The central questions of the conference therefore are: 1. In what ways do social heterogeneities and social inequalities contribute to social vulnerability to environmental and climate change and the likelihood that some people or groups are more prone to migrate than others? 2. What are the...

The conference will be structured around five themes: - Social institutions and ecosystem changes - Managing tradeoffs between multiple ecosystem services - Resilience and vulnerability of social and ecosystems to climate change - Biodiversity, ecosystem change and human wellbeing - Drivers of...

The tertiarisation of jobs, migration, industrial change and globalization have led to a steady decline in union membership in recent decades which put unions at risk of losing their role as important player in the labour market. The financial and economic crisis gives unions the chance to...

The Conference will cover chemistry, physics and material sciences related to energy technologies. In addition to plenary keynote presentations on diverse energy themes, parallel sessions will deal with energy sources, storage and conversion of energy and end-use including energy conservation.

This interdisciplinary conference will present the new advances in the modelling of the Global Change that combines Geosciences and Economics, with a perspective view from history - given the novelty of their interrelations – and from political science – given the impact of the model outputs...

Our aim is to organize a two-day conference in order to discuss recent techniques for the numerical valuation of american and bermudan options.

The overarching goal of the conference is to develop and understand basic principles that generate these flows of resources of different kind and extent. Sub-themes include consequences of family change for childhood resources and children's well-being; distribution of resources within...

The aims of this conference are to present the most recent developments in the domain of the Mathematical Finance, including here models in incomplete markets, models with defaults, credit risk models, applications of Levy processes in finance, implied volatility models, stochastic control in...

Sessions will focus on: - Demand and Supply in the Global Market for Biomedical Innovation - The Role of Government Funding and Private Insurance - Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade - The Social Returns to Biomedical Research - The Fragile State of Europe’s Biomedical...