Environment and development concerns will remain on the agendas, although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resource management issues in developing and developed economies. The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment...

This year's conference theme is "Challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Energy Turnaround, Globalisation and Demography". The forum serves as a platform to discuss new ideas in this field between theory and practice. To serve this purpose, the forum on topics relating to small and...

The Global Economic Symposium aims to identify global challenges, examine their policy and business implications, and formulate concrete action responses to them. The Symposium is divided into Themes and each theme covers several symposium Sessions. Each Session of the GES deals with a problem...

"[The conference] will foster interdisciplinary discussions around medicine, literature and the digital humanities. The goal is to bring together IT experts, physicians and literary scholars in order to work on the concrete elaboration of a digital database in the field of medicine and...

For more than 50 years, economists, analysts, business leaders and policymakers have congregated at the NABE Annual Meeting to discuss the outlook for the U.S. and global economies and probe the issues and trends that impact economic prosperity in both the near term and long term.

Topics: - International trade and industrial pollution - Pollution haven models - Environmental regulation and competitiveness - Carbon leakage and border tax adjustments - Consumption-generated versus production-generated pollution - Trade and the use of resources - Resources and resource overuse

With growing uncertainty facing the global economy, cooperation and partnership among the countries has never been more important. The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, to be held in Tokyo in October 2012, will aim to promote global economic stability...

Topics: Main Streams I. Economic theory of sustainability in societies and business II. Sustainable entrepreneurial behavior and its framework III. Education and training for sustainable developments. IV. Implementation and optimisation of sustainable developments Streams 1. Sustainable Economic...

We welcome contributions in finance and economics, as well as in economic and urban geography, regional science, urban development planning, demography, and law. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): - Spillovers Between Real Estate Markets and Capital Markets - Financing Behaviour...

Program: Session A: European Union Perspectives Session B: Receiving Countries' Perspectives I Session C: Receiving Countries' Perspectives II Session D: Sending Countries' Perspectives I Session F: Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U