The Symposium will bring together environmental economists from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will provide a venue for reporting key findings from projects supported under the Environmental Economics Research Hub as well as other research initiatives. Papers should address current...

This day and a half event will bring together scholars from the new Financial Literacy Research Consortium to present their research and discuss how programs, educational products, and policies can best promote financial planning and financial security. The conference agenda is designed for...

This conference will feature presentations by leading researchers on the political, economic, and regulatory challenges associated with major climate policy instruments. The goal of this conference is to transfer the state-of-the-art in policy-relevant academic research on key aspects of climate...

The goals of the Center for Retirement Research are to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to a broad audience, to help train new scholars, and to expand access to valuable data resources.

The subject of the conference is Capitalism and Global Climate Change. PLENARIES: - Causes and Consequences of Climate Change Confronting Climate Change: What Works and What Doesn’t - Climate Change: Barbarism or Socialism?

The 2010 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Industrial Ecology will examine environmental challenges and remedies at various scales through the lens of design. Industrial ecology is an emerging field that examines local, regional and global uses and flows of materials and energy in products,...

In this Forum, the current situation and the major challenge of ensuring adequate funding of retirement for an ageing population into the future will be discussed by Dr Yi Ping Tseng from the Melbourne Institute, Dr David Knox from Mercer, and Professor Ross Guest from Griffith University.

Key themes: • The history of the interface of environmental and union campaigns. • How can working people and unions contribute to environmental campaigns? • How can the environment movement engage more meaningfully with unions? • What kinds of red/green activism could be helpful for the...