraperipheral regions of the EU include extreme remoteness from the European mainland, limited
natural and human resources and an important degree of economic dependency to external markets (Hudson, 2006; European Commission,2014). As a social process, the European regionalization involve identity trajectories and regional identity building. Therefore, the capacityof discourses and policies of the state and region to regulate and construct identity, combined with local forms of resistance, introduce adialectic relation between two interrelated contexts: a territorial control from above articulated by regional institutions and identification
to the territory from below (Paasi, 2003). Through the case of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal and an ultraperipheral regionof the EU, our proposal examines insularity and territoriality within the context of multiple belongings to various systems of reference andscales. What parallels can we establish between insular identity, processes of deterritorialization in the EU and the imminent Brexit? Suchquestion will hopefully be discussed in our presentation.
37913 15:15-15:45 | Coleridge Room

Where East Meets West: Transnational Cooperation Initiatives and Transcending Identities in the PolishGerman Border Region
Joanna Kepka, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Following the dismantling of communism in Poland in 1989, Polish authorities began to engage in cross-border linkages with
their counterparts in Germany. These sub-state cooperation agreements were formally institutionalized within the “euroregion
framework” and encompass political, economic, socio-cultural, and environmental aspects. Over the first decade of their existence,Euroregions Pomerania, Pro Europa Viadrina, Sprewa-Nysa-Bobr, and Nysa-Neisse-Nisa exited along the European Union's
external boundary. Two significant changes impacting the cooperation occurred in 2004 and 2007 when Poland and the Czech
Republic joined, respectively, the European Union and the Schengen Agreement. As a result of this geo-political re-alignment, theterritories where East once met West ceased to be on the periphery and found themselves at the center of multi-scaled processesof the restructuring of European socio-cultural, political and economic landscapes. This study assesses the quality and intensityof cross-border cooperation initiatives within the aforementioned euroregions, especially with regards to transborder mobility
and transnationalism. The investigation considers whether or not the erasure of a physical border has had any implications ontranscending the mental borders that typically exist within borderland populations.
36919 15:45-16:15 | Coleridge Room

7-Eleven Foreign Workers Exploitation: Is It an Isolated Case or a Systematic Problem in Australia?
Mohammed Al Bhadily, Curtin University, Australia

On August 31, 2015, Four Corners, an investigative TV programme, revealed the widespread exploitation of foreign student workers bymany 7-Eleven convenience stores in Australia. It showed deliberate falsification of employment records, underpayment of entitlements
and long hours of shift work. This is evidently in breach of Australian immigration, employment and taxation laws. Such exploitation isdue to the vulnerability of the foreign student workers, which constitutes of restricted working conditions, temporary visas and lack ofknowledge about their legal rights. However, such vulnerability has also been experienced by others, such as skilled foreign workers andworking holiday maker visa holders. Furthermore, there are allegations that the exploitation is not limited to the practice of 7-Elevenfranchisees, but also extends to foreign workers who have been abused and exploited by other franchisees, such as Dominos and farm
fruit pickers as well. This paper aims to examine whether the exploitation of foreign workers in Australia is a systematic practice thathas been encouraged by the vulnerability of their temporary visa legal status as well as the lack of an active role by relevant governmentorganisations. And, if this is so, then what kind of measures can be taken to protect foreign workers in Australia from exploitation?
35171 16:15-16:45 | Coleridge Room

Gender, Race and Presidential Elections: A County Level Analysis
Uchenna Akpom, University of West Alabama, USA

This study examines the role of gender and race in the determination of the 2016 presidential elections in the United States using county
demographic data from all 50 states. Regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between presidential election results
and demographic characteristics of the counties. The data for this study were obtained from various sources for 50 states that heldpresidential elections in November of 2016. The certified results of elections are published in the websites of most states in the UnitedStates. Additional sources were utilized in a few cases where county-level breakdown of results were not available on the state web site.
The dependent variable for this study is the margin of the winning candidate over the closest candidate in the county. The independent
variables include percentage of female voters, percentage of white voters, percentage of black voters, percentage of Hispanic voters,
median income in the county, unemployment rate in the county, region of the county, percentage of the population that are college
graduates, percentage of the population that are high school graduates, the mean age of the population, and party affiliation of the county.
The variables of interest are race and gender variables. A model incorporating variables reflecting race, gender, socioeconomic status, andparty affiliation within each county is used to test the effects of race and gender on presidential elections in the United States.

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Saturday Session III

14:45-16:45 | Wordsworth Room
Environmental Sustainability & Environmental Management
Session Chair: Apiradee Muangdech
36902 14:45-15:15 | Wordsworth Room

A Framework of Integrating Land Use Impact Assessment Within Life Cycle Assessment for Evaluation of
Sustainable Remediation
Hsin-Pei Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pei-Te Chiueh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Land use impact assessment in current Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method only considers the loss of biodiversity, but land use may cause
impact toward other aspects such as ecosystem services and resource depletion. To assess land use impact more comprehensively, thisstudy developed new characterization model for land use impact on ecosystem services and build a framework to assess the sustainability ofremediation. Soil organic carbon (SOC) changes in soil can be referred as an appropriate indicator for assessing land use impact in LCA, therefore;
SOC indicator was used in the model and characterization factors for six land use types were established. To evaluate the sustainability ofremediation method, economic and social indicators are suggested. By combining the results of the revised LCA and social/economic indicators,
an integrated framework was built. In the case study, different remediation scenarios were inspected: i) no action (NoA), ii) in-situ bioremediation(Bio), iii) excavation and thermal treatment (EXCT). The results indicated that NoA had the highest impacts in land use ecosystem impact
category due to unavailable land occupation. Owing to the using of concrete, more than 50% human health impact was presented in EXCT thanthat in Bio. The Bio option was regarded as a favorable option for reducing overall impacts, especially in reducing GHG emission to 114 ton kg of
CO2-eq. The framework can provide decision makers a reliable suggestion while considering more sustainable remediation alternatives.
36921 15:15-15:45 | Wordsworth Room

Integrating Human Toxicity Potential with Groundwater Transport Model to Support Land Reuse: A Case Studyof Landfill Mining
Li-Hang Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pei-Te Chiueh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Landfill mining has been suggested as a strategy to deal with land occupied and long-term hazardous substance leached. A common way
to evaluate impacts of landfill mining alternatives is life cycle assessment (LCA) methods. However, the exposure route through groundwater
is ignored in current LCA. Groundwater is largely used and raises the possibility of human exposure. Therefore, human health impacts may beunderestimated when assessing landfill mining alternatives. The aim of the study is to establish a method to quantify the impact of groundwaterpollution and compare performance of different landfill mining alternatives. Site geological, meteorological features and groundwater concentration
data monitored were applied to Groundwater Modeling System (GMS). Then, the concentration of simulated results was used to evaluate thehuman toxicity potential, and which was transformed into human toxicity impact score and added in the current LCA. The alternatives were: 1) nomining; 2) landfill mining and reusing; and 3) landfill mining, materials recovery and reusing landfill. The results showed that the third project was
the best alternative which was less 37% of non-carcinogens impact than the first project. The recovery of metal from landfilled waste was foundto have the greatest benefit on global warming impact category. The results of GMS showed that the concentration of pollutants accumulated andthe concentration of ammonia exceeded approximately 7,000 times the groundwater pollution monitoring standards after 64 years. By presenting
results in this way, landfill mining practitioners will acquire more comprehensive alternatives to recover the land resource.
37014 15:45-16:15 | Wordsworth Room

A Community Market As Economic Foundation of Logistics Process Starting Point: A Case Study of Community
Market at Chachoengsao Municipality Stadium
Suchanat Pattanavongngam, Faculty of Management Science, Thailand

A community market is the unique resource of economic rotation in the local community and is still well-accepted by the consumers among
the growth of very big and highly competitive department stores. The study of the community market at Chachoengsao Municipality Stadium
was conducted. The objectives of this study were 1) to study the context of the community market held in the area of Chachoengsao Municipal
Stadium, 2) to study the levels of money spent on merchandise circulating through the community market, 3) to prepare a database regarding
the market's direct effects on the community’s economy, and 4) to study factors influencing the market's strengthening of the community.
The research instruments were interviews with entrepreneurs/merchants and government officers. The data of income from merchandising
was collected from the records of the Market Committee. The research subjects were 203 merchants at the community market in the areaof Chachoengsao Municipal Stadium. The merchants consisted of permanent merchants and the agriculturalists selling organic agricultural
products. The income from merchandising was 50 million baht per year; 40 million baht from permanent merchants of Community EnterpriseMarket, and 10 million baht from agriculturalists selling agricultural products. The selling point to make this community market very popular
is the location in the community, convenient transportation, close to government offices, hospitals, and educational institutes. In addition,
due to the good logistics, the consumers are satisfied with the fresh food and the price is reasonable, compared with the good quality.
37010 16:15-16:45 | Wordsworth Room

Effect of Aloe Vera Gel on Quality and Shelf Life of Mango Fruits Cv. Nam Dok Mai and Technology Dissemination
Apiradee Muangdech, Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Thailand

This study was designed to assess the suitable concentration of natural coating materials, namely, Aloe vera gel to control antracnose of mango(Mangiferaindica L.) fruits cv. Nam Dok Mai taken from Bangkla, Chachoengsao Province. The experiment was to investigate the benefits of thistechnology. It was found that coating with 20% Aloe vera gel gave the longest shelf life with good quality at 12 days at a storage temperature of 25°C
and 75 ±5% relative humidity (p ≤0.05) as well as slowing down the weight loss, changes in peel and pulp color, firmness, texture, quality such asconcentrate by titratable acidity, total soluble solids and respiratory rate significantly compared to control and other treatment (p ≤ 0.05). The useof the coating materials did not alter the quality of the fruit when ripe. Technology dissemination to mango growers of Chachoengsao Co-operatory
Community was performed by using the training created by the researcher. The results of the pre-test and after training post-test showed that
farmers increased their knowledge, attitudes, awareness and skills in the use of the natural coating materials for prolonging shelf life of mangoes.

