The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

The programme of the conference will cover all areas of environmental and natural resource economics.

Conference topics: A. Heterodox Approaches of Sustainable Development B. International institutions and sustainable development C. Social sustainability : content and relevance D. Considering the environmental dimension

The event targets participants from agricultural, environmental, economic, social and information technology sciences. Contributions may address methodological or theoretical issues, applications or dissemination and participatory aspects. Applications may relate to for instance agro-technical...