BEEER 2018 provides a venue for scholars and researchers to present their research and exchange ideas within the area of energy, environment and climate change. In connection with the conference, there will be a workshop from 12 to 13 April: Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics...

Environmental movements use the slogan “System Change, not Climate Change.” It points out that international negotiations and technological innovations repeatedly fail to reduce carbon emissions levels, and that our societies need to be profoundly transformed to prevent disastrous climate...

The topic of the conference is “Social Security and the changing concept of work”. Both pension schemes and most other social security schemes as we know them are financed by contributions that are levied on salary from work, and / or income from self employment. The sustainability of the...

In this conference we wish to explore the diverse links between international migration and social inequality, in a Nordic, European and global context. We invite scholars from across disciplinary boundaries to engage in a discussion of how these changes can be conceptualized and studied, from a...

The purpose of this policy meeting is to discuss the current state and future options for international poverty measurement. It will discuss the new poverty line of $1.90 poverty line, review the results from the international comparison or prices project and their implications for poverty...

Conference streams: 1. Diffusion of Ideas 2. Towards a European Social Policy? 3. Globalization and Social Policy 4. On the Interrelationship of Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability 5. Comparative Methodology- Reforms of Social Security Programs as Case 6. Welfare Funding 6a)...

Program: - Wealth Inequality in the Very Long Run: Reflections on “Nordic Exceptionalism” (Sam Bowles and Mattia Fochesato) - On the Measurement of Income Mobility (Rolf Aaberge) - A Life Cycle Model of Health and Retirement: The Case of Swedish Pension Reform (Johanna Wallenius) - Nordic...

The conference organizing committee welcomes contributions that address visions and strategies for tackling these energy and environmental challenges. We expect papers which address new political, social, ethical and natural science advances in efforts to reduce societal energy use, climate gas...