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Sunday Session I

09:00-10:00 | Shelley Room
Economic Sustainability: Environmental Challenges & Economic Growth
Session Chair: Feroz Mahomed Swalaha
36752 09:00-09:30 | Shelley Room

Mitigation of Carbon Dioxide From Synthetic Flue Gas Using Indigenous Microalgae
Feroz Mahomed Swalaha, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Virthie Bhola, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Carbon sequestration from air using microalgae has the potential to alleviate CO2 emissions from industrial air pollution. A pre-requisite
for this is microalgae that can tolerate the high CO2 discharge concentrations. A highly CO2-tolerant Chlorella sp. was isolated andoptimised for the treatment of flue gas from the cement manufacturing industry. This strain was exposed to a flue gas mixture in a flat
panel photobioreactor after growth optimisation to determine the suitability of the technology for carbon sequestration. Results indicatedthat the Chlorella sp. could propagate in the flue gas constituents (30% CO2) as growth occurred at all batch cycles. Biomass yield,
however, was greatly dependent on culture conditions and the mode of flue gas supply. The maximum biomass (3.415 g/l) and CO2 uptake
rate (0.7971 g/day) was obtained when the strain was grown under optimised nutrient and environmental conditions and intermittently
exposed to the flue gas mixture. Biomass was increased by 37.87% and CO2 uptake was 39.21% higher, when compared to the control run.
CO2 uptake results mirrored the relative electron transport rate (rETR) (photosynthetic rate) and a correlation between the two parameters
was established. However, the peak biomass for uptake was higher than the peak biomass for optimum rETR. Furthermore, rETR peaked
earlier than peak CO2 uptake. This could be due to the fact that biomass had to establish vitality before it showed the ability to efficiently
take up CO2. It was successfully demonstrated that the Chlorella sp. efficiently captured and utilised CO2 from the flue gas.
36336 09:30-10:00 | Shelley Room

A Review of System Dynamics Applications in Sustainable Urban Transportation
Irfan Batur, Qatar Foundation & Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Muammer Koç, Qatar Foundation & Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Towards the end of the twentieth century, ever-increasing pressures for the need of sustainable development have re-shaped our wayof thinking in which sustainability is now widely accepted as a top priority. Most of the economic and social activities are provided via
transportation. Thus, it is of great importance to achieve sustainable transportation for sustainable development, especially from thepoint of energy and carbon dioxide emission reduction. However, transportation systems are complex and involve social, economic andenvironmental aspects which call for employing a holistic approach rather than conventional methods. System dynamics (SD) is such aholistic methodology for studying and managing complex systems in order to make integrated assessments and policy decisions. Whileits conception and early applications have been mainly related to industrial applications (frequently referred to “industrial dynamics”),
it has also been used recently for the analysis of transportation systems. The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility of SD fortransportation-related energy consumption, CO2 emissions, health impacts, and economics by conducting a critical literature review of
SD applications in the urban transportation field. At the end of paper, implications and results of the review are shared as the conclusionin addition to further research areas in the field.

54 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORSunday Session I
09:00-10:30 | Keats RoomInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences
Session Chair: Hung-Chang Liao
37537 09:00-09:30 | Keats Room

What Makes Boards Effective? Moving Beyond Non-Executive Directors' Independence
Princess Bwanya, Northumbria University, UK
Philip Shrives, Northumbria University, UK
Roman Stepanov, Northumbria University, UK

This paper address the question of what makes boards effective by exploring governance attributes that go beyond board
independence. Academic literature has predominantly focused on the independence of non-executive directors in board effectivenessand performance. However, there has been insufficient literature on the capability of non-executive directors in performing their roles
and improving board effectiveness. Having considered evidence from agency and upper echelons theories, we propose that nonexecutive directors' experience and diversity of age are more suitable proxies of board effectiveness. This theoretical paper contributes
to the growing body of corporate governance research on board effectiveness by integrating the two theories with the purpose ofcreating a more holistic theoretical perspective.
37553 09:30-10:00 | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient | Keats Room

Research Strategies for Ethnostatistics in Organization Studies: Towards a Historical Ethnostatistics
Stela Stoycheva, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Giovanni Favero, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

While quantification and performance measurement have proliferated widely in academia and the business world, management andorganisation scholars increasingly agree on the need for a more in-depth focus on the complex dynamics embedded in the construction,
use and effects of quantitative measures. Ethnostatistics, a field of study that explores exactly how metrics are constructed andemployed, is by definition the qualitative study of quantification. Although some valuable contributions employing ethnostatistical
approach to organizational setting have appeared, management and organisation scholars seem to be failing to deliver a proper
ethnography of metrics construction (first-order ethnostatistics) and used instead quasi-historical approaches to reconstruct thehistorical context in which data were produced. While conducting a proper field ethnography of metrics might be extremely rare given
time and access constraints, we argue that the use of organizational histories and archival materials must be done with caution
as they tend to be used for specific organizational purposes in the present being part of a wider organizational rhetoric which canhampers their ability to represent an unbiased view of reality. To address this issue this study aims to i) present practical strategies
for conducing ethnostatistical research in a live organizational setting and ii) discuss how proper historical approaches which focus
on source criticism and contextual reconstruction could overcome the limitations of pure ethnographies. Therefore, it attempts tocontribute to the ethnostatistical field by discussing the intersection between history and ethnography while suggesting strategies fortheir complementary use in organizational and management research.
34176 10:00-10:30 | Keats RoomThe Study of Workflow Management and Simulation Optimization in an Emergency Medical Service System
Jui-Chi Chen, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan
Ya-huei Wang, Chung Shan Medical University, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Hung-Chang Liao, Chung Shan Medical University, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

As people become more civilized and medical technologies become more advanced, the public pay much more attention to their healthand are more willing to pay for their healthcare expenses. Consequently, operational room (OR) procedure management has become more
important. The research data used in this paper was the actual OR patient-processing time of a medical center in central Taiwan. This
paper adopted the real-life patient-processing time as the base and incorporated the actual value and simulation value of each OR index(patient's time spent in the waiting room and the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), average daily number of patients, and OR utilizationrate) as the simulation data. The research findings of this paper showed that optimal configuration did not imply that the configuration
was in a combination of maximized or minimized values alone. In fact, when the waiting time was minimized, the procedure time and the
manpower costs would be decreased and thus the performance would be increased. When the average daily number of patients was at a
maximum, the staff's idle time would be reduced and the performance would be increased. The OR utilization rate and PACU time should
be within the moderate range in order to reach the optimal configuration. The research results showed that in the optimal configuration,
the OR waiting time was reduced to 9.258 minutes, the increase rate of OR utilization was 1.8%, the average daily number of patients wasincreased to 28.5 people, and PACU time was below 160.82 minutes.

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Sunday Session I

09:00-10:30 | Coleridge RoomSocial Sustainability & Sustainable Living
Session Chair: Jonathan Bert McLelland
37832 09:00-09:30 | Coleridge Room

Inconsistent Expectations about Future Travel
Jean Fletcher, University of Otago, New Zealand
Nancy Longnecker, University of Otago, New ZealandJames Higham, University of Otago, New Zealand

The way we travel must change if we are to meet global carbon emission targets proposed by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Unfortunately,
current projections suggest that travel (particularly air travel) will continue to grow. To investigate people's perceptions of future travel,
we ran an exploratory, international online survey (N=401) from February to May 2016. We wanted to see if participants expected travelin the year 2050 to become more environmentally sustainable. We also looked at whether participants discussed other factors that could
end up reinforcing the current high carbon transport systems. Thematic content analysis revealed that more participants discussed
future travel as having transitioned to using lower carbon systems (43%, N=174) compared to those that mentioned travel continuing touse high carbon systems (23%, N=91). On the other hand, more participants also mentioned aspect of future travel that could support
the continuation of high carbon transport systems (55%, N=222) compared to those that who described factors that could reinforce
low carbon transport (30%, N=122). Respondents showed high levels of climate change concern, with 94% stating that they were either“somewhat” or “very concerned” about climate change, suggesting our results are more representative of an interested or attentive publicthan a general public. The conflicting expectations surrounding what travel in the year 2050 will look like illustrates how, despite a desire
to transition away from carbon-based travel, society may still end up locked into these systems.
37053 09:30-10:00 | Coleridge RoomThe Role of Communities in Making Collaboration for Local Sustainable Economies
Nor Harlina Abd Hamid, University of East London, UK

The broader concept of sustainability will specifically bring the local communities towards the transition of economies. A community's
cognitive challenges for sustainability could include understanding and managing the relations between human systems and the naturalenvironment. It has yet to be explored which human attitudes and behavior may help building sustainable communities in line withsocietal values, such as resilience or well-being. The research will yield novel insights from empirical research of UK's local communities.
Its aims to understand sustainability activities that poses how the actors would interact within local communities in different roles anddifferent organisational contexts. The investigated community activities include engagement of firms for society and non-market actors'
engagement in business. This research pursues to build explorative cases from expert interviews that come from decision makers toreveal the effective engagement within communities and other partnership. Actors studied in that local context are multinational firms,
local government authorities and non-market actors such as NGOs, Community-Interest companies, Business Improvement Districts,
and Citizen Association. Based on the case studies, this research demonstrates a few kinds of collaborations that communities haveand how they consider the process of engagement with partnerships through informal or formal procedure. Yet they are promoted toaddress common-interest and sharing beliefs through commitment, legal contract, and agreement. The findings could conceptualize therelationship among the partners in local community's context and would contribute to the knowledge of communities on how communities
facilitate the same goals for environmental sustainability.
37125 10:00-10:30 | Coleridge Room

Recognizing Connectedness: Modeling Sustainability in Teaching It
Jonathan Bert McLelland, The University of Alabama, USA

Inculcating in undergraduate students an understanding of sustainability as an idea, a discipline, and especially as a paradigm is vital to
any twenty-first-century university's mission. The challenges posed by climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource misuse will
be central to work in every field of endeavor. Students in all fields of study should be introduced to the sustainability discourse and taught
to think in terms of systems and connections. This presentation describes a pedagogy that not only introduces the subject, but alsomodels sustainable thinking. The multi-disciplinary body of research produced and the interdisciplinary engagement of it communicatesthe nature of sustainability. Recognizing connectedness, perceiving the multi-layered, interwoven, mutually-supportive systems –geochemical, biophysical, cultural – from which life on earth emerges and by which it is nurtured is the course's most fundamental goal.
The textbook, audiovisual presentations, and the students' own research underline that message. The presence of the other students,
representing diverse fields of study, in humanities, sciences, social sciences, and engineering, reinforces that point. An end-of-term
symposium requires students to share their research with the university community, thereby giving them an active role in promoting
sustainability. The pedagogical format is straightforward and easily replicable. The outcomes are profound, and the diversity of solutions
offered to questions posed mirrors the diversity of the world we seek to sustain.

