The main objective of the workshop is to help the leaders of local governments and national level policy makers develop a strategic approach in dealing with environmental and social issues facing businesses. This can be achieved by: - Demonstrating the potentials of transforming SME clusters...

The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

The strongest, but also most volatile, factor affecting risk attitudes is loss aversion (“losses loom larger than gains”). It was given its proper place in decision theory by Daniel Kahneman. Most risks we face are new, with no past statistics available (ambiguity). This two-day conference...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, resource reallocation and adjustment costs, productivity, information and communication technology, R&D, market competition, exit and entry dynamics, transition and development, labor issues, environment, corporate governance, trade, and linked...

The programme of the conference will cover all areas of environmental and natural resource economics.

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The event targets participants from agricultural, environmental, economic, social and information technology sciences. Contributions may address methodological or theoretical issues, applications or dissemination and participatory aspects. Applications may relate to for instance agro-technical...