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Reclaiming Economics- benefiting all people Green Economics Institute everywhere, other species, nature, planet and its systems
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 Economist, The Green Intern, The Green Economics Institute Trust, Green Economics Limited, The Green Economics Institute Brazil, Campinas University Brazil, and Green Economics Nigeria , Serbia and Macedonia, ENOP European Network of political foundations- Green European Foundation, Green Foundation; Ceratonia Green Foundation, Malta. Green Events and European Village in Athens, Green Economics Interns College:This conference is advertised by Dow Jones, and Wall Street on their leadership programme website!
5th Annual Green Economics Conference The Age of Global Transformation The Age of Green Economics
What is Green Economics? – Come and find out from the experts! The Green Economy: a ray of hope to solve the economic downturn “An Age of Global Transformation – An Age of Green Economics” The economics of social and environmental justice And the economics of doing and sharing! Greening the Economy and Green Jobs
29, 30, 31 July 2010
A three day conference at Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford UK Why this event? We live in critical times. Global and national events are affecting our jobs, our families, and future generations. Whoever sits at the table makes the decisions that affect everyone. Our leaders have to be inclusive and visionary and represented at the table if we are to create change for this generation, and for generations to come.
The conference theme is Leadership Legacy: No Time Like the Present. By learning from keynote speakers who are committed to creating legacies through their work, and by participating in a choice of inspirational workshops, delegates will be enthused to think about what else they can achieve and contribute through their leadership capabilities and to start planning for this during the event. This conference is advertised by Dow Jones and Wall Street on their website leadership programme.
This landmark fifth conference will encourage people across the globe to develop their leadership talents and find new ways of contributing to their jobs, their organisations and the world. What does green economics really mean, where did it come from? How does it fit with degrowth, lower carbon economics, ecological economics, environmental economics, welfare economics, development economics carbon trading- eco tech, geo engineering, green innovation, and a host of other alternative view points?
At this Conference, we will discuss the questions of: Is it lifestyle changes, eco-tech, hi-tech, low-tech, techno-fixes, geo-engineering, carbon-trading, a new world order, low-carbon economies, international trade, climate migration, more or less protectionism?
The economics of sharing, the economics of doing?
What do we do with the banks? Friend or foe? Access to credit for the poor or more debt or less debt? Greening the Economy and Green Jobs Bio fuels-friend or foe?
REDDs? Reforestation, debt-for-nature swaps: friend or foe? Land: green-building, green architecture. How do we manage government in an Age of Global Transformation – An Age of Green Economics? Green procurement, green-accounting, SMART goals? Does “what gets measured – gets done” still hold? Gender perspectives from our womens unequal pay and poverty solutions campaign, and the launch of a special issue of The International Journal of Green Economics: Women’s Issue. Climate change: how did it get derailed? -- Getting it back on target.
This conference debates these real dilemmas of today in the context of our global network of 6000 specialists many of whom will be represented at the conference. Sharing and distribution, equity and gender. What does development really mean? In the context of DRC Congo and also Ecuador? What is a green job? What is green-wash and what really helps? Who can attend? This conference is for open to anyone who is interested in solving the crises of the moment and in joining with others to implement a vision of the future and making it happen. It equally will appeal to academics, policy makers, civil servants, business people, people in charities and NGOs and in UK and international Public Service management and leadership roles.
What this conference will offer? The conference aims to: enable delegates to learn about the different green economics solutions adopted by people who are already paving the way to the future; provide workshops to increase delegates’ understanding of ethics, economics and the environment as the foundations of a sustainable society; support delegates to ‘think big’ and work towards aspirational leadership goals in change management; offer a unique networking opportunity to bring together people from all over the world in International and also Public Service roles.
How will this be achieved? Through a stimulating programme which includes: keynote addresses and workshops led by people, innovators, inspirers and visionaries from across the world small group activities and workshops with expert facilitators networking opportunities action planning.
This conference marks the transition from our beginning phase which was creating a new discipline called “ Green Economics.” This has now been achieved and so this conference will be planning phase two and celebrating the achievements of phase one!
Debrief from Copenhagen COP 15 Climate Change Conference 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, what does it really mean.? 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. Where the world bank and the Universities and Scientists are excluded from climate debates, we discuss who is really in charge? And why it really matters.? Sceptics—how they delayed an agreement, who are they? New world order involves civil society, how will this work? Reforming the United Nations, who is equiped to run the climate and global governance, 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 Gender and climate change: Why it really matters -the most urgent and pressing problem. Why did the chair resign?
