Considering the development as sustainable has become a strong point in the political agenda once again. This is why the UN presents its Agenda 2030 as an Objective of Sustainable Development. The UN focuses its 2020 strategy on an intelligent, sustainable and integrating growth, and backs up a circular economy. Even the Valencian Government has created a Department specifically focused on sustainable economy.

Considering the development as sustainable has become a strong point in the political agenda once again.  This is why the UN presents its Agenda 2030 as an Objective of Sustainable Development. The UN focuses its 2020 strategy on an intelligent, sustainable and integrating growth, and backs up a circular economy. Even the Valencian Government has created a Department specifically focused on sustainable economy. The sustainable development respects, accompanies and uses all those ecological processes and the flow of social and natural goods within its possibilities: Nature is a source of goods that, used as resources (among them: energy, food, water, air, land, living creatures, raw materials or landscape), become necessary inputs for many processes that happen in modern economies. If a social and economic system exceeds the bio-capacity of its territory, by consuming the “natural capacity”, but not returning the created waste to the productive system (circular economy), it is not sustainable. Although it produces wealth now, it will imply unaffordable costs in the future. By contrast, our territories and ecosystems offer some social and economic possibilities to achieve a high level of life quality, without breaking its basic balance. In this 7 edition of the Session on Local Development of the Valencian Country (VIIJDL2016), we want to find a way to take into account all of the social and economic innovations based in the possibilities offered by nature and the territory, which contribute to local development, without damaging it. Some examples are: ecological agriculture, renewable and effective energies, ecotourism, local 21 agendas, reduction and reuse of “leftovers/remains” of productive processes, healthy mobility, enjoyment of the landscape, eco-design, rural development, local trade, slow and habitable cities, green and decent occupation, responsible investment and all those that imply an economic asset and respect nature. Initiatives that are respectful with ecosystems from the beginning, instead of correction initiatives that do not avoid the source of the problem.  
We encourage you to send us your experiences or initiatives which are oriented towards sustainable development, focused on improving the quality of life of societies and their environments.     
REGULATIONS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF EXPERIENCE SUMMARIES
All those people belonging to the professional, political, social and/or university area, who want to present a summary of their experiences shall follow the periods and requirements mentioned below:  
1) Presenting, before 30 May 2016, the title of the talk and a summary (5 to 10 lines long), where they describe the experienced event on equity as an element of local development. Participants shall send the title and the summary to the following email: jdl.gridet@gmail.com

 2) The works will be reviewed by the Organising Committee that assesses if they are appropriate for the subject matter of the Session. Before 30 June 2016 we will reveal the authors whose proposals have been accepted. If they are accepted, they shall present the whole text about the experience before 15 September 2016, and it will be assessed by an External Scientific Committee that will evaluate its quality and originality. Those texts that are finally accepted will be included in the publication that will be made for this purpose and that will be distributed during the celebration of the Session. In that publication, we will be able to see some of these experiences. 

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