18 - 20 April 2010, Opole, Poland
On 18-20 April 2010, the 10th annual conference on "Current Issues of Sustainable Development - Governance and Institutional Change" was organised at the Faculty of Economics of Opole University. The conference was supported by WATERPRAXIS, and co-organised by Selcuk University (Turkey), Hochschule Zittau-Goerlitz (Germany), Internationales Hochschulinstitut (Zittau, Germany), FH Goettingen (Germany), University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and INYRSS (Lithuania). Participants came from Turkey, Romania, Italy, Ukraine, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Kazakhstan and Poland.
Sustainability issues have become so common in many fields of socio-, political- and economic life, that the need for new approaches, a change in rules guiding human activity, ways of thinking and governance structures are often forgotten. In particular, global environmental problems, but also increasing inequalities and poverty on a global scale and the instability of unregulated global financial markets show the need for institutional change and changing governance structures.
Topics like e.g.
- "the challenge of global governance in the face of climate change and global poverty. Can Europe become sustainable without global sustainability?"
- "local governance's capability to achieve sustainable development"
- "eco-efficiency and sustainable praxis to improve quality and management of the river basin in the Baltic Region"
were discussed and analysed during the conference. Altogether, 65 participants from 8 countries made the conference a big success!
