This international symposium aims to bring together scholars studying standards, their new content and their new roles, across the substantive areas of: the financial sector (including accountancy), the environment (including climate-related standards), labour, industrial and organizational...

The main objectives of the conference are to improve the understanding of (i) how natural disasters affect household welfare, and (ii) how policy-makers can overcome the behavioral, political, technical, and operative hurdles involved in disaster risk preventive interventions.

The purpose is to bring together policy-makers, business representatives and academic experts to discuss and advance the policy agenda on the contributions of ICTs in the area of climate change and improving environmental performance.

Innovation is a mechanism to transform the challenges faced by many countries and regions into opportunities. The BALAS Conference will discuss innovation as a source of integration, development, aggregate value, creation of new markets to generate income and wealth.

The main aim of the congress is to provide a synthesis of existing and emerging scientific knowledge necessary in order to make intelligent societal decisions concerning application of mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to climate change. The congress aims to identify and...

Objectives: - To consider major transport trends – both in large urban areas and those raised by a globalising economy – with a special focus on developments in Latin America; - To address challenges caused by these trends – for the environment at large and for human health in particular;...

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...

The programme will revolve around 6 pillars: a) Davos Updates: World Trends and Issues b) Latin America and Asia c) Opportunities in Infrastructure Development d) Going for Innovation e) Environmental Sustainability f) Investment for Growth

The conference is part of a project "Blurring Boundaries: EU Law and the Danish Welfare State" which has received funding from Danish Social Science Research Council.

Submissions are invited for full papers, or abstracts of papers, on all aspects of accounting and auditing for presentation at the Conference.