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Subject: INVITATION – Green Economics Conference University of Venice –
April 2010
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 *Call for papers and invitation to First ever green economics conference in
Venice, Italy, April 2010*

*CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT /Call for papers*

*Green Economics Institute*

*Conference Announcement*

*Call for papers*

In association with Ashgate Academic Publishing, Gower Management Books,
Inderscience Publishers of academic journals, The International Journal of
Green Economics, The Green Economics Institute Brazil, Campinas University
Brazil, Green Economics Nigeria, The Green Economics Institutes Serbia and
FYR of Macedonia, ENOP European Network of Political Foundations, The Ten
Centre at the VIU Venice International University, Ceratonia Green
Foundation Malta, Green European Foundation, European Village Athens,
Greece, Eurac European Research Institute Bolzano, Italy

*Green Economics Conference
in Venice*

*in the beautiful setting of *

*Venice International University - San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy *

*23 – 25 April 2010
*

*GREENING THE ECONOMY*

*This is the first ever Green Economics Conference in Italy. The Green
Economics Institute is very active in Italy this year, writing books for the
Italian Government, and also providing events in several parts of Italy from
the Italian Alps down to the Sicilian area. Venice is particularly hard hit
by climate change and this conference is an attempt to provide solutions
that various parts of Italy are experiencing under global environmental
change.*

*We had our own delegation to the Copenhangen Climate Conference and will be
going to the COP16 Mexico Summit and the conference will prepare ideas to
take to Mexico.*

*The conference will also focus on Green Economics and Green Jobs.*

*Climate change*

The Green Economics Institute has been lucky enough to lead a delegation to
the Copenhagen Conference on climate change. Assessing how Kyoto has worked
up to now and suggestions for changes and for the next few years. How will
businesses have to adapt? What are the solutions to food and fuel issues?
What are the implications of climate change and sea level rise for the
economy of Venice? What can we learn from the experience and case study of
Venice?

*Subjects the conference will cover amongst others*

Legal Aspects of Environmental Law and climate change implications, gender
equity, environmental science, costs of climate change, costs of
biodiversity loss, how to asses an project from an environmental point of
view, environmental impact assessment, The Green New Deal, switching to
renewable energies, energy security and availability, Global Institutional
issues and governance, Global corporation and corporate social
responsibility, whole life costing, water management, water scarcity, Hydro
electric power, eco taxes, carbon taxes, lower carbon economies,poverty,
equity, aid, international trade and development, slow travel and green
transport, green accounting, resource management, green procurement,
development economics, recycling. How to run a green economy. Gender and
environmental and social justice discourses.

It will discuss Green solutions to the global financial crisis, the global
ecological crisis, the global biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis,
green construction and green planning issues, and green tourism.

It will also introduce and explain the different strands of environmental,
and green economics newly emerging disciplines in economics

*What is green economics? 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 Jobs and 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? – Ethical
investments? Many of our speakers are working on the Green Jobs Programme
and will present its latest findings.

*Heterodox and Pluralist Economics Streams*

Dr Arturo Herman "The Role of Policy Co-ordination in Fostering Sustainable
Development". Green Economics Institute and University of Rome

*Professor Jack Reardon Economics USA Hamline University, writer and editor
of recent book with Routledge on Pluralism in Economics *

*Gender and Green Jobs and Climate Change Stream *

*Green Building Streams *

David Muir Resources Economics and Green Buildings Green Economics Institute

Luca Bergo, Greening the building sector”. Italian architect based in Milan
with a long experience in green buildings, such as "La Casa Ecologica", a 53
apartment building in Milan, and the new twin towers of the 400 rooms Hotel
at Milan Fair.

