Ensuring the compatibility of our goals in energy policy, economic policy and environmental policy is a core challenge for policy makers. Can our modern economy rely on renewable energy sources only? What is the right policy mix of planning, regulation of energy markets, promotion of energy...

The conference will include sessions on agriculture, the environment, rural communities and economic development, food and related industries, land use, and development economics.

We invite abstracts for papers that discuss market-based policy instruments in environmental governance and, more specifically, in the provision of ecosystem services. Papers should pay special attention to (A) the discourse on and politics of market-based instruments (MBIs) for ecosystem...