As the World around us is becoming progressively globalised, working together proactively in ensuring wise and prudent utilization of scarce resources for sustainable development implies a broad view of human welfare, long term perspective about the consequences of today’s activities, and the full involvement of civil society to reach viable solutions. Hence all segments of society including scientist and educator need to collaborate using sound practices to effectively and efficiently steward the earth’s ;limited natural resources to attain better quality of life for man kind.

This conference is organized by the Institute for Social Science Studies (IPSAS) University Putra Malaysia(UPM) and Journal of Social Science, Science Publication, will provide international platform for researches, graduate students and practitioners in the field of sustainable community development to share information and accomplishment, to discover the challenges for the future, and to offer ideas for advance practices that meet the needs of the present and simultaneously recognizing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.