Why are women being left out of climate decision-making?
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced an important new climate change financing group but out of the 19 people named, no women were included. This is unfortunate because women will bear the brunt of the effects of climate change and are key to any climate solutions.The group is tasked with investigating potential sources of revenue to support developing countries in their efforts to cope with the impacts of climate change and the shift to low-carbon development pathways. The Copenhagen negotiations in December called for $30 billion in climate financing for 2010 to 2012, ramping up to $100 billion annually by 2020.
The secretary-general’s choices for the advisory group will bring intellectual energy and political gravitas. The group is chaired by the U.K. Prime Minister and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. It includes two additional heads of state, ministers of finance, and leaders of central banks. Taking part are financier and philanthropist George Soros and economist Sir Nicholas Stern. It includes equal representation between industrialized countries and developing countries (though only two smaller, highly vulnerable developing countries). But what it does not include at all is women.
Leaving women out is unfortunate and reflects a persistent bias in climate change decision-making roles. It is also unwise given the ultimate objective of the advisory group. This elite club will frame and shape climate change financial flows to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We know that women are disproportionately represented among both of these groups and are often on the front lines of climate change. In developing countries, because of their role as primary providers of food, water, and fuel for their families, women are both the most affected by climate change and a pivotal force for building responses to direct climate impacts.
What does green economics really 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?
What is Green Economics?An age of global transformation- An age of Green Economics Green Economics positions economics within a very long-term, earth-wide, holistic context of reality as a part of nature in the longer term and as a blueprint for 21st century economics practice in the shorter term. It moves economics from an emphasis and outcome of military, sex and cars, with Fordist and Taylorist high mass consumption of the 20th century into the economy of the 21th century which has a completely new aim and objective, for provisioning for the needs of all people everywhere, other species, nature, the planet and its systems as beneficiaries rather than throwaway inputs to the ceteris paribus economy of homo economicus and ruling man and his preferences. Economics is no longer about men in business suits- arguing over supply and demand curves and models. Economics is reclaimed as something that everyone and everything on the planet practices as all have impacts and all have needs, all have responsibilities and all have spheres of impact.
Economics goes back to its roots- as a discipline of household and estate management – oikia- rather than being predicated on greed, profit and price- with its joint roots in ecology.
Economics becomes altogether a more inclusive, much more gender balanced discipline both in terms of who its practitioners are and what its outputs and theories and explanations are. It also incorporates and celebrates 'difference', diversity, equity and inclusiveness within its concepts of society and community. Its philosophy is to manage economics for nature, the planet and people, rather than to manage the environment for business as usual. By combining economics with knowledge from the natural sciences, Economics can now incorporate a much wider, more practical, holistic, and pluralist multidisciplinary range of knowledge than other schools of economics under a heterodox umbrella. Green Economics can offer unique insights into four of the key areas ('eco', intellectual, political and moral) of today's significant and mounting problems and highlights how its novel insights provide new solutions.
The development of this new branch of Economics critiques the main contradictions, deficiencies, assumptions, conventions, and inherent normative concepts found in dominant neo-classical economic thinking, which have accumulated over the past two centuries and reassessing the world undergoing social and environmental change.
It develops these themes further in order to achieve simultaneous social and environmental justice, as inseparable parts of a whole. Green Economics looks for solutions that simultaneously address poverty,( one fifth of humanity), current dangerous runaway climate change and instability and ending the current mass extinction of species ( currently there is the 6th ever on earth mass extinction event going on ) within an equitable and future proofed framework.
Green Economics is extremely forward thinking, long term, hi tech, futuristic, technically competent, ( many of our board have degrees in economics and Phds or other degrees in earth science or physics). Many are also literate in social science, many specialising in new ways of examining -truth and reality in both the social and physical world, using new innovative more up to date methodology. Our project is nothing less than to re-conceptualise the philosophy of economics and its and our place in the world.
As such a particular aspect is to re consider the role of economic growth, the role of GDP, and the role, structure and outcomes in the real economy of production, Foreign Direct Investment, speculation, land use, construction, property, procurement, logistics and supply chains and accounting as well as IT, and computer uses and intellectual property issues. Practises we use include everything on open source, and using slow travel in our work as well as web cams, web seminars and open source publishing. We have one of the largest green websites with free up to the minute global news and information.
