Theme: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A VOLATILE WORLD ECONOMY Panel Themes: - Global Financial Crisis - Sustainable Economic & Social Development Under Financial Meltdown - Change in Trade Patterns and Composition for Sustainable Development - Gandhian Planning for Sustainable Development -...

ICFT 2010, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Financial Technologies, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Forum Sessions: - Developments and trends in social security - Demographic challenges - Governance and management - Extension of social security coverage - Focus on Africa - Social Security Summit

The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Information and Finance. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world. Topics:...

Theme: Climate change, food security and resilience of food and agricultural systems in developing countries: Mitigation and adaptation options. The objective of this seminar is to bring together agricultural economists and other scientists working in the field of rural and agricultural...

Contributions are welcomed on the following themes: • Climate change as a driver of regional policy • The challenges of low carbon economies • Developing and evaluating sub-national policies for adaptation and mitigation • Post-Copenhagen challenges for taking forward international and...

The conference organizing committee welcomes contributions that address visions and strategies for tackling these energy and environmental challenges. We expect papers which address new political, social, ethical and natural science advances in efforts to reduce societal energy use, climate gas...

The Symposium will bring together environmental economists from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will provide a venue for reporting key findings from projects supported under the Environmental Economics Research Hub as well as other research initiatives. Papers should address current...

Topics of interest include: - Technical change and the environment - Sectoral and macroeconomic effects of IT on energy demand - Productivity gains and cost savings through Green IT - Green IT innovations - Energy and resource use of IT products over their life cycle - Smart grids and transport...

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue. This focuses...