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...

The Lviv Forum on Forests in a Green Economy for countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia will bring together different stakeholders, policy makers and international experts to share experiences and explore opportunities for implementing the concepts and requirements of the Green...

Scientific program: - Risk and Choice: An introduction - Changes in Risk - Health - Applications of Risk Theory - Consumption and Time - Risk Attitudes

Many individuals, adults, adolescents, and children alike engage in a host of risky behaviors that might have significant present and future ramifications. Broadly defined, these are the type of behaviors that involves a trade-off between short term benefits and long-term costs. Examples of such...

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:...

ESEE 2011 has two main objectives: - To create a platform for discussion of theories, methodologies and practices already existing in the field and assess what has been achieved so far. - To explore the full potential of ecological economics in dealing with policy issues, both in theory and in...

The European Public Choice Society promotes scientific research on the economics and politics of public and non-market decision-making, political economy and the economics of institutions.

Topics: - Persistence in Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Models: Low Frequency Analysis, Long Run Risk (LRR) Asset Pricing Model, Persistence of Extreme Events, Long Term Volatility; - Long Term Interest Rates: Actualization for Long Term Investment Projects, Social Efficient Discount Rate, Term...

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....

Submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics relevant to emerging markets including but not limited to: - monetary and fiscal policy - financial institutions and markets - international trade flows - foreign direct investment and outsourcing - economic development and growth - energy...