Conference Themes
We invite contributions to the conference that address the following main themes:
- Climate Change - causes, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and policy options
- Energy – renewable energy, energy flows, peak oil, green stimulus policies, energy and entropy, alternative energy and energy distribution technology
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – valuation issues and policy integration
- Land Use – including coastal zone management, water issues, ecosystem restoration, bioregionalism
- Ecology – complex systems, economy-ecology modelling, theoretical ecology
- Dematerialization and De-Growth – industrial ecology, eco-efficiency, sustainable consumption and production
- Sustainable Development - environment and industrial development, inequalities between rich and poor, indigenous rights and wisdoms, environmental colonialism and debt, environmental GDP of the poor, sustainability and self-actualization
- Environmental Ethics and Values - norms, ethical concepts, environmental values and decision-making
- Governance and Public Policy – green macroeconomics, recapturing the public space in an age of neo-liberalism, Green New Deal, green recovery, politics and public participation in decision making
- Knowledge and social learning – knowledge systems, dynamics and mechanisms of social learning and change in economic and policy processes
- Green Business – corporate social responsibility, ecological economics of the firm, industrial ecology, trade and taxation, incentives and entrepreneurship
- Heterodox Economics – opportunities after the crisis for institutional, evolutionary, post-keynesian, post-autistic economics, synergies with ecological economics
- Transdisciplinarity – post normal science, sustainability science, transdisciplinary research designs, participatory methods, methodological and theoretical challenges
- Teaching Ecological Economics - curriculum development, practical experiences, learning as sustainability
