The 11th Biennial ISEE Conference, 2010 took place from 22 – 25 August, 2010 with the theme: “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crises”. The conference was held in the two adjacent cities of Bremen and Oldenburg. The city of Oldenburg is the economic, administrative and cultural centre of the Weser-Ems region in north-western Germany.
The conference was hosted at the University of Oldenburg and University of Bremen. Both universities have a strong record in ecological economic research and teaching and are centres of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability research with a strong focus on social science and economic dimensions of the problem. Themes based on research topics addressed by teams in Oldenburg and Bremen included the following:
- Climate change and adaptation to climate change
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Governance
- Knowledge and social learning for societal change
- Dematerialization and de-growth
- Business strategies for sustainable management
- Land use patterns
- Coastal zone management
- (renewable) energy and sustainable energy systems
- Sustainability science and transdisciplinary research designs
- Evolutionary economics
- Institutional economics
- Postautistic economics
Projected Conferences: 2012 – Brazil, 2014 – Iceland