We also believe in local production for local needs, efficiency for appropriate supply, eg milk and vegetables being produced locally, energy being produced locally where possible and SMART grids being implemented. We are also exploring higher tech solutions. However, climate change will lead to huge areas of the world being uninhabitable or unsuitable for growing food and we are committed to a sharing methodology for all of humanity – rather than a l”and, forest and food grab” of assets by the rich and powerful.
This means global solutions for global problems such as poverty and it means working much harder to prioritise the Millenium Development Goals especially the education and empowerment of women and girls. It has been suggested (McGlade) by the European Environment Agency that educating and empowering women – would alone reduce the population projection down from 9 billion to 7 billion humans. This alone would alleviate huge amounts of hardship. We advocate empowerment of women and girls and the single most important piece of work to be done in the next few years – which will have direct benefits for all of us on the planet. Men currently own 99% of the worlds assets and this patriarchy and accumulation needs to be urgently rebalanced into a more sharing and caring economics practise.
Green Economics has also been termed -The economics of sharing –so it addresses now forms of distribution and also the economics of doing- as it is now a major player in many governments around the world, in the race to become green and to use Green Economics and the green economy as the one ray of hope in ending the current economics downturn and setting trends for 21st century economics and provisioning over the century for the needs of all people everywhere, other species, nature the planet and its systems and in fact provisioning for the comfortable survivability of the human and other species. Governments all over the world are falling over themselves to understand this programme and message- do ensure you don't loose out!
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?
Lower growth or de-growth, lower carbon economics, sustainable development economics?
Geographies and the new power blocks of economics BRIC economics, NICs, small island states 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 Here is a sample of a few of our fascinating range of global speakers, including:
Alan Knight OBE University of Exeter, Former Commissioner at the UK Government Commission for Sustainable Development, formerly Head of B&Q Corporate Social Responsibility and Business in the Environment Professor Graciela Chichilnisky (being confirmed) UNESCO Professor of Economics and Statistics, Columbia University New York Also some top civil servants from the UK will be speaking about the role of government in a green economy
A speaker panel from the Green European Foundation in Luxembourg
Dr Magnus Chidi Onahue Green Economics Nigeria, Abuja, Green Economics lively year 2010
Grimot Nane Department of Social & Policy Studies, London South Bank University
“Unequal Pay: A Case of Entrenched Corruption Against Women” Paper 1: The acceptable definitions of corruption inform us that corruption involves misuse or abuse of power, responsibility or discretion for the private gain of a group or individual. While standard sources of literature indicate that the beneficiaries of corruption have derived their advantages from elitist, genealogical, racial, tribal, religious etc. positions the is no definitive literature that offers any indication that unequal pay for women is actually a significantly androcentric act of corruption. This paper seeks to develop the foundations of gender pay inequality within the accepted frameworks of corruption. The paper also uses this development to suggest that the human rights / individual rights arguments for gender pay equally are now probably dated or captured and a search for a new approach to the problem needs to be developed for the immediate future. Grimot Nane: specialist in Nigeria - Issues in Legitimacy Paper 2: Green institutions are relatively young when compared to age of a myriad of existing institutions in the economies and polities of present day nations. Young institutions often have a serious problem of acquiring customary legitimacy which poses significant obstacles to their enforcement and effectiveness. While many obstacles to the enforcement of green institutions can be identified, it is the legitimacy of much older institutions whose operations have a long history of un-green impacts and externalities on society, i.e. institutions which green institutions have been established to correct that pose the major obstacles. This paper attempts to explore issues in the legitimacy of green institutions and uses a new institutional analysis to assess how the effective green institutions have become and will be in future taking into consideration the dominant forces in society that militate against them.
Lawrence C. Bloom FRICS Chairman - Green Cities, Buildings and Transport Council - Green Economy Initiative, UNEP - Former Chairman - Current Council Member, Global Agenda Council on Urban Management - World Economic Forum – Davos - Vice Chair - Climate Prosperity Alliance – Washington, USA (being confirmed) Soumyananda Dinda Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna, India Environmental Kuznets curve - an envelope of technological progress.