56 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORSunday Session I

09:00-10:00 | Wordsworth Room
Economic Sustainability: Sustainable Businesses & CSR
Session Chair: Andreas Gruener
37078 09:00-09:30 | Wordsworth RoomThe Effect of Renewable Energy Policies on Corporate Environmental Performance and Disclosure
Aminu Hassan, Abertay University, UK
Reza Kouhy, Abertay University, UK
According to natural capital inventory accounting, sustainable corporations keep stock of natural capital intact for the benefit of
future generation. Stock of natural capital consists of all possible natural resources and the life support framework provided by nature
for the well-being of the planet. Three types of natural capital stock, namely: critical natural resources, non-renewable resources
and renewable resources, could be identified. Consistent with sustainability philosophy, this study argues that companies that makeefforts to keep intact or improve natural capital stock are those who increase the production and consumption of renewable resources
including renewable energy. To complement this sustainable behaviour, corporations are also expected to minimise the production andutilisation of non-renewable resources, especially non-renewable energy. To promote and further enhance this sustainable behaviour,
governments of especially developed countries are increasingly introducing policies in the form of tax credits, subsidies, accelerated
capital allowance, tax holidays, grants, investment credit and many more. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine the influenceof renewable energy policies and incentives on environmental performance of corporations in OECD countries. As the conduct of thisresearch will be mainly empirical, a range of quantitative methods will be employed to measure the main variables of the study. Thus,
content analysis and data envelopment analysis will be used to measure the main variables of the study. Econometrics of crosssection time-series will be employed to estimate and evaluate the effects of various forms of renewable energy policies/incentives onenvironmental performance and disclosure variables.
37796 09:30-10:00 | Wordsworth Room

Effects of CSR Performance and Disclosure on Institutional Ownership
Andreas Gruener, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Daniel Fauser, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

This study investigates correlations and lead-lag relationships between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the institutional
ownership base of North American and European utility companies. The authors use two samples of 105 and 87 mid- to large-cap utility
companies and a multivariate panel data regression, to examine each of the CSR dimensions (environmental, social and governance) forthe period of 2011 to 2015. Additionally, a lead-lag analysis establishes causality between the variables. The study finds that while moresocially responsible utility companies exhibit greater long-term institutional ownership (LIO), higher corporate governance disclosure andperformance is accompanied by less long-term and greater short-term institutional ownership. On the one hand, lead-lag analysis entirely
supports a causal effect of CSR performance on LIO (i.e. the hypothesized causality of this study), indicating that CSR performance indeed
has an effect on long-term institutional ownership. On the other hand, the lead-lag analysis shows a causal effect of LIO on CSR disclosure,indicating that it is rather the long-term institutional investor influencing CSR disclosure of sample firms than the other way around. As
for the short-term horizon, the lead-lag analysis shows a causal effect of CSR performance and disclosure on the short-term institutional
ownership base of sample firms. This study contributes to scientific literature by using a recent and high-quality data set, looking at boththe performance and disclosure dimension of CSR. Furthermore, most prior studies have only looked at simple correlations, neglecting thecausality issue. This study establishes causality between the variables with a lead-lag analysis.

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Sunday Session II

10:45-12:15 | Shelley Room
Renewable Energy & Environmental Solutions
Session Chair: Matthew Emes
36959 10:45-11:15 | Shelley Room

Dilute Sulphuric Acid Hydrolysis of Coconut Coir: Process Optimization for Recovery of Reducing Sugar
Marttin Paulraj Gundupalli, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Debraj Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

India produces 544,300 tons of coconut coir every year and accounts for 50% of the total coir production in the world. Coconut coir is apotential biomass for second-generation bio-ethanol synthesis. The chemical composition of coconut coir includes hemicellulose (20–25%), cellulose (45–50%), lignin (52–55%) and reducing sugar (60–65%). High lignin content in coconut coir causes a hindrance to therecovery of reducing sugar. Therefore, the efficiency of conversion of biomass to reducing sugars depends on the choice of pretreatment
technique employed. The objective of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of dilute sulphuric acid pretreatment method inrecovering reducing sugars from coconut coir. The process was optimized for the maximum recovery of reducing sugar (dependent
variable) considering feedstock (0.02–0.05 g/mL), temperature (160–200 oC); reaction time (40–90 min) and sulphuric acid (0.30–0.80%v/v) as the independent variables. The figures in the brackets indicate the selected ranges within which the independent variables wereoperated. Central Composite Design (CCD), an optimization tool of Response Surface Methodology (RSM), was adopted to optimize
the process. The coir was pretreated in a non-stirred high pressure jacketed reactor (SS 316). The optimal condition for the predictedmaximum recovery of reducing sugar (0.19 g/g) is as follows: feedstock – 0.044 g/mL; temperature – 217 oC; reaction time – 17 mins;
and sulphuric acid 1.01% v/v. The predicted result was later experimentally verified.
37033 11:15-11:45 | Shelley RoomComparing and Evaluating the Kinetics of Mixed Micro-Algal System with Aerobic Bacterial System in Treating
Kitchen Wastewater: Biodiesel Production
Keerthi Katam, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Debraj Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Micro-algae based bio-treatment systems have been successfully used for polishing of domestic wastewater. The objective is tocompare the performances of a mixed micro-algal system with an aerobic bacterial system in treating kitchen wastewater along withthe evaluation of steady state kinetic parameters. For mixed micro-algal systems, lipids content and fatty acid methyl esters (FAME)
analysis were also determined. Each system was operated at 6 different solid retention time (SRT) – 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 days incontinuous mode. The samples were analyzed for chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), andvolatile suspended solids (VSS). Kinetic parameters for organic carbon removal were obtained by fitting experimental data to linearizedMichaelis-Menten and Monod's equation. The mixed micro-algal system showed better performance in the removal of COD and TN (88and 85 %) when compared with COD and TN (89 and 48 %) removal of aerobic bacterial system. The kinetic parameters k, Ks, Y, andkd for the mixed micro-algal system and aerobic bacterial systems were 3.15 d-1, 79.84 mg COD/L, 0.48 mg VSS/mg COD, 0.24 d^(-1)
and 2.90 d-1, 103.18 mg COD/L, 0.48 mg VSS/mg COD, 0.03 d^(-1) respectively. Comparing both systems, mixed micro-algal showeda higher substrate utilization rate and less suspended solids production. Also Lipid yield of 40% with saturated fatty acid yield of 50%
was observed. The study indicates that the mixed micro-algal system is capable of treating kitchen wastewater and has the potential
to replace bacteria-based bio-treatment systems.
36612 11:45-12:15 | Shelley Room

Optimisation of the Size and Cost of Heliostats in a Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Tower Plant
Matthew Emes, University of Adelaide, Australia
Farzin Ghanadi, University of Adelaide, Australia
Maziar Arjomandi, University of Adelaide, Australia
Richard Kelso, University of Adelaide, Australia

Concentrating solar thermal (CST) power tower (PT) is one of the most promising renewable technologies for large-scale electricity
production, however the main limitation of PT systems is their significantly larger levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) relative tobase load energy systems. One opportunity to lower the LCOE is to reduce the capital cost of heliostats through optimisation of
the size and position of heliostat mirrors to withstand maximum wind loads during high-wind conditions when aligned parallel tothe ground in the stow position. Wind tunnel experiments were carried out to measure the forces on thin flat plates of various sizes
at a range of heights in a simulated part-depth atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Both the peak lift coefficient and peak hinge
moment coefficient on the stowed heliostat were highly dependent on the turbulence in the ABL, such as the size of the largest
eddies represented by the integral length scale. Surface pressure distributions indicated the presence of large-scale eddies at theleading edge of the heliostat mirror for consideration of critical failures due to large hinge moments about the elevation axis. Results
showed that both lift forces and hinge moments on a stowed heliostat could be minimised by lowering the elevation axis height toless than half that of the mirror chord length and increasing the chord length of the heliostat mirror to no less than five times smaller
than the longitudinal integral length scales in the ABL.

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10:45-12:15 | Keats Room
Cultural & Media Studies
Session Chair: Yanshu Sun
36719 10:45-11:15 | Keats Room

A Foucauldian and Spatial Reading of He for She Campaign in the World: Negotiating Power Relations inJames Tiptree, Jr's “The Women”
Meriem Hamini, University of Laghouat, Algeria

The present paper aims to examine James Tiptree’s short story “The Women Men Don't See” in the light of Michel Foucault's web ofknowledge concerned with power as well as in accordance with Yi Fu Tuan’s “The Distinction between Place and Space”. The purpose of
the research is to study how negotiating power relations helps the conditions of subject minorities and the drawbacks of evading suchnegotiations. It studies also the impact of space on the psyche of the members of power relationships. In her short story, Tiptree offersa social context where the principles and conceptions linked to a patriarchal society are the acknowledged “truth”, and an interactionof women and men as the two members of a power relation negotiating for freedom and control. The detailed notions of Foucault's
theory are reflected and described in the short story by the means of themes, set of characters and the setting, thus contributing to anunderstanding of the He for She campaign's negative reception from a consequent portion of the world population. The story also enjoys
an emphasis on the space as a shaping environment in regards to the conscious production of borders.
36743 11:15-11:45 | Keats Room

Eastern Broadcasting Code for Western Content
Darshan Ashwin Trivedi, MICA, India

India has the second largest television industry in the world; however, private satellite television in India is as new as 26 years. The
innovations in content has taken a lead in creating engaging programmes for the Indian consumers. India is a diverse television market,
with 29 spoken languages, more than 800 dialects, 175 million television households spread across all regions, various social-religiouseconomic-cultural communities an audio visual medium like television has a large role to play. There have been studies implying potential
impact of television on the minds of viewers. A study was undertaken to evaluate the potential impact of television in India from sociolegal perspective. The content on General Entertainment Television, especially reality shows are formatted from the western markets,
however their cultural adaptation requires serious consideration from the international perspective. Private Satellite Television entered
India through an illegal route. The first laws of television content regulations were brought into force five years after Private Satellite
Television channels started beaming in India. India is suffering from offensive content, not so stringent content code, no provision for
the watershed hours and most importantly profane content during children’s viewing hours. The proposed paper looks at the provisionsof Ofcom Broadcasting Code and compares them with the Indian broadcasting code. The content complained were reviewed for thisresearch, experts from the field of content creation, psychology, psychiatry, social science, journalism and media lawyers were interviewed
to draw conclusions from this interdisciplinary study.
36941 11:45-12:15 | Keats Room

Personality Traits, Parenting Style and Interpersonal Relationship: A Model of Prediction of Internet Addiction
Yanshu Sun, Beijing Normal University & Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China

This study aims to explore the internet use pattern and the possible internet addiction predictors among Chinese young people, such as
personality traits, parenting style and interpersonal relationship. This study used random sampling method, recruited 500 middle school
students and 500 college students in Zhuhai (one special administrative city in South of China), and used self-report questionnaire scales.
The study examines the spiritual element and psychological norms and their impact on internet addiction, and compares the differences
in internet use pattern and motivations between middle school and college students. The findings may have significant effect on youth
research, treatment of internet addiction and new media studies.

