Recent studies project populations reaching levels of 12-14 billion individuals by the end of the century. This raises a set of questions regarding food security, pandemic threats, and environmental crisis. These issues relate back to Thomas Malthus and the concerns he raised relating to...

The world is facing considerable global challenges related to urbanisation. More than half of the global population already lives in cities and the trend towards urban growth – whether planned or informal – seems to continue. Goal 11 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals is...

Die Frage der nachhaltigen sozialökologischen Entwicklung von und in Europa bleibt unterbelichtet. Das Symposium zu aktuellen Fragen pluraler Ökonomik von WIWA und ZOE bietet hingegen eine Plattform, um diese Lücke zu füllen. Wir laden daher zur Einreichung von Papieren ein, die sich – zum...

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in labour economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region. Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

The Business Systems Laboratory International Symposia aim to address the global economic and social challenges of our times by systemic perspective; shedding the light to the several interactions between natural social and economic systems. The criticalities and the opportunities of our times...