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 NFU conference is intended as a forum for development research, and the conference is therefore open for workshop contributions on other relevant topics of the field. The plenary sessions: Plenary 1: Conflicts and political settlements Plenary 2: Religion, conflict and development Plenary 3:...

The conference hopes to contribute to the current debates on the state of the discipline, research,policy and practice in the two areas. In order to facilitate dialogue between researchers, scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers, the conference is welcoming proposals for both workshops and...

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...

Topics: 1. Recent world economic and financial crisis: What are the impacts and lessons for Islamic economies? What are relevant policies to make? 2. Existing Islamic economic and trade arrangements (ECO, D8, PGCC, ESCWA,...) : current impacts, potentials and barriers 3. Perspectives for...

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...

Ziel der Konferenz wird es sein, im Rahmen der wirtschaftspolitischen Beratung, einem wesentlichen Auftrag des IWH, aktuelle Themen aus der laufenden Forschung des Instituts zur Diskussion zu stellen. Die Tagung richtet sich vor allem an Abgeordnete und Vertreter der Ministerien der Neuen...