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Sunday Session II

10:45-12:15 | Coleridge RoomSocial Sustainability & Sustainable Living
Session Chair: Bushra Zalloom
37016 10:45-11:15 | Coleridge RoomContested Spaces

Carl Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK
The role of civil society is to provide a platform for like-minded individuals to come together to pressurise decision makers in society.
However, strategies to undermine the active civil sector, creates the current situation; where the responsive body of citizens is less active
and effective. The lack of political desire to challenge the cyclic fall-out imbedded within our current mode capitalism; means that citizens
cannot rely on traditional political ideologies or parties to overt this modern phenomena and problematic global outcomes. Thus, therole of alternative practices, particularly that of protest actions which take place in the public realm; are a key arena in challenging the
problems created by global capitalism. These include pressures on workers' rights, manmade environmental concerns (driven by thedesire for perpetual growth) and the role of government, particularly in the role of dissolving of the welfare state and public institutions
such as the NHS. This paper will build on my research which focuses on protest actions which took place in London between 2010 and2013 in the aftermath of the Global Economic Crash of 2007/8. These actions often crystallise embedded social and political problems– and can become a forum that catalyses change. This paper will explore the way in which protest and other oppositional action canbecome a route to more sustained oppositional practices which can become institutionalised and inform the direction or the way in which
we approach contemporary global challenges.
36783 11:15-11:45 | Coleridge RoomCreating Liveable Public Spaces

Bushra Zalloom, University of Zarqa, Jordan
The city and its public spaces should provide the desired setting for everyday urban life. The development of the city should foster
continuation of everyday life for all social classes of the society. The city has gradually been losing its legacy represented through its
architecture, urban space characteristics, and lifestyle. This is due to several reasons such as the lack of appreciation of the culture of thecity, the lack of critical reading on the evolution of the city, and because of ignoring the social part of sustainability in design and decision
making. This paper aims to overcome these challenges and to search and examine how we can create healthy, productive, and enjoyablepublic spaces, First, it defines the meaning of place-making and the logic of livable spaces, then it analyzes some case studies in theWestern and European countries, and finally it provides practical strategies that help in creating livable spaces. This paper confirms thatcreating livable public spaces that suit all users is a very important issue when shaping the future of the sustainable cities.
37915 11:45-12:15 | Coleridge Room

One Home at a Time: Service-Learning and Community Engagement Projects to Promote Sustainable Living
in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Alfredo Fernandez Gonzalez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Las Vegas, also referred to as the entertainment capital of the world, has become over the past 50 years one of the fastest growing
cities in North America. American popular culture and the media have branded this city with an unparalleled reputation of unfetteredoverindulgence and unabated resource consumption. This article delineates the ways in which the UNLV School of Architecture, through its
graduate concentrations in Building Sciences and Design-Build, is transforming the way in which residential buildings are conceived andunderstood in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area. Through multidisciplinary collaboration of its academic units, UNLV informs students on
several aspects of sustainable design and development, environmental responsibility and renewable energy, to in turn help the communityand state capitalize on the abundant renewable energy resources of Nevada. According to the Energy Information Administration, Nevada's
total electricity consumption equates to less than one fifth of the energy potential from solar electricity, wind power and biomass sources.
Through both its research and education programs, students at the UNLV School of Architecture have successfully participated in the US
Department of Energy Solar Decathlon (2013 and 2017) and Race to Zero (2014 and 2015) competitions to produce net-zero site energy
homes through the use of evidence-based design practices. Finally, this paper also discusses overarching principles that guided theseprojects, namely, efficiency in the use of materials and labor; harvesting resources available in Nevada's desert through passive and active
strategies; high quality and comfort of living; and durability of the homes.

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10:45-12:15 | Wordsworth RoomSocial Work
Session Chair: Michele Romanello
36460 10:45-11:15 | Wordsworth RoomSocial Work Ethics Beyond Dichotomies: Dialogical Self Dialogical Social Work
Aslihan Burcu Öztürk, Hacettepe University, Turkey

This paper attempts to explore a new perspective on social work ethics based on the Dialogical Self Theory of Hubert Hermans (2001)
which goes beyond critical perspective of reflexive self. His notion of “extension of self” is reinterpreted to contribute to social work ethics
which has potentials for better understanding of “social” and better practice. A new perspective on social work ethics is discussed in orderto overcome the problem of distinction and hierarchy between social workers, institutions and service users which create discrimination,lack of empathy and unethical practice. Based on the Dialogical Self Theory, extended self can lead to ethical understanding breeding frominside to outside, “I” to “you” and “us” and consequently to community. Self should be understood as an encounter of past and present
positions as well as possible future positions of self. For example a social worker can be refugee in her childhood, face unemployment andbe a service user in nursing home in her old ages. So the self is not one fixed identity. This move from fix identities to more complex ones
which is integrated to each other shows that every person is in fact closely connected with no clear boundaries. The clash of categoricalthinking blurs the distinctions between social worker and service user, powerful and powerless, citizen and migrant, which has great
potential to overcome problems of discrimination, lack of empathy and unethical practice with a different type of dialog between self,
inner self and the other.
37889 11:15-11:45 | Wordsworth RoomTourism Routes and Learning Activities in the King's Projects of Thailand
Wannawee Boonkoum, Silpakorn University, Thailand
Potjana Boonkoum, Pranakhon Rajabhta University, Thailand
Ratchadaporn Ketanon Naewhaengtham, Silpakorn University, Thailand
Jurairat Chimpalee, Pathumthina Vocational Education College, Thailand
Nopporn Chantaranamchoo, Silpakorn University, Thailand

The King’s projects of Thailand are one of the most important strategies for developing the country. The projects have launched in allareas throughout Thailand. Benefits from the projects not only helped people live sufficiently but also led them how to learn and apply theknowledge to their lives. The majority of the projects have become learning centers for communities and turned to be tourism areas forvisitors. The objectives of this preliminary research aimed to study tourism routes and learning activities of the King’s projects in Phetchaburiprovince which located in the middle part of Thailand. The King’s projects, such as Leam Phak Bia Environmental Research and Development
Project, Chung Hua Man Royal Project, and three other projects were studied. The findings of the preliminary study were as follows: 1)
Tourism routes among the five projects were started from Tha-Yang district to Cha-Am district, and it was a one and a half day trip. The
findings also revealed the potential of tourism in terms of tourism resources, available facilities, management, and cooperation of the people
and organizations. 2) Learning activities of the areas were including wastewater treatment, water conservation, mangrove conservation,
growing plants in dry areas, feeding milk cows. The projects also produced a daily farm with organic products and the areas became learning
centers for farmers and visitors. Tourists or visitors can learn and experience the Thai way of living with local people, particularly farmers intheir communities. With a large area for each project, visitors can enjoy the walking and cycling routes around the area. The findings of thisstudy confirmed both of the development from the King’s projects, and the dedication of the late King to his people.
36934 11:45-12:15 | Wordsworth RoomKey Indicators of Time Bank Participation: Using Transaction Data for Evaluation of "Banco De Tempo
Florianópolis"Michele Romanello, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Community currencies are growing worldwide and exist in a variety of forms. One interesting type of local currency is “time”. A time bankoperates like a volunteer organization, with a member registering all member transactions. The principal characteristic of time banking isthat the credit, that every member receives for a good or a service supplied, has the same value – one time credit per hour – regardless oftype or quality of product or service provided. Even though time bank is diffuse worldwide, being also considered by academic researches,
the same diffusion can not be registered in Brazil and, consequently, Brazilian literature about this topic is poor. Therefore, the objective of
this paper is contributing to the literature on this subject, analysing one of the first experiences of time bank developed in Brazil: “Banco deTempo – Florianopolis” (BTF). BTF is a time bank developed and situated in Florianopolis, a city in the southern region of Brazil. BTF wascreated in mid-2016 and in a few months has considerably increased its membership. This paper shows, primarily, some basic indicators
and, secondly, utilizing a social network analysis software packages, presents advanced indicators of time banking participation. The
indicators on BTF indicate an increasing member participation and a beginning of creation of social capital within the group.

Closing Session

12:30-12:45 | Wordsworth Room
Closing remarks from members of the conference Organising Committee.

