At Angers, there will be a number of Research Sessions embedded within the conference programme which together, comprise the Research Conference. During each Session there will be a number of different Research Panels; as these panels will be held in parallel you will need to pick and choose...

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

Both theoretical and applied contributions to environmental and natural resources economics and to economic growth literature are welcome, especially if their focus is on one of the following subfields: - Energy, - Preferences, - Normative aspects of sustainable development, - Health and...

The conference will favour theoretical contributions, but also welcomes original applied studies showing explicit links with the analysis of sustainable development. All geographical areas are eligible: North and south, urban and rural, coastal and maritime, are all considered.

Topics: - Causes and consequences of violent conflicts: civil wars, interstate wars, terrorism, rebellion... - Arms trade - International trade, capital flows and violent conflicts - Institutions and violent conflicts - Multilateral institutions and conflicts - Political versus economic causes...

The subject of the conference is "Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in a Global Economy." The conference has thus two broad objectives. First, to take stock of the recent contributions on the knowledge economy and identify the building blocks of national and European Strategies to...

Political, technological and commercial forces are driving growth in the international exchange of goods, services, jobs and people. These changes have resulted in very significant growth in economic prosperity and some major reductions in global poverty. The BRIICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...

The purpose of the 2008 issue is to compile last developments in Environmental, Natural Resource and Energy Economics. Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcome from the following fields: • Pollution control (tradeable permits, taxes, environmental policy,...

Economic growth is more and more questioned internationally. A debate has been developing the last years in France on the concept of "Sustainable De-growth”". The question reaches the researchers: the so-called "decoupling" between ecological degradation and economic growth appears...

Main Topics: - Economics of Services and Sustainable Development - Management of Services and Sustainable Development - Sectoral Approaches