Suggested topics include: - Driving forces (agricultural development and economic growth; urbanization and industrial and agricultural pollution; enewable energy and agricultural development; natural resource use and sustainable agriculture development) - Institutional and policy aspects...

The Conference constitutes an opportunity to bring together scientists from many disciplines to discuss the actual situation and future challenges of an industrialising agriculture close to urban metropolises. The seminar aims to provide a forum for reviewing the state of the art in research and...

The event will cover the following research themes: • Education and Inequality • Pupil Performance and School Resources • The Labour Market for Teachers • Gender Differences in Educational Attainment • International Differences in Education Systems

The 24th EGOS Colloquium invites proposals for sub-themes that address the central theme, "Upsetting Organizations", by providing empirical findings, theoretical explanations and critical reflections. Although we primarily encourage proposals referring specifically to the conference theme,...

The symposium theme “Systems Engineering for the Planet”, addressing the expanding scope of Systems Engineering application and responsibility. Examples of this expanding scope are Safety & Security, Disaster control, Resource efficiency, Infrastructure, Transportation systems, Climate...

The theme of the 2008-Conference is Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Chains and Networks. Therefore, the 8th International Conference aims to improve the understanding of: • systems innovations in agri-food supply chains and networks that need innovative governance, such as...

In recent years substantial progress has been made in developing microeconometric techniques for investigating causal effects. The use of these microeconometric techniques to deal with selectivity and endogeneity problems has become particularly popular in development, education, family, health...