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Economic Performance of Portuguese Regional Health Administrations Following the European External
Bailout: Trends After Austerity
Ricardo Brito Barros, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

This work aims to discuss the economic performance of Portuguese regional health administrations after leaving the bailout program(May 2014) established by the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2011. Three economic variables (incomes,
expenses and matured debt) are analysed during twenty five months based on analysis of variance (ANOVA),multivariate hierarchic
cluster (HCA) and discriminant analysis (LDA). The variables incomes and expenses show stable trends over the period with ANOVA
results pointing to separation in four groups at the 5% level. A different trend is observed on the variable of matured debt to suppliers
that suffered strong reduction during the bailout period but presents now tendency to increase in two of the four non-equivalent groups
identified in the ANOVA and subsequently confirmed by LDA where the variable becomes significant for classification. A clear distinction
between health regions was attained through LDA either by considering a pre classification in three or four groups with several regions
becoming aggregated. The distinct pattern observed in the high matured debt to suppliers in the region of Lisboa points to inefficientperformance and adjustment is suggested with transferability of good practices namely those of the Norte region that presents incomesand expenses similar to those of Lisboa but much lower matured debt. Threatening tendency towards increasing debt is observed among
the Portuguese National Health System contrasting with the reduction effort done during the adjustment program in detach from the Irish
or Spanish adjustments and resemblance with the less efficient Greek adjustment.
37063

The Libyan-Italian Partnership: Attempts of Innovation in Solving the Migration Crisis
Yesa Ormond, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yasmin Renni, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Italy and Libya hold a close relationship, and the migrations flows across the Mediterranean only deepen it. In August 2008 both countries signed
a Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation. Among other things, it called for deeper cooperation to fight illegal immigration. However,the scenario of potential cooperation changed quite significantly in 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring. In 2011 Libya faced growing waves
of denouncements that questioned the longevity of Muammar Gaddafi's regime and its deep sectarianism. This led to an end his 42-year-old
government and put the country in a civil war situation. The authoritarian resilience was broken in Libya, so was the rigid control of its borders.
Both countries are still looking for a way to deal with Libya's border porosity and Italy’s difficulty to deal properly with those who come looking foraid. Bearing in mind the importance of these events, we should ask: how did the Libyan Spring impact The Treaty on Friendship, Partnership andCooperation between Italy and Libya of 2008? In February 2017, Italy and Libya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperationthat deals, along with other topics, with illegal immigration. The recently signed MoU signals for some negative impacts from the Libyan ArabSpring and civil war on its relations with Italy as well as for the migration flows across the Mediterranean. The methodology used to guide ouranalysis consists of a bibliographic and documentary study, using supporting data and statistics available on official sources.
37591

Bureaucracy of Power-Dependence in Domestic Politics in Japan and Interdependence of International
Relations in the UK, US and EU
Yoshihiro Nagata, Nagoya University, Japan

This paper investigates power-dependence of central-local government relations and interdependence of international relations. The
power-dependence means political dependence in the political networks between central government, bureaucracy, local government
and interest groups in common regime state. On the other hand, the interdependence means comprehensive relationship, from which
zero-sum game is not necessarily derived, between various states with different regimes. This paper investigates two issues basedon these political theories. First, this paper explores degrees of power-dependence among central government, bureaucracy and local
government, focusing on degree of involvement of bureaucracy in Japan. By scrutinizing several cases, I classify degrees of involvementof bureaucracy into three categories; initiative of bureaucracy, initiative of the politicians and initiative of the domestic interest group. I also
discuss conservatism of the bureaucracy in Japan. Second, as for interdependence in the international relations (IR), this paper explores
degree of influence of the domestic interest group to the bureaucracy in the negotiation of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), especiallybetween Japan and the United States and the negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and the EU. In both
negotiations, strong opinions of the interest groups are seen from the conservative agriculture associations in the United States, the EU
and Japan. I consider the reasons why conservative interest groups raise conflict between different Ministries of the bureaucracy groupof a state. This paper also investigates Japan–United Kingdom relations from the viewpoint of degree of involvement of bureaucracy.
37740

Towards Sustainable Buildings Production Through the Lens of Lean Construction Perspectives
Evelyn Lami Ashelo Allu, Central University of Technology Bloemfontein, South Africa

The study proposes the application of the principles of lean construction to the processes that would lead to the producing sustainablebuildings. This is aimed at promoting sustainability in the built environment, because buildings form the greater per cent of the built
environment. Sustainable buildings are the products of sustainable processes of design and construction, while lean construction
manages and adds value to the processes of construction from the conceptions to the delivery of the construction products – buildings.
The study's discourse presents the concepts of lean construction and the novelty it provides to the construction of buildings sustainably.
This theoretical discourse suggests that lean construction has threefold positive impact on the construction sector. Firstly, it guides thedesign conception of buildings. Secondly, it controls the deliverable processes of their construction and thirdly, it improves and allows
for the production of sustainable buildings as against those from the conventional construction processes. These in the overall ensure
the production of sustainable buildings and promote environmental sustainability. Furthermore, the study recommends amongst others
a deliberate reorientation of the construction sector practitioners and encourages the installations of mechanisms that would ensure
the implementation and application of lean construction principle into the processes leading to the production of sustainable buildings.

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The Journey on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Preservation for Improving Community's Welfare: The
Ideas from Pesanggaran Power Generation, Bali, Indonesia
Dewi Permatasari, Environmental Professional – Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy, Indonesia
I. G. A. N. Subawa Putra, PT Indonesia Power UP Bali, Indonesia
I. Wayan Suda, PT Indonesia Power UP Bali, Indonesia

Energy efficiency and environmental sustainability are now becoming the highest priority for Pesanggaran Power Generation, Bali, Indonesia.
Considering that the energy demand has increased exponentially along with environmental degradation, neither local nor global impact,
Pesanggaran Power Generation endeavor certain efforts on minimize waste throughout electricity main process, supporting process, anddomestic activity. This paper mainly discusses the journey on implementing the efforts, consisting of several aspects: a) Environmental
Management System; b) Energy Efficiency; c) Hazardous Waste Management; d) Solid Waste Management; e) Emission Reduction; f) Water
Efficiency; g) Reduction on Wastewater Load; h) Endemic-Biodiversity Protection; and i) Community Empowerment. Several ideas intended
to improve the local community's welfare by conducting environmental issues and economic as a value added to it. Bali itself has its own
uniqueness, due to the usage of resources, mostly taking into account the cultural, the heritage, and the complexity of endemic-biodiversity.
On the other hand, very fast growing activity on tourism required energy demand, as Pesanggaran Power Generation is one of the biggest
companies on electricity generation that has to support the demand. The journey of this paper starts from the people of Pesanggaran Power
Generation together with the local community so all of it will have mutual-integrated sustainability for the future.
37747

Socio-Energy-Environmental Management in West Bali: A Case Study of Gilimanuk Gas-Turbine Power Plant,
Indonesia
Dewi Permatasari, Environmental Professional – Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy, Indonesia
I. G. A. N. Subawa Putra, PT Indonesia Power UP Bali, Indonesia
I. Nyoman Purwakanta, PT Indonesia Power UP Bali – Unit PLTG Gilimanuk, Indonesia

This paper mainly presents about Environmental Management, taking into account energy and societal aspects, of Gilimanuk Gas Turbine
Power Plant (GTPP), West Bali, Indonesia. Currently Gilimanuk GTPP is a stand-by unit for electricity back-up in Java–Madura–Bali(JaMaLi) interconnection grid system. For the last couple years, Gilimanuk GTPP has not been fully operational, which has challenged tomaintain environmental aspects of Gilimanuk GTPP as a beyond compliance initiatives without focusing on profit. Above all the current
situation, Gilimanuk GTPP still requires some natural resources, such as produced water, primary energy (high speed diesel), and fordomestic activity. As for consequences on resource utilization, impact to the environment is a must to reduce. So, this paper proposes
several programs to maintain environmental preservation particularly in West Bali area. The objectives of this paper are to share 3 (three)fundamental efforts on resource conservation: 1) technical innovation for energy efficiency and emission reduction; 2) waste minimization
for water resource and wastewater management, also hazardous and non-hazardous waste responsibility; and 3) sustainable biodiversity
conservation surrounding community development area. Some items has implemented, monitored and evaluated periodically, while otherprograms remained in design and planning which will be applied in the middle to end of 2017.
37819

Aggregate Production and Gases Emissions in Rich Countries: Are the G7 Contributing to Environmental
Air Damage?
Marcos Sena, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Fátima Matos, Institute Superior Miguel Torgan, Portugal
Rafael Mesquita, Federal Institute of Piauí, Brazil
Diego Machado, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil

Due to the importance of the G7 (Group of Seven) countries, and taking into account the current need for nations adhering to environmental
standards, a relevant issue to investigate is if increasing levels of Gross Domestic Production (GDP) are related to increasing levels ofenvironmental damage. This paper aims to analyze this production growth-environmental damage relation, focusing on the G7 countries'
economic and environmental performances in the last four decades (1970–2012/13). Theories on growth-cum-environment, the sustainable
development concept and the environmental Kuznets' curve hypothesis are presented to support the analysis and guide the empirical study.
Cross-country graphical analysis and statistical correlation were the methods used to evidence the relationship between paths of GDP and the
trajectories of gases emissions. The source of the dataset is the World Development Indicators from the World Bank (2016). In general, results
showed that increasing GDP levels in the G7 countries were negatively related to environmental damage, the latter measured by emissions offour types of gases: CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and total greenhouse gases. Exceptions were USA and Japan. USA and Japan's GDP growth
were paired with increasing levels of CO2 and total greenhouses emissions. Three Europeans (Germany, UK and France) seem to be fulfilling theenvironmental Kuznets' curve hypothesis under the evidence of decreasing gases emissions over four decades of intense economic growth.

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Curriculum Model for Innovation and Discovery: Introducing the Arts, Maths, Science, Technology (AMST)
Curriculum Model
Georgia Daleure, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE

Recent literature suggests that educational curriculum worldwide is shifting to focus on science disciplines to the exclusion of arts
disciplines. This trend is exemplified by the adoption of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum
model in a growing number of primary, secondary, and even tertiary institutions perceiving the STEM model as the best way to develop
a problem-based inquiry in the technology-rich, globally-connected twenty-first-century learning environment. While this is aninteresting and valuable approach, innovation and discovery is not confined to developing gadgets. True innovation and discovery must
include the human component. Therefore, this study introduces a broader model integrating the disciplines of Arts, Maths, Science,
and Technology (AMST). Arts disciplines attempt to explain human behavior, values, norms, transitions, conditions, and aspects thatconnect people into a web of humanity, aspects broader than the next technological gadget. This comparison study introduces the
AMST model and compares the core competencies emphasized by the AMST model to the core competencies emphasized by the
STEM model of curriculum development and provides examples of AMST model learning modules. The study illustrates the need to use
multiple methods of problem based inquiry in curriculum development so that students are exposed to a broad base of competencies.
By focusing on specific engineering-based solutions, the STEM model serves to limit student inquiry while problem based inquiry using
the AMST model broadens student inquiry to the larger sphere of humanity.
33563

Theoretical Underpins of Lean Construction for Environmental Sustainability in the Built Environment ofDeveloping Economies
Evelyn Lami Ashelo Allu, University of Jos, Nigeria
Monday Chris Elimisiemon, Kaduna State University, Nigeria

One of the key global concerns for sustainability is to achieve environmental sustainability. According to earlier studies, achieving
environmental sustainability is attainable mainly through sustainable activities in the built environment, particularly in developing
economies where not much has been achieved. Thus, this study robustly reviews the theoretical discourse that underpins Lean
Construction. The potentials Lean Construction (LC) has towards advancing and for achieving environmental sustainability are highlighted
and presented in this study. This is particularly important for the developing countries where construction activities contribute greatly
to their development and economic growth. More so that earlier studies have shown that the construction industry has the capacity
to proffer solutions for environmental sustainability where rightly guided. Furthermore, LC has been noted to be advancement and asustainable strategy over the traditional unsustainable construction processes and practices of the built environment. Additionally, LC
has been acknowledged to manage and guide the processes of building designs, construction and practices, in order to add value andreduce waste in construction activities. The study also suggests areas of future research involving the formulation of a framework to
guide design and construction activities for sustainable development.

