Conference Announcement- Call for papers - Green Economics Institute - 29 July 2010
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5th Annual Green Economics Conference
Greening the Economy
Green Jobs
29 - 31 July 2010
Mansfield College and the Oxford University Club, Oxford University
Topic
"Green Jobs and Greening the Economy. After COP15 Copenhagen."
In Association With
Ashgate Academic Publishing, Gower Management Books, Venice International University, Italy, Inderscience Publishers of academic journals, The International Journal of Green Economics, The Green Economics Institute Trust, The Green Economics Institute Brazil, Campinas University Brazil, Green Economics Nigeria, Serbia and Macedonia, ENOP - European Network of political foundations, Ceratonia Green Foundation, Malta. Green Events and European Village in Athens.
Student Exchanges With
Belgrade (Serbia), FYR of Macedonia, Armenia, Germany, Brazil, Nigeria, China and Italy
Greening The Economy - Conference
(including Green Jobs stream)
Subjects Covered
Lifestyle changes, eco technology, geo engineering, carbon trading, a new world order, low carbon economies, international trade. Bio fuels - friend or foe? REDDs, reforestation, debt for nature swaps, green building and architecture. This conference debates these real dilemmas of today in the context of our global network of hundreds of specialists many of whom will be represented at the conference.
What does development really mean? (In the context of the DRC Congo and Ecuador)
What is a green job - and what is green wash?
What to do next about Climate change?
We led a delegation to the COP15 Climate Change Conference and our network includes Nobel Prize Winners and negotiators. We tell you about what really happened and what you can do to get involved and help the process.
Exploring the new world order after Copenhagen, Discovering the new political blocks and power structures in international global governance Reporting back from our own lively delegation at Copenhagen COP15 Conference and looking forward to Mexico COP15 Climate Change Conference Civil Society Where are we now? What is the meaning of protest? Who is really running the climate change debate? Sceptics-how they delayed an agreement, who are they?
Reforming the United Nations, legal reforms needed in the 21st century 21st century economics, beyond the Stern Report. How do we plan to prevent, adapt and mitigate for global environmental change. The future of civilisation and the future of humanity, at the cross roads. Which road have we taken and what are the implications?
Gender issues in the 21st century - the most urgent and pressing problem.
What does green economics mean today?
Progress towards a definition. As a fast moving, visionary and topical field, it is always necessary to continue to ask this fundamental question; something orthodox economics fails to do, which has lead to the distortion of its aims and its disjointedness with the real world. So what are the latest research findings and discussions on this topic?
Green economics solutions to the current economic crisis
The current crisis provides the opportunity to align consumption with resources and rebalance towards services rather than goods. How can we act on the new opportunities the crisis provides? What are the short term and long term solutions? What is the future of financial markets?
Lower growth, lower carbon economics, sustainable development economics?
The Balkans, Green Issues in Italy and latest developments from our team in Africa
This conference is part of the world's leading conference series in green economics. Internationally-renowned composite, multidisciplinary scientists, economists, campaigners, policy makers and directors, professors, social scientists and researchers from all over the globe continue to attend this very popular series, to present their frontier research findings and to keep up to date with latest achievements and developments in this fast moving, leading, and topical field.
Green economics views the current downturn as a clash between ecology and economy and argues that the commodity instability is a symptom of the exhaustion of natural resources. The markets are correctly reflecting that and are indicating that traditional economics instruments and derivatives are no longer working, and new methods of creating a natural economics of abundance need to be urgently developed.
The world has changed and green economics is a school of economics that is comfortable with long term-ism, equity, climate issues, biodiversity costs and poverty prevention. Green economics has been waiting to take on the mantle and that time has now arrived!
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford University, one of the most beautiful cities in the world with its famous, outstanding and atmospheric conference facilities, excellent travel connections and accommodation.
Miriam Kennet
Director, Green Economics Institute www.greeneconomics.org.uk Editor, International Journal of Green Economics www.inderscience.com/ijge
Speakers Include
Sir Alan Knight OBE
University of Exeter, Former Commissioner at the UK Government Commission for Sustainable Development, formerly Head of B and Q Corporate Social Responsibility and Business in the Environment
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky
Columbia University, New York
Dr E J Cilliers
Urban Green Compensation, Urban Planning issues, North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Environmental compensation is an alternative approach towards urban green planning. Green compensation is defines as replacing or relocating ‘green-values' in an urban area - an action to ensure quality enhancement and urban green protection. World Cultural Heritage, Gambling and Green Economics in Macao after reestablishment as part of China Social and environmental changes as a result of change from Portugal to China
N Sheng and U W Tang
Department of Civil Engineering University of Macao
Dr Chow Fah Yee
The social cost benefit analysis (SCBA). Generally, SCBA is used for public projects evaluation. In this proposed paper, it is used on a sample of private sector firms to see if resources are allocated in an efficient and equitable manner.
