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...

Migrants from Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and North Africa continue to make their home in Western Europe - but how well are their needs being met? Migrant banking in Europe offers a range of exciting opportunities for both financial and non-financial players. For instance, there is a small...

The focus of the workshop is to investigate the influence of cognitive and normative factors in the EU's capacity to meet the challenge of governing sustainability. Its focus is energy and environmental public policy-making. We therefore invite papers that examine the following themes: Theme 1:...

We welcome contributions from theorists and empiricists alike who are interested in broadening our understanding of the economics of welfare which continues to flourish. Following work by Sen, Stiglitz and others that has helped to bring about the Sarkozy Report, the EU’s Beyond GDP memorandum...

We invite both theoretical and empirical papers on one of the following topics: Financial Risks, Bank Risks, Major Risks, Health and Ageing, Risk and Regulation.

Contributions from economics and the social sciences are invited. Possible fields of enquiry include: - Social cohesion and growth - Social cohesion and inequality - Governance, institutions and social cohesion - Social cohesion and (global) public goods - Education policies and social...

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....

The DARES conference aims at presenting the lessons of new economic research on the employment of older workers carried out in several countries, including France. The conference will gather experts from the academic community (France, Europe and the United States) who will describe the main...

Topics relevant to time use research: Children, youth; Child and elder care; Communication and media; Couple (intra-household allocation, bargaining, division of labor, time together); Data collection & quality; Food and eating; Free time and leisure; Health; Housework/household production; Local...

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