Ecocity World Summit 2008 Themes: - People: population, health, equity, and access - Nature: protecting and restoring the planet’s living systems and agricultural lands - Sustainable Development: land use, transportation, architecture and infrastructure - Economies & Technologies: building the...

The objective of the Conference is to introduce foreign and Czech institutions which deal with a variety of rural issues, and to enable the participants to discuss and exchange experience at three levels (international, national and local). Topics: - Social change and restructuring in rural...

The conference will bring together the scientific expertise on impact assessment, land use and landscape research, environmental economics, agriculture, forestry,rural sociology, urbanisation and the science policy interface. Innovative results on impact assessment related to land use and policy...

Topics: - Climate change and energy - Regional and rural development, structural funds - Sustainable development strategies at various levels of government - RTD for sustainable development - Sustainable consumption and production - Environmental resources and biodiversity - Gender and diversity...

The conference aims to provide a forum for discussing theoretical and empirical research on the causes and consequences of structural reforms—especially in terms of their effect on growth, macroeconomic stability, and resilience to shocks. The aim is to cover structural reforms very broadly,...

The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research on remittances and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to) volatility of remittances and their impact on investment and growth,...

The purpose of the seminar is to provide a platform for presenting newly developed and/or applied modelling approaches and tools for impact assessment of agricultural and rural development policies. Taking into account the complexity of agricultural and rural development policies, models can...

The conference will consist of twenty-four paper sessions including two jointly sponsored with the American Economic Association (AEA) and the American Finance Association (AFA). There will also be a special program for doctoral students, and social events. The topical focus of the sessions will...