Robin Harper MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament Scottish Parliament Climate Change Bill, and its first anniversary of the Royal Assent (August 4th 2010) and his role in its development
Professor Zhang Ying Beijing Institute of Forestry How the political system can help or hinder the promotion of an alternative economic paradigm
Deirdre de Búrca MP Green Party Ireland Green knowledge economy
Professor Adrian Newton School of Conservation Sciences Bournemouth University
Dr Enrico Tezza International Labour Organisation Italy Green Jobs Programme, labour markets and green employment
Dr Shalabi - Green Jobs International Labour Organisation Italy Towards An Equitable Method of Resource Allocation For Private Sector Firms
Dr. Chow Fah Yee Associate Prof., Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University Technology MARA, Malaysia. 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.
Dr Eu Chye Tan Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Professor Phillip Lawn Philip Lawn is an ecological economist at Flinders University, Australia. Philip has written and edited six books on sustainable development, green national accounts, and the perceived jobs- environment conflict. Philip is nearing the completion of a book on the economics of climate change.
"The climate change dilemma and the steady-state economy: why the latter is necessary to resolve the former"
Professor Holger Schloer Assessment Methods in Green Economics Vivienne Rayner Small businesses and their characteristics
Dr Michael Jefferson Professor of International Business and Sustainability, Centre for International Business and Sustainability, London Metropolitan Business School;Visiting Professor, School of Humanities, Buckingham University. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Recipient of the IPCC's Certificate for his contributions (1991-2007) to their Nobel Peace Prize Award, 2007.
Dr Joseph Halevi Economics Professor Australia Thinking about environmental policies as a way out of the crisis. Policies will have to be different from area to area. For instance in Europe, North America, Japan etc they will have to be based on a zero growth+full employment criterion, whereas in areas like Africa or Latin America they will require a certain growth propelled by poverty and slum elimination schemes etc. The international financial system will be transformed radically with this crisis so there is a vacuum which may allow for the airing of different tunes
Dr Mark Robbins BEC, IBERS, Aberystwyth, Wales - The Green Economy
Dr EJ 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.
Michael Brugiglio University of Malta speaks on EU Lobbying.
Dr Arturo Herman Institute in Rome - Institutional issues in Economics
N. Sheng and U.W. Tang Department of Civil Engineering University of Macao Growing Green Movement in Africa.
Dr Stefan Kesting Senior Lecturer above the bar, Economics, Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology
Dzineta Dimante and Dzintra Atstaja Professors of Economics in Latvia Frank Habineza Growing the Green Movement in Africa Founding President, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda/President, African Greens Movement (AfGM)/ Co-Africa Representative to Global Greens Coordination
Dr Liz Walley Manchester
Dr Jeff Turk Slovenia Academy of Arts and Sciences Belgium and Slovenia
Graham Truscott Brand Active
Kristina Jocuite Lithuania - Green Economics Institute Erasmus Scholar
Henry Cox Capital as natural yields, as natural stocks and as artifacts Managing Multiple Stakeholders: What makes a ‘sustainable’ strategy?
