Theme: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A VOLATILE WORLD ECONOMY Panel Themes: - Global Financial Crisis - Sustainable Economic & Social Development Under Financial Meltdown - Change in Trade Patterns and Composition for Sustainable Development - Gandhian Planning for Sustainable Development -...

Der Workshop soll einen Beitrag zu einer objektiven Bewertung der Zusammenhänge am Energiemarkt und der zu erwartenden Entwicklung der Energiepreise leisten. Zu diesem Zweck wird der Themenbereich mit ausgewählten Experten aus den Bereichen Energieökonomik, Energiewirtschaft und –politik...

Themen: - Energie im Spannungsfeld von Effektivität und Effizienz - Neue Rahmenbedingungen im Umgang mit effizienter Energie - Umsetzung von Energieeffizienz im Handel und in Unternehmen - Praxisbeispiele - Produktivitätssteigerungspotenziale durch Energieeffizienz: Möglichkeiten und...

The UK has signed up to a legally-binding European treaty requiring it to supply 15% of all primary energy from renewable sources by 2020. This is a huge task and the bulk of the burden will fall to the power generation sector, but heat and transport fuels will also have to make a quantum leap...

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...

The Symposium will bring together environmental economists from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will provide a venue for reporting key findings from projects supported under the Environmental Economics Research Hub as well as other research initiatives. Papers should address current...

Topics of interest include: - Technical change and the environment - Sectoral and macroeconomic effects of IT on energy demand - Productivity gains and cost savings through Green IT - Green IT innovations - Energy and resource use of IT products over their life cycle - Smart grids and transport...

Possible issues and topics for workshop papers are: - Law and ecological tipping points - Law and environmental management: prescriptive or enabling? - Law and marine ecosystem adaptive management - The rule of law: legal certainty vs. flexibility and adaptability? - Private property, state...

The forthcoming 2010 EASY-ECO conference in Brussels will focus on the European perspective of evaluation of sustainable development, taking stock of almost a decade of integrated evaluation practice at EU and national levels in order to identify the challenges ahead. Topics: - Integrating...

Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....