Konferenciakalauz

About the Conference

Building on the success of the “Sustainable Consumption in Hungary 2007” conference organised last December, the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the Corvinus University of Budapest, the Department of Environmental Economics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, GreenDependent Sustainable Solutions Association, the HAS-ELTE Communication Research Group, the Association of Conscious Consumers and Central European University are organising an international conference on sustainable consumption. This year the conference will focus on the Central and Eastern European region and has the following objectives:

• to review and summarise completed and ongoing research activities on sustainable consumption in the region;
• to create an academic forum that can serve as the basis for professional communication and development in the field; and
• to create an informal network of scientists who work and are interested in this field in order to share and promote knowledge about sustainable consumption.

This year’s conference is organised in conjunction with the annual conference of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) titled „Measuring and Managing Business Benefits”.

Date, Venue, and Fees

The conference will take place at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, on 8 October 2008.

Participation at the conference is free of charge, but requires registration. Travel and accommodation arrangements should be made by participants individually.

Conference themes

Abstracts are welcome in the following domains of sustainable consumption:

1. The state of and challenges to sustainable consumption in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region
2. Sustainable consumption and consumer behaviour; determinants of consumer behaviour; sociology and the psychology of consumption
3. Theories, principles and ethics of sustainable consumption
4. The link between and indicators of consumption and well-being
5. Measuring sustainable consumption and life satisfaction
6. Sustainable consumer lifestyles and values
7. Sustainable consumption policies and regulations; challenges to and opportunities for national and regional policy frameworks in the CEE region
8. Analysis of best practices, success stories, failures and experiences in the CEE region

Follow up conference of the
11th Annual EMAN Conference
on Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Accounting
October 6-7, 2008 Budapest