Rachel Curzon Lecturer - Tutor MA Spatial Planning School of Property, Construction and Planning - Birmingham City University Nature, Culture, and Climate in the 1790’s: Some Unintended Consequences
Marilyn Gaull The Editorial Institute at Boston University
Environmental benefits of conservation agriculture
M Fenni Laboratory of Valorisation of Biological and Natural Resources, Faculty of Science, University Ferhat Abbas
Miriam Kennet Editor International Journal of Green Economics, Director of the Green Economics Institute, IPCC, 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 its too late. Freddy Shamwana. DRC and University of Surrey DRC Congo Green Economics and the rush to exploit the minerals in the Congo Unraveling the supply chains and working for peace
Shahla Khan, Researcher at UWIC,Cardiff
Dr Doaa Salman Associate Professor, Economics Department, MSA University, Egypt Global Dimming -a forgotten problem with important consequences for global food production
Industrial pollution and water poverty in Egypt; Measurement techniques, meanings and outcomes in the context of the River Nile Nighat Urpani President of Ceratonia Anthropologist and specialist in European Studies Malta ( being confirmed)
Professor Jack Reardon Hamline University Economics and member of Green Economics Institute Advisory Committee
Nicholas Haworth Carbon Markets specialist
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 Foreign Direct Investment in South America and its effects: Ecuador and the Galapagos
Naomi Baster University of Strathclyde: Award winning Economist. Green Economics Institute - Lower Growth Economics
Dr Fenni Mohamed Algeria
Charles Yui Li (Hong Kong): Green Accounting Specialist and Editor Green Accounting Book Miriam Prasse Green Economics Institute Germany (being confirmed)
Professor Dr Makedonka Petrova Macedonia American University in Skopje Economist discusses current economic situation in Macedonia
Volker Heinemann Director Green Economics Institute
Petra Zikatanova Green Economics Institute - Bulgaria
Rosalyn Lim Green Economics in Singapore
Sanjay Raja Richmond American University - Africa and Green Economics
Marija Trachtenberg Richmond American University - Special needs and the inclusive nature of Green Economics
Special sessions on Buddhist economics and sustainability (speakers being confirmed)
David Nicholsby Green Economics Institute UK and Cyprus
Sophie Henstridge Cambridge University Head of Green Economics Institute's Interns College
Mahalet Mekonnen Ethiopia Remittances, the economy and gender
Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira Green Economics, The role of the UN and reform of the UN. Michelle talks about COP15 Climate Conference and the UNFCCC Samoa Director The Green Economics Institute, USA, Chicago and Brazil Daniela Petrovic GTZ Serbia, Macedonia and Germany
Bezmir Geziqi Green Economics Institute - Albania
Dr Sapna Reheem India after Copenhagen - NALSAR University of Law, India
Landvaluescape for Green Property Taxes
Dr Tony Vickers Kingston University School of Surveying
Michelle Kalamandeen, M.Sc. (Oxon) Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus, ECD, Guyana, South America
Dr Khosro S Jahdi Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Bradford Business and Law School, Bradford College
“Green Marketing: a spent force, or a force to be reckoned with?”
Dr Olanrewaju Sanni Keele University UK
Mark Rogers Marketing Director Pachacuti, World's 1st Certified Fair Trade Organisation by WFTO Special Interns College Dinner Presentation Evening With over 100 interns we now are a major interns institution and our internship is regarded as the Rolls Royce of Internships globally and we are mentioned in the leadership training of the Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. Our lively interns package recruits throughout the year. We are now charging £500 one of fee to meet the costs of the activities travel and tutorials and publishing opportunities as well as long term career and recession busting networking that we provide to all our interns. Please email us if you or someone you know could benefit from this wonderful and exciting scheme. There are also details on our website. The current interns will present their activities and research at this occasion which was really lovely at last years conference.
...and many more. Please email us as soon as possible to ensure you get a place! Ask for further details.
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 word 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 paper for the proceedings. Papers must be between 1000 words – 6000 words in .odt or .doc format. They must be fully referenced in Harvard Referencing format and not contain footnotes. All papers will be submitted to the International Journal of Green Economics for double blind peer review 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 [email protected] 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. Please don't wait as we already have lots of speakers. However we decide on suitability so please email to request a slot. All presenters are requested to consider presenting with a Powerpoint or other visual material and also using any case studies, examples or other illustrations of their ideas and to allow at least half their 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. All successful papers will be considered for inclusion in our academic journal International Journal of Green Economics, IJGE published by Inderscience Publishers – the first green academic journal in the world. Please send all Power Point presentations at the conference at least 7 calendar days prior to the event to ensure we can put them on the laptops for presentation.
Please email us on [email protected] as soon as possible to let us know you wish to participate. Registration please email for details of registration fees. This conference must be pre booked: [email protected] 2010 BOOKING
Inclusive Daily Rate Total Number of Fees Days Concessions Per day £100 per day
Fees Per Person 1 Day £135 if paying personally Fees Per Person 2 Days £240 if paying personally Fees Per Person 3 Days £380 if paying personally Members of the Green Economics Discount 10% Institute paid up in 2010 Institutions, colleges, NGOs , £175 1 day invoiced rate universities,and companies £340 2 days invoiced rate £500 3 days invoiced rate These must be prepaid before the conference in order to reserve a place and a speaker slot
Stalls £300 per day, £410 2 days, £500 for all three days - guarantees a speaker slot and Includes an exhibition table and a an exhibition table speaker slot Publishers stalls £250 per day including 1 entrance fee, one table and one workshop if required. Sponsorship Please contact the Institute Provides your information in the Conference Proceedings and on all our conference literature and advertising where appropriate and named as a sponsor in all cases and space on our website and your own webpages on our web site which has a million visitors and currently 10 000 hits per month of potential clients Accommodation Accomodation is not included in fees but is available at both venues- please enquire with your booking form. Both have charming en suite modern facilities. Please email: Accomodation at Mansfield College : Lynne Quiggin [email protected] Accomodation at the Oxford University Club- please email [email protected]
Lunches on Thursday and Friday are on a cash basis with a very wide selection of lovely choices in the lovely Oxford University Club. Lunches and continuous refreshments are included in the fees on Saturday and Sunday.
