ISEE 2012 Conference - Ecological Economics and Rio+20: 16-19 June 2012

07 February 2012 at 14:57

ISEE2012 Conference - Ecological Economics and Rio+20: Challenges and Contributions for a Green Economy

 

 

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Join us from 16-19 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!

CONFERENCE THEMES

(1) Greening the Economy

- Measuring green growth

- The energy question

- Sustainable consumption

- (Un)sustainable cities?

(2) The Political Economy of Green Development

- Food security: who sows? who reaps?

- The economics and politics of climate change

- Pollution and politics

- Challenges of community resource governance

(3) Environmental Justice, Ethics and Values

- Global agreements: is convergence possible?

- Balancing nature: people, biodiversity and resilience

- Governing environmental behaviour

- Mores and morals: toward an environmental ethic

- Political ecology and ecological conflicts

(4) Methodological Challenges

- Feminist economics and ecological economics: can the twain meet?

- Behavioural economics and economic behaviour: beyond homo economicus?

- Economics and Ecology: transdisciplinary conversations