Call for Papers
The 13th Annual Green Economics Institute’s Conference
To be held on 16th 17th 18th June 2018: St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
Advances in Economics Thinking
Breaking Bread Together: The Company, The Corporation and Finance: Reworking the legal basics for new trends in the economy.
A 2 Tonnes of Carbon Economy: The beginning of civilisation or the End?
Companies, Corporations and Corruption?
Mental health, Fear of Change and Resilience
Call for Papers and Conference Themes: Download latest version 20/04/2018 here
Speakers & participants Wanted, Conference Proceedings, Books, Reports, Journal Papers
(All papers and speakers are currently in discussion and sessions and in the process of confirmation : Please email for latest list of speakers- below is only an indication. The list is updated once a week at the moment but new speakers are arriving every day)
Over 40 speakers coming and we will make every effort to add everyone as the sessions evolve but below is merely to be used as an indication of subject and range of speakers but it does not include all the confirmed or invited speakers.
| Call for Papers | Hosts and Partners | |
| 1 | Breaking Bread Together
The company and the corporation, and finance: reworking the basics for new trends in the economy.
Advances in Economics Thinking: Setting the scene:
Labour economics Platform and network economics Gig economy Zero hours contracts Automation Hi tech economy Trade The Future Bites Back Concentration of wealth and power in economics
Solutions to today’s problems
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Dr Monica Rossi (The International Labour Organisation, Italy)
Dr Lucille Schmid (Green Institute France and Green European Foundation Brussels and Luxembourg) Dr Enrico Tezza
Sir Crispin Tickell (Environmental Change Institute, (University of Oxford)
Chit Chong
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The new findings in Law and Economics and Philosophy. The role of the law. Making change happen Including the Project: New Business Models, and globalised markets, Rethinking Public and Private Responsibilities (This session is subject to modification as it is still being developed.) |
Maria Fernanda Corporale
(Brazil and The Netherlands)
Dr. Federica Violi, Keynote speaker, Assistant Professor in International Law, Department of International and European Union Law, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam
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| 3 | Companies, corporations and corruption | Dr Enrico Tezza (Italy) International Labour Organisation
Dr Grimot Nane of South Bank University, London |
| 4 | A 2 tonnes of Carbon Lifestyle, economy and science
For COP24 Climate Change. Climate Science –The latest data
Actually achieving the Paris COP21 Ambition Energy, transport and lifestyle
Exploring Clean Tech
Changing from a coal economy
Energy
Post coal economies
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Miriam Kennet (UK)
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Michelle Gale (USA and Brazil)
Dr Aaron Sternisky (Green Group Austria)
Ewa Suffin (Green Institute Poland) And The Green European Foundation (Luxembourg and Brussels)
Benoit Montange (French Green Institute)
Professor Natalie West (India)
Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz (Poland) IPCC report chapter author and recently published in English a Polish-Norwegian study on climate change and its impact on selected sectors in Poland. Agriculture is one of the sectors, as well as water environment and wetlands (invited and being confirmed)
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| 5 | Mental Health
Psychiatry and psychology- are they now the key to survivability? nudge, fear of change and sustainability. How do we become resilient?
Economics and its connections to human health (mental and physical), economic democracy and practical philosophy |
Dr Katherine Kennet (UK)
Dr Stephen Tziernik |
| 6 | Health and Well Being and E health | Agneta Granstroem (Sweden and Sami)
Sally Phillips (UK)
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| 7 | Heterodox Economics
perspectives on Economics Reform |
Dr Simon Moatt and Dr Arturo Herman
With the Association of Heterodox Economists |
| 8 | The Challenges of:
Platform Economics, Bitcoin Networking, disruptive technologies, crypto currencies, the role of algorythms in today’s economy and social structures
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| New types of networks in the economy
The Platform Economy |
Hans Kare Flo Tekna (Norway) | |
| 9 | Migration
regions and cities succeeding because of inward migration. Models, case studies, examples, eg The City of London, Brussels, The Thames Valley, Oxford City. New narratives on migration
Saving Lives in the Mediterranean
Migrants Sans Papiers in Nigeria
Barbarians at the gate- the fall of the roman empire replayed?
