4th International Conference

The Fourth

International Conference on Regenerative Ecosystems (ICRE 2025)

4th – 6th December 2025

Hosted by

XIM University, Bhubaneswar

Organized by

AIESS Consortium for Regenerativeness

AIESS Consortium Board:

  • Antony R. Uvari, SJ, Vice Chancellor, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Ram Kumar Kakani, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, India
  • Anup K. Dash, President NISWASS, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Prajapati Trivedi, Commonwealth Secretary General’s Special Envoy for SDG Implementation, & Professor, MDI, Gurgaon
  • Umakanta Dash, Director, Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India
  • N. C. Narayanan, Professor and Head, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, India
  • Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur, India
  • John Varghese, Principal, St Stephen’s College, Delhi, India
  • Tina M. Facca-Miess, Asso. Prof., Boler College of Business, John Carroll University, USA
  • Hema Yadav, Director, VAMNICOM, Pune, India
  • Barbara Morris, President, Prescott College, USA
  • Amar KJR Nayak, Professor & Chairperson-AIESS, Xavier Institute of Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India

Conference Convenors:

  • Shishir Kumar Jha, Professor, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, India
  • Pavel Cenkl, Dean of Academic Affairs, Prescott College, USA & Founder & Director, Regenerative Learning Network, USA
  • Rajeev A, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, India
  • Sumita Sindhi, Faculty, Sustainability, CSR & Ethics, Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur, India
  • Bertram Devadas, Director, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, India
  • Mahesh Kadam, Associate Professor, Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management, Pune, India
  • Mariah Webinger, Professor Accounting, Boler College of Business, John Carroll University, USA
  • Satyendra C Pandey. Associate Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India
  • Sashmi Nayak, Ambedkar Chair Professor, NISWASS, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • P. D. Jose, Professor of Strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
  • Bhaskar Basu, Professor, Xavier Institute of Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Debadutta Kumar Panda, Professor, Xavier Institute of Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Sarat Kumar Jena, Professor & Editor, Vilakshan – XIM Journal of Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India

Advisory Members:

  • Ison Ray, Professor of Systems, The Open University, UK
  • Gyorgy Szell, Prof. Emeritus, University of Osnabrueck, Institute of Social Sciences, Germany
  • Peter Rozic, Director of Integral Ecology Research Network, University Oxford, England 
  • Ignacimuthu, S.J., Director, Xavier Research Foundation, St. Xavier College, Palayamkottai, India
  • Hans Guenter Brauch, Ad. Prof. (PD), Free University of Berlin (Ret.), Germany
  • Tatiana Carolina Gonzalez Grandón, Researcher, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology 
  • Tobias Karcher S.J., Director, Lassalle-Institute, Zurich, Switzerland 
  • Alberto Irezabal Vilaclara, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México 
  • Adefemi Olokesusi, Professor, Nigerian Institute of Social & Economic Research (Ret.), Nigeria
  • Maria Dolores Sanchez Galera, Universidad Carlos ǀ de Madrid
  • Hilaria Soundari, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland 
  • Pravat Kumar Roul, Vice Chancellor, Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Vijay Kumar, Dean, School of Communications, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Assistant Professor, Xavier Institute of Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India

Important Dates:

Announcement on call for Papers: 7th February 2025

 

Paper Development Guideline Session: 21st February 2025 (To join this Session, please register here)

 

Paper Development Workshop: 15th October 2025

 

Submission of Abstract (Deadline): 1st June 2025

 

Notification of Abstract: Within two weeks of submission of Abstract

 

Deadline for Full Paper (Extended): 15th September 2025

 

Registration by Participants: 15th November 2025

All submissions and queries are to be sent to [email protected]

Registration Fee

Research Paper/Case Paper: USD 100 / Guest (without a paper/case): USD 150

 

(This fee shall cover 4 dinners, 3 lunches, & 3 breakfasts, tea/coffee, symposium kit, etc.)

 

Doctoral Scholars – USD 50

Accommodation

In addition to the on-campus guest house, there are several accommodation facilities, including hotels within 2 km of the venue of the Conference. Registered participants can book their accommodation as per their requirements.

The Context

Uncertainties, vulnerabilities, and inequalities have been growing across all sectors and geographies. The design processes in most ecosystems, whether natural, indigenous, rural, urban, or industrial, tend to degenerate despite the best human efforts. The existing literature on practices, policies & theories to halt or reverse these degenerative processes may broadly be seen from the three dominant frameworks: Circular Economy, Social & Solidarity Economy, and Ecological Economics. While the first is focused on Economics, the second is focused on Social, and the third is focused on Ecology.

 

The above International Conference aims to bring together the existing sustainability frameworks from design factors of interconnected sub-systems and overall all interacting evolving systems science paradigm to facilitate Regenerative Systems in the context of specific ecosystems, viz., (a) Natural Ecosystem, (b) Indigenous Ecosystem, (c) Rural Ecosystem, (d) Urban Ecosystem, and (e) Industrial Ecosystem. In the above context, this Conference focuses on the science of Regenerativeness through the combination of different design variables across different dimensions.

 

This eclectic ecosystemic transdisciplinary methodology-based Conference has been designed on interconnected themes viz. Organization, Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture, Governance, Institutions, Relationships, and Ecology in the context of specific ecosystems. The interconnections, interdependence, and embeddedness of the above dimensions are represented by the four critical pillars of an Ecosystem, viz. Economic, Political, Social, & Ecology.

 

Scholarly contributions and cases of successful holistic or ecosystemic practices with transdisciplinary approaches are invited to this Conference. The various tracks and topics of the Conference are listed below under different pillars and dimensions. It is advised that contributors adopt a transdisciplinary approach to the above topics while diagnosing problems or synthesizing solutions for Regenerativeness in any sub-system or any Regenerative Ecosystem. It is advisable that each contributor takes into account the interconnected factors of one or more of the eight dimensions. The Conference is also open to additional relevant factors and variables for Regenerativeness in sub-systems and Ecosystems.

 

Selected papers of the Conference will be considered for Special Issues of reputed Journal(s) Viz.; Journal of Systems Research & Behavioral Science and Vilakshan-Journal of Management, as well as an edited book titled Regenerativeness in the Anthropocene: Philosophy, Design, & Strategy to SDGs by an international publisher. Please see the conference webpage https://xim.edu.in/aiess/icre2025/ for updates on the publication opportunities. More details on Paper submission will be given at an Online Paper Development Guideline Session on 21st February 2025.  For quick reference on philosophy, methodology, design, strategy and action related to AIESS and Regenerative Ecosystems, please see this Regenerative Ecosystems in Anthropocene    

Tracks & Topics of the Ecosystems