3rd International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters

This paper represents a preface to the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social, and Economic Matters (ICSF 2022) held at the Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, 24–27 May 2022. Background information and the organizational structure of the meeting, program committee, and acknowledgments of the contributions of the many people who made the conference a success are presented.


Background
The International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters (ICSF) is a peer-reviewed international conference, which is the premier interdisciplinary forum for life scientists, social scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications (figure 1).
Since 2020, ICSF occupies contributions in all aspects of sustainable development, focused on the intersection of sustainability, environment and technology, and their more significant implications for a corporation, government, education institutions, regions, and society both at present and in the future [1][2][3].
ICSF 2022 has two presentation levels, Pre-conference Workshops and Main Conference. • Geographical bases of sustainable future: methodological bases • Problems and prospects for the development of physical and socio-economic geography in the context of sustainable future • Regional problems of sustainable future and local lore research of territories • Cartographic research and geoinformatics: theory and practice • Noosphere nature management is the key to a sustainable future • The theory of sustainable future in geographical education GSD-2022 Program Committee chair is Dr. Olga Bondarenko (figure 3).

Biodiversity and Ecosystems Sustainability (BiodES-2022)
Biodiversity and Ecosystems Sustainability (BiodES) is a peer-reviewed international workshop focusing on solving problems of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem sustainability from the point of view of applied science and education, which is the important basis for solving global problems of the mankind and sustainable futures.
BiodES-2022 contributes to all aspects of solving problems of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem sustainability by reflecting the environmental, technological, physiological and biochemical aspects of the problem; methods of application of modern information and communication technologies and mathematical approaches for their solution; discussion of modern educational concepts aimed at solving the problems of ecosystem sustainability with the purpose of sustainable development of the future.
BiodES-2022 main topics of interest are: • Biodiversity in animals and plants as the indicator of ecosystem sustainability • Ecological monitoring in preservation of biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability • Physiological, biochemical and technological aspects of biodiversity and ecosystem
On the second stage, authors of accepted abstracts were invited to submit full research papers including surveys, tutorials, perspective/colloquia articles in conference topics of interest (https://www.morressier.com/call-for-papers/6127d6ec0bfa8e001283d3a2). There were 125 submissions received. Each submission was reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. The committee decided to accept 84 papers.
The spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed the conference organization (figure 8). Therefore, the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters (ICSF 2022) took place on 24-27 May 2022 at the Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine, both in-person and online.
More than 130 attendees from 14 countries are joined to ICSF 2022 using Zoom. The presentation slots were defined as follows: • invites talks (30 min): 20 min presentation, 10 min question answering and discussion, • other talks (15 min): 10 min presentation and 5 minutes question answering and discussion.
The full program is available at the https://icsf.ccjournals.eu/2022/ where details of the sessions, usually headed by one or more invited presentations. Video records of talks are available at the Not So Easy Science YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCH3gego79m-ofCiNEgEzMuA).

Conclusion
The vision of the ICSF 2022 is to create a leading interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators, to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of sustainability. 3rd installment of ICSF was organized by the Academy of Cognitive and Natural Sciences (https://acnsci.org) in in cooperation with Kryvyi Rih National University, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University and State Institution "The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine".
We are thankful to all the authors who submitted papers and the delegates for their participation and their interest in ICSF as a platform to share their ideas and innovation. Also, we are also thankful to all the program committee members for providing continuous guidance and efforts taken by peer reviewers contributed to improving the quality of papers provided constructive critical comments, improvements, and corrections to the authors are gratefully appreciated for their contribution to the success of the conference. Moreover, we would like to thank the developers of Morressier, who made it possible for us to use the resources of this excellent and comprehensive conference management system, from the call of papers and inviting reviewers, to handling paper submissions and creating the volume of the conference proceedings. Special thanks to session chairs for their work on the conference and its program, excellent and gratefully appreciated conference support.
We are looking forward to excellent presentations and fruitful discussions, which will broaden our professional horizons. We hope all participants enjoy this conference and meet again in a more friendly, hilarious, and peaceful further ICSF 2023. The next meeting in the series is the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters, 2023, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine (https://icsf.ccjournals.eu/2023/).