The IAOS Conference Ottawa 2006 has adopted as its principal theme the subject People on the Move: Measuring Environmental, Social and Economic Impacts Within and Between Nations. The conference focuses on issues associated with measuring these aspects.

The scope of the conference stretches from theoretical to empirical and policy studies, including cooperation for natural resource management, economics of property rights and institutions, bio-economic modelling, economics of agro-biodiversity and studies linking international trade, poverty...