The conference has the following thrust areas: Testing trade theories; Trade indices; Facilitation Mechanisms for International Trade; Regional Economic Integration; Tariff and Non-tariff barriers; Firm level issues in international business (e.g. internationalization of business); Trade Related...

Conference Programme: 1. Ecology and Economics 2. Economic Models of Global Warming: What Scenario, What Cost? 3. Certainties, Uncertainties and What They Imply about Action 4. Round Table chaired by Robert Solow (MIT): Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go from Here?

Topics: · Dynamic models of Cultural Transmission and Cultural Diversity · Cultural Diversity and Discrimination · Cultural Evolution and their consequences on markets and politics · The socioeconomic determinants of cultural diversity · Globalization, Migration and Cultural Evolution ·...

Topics: • Cuba-Europe relations: half century of approaches and dissents. • The European Union Treaty: ratification and implications. • The Enlarged EU. Its impact in the political and economical contemporary international relations. • Convergence and Cohesion: the Socio-economic...

This workshop will provide an opportunity to encounter the work of researchers on the areas of managing water and wetland resources with the aim of integrating development within environmental constraints. The workshop will welcome any contribution on the problems raised by water management in...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the Manila conference. Papers focusing on the patterns and implications of international trade and foreign direct investment in a growing world economy, as well as the conditions under which nations...

Der bisherige internationale Diskurs zu Fragen von Umwelt und Entwicklung ist von dieser Fragmentierung gekennzeichnet.Auffällig ist, dass ursprünglich Wachstum als entwicklungspolitisches Ziel in Frage gestellt wurde. Mit der Zeit wurden unterschiedliche Formen von Wachstum differenziert:...

Objectives: - To consider major transport trends – both in large urban areas and those raised by a globalising economy – with a special focus on developments in Latin America; - To address challenges caused by these trends – for the environment at large and for human health in particular;...

This interdisciplinary conference will present the new advances in the modelling of the Global Change that combines Geosciences and Economics, with a perspective view from history - given the novelty of their interrelations – and from political science – given the impact of the model outputs...

Conference topics: 1. Sociology of Arts 2. Sociology of Culture 3. Economics and Planning in Arts and Culture