The main theme of the conference is Ecological Economics and Institutional Dynamics. Institutions are considered here in their broader sense, including social representations, norms, rules of the game, collective action processes and power dimensions, forms and types of exploitation, informal...

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...

The objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges. The Conference...

ISEE 2012 has been conceived to dovetail with the Rio+20 UNCSD Earth Summit. The Earth Summit has been charged with developing a road map for international cooperation toward a “Green Economy” and for promoting institutions necessary for sustainable development. ISEE 2012 will address UNCSD...

Topics: - Climate change, business and development - Managerial and entrepreneurial responses to global development challenges - Managing commodity and energy market s - Natural disasters and business (including tourism) - Energy efficiency and competitiveness - Green growth, consumer...

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:...

Topics: - General trends in market-based environmental policies and instruments - New forms of neoliberal conservation (including web 2.0, species banking, etc) - Agro-food systems, the meat-industrial complex, and aquaculture - Agro-fuels, energy and climate change - The relation between...

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...

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....