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we would like to draw your attention to a special session entitled <a name="_Hlk189222659" style="font-size: 14.666667px;">“<i>Re-thinking Digitalization and Sustainability Transitions: Exploring Synergies, Tensions and Trade-offs</i>”</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> that
we organize in the course of this year’s International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference happening 24-26 June 2025 in Lisbon.</span></p>
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The major objective of this special session is to bring together scholars working in the broader realm of digitalization and/or sustainability transitions to empirically and theoretically explore this complex relationship from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.
You can read the full call here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oq2GZ0PYDiig7loe2RjRHx8O7Y9hZfsS/view" style="color: purple;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oq2GZ0PYDiig7loe2RjRHx8O7Y9hZfsS/view</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Deadline for abstract submissions is February 10<sup>th</sup> 2025. You can submit your abstract using this link (<a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77466/submissions/new?behalf=false&fromDashboard=false&preview=false" style="color: purple;">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77466/submissions/new?behalf=false&fromDashboard=false&preview=false</a>)
by selecting <u>both</u> the “Track 11 Emerging/ Other Topics” and the special session “d. Rethinking Digitalization and Sustainability Transitions”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Kind regards, Alexander Herwix</p>
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<b><span style="color: rgb(56, 110, 142);">Dr. rer. pol. Alexander Herwix</span></b></div>
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