*Consultant of the main agency of the Italian Ministry of Labour's Agency
for ecological buildings, for a project promoting craftmanship, small
industries and tourism sectors toward a more sustainable production and
behavior.*

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 Venice, one of the most beautiful cities
in the world with its famous, outstanding and atmospheric conference
facilities, excellent travel connections and accommodation. *
*

*Speakers include*

Prof. Ignazio Musu President and Director of Venice International
University,Italy

Professor Graciela Chichilnsiky UNESCO Professor of Economics, Columbia
University USA and Argentina

Dr Ilda Mannino Environmental Economics Specialist and Senoir Programme
Co-ordinator and Researcher Venice International University Thematic
Environmental Network Italy

*Green Economics and the Green Jobs Programme *

Monica Frasonni Spokesperson European Greens and recent MP Italy

Dr Enrico Tezza International Labour Organisation Author of books on the
labour market Turin Italy

Dr Philip Lawn Australia Author and Editor of International Journal

Dr Guenter Cologna Director EURAC European Research Institute, Academic
Research Bolzano Italy,

Miriam Kennet Director and Co- Founder, Green Economics Institute and Editor
International Journal of

Green Economics

*Sustainable Development and Economics Methodology, Law and Practice*

Lucia Ceccato
Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development
School for Advanced Studies in Venice Foundation (SSAV) - University Ca'
Foscari,

and Natural Resources Management, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Venezia

Responses to cope with Flood Risk, a comparison with two river basins

Dr Michael Briguglio Author, Malta The Social implications of Plastic
bottles, and also EU Lobbying

Dr Giancarlo Barbiroli is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Bologna
University, Italy

Forecasting and planning the energy source for cars: A methodological
approach

Renato Maduri Director of The Lancaster University Economics Journal and
Green Economics Institute and Lancaster University Economics specialist

Naomi Baster (Orkney) University of Strathclyde: Award winning Economist.
Green Economics Institute - Lower Growth Economics

Daniela Petrovic from GTZ Serbia, Macedonia and Germany

Max Marioni -Green Economics Institute, Italy, Berlin and UK

Volker Heinemann Green Economics Institute

Sophie Henstridge Cambridge University

*Gender, Green Jobs and the climate change discourse *

Miriam Kennet

Michele Gale

*Green Economics and Development: Methods of achieving the Millenium
Development Goals *

Mahalet Mekonen Ethiopia Remittances

Michele Gale USA, Chicago and Brazil

Jampel D'Angelo Development specialist University of Rome

*This conference will be run with members of the TEN Centre *

The Center for Thematic Environmental Networks (TEN) is a Center for
education and research in the fields of environment and sustainable
development.

TEN Center promotes the exchange of knowledge and information on the
environmental field and offers tools and supplementary approaches in order
to solve environmental issues with specific reference to sustainable
development.

*TEN Center*

   1.

   promotes education and advanced training programs on sustainable
   development and environmental management;
   2.

   develops research activities on the main areas of environmental
   protection, with specific focus on developing countries;
   3.

   hosts initiatives which provide a meeting platform for the competent
   authorities, researchers and those who are involved in environmental and
   sustainable development issues.

Since 2003, TEN manages and coordinates advanced training programs devised
for director generals and managers of public administrations, researchers
and private sector experts from the People’s Republic of China and Eastern
European countries. The aim is to augment and improve the capabilities of
policy-makers and to facilitate knowledge transfer in order to promote
sustainable environmental, social and economic policies.

Since 2002, TEN has also coordinated an EU-endorsed research network on
themes regarding contaminated sediments (SedNet); the goal is to identify
guidelines to deal with the problem using modern technologies and
coordinating studies in European Union countries.

*Registration fees*

*Conference Attendance and Registration Fees*

*Fees are £200 a day or €250 a day for days 2 and 3 of the conference *

*Concessions are available for undergarduate students, if paying in a
personal capacity, if you are based in a less developed country** and if
payment is received by end of February 2010, please contact the institute
for further details*

*Evening of day one dinner is £40 or €60*

*Field Trip fees are £100 or €150*

*Accomodation if required *

*(beautiful and modern accommodation on stunning campus location *

*right next to the conference venue)*

Double room at the price of € 135 per room per night

Single room at the price of € 95 per room per night

*Please email for details
**greeneconomicsinstitute at yahoo.com*<greeneconomicsinstitute at yahoo.com>

*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 paper for the proceedings.
Papers must be between 800 and 6000 words in .odt or .doc format. They can
be in English or Italian but it is preferred that if they are in Italian
they are accompanied by an English translation. *

*All papers will be submitted/considered for publication in the
International Journal of Green Economics following double blind peer review
for a potential inclusion in a special issue resulting from the conference
and featuring Italy in particular. Texts should be between 2000 - 7000 words
and written to an academic standard. *

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