List of Sessions: 1. Transnational Production of Urban Space: Convergent City Forms? 2. Urban Polarization 3. Marginalization and Inequality in Globalizing Cities of Developing Countries 4. Promoting Sustainable Urbanization in Developing Countries 5. Migration Networks in Asia: Their Processes,...

In this 1st International Forum on Insularity in the Mediterranean the main focus areas will be four especially sensitive issues for island territories: agriculture and industry, tourism, transportation and communications and global change.

This international symposium focuses on Japan’s and Germany’s fertility development and its connection with the countries’ social stratification. Using this dual perspective, the conference aims to improve the comparison of country-specific knowledge, to provide a better understanding of...

2 October 2008, Pre-conference - DIJ Forum:The Silver Market Phenomenon: A German-Japanese Perspective This first-ever global forum unlocks the secrets of the silver market phenomenon and focuses on innovation, product and service development, technology management, marketing and business models...

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 purpose of this workshop is to promote the development and application of spatial, temporal, and mainly spatio-temporal statistical methods to different fields related to the environment.This international workshop is the forth on the topic of Spatio-Temporal Modelling which is being held...

The subject of the conference is "The International Diffusion of Walras's Economics: Influence, Interpretations and Controversies."

The overall purpose of the High-Level Conference is to address food security issues in the face of soaring food prices and the new challenges of climate change and energy security. The objective is to assist countries and the international community in devising sustainable solutions to the food...