InterSol 2020 - Fourth edition of the conference (InterSol2020)

Today, there is a consensus that complex social-ecological challenges require solutions that are not amenable to separate single-discipline investigation, but require collaboration between many types of traditional disciplines. There is a need for more transdisciplinary practice: where research has a real world impact. This is the essence behind Interdisciplinary Solutions (InterSol); an international conference dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary researches that address people’s needs in underserved areas. It is intended to (1) encourage innovative interdisciplinary research, development and education that focus on solving problems in underserved areas in Africa and beyond, and (2) create an international research and development community around “interdisciplinary solutions”, which meets annually, publish in international forca, and incentivize members of the community to initiate interdisciplinary research projects that address needs.
The fourth edition of the conference (InterSol2020) will be held on March 8-9, 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya. This conference calls for rigorous interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary solutions. The purpose is to highlight the strong voices of African social, natural, and physical scientists. Questions range from the impacts of infrastructure developments, to what is the current state of climate change disaster risk preparedness, and how is this evidence base translated into decision-making processes that result in flourishing biodiversity, and prosperous, meaningful livelihoods.
Welcome to the EAI Community
Let the EAI Community help you build your career with collaborative research, objective evaluation, and fair recognition:
Get more visibility for your paper and receive a fair review with Community Review,
Earn credits regardless of your paper’s acceptance and increase your EAI Index for new membership ranks and global recognition,
Find out if your research resonates – get real-time evaluation of your presentation on-site via EAI’s Mobile Compass.
Topics
The works that will be presented at this year’s conference will focus on the following topics:
Building disaster resilience to extreme events: translating the local to global
Land use transitions and spatial modelling
Scenarios, complex systems thinking, and muti-criteria decision analayis
Human health and pollution in the total environment
Nature-based and ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change
Ecological infrastructure, green and blue spaces and ecosystem services
Environmental justice and role of civil society making resilience equitable
Balancing development and conservation agendas
The role of Artificial Intelligence in solving Africa’s grand challenges
Challenges and opportunities to curving career attrition of African women in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics)
Environmental migration, gender and the food-water-energy nexus
Innovations in adapting to water scarcity and abundance
ICT and innovative connectivity as enabler for sustainable development
We invite unpublished contributions and innovations that address these issues via an interdisciplinary approach to research for development, and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the African Union Agenda 2063. To broaden our forms of participation we allow different submission types and involving local communities, governmental and non-governmental organizations, industry practitioners, African Institutions of Higher Education, Science and Technology. A high-level panel discussion will be centered on these themes.