Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis

The 11th Biennial ISEE Conference, 2010 will take place from 22 - 25 August, 2010 with the theme: “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crises”. The conference will take place in the two adjacent cities of Bremen and Oldenburg. Both universities have a strong record in ecological economic research and teaching and are centres of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability research with a strong focus on social science and economic dimensions of the problem. Scientific sessions and most plenary sessions will be held on the premises of the University of Oldenburg at its Uhlhornsweg Campus. Parallel sessions, semi plenaries and plenaries will be held in the new lecture hall building and surrounding university buildings. All will be equipped with LCD projectors and provide space for 20 to 50 people. Bremen was chosen as the site of a formal reception including a high class keynote and the conference dinner. The first will take place in the astonishing renaissance town hall, the latter in the adjacent Ratskeller with its subterranean vaults.

We invite contributions to the conference that address the following main themes:

• Climate Change - causes, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and policy options
• Energy – renewable energy, energy flows, peak oil, green stimulus policies, energy and entropy, alternative energy and energy distribution technology
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – valuation issues and policy integration
• Land Use – including coastal zone management, water issues, ecosystem restoration, bioregionalism
• Ecology – complex systems, economy-ecology modelling, theoretical ecology
• Dematerialization and De-Growth – industrial ecology, eco-efficiency, sustainable consumption and production
• Sustainable Development - environment and industrial development, inequalities between rich and poor, indigenous rights and wisdoms, environmental colonialism and debt, environmental GDP of the poor, sustainability and self-actualization
• Environmental Ethics and Values - norms, ethical concepts, environmental values and decision-making
• Governance and Public Policy – green macroeconomics, recapturing the public space in an age of neo-liberalism, Green New Deal, green recovery, politics and public participation in decision making
• Knowledge and social learning – knowledge systems, dynamics and mechanisms of social learning and change in economic and policy processes
• Green Business – corporate social responsibility, ecological economics of the firm, industrial ecology, trade and taxation, incentives and entrepreneurship
• Heterodox Economics – opportunities after the crisis for institutional, evolutionary, post-keynesian, post-autistic economics, synergies with ecological economics
• Transdisciplinarity – post normal science, sustainability science, transdisciplinary research designs, participatory methods, methodological and theoretical challenges
• Teaching Ecological Economics - curriculum development, practical experiences, learning as sustainability

 

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