Migration law |
Councillor David Williams
With the Green European Foundation (Luxembourg and Brussels) Hosts:
Dr Arzhang Pezhman UEA
Carlotta Weber Green European Foundation (Germany and Brussels)
Dr Meike Kox Migration Lawyer and Philosopher, Erasmus Law School, Rotterdam Keynote Speaker
Dr Lavinia Tezza (Italy) Migration Lawyer |
| 10 | Creating a new paradigm in Economics and Philosophy
Changing culture, fashion and philosophy |
Miriam Kennet
And Professor Maria Madi (Brazil) Koryo Suzuki (Japan)
With the World Economics Association
Dr Nazrul Islam Shahjalal Ex Dean of University of Science and Technology,Bangladesh
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| 11 | Corporate social responsibility stake holder theory and strategic change and supply chains and corporate governance and the legal basis
Socially Responsible Investment CSR for business lawyers |
Miriam Kennet with specialist lawyers
Professor Maria Madi
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| 12 | Green Cities and the Green Built Environment
Zero Carbon Housing Architecture |
Anjikwi Memshalbwaala, Action Aid (Nigeria)
Pamela Harling (UK) Dr Ehtisham Abassi- (Saudi Arabia and India) Dr Mohamed Abdulrak (India) |
| 13 | 10 Years of the Green Economics Institute Trust | Marlyn Lee- Hughes (UK)
And the Green Economics Institute Trust |
| 14 | Ending the 6th ever mass extinction of species
2 tonnes economy- the end of civilisation or the beginning Veganism – the end or the beginning? |
Invited Experts |
| 15 | 21st century economics
including Beyond Extinction Economics |
Professor Maria Madi (Brazil)
with Victor Anderson
John Rankin |
| 16 | The Future of Europe, its role and the economy | |
| 17 | The role of The Green Economics Institute | Areti Nanou (UK and South Africa) |
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| 19 | Gender
women’s unequal pay and poverty Me Too |
Michelle Gale
With Gender Forum |
| 20 | Modern Slavery
The largest slave trade in history, 21st century supply chains, how to open our eyes to what is in plain site |
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| 21 | Poverty and homelessness
Human rights law Social and Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
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Michelle Gale (USA and UK and Brazil) |
| 22 | Food Farming and Farmers Rights
seeds, resilience, other species, farming, organics and the economy, farmers rights, Permaculture and Organic Agriculture- 100 years of organic agriculture
Agroecology advisor
Food Sustainability Index
The growth of green alternative protein
Rural Economies- India
Bibliometric/text-mining methods for the purpose of identifying heterodox approaches in agricultural economics, with particular respect to income taxation/environmental taxation imposed on farm households
Seeds and the scandal of farmers buying seeds and fertilisers which ruin their crops in Ethiopia |
Hosted by
TBC
With
Koryo Suzuki (Japan) James Norman James Hadfield Richard Higgins Preparing for our joint conference with Ecoland Martin Koehring with the Economist Magazine
David Pedderson
Sangham Basnet (India)
Dr Konat Grzegorz (Poland)
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| 24 | Land grab and land use
Permanent Sovereignty of States over Natural Resources and the Practice of Land Grabbing: an European Union Perspective, in Fiamingo (ed.), Land, Water & Resources Rights Reconfiguring territoriality in International Law
“Land Degradation and Tribal Livelihoods: A Study of Attappady.” Attappady is a tribal region in the State of Kerala in India.
Technical and Economic Feasibility Study of the Forest Block to prevent Global warming and climate change
Landgrab
Land use and urbanisation |
Dr Federica Violi, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Law, Department of International and EurDr
Federica Violi Erasmus Law School
Dr A D Manikandan (India)
Dr Alan Hanssen
Rose Bridger
Dr Ehtisham Abassi (India) |
| 25 | Indigenous perspectives | Agneta Granstroem (Sweden and SAMI) |
| 26 | International Perspectives
Sustainability in Nepal
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Dr Kesh Periyar (Nepal)
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| 27 | Labour economics
jobs, minimum wage, social security, zero hours contracts, slavery, supply chains, international trade, trade barriers, trading blocks, jobs, investment |
Dr Enrico Tezza (Italy)
Monica Rossi (Italy) |
| 28 | Clean air, water and soils
Seas, plastics Moving Beijing away from the pollution Water scarcity in South Africa, depleted soils in Ethiopia
Plastics and toxicity being missed by circular economy
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| 29 | Finance, investment and the digital economy
Growth models and global investment trends Global finance and banking The role of central banks and treasury policies Disruptive innovations and the digital economy Patterns of growth and climate change Digital economy and climate challenges |
Professor Maria Madi (Brazil)
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| 30 | Competition among countries for business
Global value chains Global trade competition and innovation strategies Labor-saving technologies The new mercantilism The fourth industrial revolution |
Professor Maria Madi (Brazil) |
| 31 | Economics and democracy
Realism in economic theories Epistemological challenges in Economics Capitalism, financial power and democracy Global power shifts |
Professor Maria Madi (Brazil) |
| 31 | Challenges to working conditions
The global labor marketplace: offshoring, outsourcing, crowdsourcing. Unequal income distribution and migration Digital economy and technological unemployment Policies to fix the problem of technological unemployment Employment and income policies
Is Redistribution possible? |
Professor Maria Madi (Brazil)
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| 32 | International Diplomacy in the 21st century
The platform economies, regional blocks, the rise of tyrannical populism,climate wars, water wars, xenophobia, fake news, truth. Social Media- the new opiate of the masses? |
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| 33 | Privatisation, private and public ownership
Who owns my data and my dna? Platform economics –an opportunity or a disaster?
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Hans Kare Flo
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| 34 | Education in Economics | Professor Maria Madi
And the launch of The GEI Academy |
| 35 | Future Generations and Long Termism
The future bites back The challenge to the short term culture Science: Spatial and temporal philosophy and the existential crisis |
Chit Chong |
| 36 | Green Wall Sahara Project and Forests 10 years on
And The Global Sustainability Project Assessed
Green Wall Middle East Project |
Dr Chidi Magnus
Green Institute Nigeria
Professor Chucks University of Reading Invited speakers: Dr Joseph Somevi Sustainability and Environmental Impact Assessments
Sir Crispen Tickell Dr Yuvan via the Solar Project
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The 2018 call for papers is now open. These options are available for submissions:
- A) a short paper of 1500-32000 words for the conference proceedings and our books
- B) a research paper of 3000 – 7000 words
We particularly favor and make space for non-standard writers and applicants
There is an additional Research Day on the 15th June 2018, (the Research Day is almost full please email today info@geiconferences.org) if you want to take part) and an additional 3 day Summer School with certification 20th 21st 22nd June 2018 just afterwards which are open to anyone who has booked for the main conference. There is still plenty of space at the main conference and the summer school.
Conference Websites
www.geiconferences.org, www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org, www.geiacademy.org, www.greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk email info@geiconferences.org
Conference Academic Journal
The International Journal of Green Economics Volume 12 issues 1-4 2018, And volume 13 issues 1 and 2 2019, www.inderscience.com/ijge, email: info@geibooks.org.uk
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This is a provisional list of speakers, and may be updated as people confirm. Watch this space for more information