Theme Building Synergies and Aligning Shared Goals for Sustainable and Resilient Tropical Inland Water Management: Addressing Challenges, Advancing Innovations, and Promoting Collaborative Solutions
Background The management of tropical inland waters, which include rivers, lakes, wetlands, and groundwater systems, plays a critical role in ensuring ecological balance, supporting livelihoods, and sustaining economic growth. These ecosystems are vital for freshwater resources and serve as biodiversity hotspots and climate regulators. However, tropical inland waters face numerous challenges, including pollution, habitat degradation, climate change impacts, and over-extraction of resources. Addressing these challenges requires innovative, sustainable, and collaborative approaches.
This international conference aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders from across the globe to foster dialogue, share knowledge, and develop actionable strategies for the sustainable and resilient management of tropical inland waters. By focusing on synergies and shared goals, the conference seeks to promote a unified effort toward safeguarding these critical ecosystems for present and future generations.
Objectives:
- To foster collaboration and knowledge exchange; unite researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share insights and strategies for sustainable tropical inland water management.
- To address key challenges; identify and discuss critical environmental, social, and economic issues, including pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, and governance.
- To advance innovations and best practices; highlight cutting-edge research, technologies, and integrated water management approaches to enhance ecosystem resilience.
- To strengthen policy and community engagement; bridge science and decision-making, empowering local communities and policymakers to drive effective water governance.
- To develop actionable solutions; align shared goals, secure sustainable funding, and formulate strategies for long-term inland water sustainability and resilience.
Conference topics*):
The topics cover all subjects listed below:
- Challenges and emerging threats in tropical inland waters.
- Innovative approaches in monitoring and managing water resources.
- Paleolimnology as a tool for inland water management.
- System dynamics (physical and biogeochemical processes).
- Integrated approaches for sustainable inland water management.
- GIS, Remote Sensing, and Database-Driven Modeling and Decision Support for Sustainable Inland Water Management.
- Local government and community engagement, environmental education, citizen science, traditional culture, wisdom, and local ecological knowledge (LEK).
- Ecohydrological approaches for sustainable inland water management.
- Transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration for inland water sustainability.
*) we are welcome to any type of manuscripts, either research or review articles
Venue
Acintya Prasada Building, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Diponegoro University; Address: Prof. Jacub Rais Street, Tembalang, Semarang City, Central Java 50275
Date September 3-4, 2025
Keynote speakers
- Prof. Peiyu Zhang (Institute of Hydrobiology – Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Prof. Dong Gun Kim (Shamyook University, Seoul – South Korea)
- Prof. Chihiro Yoshimura (Institute of Science Tokyo – Japan)
- Prof. Peter Gell (Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University, Australia): Paleolimnology to inform waterway management.
- Assoc. Prof. Łukasz Kruszewski (Institute Geological of Sciences – Polish Academy of Science): Mineralogy in the service of limnology: what can minerals tell us about the lake environment?
- Prof. Dr. Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati, MAppSc (Diponegoro University, Indonesia): Sediments of Time: Reading Indonesia’s Lakes to Forecast the Future
- Research Center for Limnology and Water Resources – BRIN
- Indonesian Society of Limnology
Previous SMILLS and proceeding:
2021: https://masyarakatlimnologi.org/event/mliconference2021/
https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1755-1315/1062/1
2023: https://masyarakatlimnologi.org/event/joint-conference-smils-ii-and-troplimno-iv/
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