RUC-APS 2020: RUC-APS II - Agri-Food Systems Networks Challenges in the Age of Uncertainty

RUC-APS, Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems, one of the most successfull H2020 project in agri-food. More information at www.ruc-aps.eu

Continuing the successful previous SSDC Springer series editions from the international RUC-APS network (RUC-APS Vol. 1), the main topic of the current edition is “Agri-Food Systems Networks Challenges in the Age of Uncertainty”. This SSDC series edition will collect high quality fresh papers coming the RUC-APS online workshop key-note speakers and also from open submissions, which will cover academic, practitioners and enterprises’ points of views on real problems and issues in Agri-Food Systems networks in the age of uncertainty.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Contributions from authors are expected to use the springer template (click here to download) and should be no longer than 20 pages including references.

List of Topics

• Land use systems & complex systems modelling.
• Soil biogeochemistry, plant-soil-microbe interactions, sustainable agricultural production.
• Medical law and ethics, animal disease outbreaks, disease risk assessment, contingency planning, policy advice.
• Environmental science, policy interaction, environmental management and impact.
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, network analysis, behaviour change.
• Livestock nutrition, livestock systems, international development.
• Ecology, biodiversity, environmental and societal trades-offs, sustainable development.
• Mathematics, crop and pest modelling, environmental impacts, natural resource availability, biodiversity, decision support tools.
• Animal behaviour and welfare.
• Agricultural and resource economics, environmental management, climate change, food supply chains, antimicrobial resistance.
• Applied and computational mathematics, sustainable intensification, livestock production systems, integrated crop-livestock systems.
• Science in innovation, risk governance, academic-industry linkages, science into society, science evaluation, sustainable development.
• Decision Support systems, Knowledge Managements and Smart solutions in Agri-food domains.

Committees

Editors

• Dr. Jorge Hernandez, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
• Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, System Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Editorial Board

• RUC-APS research committee

Publication

RUC-APS 2020 proceedings will be published in Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Series (https://www.springer.com/series/13304)

by SPRINGER

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Jorge Hernandez, J.E.Hernandez@Liverpool.ac.uk

Sponsors

Project 691249, RUCAPS: Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems (www.ruc-aps.eu), funded by the European Union under their funding scheme H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015