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Highlights:
The Past 12
MonthsSince 2009, IAFOR has welcomed university
presidents, faculty deans, award-winningjournalists, national politicians, government
ministers, diplomats, charity leaders, thinktank directors, documentary makers, movie
directors, members of the armed forces,
lawyers, doctors, jurists, artists, poets,
writers, clergy, scientists, philosophers...

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The Asian Conference on Social Sciences 2017 (ACSS2017), The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2017
(ACSEE2017) and The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology (AGen2017), were held in Kobe, Japan, June 8–11, 2017.
Above left: Dr Toshiya Hoshino gives a Keynote Presentation as part of an ACSS2017 Plenary Panel entitled “East Meets West”. Dr Hoshino isProfessor at Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). He is a member of IAFOR’s Board of Directors. Above middle: Professor Haruko
Satoh of Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan, addresses delegates as part of the same ACSS2017
Plenary Panel. Professor Haruko Satoh is a member of IAFOR’s Academic Governing Board. Above right: Professor Michael Anthony C. Vasco,
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, sits on the same Plenary Panel at ACSS2017.
Below left: Director of the NACDA Program on Aging and Vice-President of IAFOR Dr James W. McNally gives a Featured Presentation
on methodologies for the collection of comparative community-level public health data at AGen2017. Below right: Dr Hiroshi Ishida,
Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, sits on an AGen2017 Plenary Panel entitled “Easts
Meets West – Healthy, Active and Beautiful Aging in Asia”.
Bottom left: ACSS2017 Featured Speaker Dr Philip Sugai of Doshisha Business School, Japan, examines the concept of value in marketing. Bottom
right: ACSEE2017 Spotlight Speaker Dr Maxime Jaffré, Assistant Professor in Sociology of Culture at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales and a member of IAFOR’s International Academic Advisory Board, questions whether data science can do without the field survey.

68 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORThe Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2017 (ACCS2017), The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2017 (ACAS2017) and The
International Conference on Japan & Japan Studies (IICJ2017), held June 1–4, 2017, brought together delegates from all over the world to
explore the theme of "Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging".
Above left: Professor Gaurav Desai of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, examines the figure of the migrant in recent Anglophone
fiction from Africa and South Asia in his ACCS2017 Keynote Presentation entitled “Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Migritudeand Planetarity”. Above right: In a Featured Panel Presentation at ACCS2017, Professor Donald E. Hall, Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn
and Professor Emeritus Yasue Arimitsu discuss the challenges of doing Cultural Studies today, exploring the emerging geo-politicalconstraints on their work, as well as their respective national and institutional contexts, and interact with the audience on the topic ofstrategies for individual and collective response to the challenges that we face.
Below left: In his ACAS2017 Featured Presentation entitled “Buddhist Terrorism?”, Dr Brian Victoria of the Oxford Center for Buddhist
Studies examines the long history of those calling themselves Buddhists who engaged in warfare, despite Buddhism’s long-standing
reputation in the West as a religion of peace. Below right: The University of Barcelona’s Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn gives a Spotlight
Presentation at ACCS2017 on the subject of surgeons on eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century female convict transports, often the unsung
heroes of hazardous passages to the Antipodes, discussing the importance of their power at sea and on land, their care of their charges
and how medical improvisation very often saved a patient’s life.

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Above: To ensure that delegates have an especially memorable experience, IAFOR conferences include tours to places of historicand cultural interest, led by experienced tour guides.
Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, features a pathway lined with orange torii, each donated by a Japanese business, that
leads 4 km up the mountain.
Below left: Professor Ted O’Neill of Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Vice-President (at large) of IAFOR, gives a Keynote Presentation
entitled “Change in Japanese Tertiary Education: Implementing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Japan” at
The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 (ACLL2017). Below centre: Featured Speaker Professor Mark Pegrum presents
on moving beyond web 2.0 when designing authentic mobile learning for everyday contexts in Asia at The Asian Conference on
Technology in the Classroom 2017 (ACTC2017). Mark Pegrum is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at The
University of Western Australia, where he specialises in mobile learning and, more broadly, e-learning. Below right: Professor Barbara
Lockee, Associate Director of the School of Education and Associate Director of Educational Research and Outreach at Virginia Tech,
USA, explores the changing landscape for instructional design professionals in educational contexts and their potential to serve aschange agents in the adoption of learning innovations at ACTC2017.

70 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORAbove left: During the annual haiku workshop at The Asian Conference on Literature 2017 (LibrAsia2017), Hana Fujimoto of the
Haiku International Association, Japan, gives a background and history to haiku and invites participants to write their own poems.
Above right: Also at the LibrAsia2017 haiku workshop, Emiko Miyashita, a prominent haiku poet who is also a councillor for the Haiku
International Association, reads world-famous haiku before inviting audience members to compose haiku of their own. In addition
to the yearly haiku workshop, LibrAsia2017 features the IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award Ceremony, at which all award-winning
entries are read out. The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award is an open competition for previously unpublished haiku written in the
English language. The award is for haiku regardless of whether in the traditional or modern style; it transcends haiku divisions andis based only on literary merit.
Below left: Celebrated international pianist and former Fulbright scholar Marusya Nainggolan of the University of Indonesia,
Indonesia, gives a resounding performance at The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2017 (ACAH2017). Marusya Nainggolan
performs music nationally and internationally, as well as teaching European Studies at the University of Indonesia and serving
as a music counsellor for studies on music and health in the Indonesian National Health Department. Below right: At The Asian
Conference on Arts & Humanities 2017 (ACAH2017) Dr Yutaka Mino, Director of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art and the Yokoo
Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, and Honorary Director of the Abeno Harukas Museum of Art, Japan, speaks on “Art andNarrative in the Public Sphere”, examining art as a medium for telling stories and creating narrative, and how curation can be used
to contextualise and situate works of art.
Bottom left: Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in
Paris. As part of a Featured Panel Presentation on “Constructing History” at The Asian Conference on Literature 2017 (LibrAsia2017),
he discusses the importance of the construction of national history in the creation of personal and national identity. Bottom right:
In the same Featured Panel Presentation at The Asian Conference on Literature 2017 (LibrAsia2017), Professor Myles Chilton, amember of the Department of English Language and Literature at Japan’s Nihon University, explores how history shapes our politicaldecisions today, and how we go about building, revising and deconstructing history.

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Above left: In a Featured Panel Presentation on the right to education at The Asian Conference on Education & International
Development (ACEID2017), Osaka University’s Professor Haruko Satoh, Chair of the Politics, Law & International Relations sectionof IAFOR’s International Academic Advisory Board, examines the conference theme, “Educating for Change”, in the context of theconference screening of Among the Believers, and the friction between preserving culture and challenging culture in areas of theworld where education is highly politicised. Above right: At the same conference, Professor Adrian Ziderman, Sir Isaac Wolfson
Professor in Economics and Business Administration at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, gives an interactive Spotlight Workshop on
publication ethics as part of his role as Research Chair and Trustee at the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Below left: Also at ACEID2017 Featured Speaker Jessica Loh gives an engaging presentation entitled “Values for Global Citizenship:
Fostering Innovation and Access with the Higher Education Context”. Jessica Loh is Director of Outreach at the Institute ofInternational Education, Thailand. Below middle: Professor Hiroshi Nittono, Full Professor of Experimental Psychology at theGraduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan, gives a Keynote Presentation on the psychology of Japanese “kawaii”
culture at The Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 2017 (ACP2017). Below right: ACP2017 Featured Speaker
Professor Ronald Mellado Miller of Brigham Young University – Hawaii, USA, presents on “A Poverty of Hope: Towards a Psychologyof Humanitarian Success”, discussing how programmes and implementations can meet both physical and psychological needs andhow taking into account psychology can enhance humanitarian success and achieve far more than simply extending life.
Bottom left: In a Featured Panel Presentation at The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2017 (ACERP2017), Professor
Koji Higashikawa of Kanazawa University, Japan, engages the audience on the subject of free speech and hate speech in the context
of the conference theme, “History, Story, Narrative”. Bottom middle: In the same ACERP2017 Featured Panel Presentation, Shiki
Tomimasu discusses the important ethical issues surrounding Japan’s recent Hate Speech legislation, drawing on his experience at
Kanagawa Law Office, Japan. Bottom right: In a Featured Panel Presentation entitled “Perspectives on Natural Religion” Professor
Thomas Brian Mooney of Charles Darwin University, Australia, discusses key commonalities in the theory and practice of Natural
Religion at ACERP2017.

72 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORThe IAFOR Dubai Conference Series was held in February 2017 at the The InterContinental Festival City Event Centre in Dubai, UAE.
This interdisciplinary event considered the joint themes of “Educating for Change” and “East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery”.
Top left: Professor Donald E. Hall, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA, gives a compelling Keynote
Presentation at The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Dubai 2017 (IICEDubai2017) on “Interdisciplinary Education
for Innovation and Change”. Professor Hall is Vice-President of IAFOR. Top right: IICEDubai2017 Keynote Speaker Professor
Christina Gitsaki of Zayed University, UAE, addresses delegates on the topic of “Education: A Supertanker in an Ocean of Change
and Innovation”, discussing change in education from a number of different perspectives, at The IAFOR International Conference on
Education – Dubai 2017 (IICEDubai2017).
Below left: In a Featured Presentation at The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Dubai 2017, Dr Fadi Aloul speaks onbringing education to schools and universities to help create future innovators. Dr Fadi Aloul is Professor and Department Headof Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of the HP Institute at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. Belowright: As a Featured Speaker at the same conference, Dr Sufian Abu-Rmaileh of UAE University, UAE, presents on “Leadership Skills& Styles for Successful Administrators”. Dr Abu-Rmaileh is President of TA Toastmasters and former President of TESOL Arabia.
Bottom left: In a lively Featured Presentation at The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences – Dubai 2017, Dr
Virginia Bodolica, American University of Sharjah, UAE, discusses “Managing for Innovation and Sustainability: Lessons from theGulf Region”, illustrating the recent accomplishments of several Gulf-based nations in espousing the principles of the knowledgebased economy and delineating strategic priorities for attaining sustainable development goals. Bottom right: Dr Christine Coombeof Dubai Men’s College, UAE, gives a Featured Presentation as part of The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Dubai
2017 on educators’ productivity, sharing the results of a research project investigating how the most productive TESOLers “fit it allin” and attain the ever-elusive work-life balance.

