Conference Theme: ‘Quality of Life and Environment’ In the last decades, quality of life has become a central issue for those who plan and study cities or places where people live in response to growing pressures on urban communities, concern about the impacts of urbanisation and the effects...

Topics: 1. Analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture: simulations and projections 2. Climate change and sustainability of agricultural production systems 3. Adaption strategies for agriculture in the face of climate change: systems of production, risks in agriculture, and policies...

The purpose of the Conference will be to deepen on-going reflection on how to measure well-being and the progress of societies, enhance the relevance of measures and analysis for addressing key policy issues, and lead to concrete outputs, such as establishing frameworks for future work. It will...

Keywords: foreign aid; official development assistance (ODA); development finance; Africa; freedom, democracy and human rights; growth and employment; gender equality; stability and fragility; and environment and climate.

The objective of the Symposium is to bring together a community of top scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries.

The Symposium will start by considering the significance of mobility in developing regions, including relevant cultural aspects. The following panel will explore ways of promoting mobility in developing regions in a sustainable manner. As the next step, sustainable mobility will be considered in...

Ein erfolgreicher Klimaschutz benötigt das Engagement aller. Viele Akteure zeigen auf unterschiedlichen Wegen, wie diese Herausforderung zu meistern ist. Welche Rolle dabei gezielte Kooperationen und eine intensive Vernetzung von Städten, Gemeinden und Kreisen spielen, steht im Mittelpunkt der...

Die Politik begegnet dem Klimawandel mit einer ganzen Reihe von Maßnahmen. Diese sind auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen angesiedelt: regional, national oder international. Insgesamt ergibt sich daraus ein Instrumentenmix, der auf Widersprüche, Komplementarität und Wirksamkeit hin diskutiert werden...

We are looking for original empirical and theoretical contributions that have implications for concrete policy recommendations in any of the four broad areas outlined below: 1. The necessity of a new global development agenda. 2. The content and purpose of a new global development agenda. 3....

Topics: - Climate change, business and development - Managerial and entrepreneurial responses to global development challenges - Managing commodity and energy market s - Natural disasters and business (including tourism) - Energy efficiency and competitiveness - Green growth, consumer...