Economics

UK Retail Fund Distribution 11 to 12 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.osneymedia.co.uk/tracker/osneytracker.asp?magazineid=2636 Contact name: Mariame Lindell • Explore how the mutual fund industry in the UK is evolving and the drivers behind this evolution • Understand the impact of wraps & platforms and the rise of open architecture on the distribution market (Quote booking reference 954EL) Organized by: Osney Media

The Future of Fund Management 10 to 11 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/fund Contact name: Scilla Monck Now in its 9th year, this conference is firmly established as a leading event in this sector. This event is renowned for attracting top-level speakers and senior-level attendees to debate the future direction of the market. Organized by: The Institute of Economic Affairs

Insurance Market Forum 5 to 6 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/imf Contact name: Marc Koskela This event, for senior decision-makers involved in the (re)insurance industry, will build on the success of the IEA's Future of General Insurance conference, and focus on the big issues affecting the London market and wholesale insurance. Organized by: The Institute of Economic Affairs

Retail Banking in Europe 4 to 5 March 2008 Retail Banking in Europe, United Kingdom Website: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/rbe/ Contact name: Rory McNeil In today's increasingly competitive marketplace retail banks are facing the challenges and opportunities associated with sector consolidation, as they forge a place for themselves in tomorrow's retail banking landscape. Expanding into new m Organized by: The Institute of Economic Affairs'

The State of the Economy 26 February 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/economy/ Contact name: Evelyn Marchant The UK economic outlook is at its most uncertain in a decade. With inflation fluctuating, residential property prices rising unabated and growing political debate in the arena of fiscal policy, questions are being asked of how best to respo Organized by: The Institute of Economic Affairs

The meeting provides an international forum to discuss the problems facing the public and private sectors, the engineering and scientific communities in terms of the new land available for development purposes. The Conference will look at long term plans for the productive re-use of properties that have been abandoned or lie idle, in order to satisfy current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own requirements.

INECE is pleased to announce that it will hold its 8th International Conference on 5-11 April 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. INECE’s triennial international conferences bring together environmental compliance and enforcement practitioners from more than 80 countries and organizations to build partnerships for enforcement cooperation and to share a wide range of skills and experiences that improve compliance with international and domestic environmental laws. The 7th Conference (2005) provided training on INECE's principles of compliance and enforcement course and fostered the development of a new compliance and enforcement network for the Maghreb region. The Conference resulted in the Marrakech Statement and Call to Action on making law work for people, environment, and sustainable development. The 8th Conference will open with two days dedicated to local capacity building and networking events. The subsequent five days will feature action-oriented thematic workshops, distinguished keynote speakers, and networking opportunities for over 150 invited participants, and will include a day for field visits to sites of innovative environmental enforcement initiatives in South Africa. Central themes of the Conference will include "Strategic Management of Environmental Compliance & Enforcement Programs," "Detecting Noncompliance," "Transboundary Compliance," "Biodiversity and Compliance," "Climate Change and Compliance," and "Compliance Promotion and Social Aspects." INECE will be releasing a Call for Papers on these and other environmental compliance and enforcement topics in advance of the Conference. South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, which is supporting the Conference, noted that "[e]nvironmental compliance and enforcement are becoming high profile issues in South Africa in the context of high economic growth and development, ...the ongoing protection of our biodiversity and protected areas, and the required adaptation for climate change. We therefore welcome the attention that the INECE Conference will bring to environmental compliance and enforcement in South and Southern Africa." Additional information on the 8th Conference, including the Call for Papers, will be made available in the coming months. Conference participation is by invitation only; nominations will be made through the regional compliance and enforcement networks.

We scarcely need more evidence in support of the claim that sustainable development is one of the major challenges for human societies in the 21st century. Global warming, growing scarcity of non-renewable energy resources, loss of biodiversity, water supply shortages and the long-term degradation of ecosystems along with health and poverty problems are among the most important issues representing growing risks for human societies and their economies. In view of such developments, sciences in the field of sustainability are expected – in addition to the traditional scientific tasks of understanding and explaining the situation in question – to contribute analytically to the process of moving societies towards sustainable development. Following the outstanding success of the 1st International Sustainability Conference ISC 2005 in Basel, the organisers – the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and the University of Basel – are organising a follow-up conference. The theme of this 2nd International Sustainability Conference is "Creating Values for Sustainable Development". From a socio-economic perspective we take this to be one of the major tasks and challenges with regard to the expected societal transformation processes toward sustainability. The ISC 2008 provides a platform for both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary oriented social scientists working in the field of sustainable development. The conference is committed to promoting dialogue, especially among economists and other social scientists. Moreover, the conference aims to act as a meeting point for committed individuals from the political, corporate and academic worlds as well as for representatives from civil society. We are therefore delighted to invite you to attend the ISC 2008 in Basel. We look forward to offering researchers a platform for presenting papers and for exchanging and critically discussing new knowledge stemming from socio-economic oriented research on practical and theoretical issues in the domain of sustainable development.

The 35th Conference on Value Inquiry with the theme “Values and Medicine” will be held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing New Jersey 5-6 April, 2008. Broad participation is sought. Papers that address concerns of values in medicine and values in relation to medicine are welcome. Submissions are due by 14 January 2008, and should consist of at least a seven hundred word abstract that has been prepared for blind review. The submission of complete papers is encouraged and early submission is advised. Reading time of papers should be about twenty minutes. Papers may be practically or theoretically oriented. Topics may be disciplinary and range over issues within a single field of value inquiry such as normative ethics, applied ethics, aesthetics, political theory, or economics. Topics may be interdisciplinary and range over issues between two or more fields of value inquiry. Topics may even be meta-disciplinary and range over purely conceptual issues important for fuller understanding of matters of values and medicine. The College of New Jersey, which has recently been recognized as having one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, is approximately five miles from Trenton, the state capital, ten miles from Princeton, and one hour from both Philadelphia and New York, all of which are easily accessible by public transportation. To submit a paper or an abstract, or for additional information contact: Review Committee 35th Conference on Value Inquiry The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Road Ewing, NJ 08618 e-mail: papers.james@gmail.com

Welcome to the First International Conference on Economic and Management Perspectives organized by International Economic Society. This major international event will be held in Famagusta, North Cyprus from October 16-19, 2008. The conference will be held at Salamis Bay Hotel Congress Center. The conference will address a range of important topics. The conference will include numerous papers by academics and researchers from around the globe. The thematic contributions of this conference will be on new perspectives and developments in the fields of economics and management. Thus, this will provide opportunity to present and share papers with other colleagues from different countries. Conference participants are welcome to submit abstracts in the initial stage and full papers once their abstracts are accepted. All conference papers will be published in e-proceedings. On the other hand, full papers will undergo a peer review process and will be evaluated by a team of referees to be published in Conference Proceedings. Furthermore, papers accepted for Conference Proceedings will be considered for publication in the regular issues of International Journal of Economic Perspectives which is published by International Economic Society.