Full and exciting evening dinners every night are included in the conference fees . Initial Conference Timetable JCR Council Seminar Chamber Room Day 1 Mansfield College Oxford University Thursday 29 July 2010 10:00:00 Arrival, registration and welcome Workshops Plenaries Keynote speeches Lunches at the Oxford University Club on a cash selection basis Work shops and discussions 18 Keynote speeches Mansfield College Evening event in Friends Meeting House 18:30 Oxford Friends Meeting House built 1660 : Summer refreshments on the lawn 19:30 Friends Meeting House: Buffet style Networking informal Summer Evening Vegetarian Meal included in the fees
21.00 – 23.00 Friends Meeting House : Interns college evening Day 2 Friday Mansfield College Oxford University 30th July 2010 09:00:00 Workshops Plenaries Workshops 12.00-14.00 Lunch at the Oxford University Club on a cash selection basis Keynote speeches Keynote speeches 18.00 Workshops at Mansfield College
19.00 -23.00 Evening event in Friends Meeting House: Oxford Olde Worlde Friends Meeting House Olde English surroundings built in 1660: Evening typical Oxford Sit down Meal included in the fees Formal Dinner tonight will be with full academic dress- and gowns in Oxford University style and orated speeches. Rooms 1 Rooms 2 Rooms 3 Day 3 Oxford University Club st Saturday 31 July 2010 9.00-13.00 Workshops Lunch at the Oxford University Club included in the fees - buffet style Keynote speeches Workshops Presentations Presentations Workshops Discussions Publishing, planning and books – and journal articles together Planning for bids and funding applications teams together 12.00-13.00 Buffet networking lunch included in the fees Oxford University Club Sharing professional experiences together Optional Field Trip out and about in the surroundings of Oxford Full Typical English Cream tea and scones at tea time, included in the fee, Over-looking the cricket pitch – a typical English scene 19.00 till late With Gala Dinner at the Oxford University Club included in the fee, in the evening with after dinner speakers, and fascinating wildlife and biodiversity and conservation speakers
Publications All paid up delegates and attendees at the conference will receive a copy of the Conference Proceedings on arrival at the conference. All speakers are required to pay the relevant registration fee. Full Speaker Proceedings Papers, to be between 2000 and 6000 words each to be sent to: [email protected]
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Conference attendance fees for the 3 days of the conference Conference Attendance and Registration Fees: Fees are £200 per person per day for each day and must be pre booked: Concessions are available as follows: If booking all 3 days at full rate- fees reduced by £100 so fee is reduced to inclusive package of £540 for entire conference. If booking 2 days together at full rate the fee is reduced to inclusive package of £380 Inclusive Daily Rate Total Number of Days Fees Pensioners if not employed Per day £100 and £300 for the 3 days Booking from a least developed Per day £100 country £300 for the three days Disabled and special needs Per day £100 and £200 for the three days Unemployed only on Per day £140 per day and production of a valid card and £420 pre booked Undergraduate students Per day £120-per day if paying for themselves £340 if booking for three days All students- £200 per day If invoicing or a university then for all invoices full rate applies- of £200 per three day rate £540 day PHD students full time or part Per day £140 - time £400 if booked for three days All students- Per day £200 per day If invoicing or a university then for all invoices full rate applies- of £200 per day Three day rate £540 Fees Per Person Per Day 1 Day £200 Fees Per Person Per Day 2 full Days £380 Fees Per Person Per Day 3 full Days £540 Membership of Green Discount 15% Economics Institute fully paid up in 2010 All invoices including £200 per day 1 day institutions, colleges, NGOs £400 per day 2 days and universities, and £580 per day 3 days companies :
These Must be prepaid before the conference in order to reserve a place and a speaker slot
Discount if whole journey by Discount 5% train or bicycle or bus on production of valid tickets Exhibition stands and stalls £200 per day, £540 for all three days - in addition to normal entrance fee and guarantees a speaker slot and an exhibition table
Accomodation
Accomodation is not included in fees but is available at both venues- please enquire with your booking form. Both have charming en suite modern facilities. Please email: Accomodation at Mansfield College : Lynne Quiggin
Lunches on Thursday and Friday are on a cash basis with a very wide selection of lovely choices in the lovely Oxford University Club. Lunches and continuous refreshments are included in the fees on Saturday and Sunday.