Professor Phillip Lawn Australia
Author of numerous books, specialist in indicators and social theory
Miriam Kennet
Editor International Journal of Green Economics, Director of the Green Economics Institute No time to loose, we need action now ? Explaining the extraordinary experience of COP15 Copenhagen and how it actually changed the world. Exploring the new power blocks, the new world order, the new role of civil society, can it step up to the role?
Global governance for the 3rd millennium - who is actually in charge now? Climate instability- whose responsibility is it really? What's happening at COP16 Mexico? Time to act now on economy, biodiversity, climate and poverty before it is too late.
Freddie Shamwarah
DR of Congo and University of Surrey
DR of Congo Green Economics and the rush to exploit the minerals in the Congo Unravelling the supply chains and working for peace
Shahla Khan
Researcher at UWIC, Cardiff
Doaa Salman
Associate Professor, Economics Department, MSA University, Egypt
Nighat Urpani
President of Ceratonia Anthropologist and specialist in European Studies Malta
Professor Jack Reardon
Hamline University Economics Department
Nicholas Haworth
Carbon Markets specialist
Dr Michael Briguglio
University of Malta, Sociology Department EU Lobbying
David Muir
Green Economics Institute Resource Economist and Green Building Specialist
Rebecca Moor
Oxford University and The Green Economics Institute Green Economics an Opportunity for Kenya
Grit Silberstein
Green Economics and Development: The case of Ecuador University of Goettingen and Ecuador and the Galapagos
Naomi Baster
(Orkney) University of Strathclyde: Award winning Economist, Green Economics Institute - Lower Growth Economics
Charles Yui Li
(Hong Kong): Green Accounting Specialist and Editor Green Accounting Book
Miriam Prasse
Green Economics Institute Germany
Professor Dr Makedonka
Macedonia American University in Skopje Current economics situation in FYR of Macedonia
Miriam Kennet
Workers and wages in Turkey
Green Economics and Foreign Direct Investment
David Nicholsby
Green Economics Institute UK and Cyprus
Sophie Henstridge
Cambridge University Head of Green Economics Institute's Interns College
Mahalet Mekonen
Ethiopia
Michele Gale D'Oliveira
Director The Green Economics Institute, USA, Chicago and Brazil Green Economics, The role of the UN and reform of the UN.
Michele talks about COP15 Climate Conference and the UNFCC Samoa
Daniela Petrovic
GTZ Serbia, Macedonia and Germany
Bezmir Geziqi
Albania
Plus many more. Please email us as soon as possible to ensure you get a place.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Requests to speak are invited, as are prospective authors to submit abstracts. This conference is designed to share the latest information on green economics issues. All speakers will be required to pay the conference fees.
All papers and abstracts must be submitted in .doc or .odt format and must include title of paper, all authors' email addresses, full names and affiliation and each paper must include a five-line biography of each author. Each paper must include full references and citations wherever these have been used.
Conference Papers and Proceedings
High quality Conference Proceedings will be provided to all fully paid up conference participants on arrival at the conference to use throughout the conference. All speakers are invited to send in papers for the proceedings. Papers must be between 1000 - 6000 words in .odt or .doc format. They must be fully referenced in Harvard Referencing format.
All papers will be submitted to the International Journal of Green Economic for inclusion in a special issue resulting from the
conference, if they are within 2000 -7000 words and fully referenced.
International Journal of Green Economics www.inderscience.com/ijge
Abstracts should be submitted to greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk as soon as possible as speaker slots are popular and filling up fast. If you know you would like to speak but have not prepared an abstract please email us as soon as possible so that we can reserve a slot for you. Our management committee will decide on acceptance and let you know as soon as possible.
All presenters are requested to consider presenting with an electronic presentation or other visual material and also using any case studies, examples or other illustrations of their ideas and to allow significant session time for questions and discussion. All the papers will be published for distribution to delegates at the conference in the high quality Conference Proceedings and can be cited as an academic publication if accepted.
Please send all electronic presentations for the conference at least 7 calendar days prior to the event to ensure we can put them on the laptops. Please check that the presentations are compatible to ‘OpenOffice' that means that latest .docx or .pptx files should not be used.
Please email us on greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk as soon as possible to let us know you are interested in participating.
2010 BOOKING
Details for Registration
For conference attendance fees for the 3 days of the conference see the attached booking form Standard fees for the conference are £200 per person per day for each day and must be pre booked Concessions are available, please see booking form and contact the institute for further details If booking all 3 days at full rate - fee is reduced to £540 for entire conference If booking 2 days together at full rate the fee is reduced to £380
All speakers to pay the Fees in order to provide for the widest opportunity for everyone to speak All fees to include all conference suppers, all field trips and all requirements. Drinks and lunches will be in the Oxford University Club and are included on Saturday and Sunday but are on a cash basis on Thursday and Friday greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
