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9th Biennial Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics studies the relations between the economy and the environment with a variety of methods. They include the assessment of the impacts of economic growth on the environment by means of physical indicators. They also include the economic valuation of ecosystem services and of environmental damages. Ecological Economics deals with macroeconomic issues, and also with sectoral resource policies (energy, water, transport, forestry, agriculture, fishing), and with the evaluation of investment projects. At the level of firms, Ecological Economics enters the discussion on environmental liabilities and "green" accounting. Ecological Economics also focuses on the relations between property rights and environmental management. The 2006 biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics will take place on December 15-18 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. One main reason to have the conference in India is the strong presence of the INSEE, lead by world famous scholars. There are many other reasons. What happens in India is important for the world. There will be a programme of pre and post-conference seminars and field trips so that the opportunity is given to participants to learn more about environmental, economic, social, political and cultural aspects of India. Ecological Economics has Gandhian roots. India will be soon the largest country in the planet in terms of human population, with high population density. Urban growth is very rapid. The economy of India is growing at rates above 6 per cent per year, the rate of population growth is coming down, poverty is slowly decreasing. This is a country divided by caste and religion. India is also the country of "sacred groves". It is the cradle of ancient civilizations, and it has a large architectural patrimony. It is the centre of diversity of several cultivated plants. It has become a hub for the informatics industry. The car industry grows at more than 20 per cent per year. Coal, hydroelectricity, oil, gas - all energy sources grow rapidly. The economy is not dematerializing relative to GDP. By 2020, there will be some 20,000 MWe of extra nuclear power, and perhaps a few breeder reactors. There are conflicts on mining, on the use of water, on fishing and aquaculture, and on forests, in many regions of India. Tribal areas are often the site of resource conflicts. There are also many instances of successful local management of common property resources. There are strong environmental movements. All this clearly provides a pressing mandate for the ecological economics fraternity to meet and deliberate on the various themes of ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HUMAN WELL-BEING in this part of the world and around the planet. Coincidentally, the year 2006 also marks the centenary of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's birth. He is widely seen as one of the founders of the ecological economics approach in his book The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, 1971.
| What | Convention |
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| When |
2006-12-15 09:00
to 2006-12-18 19:00 |
| Where | Lodi Estate, New Delhi, India |
| Contact Name | Conferences & Incentives Management (I) Pvt. Ltd. |
| Contact Email | info@isee2006.com |
| Contact Phone | +91 11 26536075-77, 26536084 |
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