The co-operation of several co-organisers makes it possible to fall back on different competences in the areas of sustainability and renewable energy in particular and to seize them in a successful symbiosis.

Sustainably managing the local and the global commons requires not only an understanding of the environmental factors that affect them, but also a knowledge of the interactions and feedback cycles that operate between such resource dynamics and the socio-economic dynamics attributable to human...

Topics: - Anatomy of a credit crunch: how does it start, how does it end? - The macroeconomics of financial market liquidity - The interaction of balance sheet constraints and the macroeconomy - The conduct and operation of monetary policy in a credit crunch - Modelling credit crunches and...

Papers are specifically invited on the themes of: - Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation instruments, taking into account spatial and governmental considerations; - Development of new, incentive-compatible instruments to conserve biodiversity; - Evaluation...

NAM is a member of IFSAM, International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. NFF publishes the Scandinavian Journal of Management and hosts biannual conferences. The 20th Annual NFF Conference will be held in Turku, Finland in August 2009 and will be preceded by a PhD...

Main topics: Accident risk; Ageing; Biological rhythms; Cancer risk; Cardiovascular risk; Compensatory measures; Education and training; Factors affecting tolerance; Gender; Performance efficiency; Preventive actions; Risk management; Shift work sleep disorder; Social aspects; Work/non work...

The main aim of this 25 hours course is to provide an introduction to applied macroeconomics and macroeconometrics with MATLAB. The approach is problem based, i.e. students will be made familiar with the software using well-known examples from both economic theory and applied econometrics.

Main Topics: - Behavioral Law & economics: the state of the art and recent developments; - Experimental economics and incomplete contracts; - Bounded rationality, modularity and organization design, - Behavioral and experimental game theory: trust, social norms and institutions; - Law &...

Theoretical and empirical papers on productivity, production and efficiency measurement in industrial engineering, economics, operations research, management science, or related fields are invited. The conference covers new contributions in micro and macroeconomics, including theory of...

The subject of the conference is "Fashions: Business Practices in Historical Perspective."