Call for Participants: Sustainable Growth, Resource Productivity and Sustainable Industrial Policy - Recent Findings New Approaches for Strategies & Policies

                  CALL FOR PAPERS: Young Researchers

                 International Wuppertal Colloquium on

       SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY AND SUSTAINABLE
        INDUSTRIAL POLICY - RECENT FINDINGS, NEW APPROACHES FOR
                        STRATEGIES AND POLICIES

                     held September 17 - 19, 2008
                   at Wuppertal University (Germany)
              in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute


      The international colloquium shall bring together top
      experts on sustainable growth and sustainable resource
      management. It aims to analyse the contribution of
      increasing resource productivity to sustainability. Having
      a focus on economics, the international colloquium shall
      also cover the technological, the environmental and the
      international dimensions. The number of participants and
      presentations is strictly limited in order to facilitate
      discussion.


      PARTICIPANTS:

      Among international experts which already have confirmed
      their participation for the present are:

      - Professor Dr. Thorvaldur Gylfason, University of Iceland,
        IS
      - Dr. Arnold Tukker, TNO Built Environment and Geoscience,
        Delft, NL
      - Jennifer Li, Ph.D., Foundation for Environmental Security
        and Sustainabilty, VA, USA
      - Prof. Dr. Thomas Graedel, Yale University, USA
      - ZhongXiang Zhang, Ph.D., East-West Center, HI, USA
      - Professor Paul Ekins, Ph.D., Kings College London, UK


      CONFERENCE DETAILS:

      The international colloquium shall take place in 2008,
      2009, and 2010. It accompanies a large research project on
      "material efficiency and resource savings" which is
      coordinated by the Wuppertal Institute with some 30
      partners on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the
      Environment. While the first international colloquium
      intends to assemble the state of the art, the subsequent
      colloquia in 2009 and 2010 shall also discuss technological
      potentials and business opportunities as well as options
      for a sustainable industrial policy. A publication is
      intended.


      PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

      Eligible are young researchers preferably from economics in
      their Ph.D. or shortly thereafter (Post Doc). The deadline
      for submission of the full paper as PDF-file is May 7. Only
      papers in English are considered. Authors will be notified
      about the decision on the acceptance of their paper in June
      2008. An intership at the Wuppertal Institute
      (http://www.wupperinst.org) or a visiting fellowship at the
      European Institute for International Economic Relations at
      Wuppertal University (EIIW, http://www.euroeiiw.de Prof.
      Dr. Paul Welfens) in timely connection to the colloquium is
      feasible.


      FURTHER INFORMATION:

      CONTACT:       Prof. Dr. Raimund Bleischwitz
                     Conference Chair
      Email:         MAILTO:piet.hausberg@wupperinst.org
Posted 4/18/08