Keynote Speakers Details

Talk Title: Factors Underpinning Renewable Energy Application in Hotels

Sadegh Salehi is a professor of environmental sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Mazandaran, Iran and was a guest scientist at  Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UfZ) in Leipzig, Germany. He was serving as a member of the RC24 Board for the International Sociological Association(2018-2022). Sadegh completed his Ph.D. at Leeds University (UK) and his undergraduate studies at Tehran University. Sadegh has served as an Environmental Coordinator at Leeds University (2006-8) and as a member of the Board for the Society of Human Ecology (2005-7 as a PhD candidate). He served on the Association of Iranian Higher Education Board and the Steering Committee for the Environmental Science Curriculum, and also as a Director-in-Charge of The Journal of Tourism Planning and Development. Prof. Salehi has set up a new journal titled Society and the Environment for publishing research papers and articles to promote environmental studies among Persian language readers. Sadegh has set up two new modules titled Sociology of the Environment (2009) and Society & Energy (2016) in Iranian Higher Education. Sadegh currently serves as a Policy Board Member of the Environment and Sustainable Development Research Institute at Payam Noor University, Iran. Sadegh is the founder and is in charge of the Research Committee of Environment & Development at the University of Mazandaran.

Sadegh has received the Best Research award in Mazandaran province universities in 2017. Dr. salehi was awarded the prestigious Dr. Ebtekar Award for his publication and studies in environmental sociology (2015). He has authored “PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT” (2010), Lambert Academic Publishing, and “SOCIETY & CLIMATE CHANGE” (2016), Mazandaran University Publishing, and SOCIETY AND ENERGY: THE ISSUE OF ENERGY AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS. With over a dozen journal and conference publications, his research interests include Environmental Sociology, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Consumption, Climate Change, and Sociology of Energy. He completed some research projects and has published 10 journal papers, 4 books, and also transated over 15 books from English language to Persian (in Persian). He has supervised many masters and Phd students with focus on environmental and enegy issues.