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In January 2017, The IAFOR Hawaii Conference Series 2017 was held at The Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, as
two consecutive events on the themes of “East Meets West: Innovation and Discovery” and “Educating for Change”.
Top left: Professor William G. Staples of the University of Kansas, USA, speaks on “Everyday Surveillance: A Case Study ofStudent Information Systems” at The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences – Hawaii 2017 (IICSSHawaii2017).
Professor Staples is well known internationally for his work in the areas of social control and surveillance. Top right: In her Keynote
Presentation at The IAFOR International Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment – Hawaii 2017 (IICSEEHawaii2017),
Dr Jaimey Hamilton Faris of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, introduces the audience to the concept of “liquid archives”. Her
academic writing focuses on issues of global trade networks and systems, environmentalism and sustainability in contemporaryart, especially in the Asia-Pacific context.
Below left: Featured Presenter Donna McIntire-Byrd discusses eco-diplomacy and water conservation at The IAFOR International
Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment – Hawaii 2017 (IICSEEHawaii2017). Donna McIntire-Byrd serves as Chiefof the Energy & Sustainable Design Unit for the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. Below right: In a
Keynote Presentation, Dr Linda Furuto of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, addresses the audience at The IAFOR International
Conference on Education – Hawaii 2017 (IICEHawaii2017) on the topic of “Pacific Ethnomathematics: Navigating Ancient Wisdom
and Modern Connections”.
Bottom left: Professor Curtis Ho of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, sits on a Featured Panel that explored how we educate forpositive change, striking a balance between the need to challenge while also respect and preserve local and indigenous cultures andtheir languages, at The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2017 (IICEHawaii2017). Bottom right: In a Featured
Presentation at The IAFOR International Conference on Technology in the Classroom – Hawaii 2017 (IICTCHawaii2017), Dr Kristin
Palmer discusses the use of open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Dr Kristin Palmer is the
Director of Online Learning Programs at the University of Virginia, USA.

74 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORAbove: Aunty Kehaulani Lum and Uncle Bruce Keaulani of the Living Life Source Foundation, Hawaii, demonstrate a traditional
Hawaiian greeting at IICEHawaii2017.
Below left: Distinguished psychologist Professor Michael B. Salzman of the University of Hawaii at Manoa speaks as part ofa Featured Panel on “Aloha as a Way of Being: Hawaiian Perspectives on Learning” at The IAFOR International Conference on
Education – Hawaii 2017 (IICEHawaii2017). Below right: Dr Xu Di, also of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, addresses the audienceas part of the same IICEHawaii2017 Featured Panel. Dr Di’s recent publications focus on bridging Eastern and Western philosophy
for educational practices.
Bottom left: Professor Ken Urano, Featured Speaker at The IAFOR International Conference on Language Learning – Hawaii 2017
(IICLLHawaii2017), presents on the topic of “Developing and Implementing an English for Specific Purposes Syllabus for Business
Majors in Japan”. Professor Urano is a member of the Faculty of Business Administration, Hokkai-Gakuen University, in Sapporo,
Japan, where he mainly teaches English to business students. Bottom right: In a Featured Presentation on statistics in the cognitive/
risk era, award-winning research scientist and innovator Dr Nathaniel Newlands of the University of Victoria, Canada, discusses theincreasingly critical role statistics plays in unravelling the complexity of our world at The IAFOR International Conference on theSocial Sciences – Hawaii 2017 (IICSSHawaii2017).

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The Asia-Pacific Conference on Security and International Relations 2016 (APSec2016) brought together a range of academics,
policymakers and practitioners to discuss the evolving issues in security and international relations in the Asia-Pacific, a volatileregion in which states and peoples fight for power, influence, resources and basic human rights.
Above left: Ambassador Yukio Satoh gives his Keynote Presentation entitled “Shifting Strategic Balance and Asian Security” at
APSec2016. Former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations and former ambassador of Japan to Australia and theNetherlands, Yukio Satoh is now based at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan. Above right: Current President of the
Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies,
Ewha Womans University, South Korea, Professor Brendan Howe welcomes delegates to APSec2016, held jointly with APISA’s tenthannual congress in Osaka, Japan.
Below left: In a Keynote Presentation at APSec2016, Professor Jun Arima, based at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Universityof Tokyo, Japan, speaks on Asia’s energy outlook. Professor Arima was Director General of the Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO), London, UK, and Special Advisor on Global Environmental Affairs for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in
Japan from 2011 to 2015. Below right: Keynote Speaker Xingzui Wang, Executive Vice-President of the China Foundation for Poverty
Alleviation, addresses delegates at the Plenary Session of APSec2016 on fighting poverty in China.

76 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORAbove left: Did news coverage create the man or did the man create the news coverage? Professor Gary Swanson discusses therise of Donald Trump at at The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2016 (MediAsia2016). Professor Swanson hasreceived more than 75 awards for broadcast excellence including three EMMYs. Above middle: Grand Prize Winner of the IAFOR
Documentary Film Award 2016, PLACEBO: ALT. RUSSIA – a documentary which explores the alternative cultures that are present
within Russia’s major cities, directed by Charlie Targett-Adams and announced at The Asian Conference on Film & Documentary 2016
(FilmAsia2016) in Kobe, Japan. IAFOR is proud to support the IAFOR Documentary Film Award, a global competition celebrating thebest in documentary filmmaking. Documentary has a rich history of exposing truths, telling stories, raising awareness and creating
discussion – all practices valued at IAFOR. Above right: Professor Richard Roth of Northwestern University’s Medill School of
Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications delivers his Keynote Presentation on contemporary issues in journalism
at MediAsia2016.
Below: The International Academic Forum is proud to be based in Japan, and we organise a number of events throughout the yearthat showcase the best of Japanese culture, ranging from the raw power of the taiko drums to the understated beauty of the tea
ceremony, from martial arts demonstrations by world class masters to hands-on calligraphy workshops by university clubs andhaiku workshops by leading poets. Built into our conference programmes, this range of activities gives delegates a taste of Japan’srich and unique culture.

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Above left: Addressing delegates at The Asian Conference on Education 2016 (ACE2016), Dr Peter McCagg gives a Keynote Presentation
entitled “International Liberal Arts: Meeting Japan’s Higher Education Needs in the Global and Digital Era”. In his talk he identified
dimensions of the university experience in Japan that can and need to be strengthened in order to create coherence and integrity instudents’ intellectual experiences. Dr McCagg is the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Akita International University, Japan. Aboveright: In her Keynote Presentation, Professor Insung Jung of the International Christian University, Japan, examines the ways MOOCs arebeing used by individual learners and university systems, and their impact on access, quality and cost in higher education, at The Asian
Conference on Society, Education and Technology 2016 (ACSET2016).
Below: Professor Grant Black (below top left), Vice-President of The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), chairs a Featured Symposium
entitled “The Globalisation Process for University Education in Japan” at The Asian Conference on Education 2016 (ACE2016) in Kobe,
Japan. Professor Grant Black is an associate professor in the program for Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, and an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty of Commerce at Chuo University, Japan. The symposium aimed
to integrate education theory and research with the context of long-term social processes in order to address policy reform and structuralchange in Japanese universities, and contributors included Dr Fumiko Kurihara of Chuo University (below top middle), Dr Maria Gabriela
Schmidt of the University of Tsukuba (below top right), Dr Yasuo Nakatani of Hosei University (below bottom left), Dr Yukiko Mishina of the
University of Tokyo, Japan (below center middle) and Dr Reiko Yamada of Doshisha University (below bottom right), all based in Japan.

78 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORAbove left: At The IAFOR International Conference on the City 2016 (City2016), renowned critic and theorist Professor Bill Ashcroft of
the University of New South Wales, Australia, gives a Keynote Presentation on the concept of the Transnation. Above centre: Alonso
Carnicer, a news reporter at TV3, the Catalan Television channel, and Keynote Speaker at City2016, discusses his Catalan Television
documentary, Shanty Towns, the Forgotten City, which tells the story of impoverished settlements in Barcelona. Above right: Novelist,
playwright and poet Gloria Montero, Global2016 Featured Speaker, delivers a talk entitled “Filling in the Lonely, Empty Places” at The
IAFOR International Conference on Global Studies 2016 (Global2016).
Below: An image from the series Life After Injury by Ukrainian photojournalist Alexey Furman, Grand Prize Winner of the 2016 IAFOR
Documentary Photography Award. “With this project I would like to raise awareness on a growing number of war veterans in Ukraine.”
Winners were announced at The European Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2016 (EuroMedia2016) in Brighton, England. As
an organisation, IAFOR’s mission is to promote international exchange, facilitate intercultural awareness, encourage interdisciplinary
discussion, and generate and share new knowledge. In keeping with this mission, in appreciation of the great value of photography
as a medium that can be shared across borders of language, culture and nation, and to influence and inform our academic work andprogrammes, the IAFOR Documentary Photography Award was launched as a competition that would help underline the importanceof the organisation’s aims, and would promote and recognise best practice and excellence. In support of up-and-coming talent, the
IAFOR Documentary Photography Award is free to enter. For more information about the award please visit: www.iaforphotoaward.org.

