16th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference 2025, 24-26 June, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal

Tensions and Trade - Offs in Structural Changes for Sustainability Transitions

We are pleased to announce the 16th annual International Sustainability Transitions conference (IST’25) organized by the DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory. This year’s theme “Tensions and Trade-Offs in Structural Changes for Sustainability Transitions,” invites critical debates on navigating the complexities and contradictions of sustainability transitions.
We are pleased to announce the 16th annual International Sustainability Transitions conference (IST’25) organized by the DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory. This year’s theme “Tensions and Trade-Offs in Structural Changes for Sustainability Transitions,” invites critical debates on navigating the complexities and contradictions of sustainability transitions.

The IST conference is the flagship event for the international transitions research community, hosted each year by various partners on behalf of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN). STRN connects nearly two thousand researchers from diverse fields worldwide, contributing over half a thousand publications annually to leading journals. The conference draws more than 500 researchers from over 30 countries across all inhabited continents, fostering debate on cutting-edge research that explores pathways for successful sustainability transitions through co-evolutionary changes and innovations within socio-technical systems.

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