Full and exciting evening dinners every night are included in the conference fees .
If whole journey is done by train or bicycle- 5% discount on production of valid return train tickets on registration part of fee- not catering part. 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. 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. [email protected] [email protected]
All speakers to pay the Fees in order to provide the widest opportunity for everyone to speak All fees to include all conference dinners, all field trips and all requirements,
Accomodation is not included but modern en suite, excellent value for money accomodation with nice views, is available on campus. Please email for details [email protected], [email protected] ...... Please fill out the following
Per person No of days Total Fee amounts
Attendees / fees per person per day
Day 1 Thursday 29th July £200 per person per day Day 2 Friday 30th July £200 per person per day Day 3 Saturday 31st July £200 per person per day
Please state which days you are attending ...... or concessions please enter amount here ......
Deduct 15% if you are a paid up member of the Green Economics Institute- ie renewed in 2010
Registration Fee Membership of The Green Economics Institute
Membership Includes subscription to The Green Economist Membership 2010 calendar year @ £50 if paid here (normally £60)
Total payment in Pounds Sterling ......
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Please indicate the method of payment and also what is the paying entity Will you be paying personally or do you require an invoice? If so please provide full invoicing address and information on this form.
All fees need to be paid before the conference in order to reserve a place Please return the form together with your payment (cheques made payable to the Green Economics Institute) or via bank transfer to Barclays Bank, Wokingham for the credit of GREEN ECONOMICS LIMITED,
Account No.: Sort Code 20-11-74 63426963 IBAN CODE: IBAN GB28 BARC 201174 63426963 SWIFT BIC CODE GB22 to:
The Membership Secretary The Green Economics Institute 6 Strachey Close, Tidmarsh, Reading RG8 8EP
Do you need details of pay pal (outside EU)
Please ensure your payment reaches us before the conference and email us to advise payment situation.
Are you a speaker?
If you would like to speak please put your possible idea/ title of speech here:
If you are a speaker, please put title of your proposed talk and please indicate if you need power point. Speaker slots are filling up very fast. Please check your details on the conference information and put them down here as you would like them to appear in the format- Name, Title, Institution, Name of speech Accommodation information is available and bookings for staying overnight on the campus. Please email [email protected] to receive accommodation information.
Please help us to make the conference an enjoyable experience which particularly suits your requirements by providing the following information
How did you hear about the conference?
Have you been to one of our Green Economics Institute events before?
Which talks are you specifically interested in attending?
Which Economic subjects are you generally interested in?
Are you a member of the Green Economics Institute?
Specify your interest in economics (NGO membership, training, experience etc.)
Special Requirements Special dietary requirements/allergies (all our conferences are vegetarian-)
Special mobility requirements......
Please email a soft copy of this form as soon as possible to [email protected] or [email protected] to reserve a place
Then please send a hard copy of this form, together with your cheque or payment or advise of internet payment, made payable to ‘The Green Economics Institute’, to: The Conference Manager, The Green Economics Institute, 6 Strachey Close, Tidmarsh, Reading RG8 8EP
www.greeneconomics.org.uk [email protected] [email protected]
Payments and reservations Please return the form together with your payment (cheques made payable to the Green Economics Institute) or via bank transfer to
Barclays Bank, Wokingham for the credit of GREEN ECONOMICS LIMITED, Account No.: Sort Code 20-11-74 63426963 IBAN CODE: IBAN GB28 BARC 201174 63426963 SWIFT BIC CODE GB22 to:
or send a cheque with this form to : The Membership Secretary The Green Economics Institute 6 Strachey Close, Tidmarsh, Reading RG8 8EP