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OCTOBER 19–22, 2017 | KOBE, JAPAN

Conference Theme: Educating for Change
Final Abstract Submission Deadline: August 7, 2017
Final Registration Deadline: September 7, 2017

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Join IAFOR at ACE2017 to:– Present to a global audience– Have your work published in the Conference Proceedings and considered
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Reviewers
ECSS2017

Review Committee
Dr Oluwakemi Akintan
Ekiti State University, Nigeria
Dr Maria Faina Diola
University of the Philippines Diliman, The
Philippines
Dr Veera Gupta
National University of Educational Planning and
Administration, India

Dr Abiodun Oluwadare
National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Professor Mohd Rizal Mohd Yaakop
National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr Halina Sendera Mohd Yakin
University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

Senior Reviewers
Dr Uchenna Akpom
The University of West Alabama, USA
Dr Mohammed Al Bhadily
Curtin University, Australia
Professor Uzma Ali
Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of
Karachi, Pakistan
Dr Ricardo Brito Barros
Universidade Europeia, Portugal
Dr Aslihan Burcu Öztürk
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Professor Hung-Chang Chiu
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Dr Dai
Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Dr Tarek Djeddi
High National School of Statistics and Applied
Economics, Algeria
Dr Carl Fraser
Coventry University, UK
Professor Yi-Ching Hsieh
National Central University, Taiwan
Dr Luay Jum'a
German Jordanian University, Jordan

Dr Joanna Kepka
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Professor Nick Kontogeorgopoulos
University of Puget Sound, USA
Dr Yuqi Li
China University of Geosciences, China
Professor Hung-Chang Liao
Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan
José Batista Loureiro De Oliveira
IUPERJ-UCAM, Brazil
Dr Janaina Piana
Federal University of Technology – Paraná(UTFPR), Brazil
Dr Zoheir Tafer
University of Bechar, Algeria
Professor Ya-Huei Wang
Chung-Shan Medical University, Taiwan
Dr Bushra Zalloom
Zarqa University, Jordan
Dr Yanshuang Zhang
UQ, Australia

Reviewers
Dr Mahdi Dahmardeh
The University of Tehran, Iran
Dr Selay Ilgaz Sumer
Baskent University, Turkey
Dr Addmore Muruviwa
University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Dr Ghulam Mustafa
Federal Urdu University, Pakistan
Professor Brent Shea
Sweet Briar College, USA

82 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFORDr Sutti Sooampon
King Mongkut Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang, Thailand
Professor Mustafa Taha
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Dr Chia Wei Tang
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Professor Yi-Jung Wu
Shih Hsin University, Taiwan

Reviewers
ECSEE2017

Review Committee
Dr Elżbieta Antczak
University of Lodz, Poland
Dr Mohamad Awang
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Dr Evelyn Lami Ashelo Allu
University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Dr Serdar Celik
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA

Dr Davidson Egirani
Niger Delta University, Nigeria
Professor Jose Miguel Soares
ISEG–University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr Sonali Narang
Panjab University, India

Senior Reviewers
Dr Evelyn Lami Ashelo Allu
University of Jos, Nigeria
Dr Patricia Blazey
Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Yu-Chan Chiu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dr Yee Keong Choy
Keio University, Japan
Professor André Francisco Pilon
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Dr Safaa Ghoneim
Cairo University, Egypt
Dr Ibrahim M. Magami
Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria
Professor Feroz Mahomed Swalaha
Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Dr Syed Monjur Murshed
European Institute for Energy Research,
Germany
Dr Sonali Narang
Panjab University, India
Dr Olugbenga Oluwagbemi
Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria
Dr Timothy Seyi Odeyale
Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Dr Abhay Shankar Prasad
University of Delhi, India
Dr Bushra Zalloom
Zarqa University, Jordan

Reviewers
Dr Siti Aisyah Saat
University Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Dr Elizabeth EterighoFederal University of Technology, Nigeria
Professor Ayten Genc
Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey
Dr Maha Harbaoui Zrelli
Sesame University, Tunisia
Dr Prashanthi Jonnakuti
Ethiopian Civil Service University, Ethiopia
Dr Ling-Chin Ko
Kun Shan University, Taiwan
Maria Maya Lestari
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

Dr Patricia Levy
Fort Hays State University, USA
Dr Tu Anh Nguyen
Osaka Prefecture University, JapanDr Patricia Prado
University of York, UK
Dr Dan Shen
University of Portsmouth, UK
Professor Ming Sheng Ko
National Taipei University of Technology,
TaiwanDr Gianluca Trotta
University of Vaasa, Finland

Thank You
Our academic events would not be what they are without a commitment to ensuring that international
norms of peer review are observed for our presentation abstracts. With thousands of abstracts submitted
each year for presentation at our conferences, IAFOR relies on academics around the world to ensure afair and timely peer review process in keeping with established international norms of double-blind peer
review. We are grateful for the time, effort and expertise donated by all our contributors.
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A-Z Index of Presenters
Abbar, Mohammed			p. 42
Tahri Mohamed University, Algeria
Abd Hamid, Nor Harlina		p. 56
University of East London, UK
Akpom, Uchenna			p. 50
The University of West Alabama, USA
Al Bhadily, Mohammed		
p. 50
Curtin University, Australia
Alhajri, Muhammad			p. 40
Saudi Aramco Oil Company,
Saudi Arabia
Allu, Evelyn Lami Ashelo		p. 64
University of Jos, Nigeria
Allu, Evelyn Lami Ashelo		p. 66
University of Jos, Nigeria
Alnusairat, Saba			
p. 48
Cardiff University, UK
Ahmed, Rashid			p. 47
University of the Western Cape,South Africa
Baskaran, Ramiya			p. 36
Indian Institute of Technology, India
Bastos, Alexis				p. 36
Paraná Federal University, Brazil
Batur, Irfan				p. 54
Qatar Foundation & Hamad Bin
Khalifa University, Qatar
Bhattacharyya, Debraj		
p. 58
Indian Institute of Technology, India
Bhattacharyya, Debraj		
p. 58
Indian Institute of Technology, India
Blazey, Patricia			
p. 44
Macquarie University, Australia
Boonkoum, Wannawee		
p. 61
ilpakorn University, Thailand
Brito Barros, Ricardo			p. 64
Universidade Europeia, Portugal
Bwanya, Princess			
p. 55
Northumbria University, UK
Carroquino Oñate, Javier		p. 36
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Chen, Hsin Pei				p. 51
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chiu, Hung-Chang			p. 46
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Choy, Yee Keong			
p. 41
Keio University, Japan
Colic-Peisker, Val			
p. 47
Royal Melbourne Instituteof Technology, Australia
Dai, Hong-Xia				p. 42
Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Daleure, Georgia			
p. 66
Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Dasanayake, Christine		p. 45
University of Southern Denmark,84 | IAFOR.ORG | ECSS/ECSEE2017 | #IAFOR

Denmark
Dasanayake, Ranahansa		
p. 45
Trier University of Applied
Sciences, Germany
Eissa, Raghdaa			p. 41
The American University
in Cairo, Egypt
Emes, Matthew			
p. 58
University of Adelaide, Australia
Fauser, Daniel				p. 57
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fernandez Gonzalez, Alfredo		p. 60
University of Nevada, USA
Fletcher, Jean				p. 56
University of Otago, New Zealand
Fraser, Carl				p. 60
Coventry University, UK
Genc, Ayten				p. 45
Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey
Gruener, Andreas			
p. 57
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Gyura, Gabor				p. 44
University of Pécs, Hungary
Hamini, Meriem			p. 59
Amar Telidji University, Algeria
Hassan, Aminu			p. 57
Abertay University, UK
Hope, Ashiabor			
p. 44
Macquarie University, Australia
Hsieh, Yi-Ching			p. 46
National Central University, Taiwan
Jum'a, Luay				p. 46
German Jordanian University, Jordan
K, Devi					p. 40
Indian Institute of Technolgy, India
Kepka, Joanna			p. 50
University of Nevada, USA
Ketanon Naewhaengtham, Ratchdaporn p. 61
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Ko, Ming Sheng			p. 37
National Taipei Universityof Technology, Taiwan
Kocel, Caroline			p. 48
Sophia University, Japan
Kouhy, Reza				p. 57
Abertay University, UK
Lancaster, Alana			
p. 48
University of the West Indies,
Barbados
Levy, Patricia				p. 42
Fort Hays State University, USA
Lewis, Hazel				p. 49
Waterwise, UK
Lin, Li-Hang				p. 51
Graduate Institute of Environmental
Engineering, Taiwan

A-Z Index of Presenters
Mak, Cheuk Ming			
p. 37
The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong
McLelland, Jonathan			
p. 56
The University of Alabama, USA
Mesquita, Rafael Fernandes		p. 65
Federal Institute of Piauí, Brazil
Muangdech, Apiradee			p. 51
Ratchapat Ratchanakarin
University, Thailand
Murshed, Syed Monjur		
p. 48
European Institute for Energy
Research, Germany
Nagata, Yoshihiro			p. 64
Nagoya University, Japan
Neelapaijit, Napasorn			p. 38
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Ormond, Yesa				p. 64
Rio de Janeiro State University, BrazilÖztürk, Aslihan Burcu			
p. 61
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Patt, Suchanat			p. 51
Rajabhat Rajanagarindra
University, Thailand
Prado, Patricia			p. 49
University of York, UK
Pukkasenung, Pensri			p. 49
Rajabhat Rajanagarindra
University, Thailand
Purwakanta, I Nyoman		
p. 65
PT Indonesia Power UP Bali,
Indonesia
Radhakrishnan, Ben			p. 40
National Univerisity, USA
Renni, Yasmin				p. 64
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Romanello, Michele			p. 61
Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina, Brazil
Saat, Siti Aisyah			
p. 49
University Malaysia Terengganu,
Malaysia
Santos, Veronique			p. 50
Université du Québec à Montréal,
CanadaSoares, Jose Miguel			p. 37
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Soares, Jose Miguel			p. 37
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Sooampon, Sutti			p. 36
King Mongkut Institute ofTechnology-Ladkrabang, Thailand
Stoycheva, Stela			p. 55
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Subawa Putra, Ir. Igan		p. 65

PT Indonesia Power UP Bali, Indonesia
Sun, Yanshu				p. 59
United International College, China
Swalaha, Feroz Mahomed		
p. 54
Durban University of Technology,
South Africa
Tafer, Zoheir				p. 42
University of Bechar, Algeria
Taha, Mustafa				p. 47
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Tang, Chia Wei			p. 43
National Sun Yat-sen University,
TaiwanTrivedi, Darshan			
p. 59
MICA, India
Trotta, Gianluca			p. 40
University of Vaasa, Finland
Valente Junior, Luiz Carlos		p. 38Federal University of Santa
Catarina, Brazil
Verma, Deepika			
p. 42
Indian Institute ofManagement-Calcutta, India
Wang, Ya-Huei			p. 43
Chung-Shan Medical University,
TaiwanWang, Ya-Huei			p. 55
Chung-Shan Medical University,
TaiwanWatkins, Los				p. 43
Middlesex University, UK
You, Peipei				p. 38
State Grid Energy ResearchInstitute, China
Zalloom, Bushra			p. 60
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