Venezia, June 12, 2014 - Palazzo Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

The Workshop reviews emerging issues that aim at integrating development and environmental thinking. Economists, ecologists, physicists and environmental scientists will gather to discuss economic evaluation, discounting benefits and costs of environmental regulations, discounting and multicriteria optimization in ecology, extended concepts of wealth, evaluation of environmental policies, environmental resources economics with a view to stochasticity in processes driving the economics and  ecosystems, and global drivers and controls of broad issues like food security. The general aim is a proper framework for  the notion of sustainable development and for the construction of a unified language for sustainability and for economic and environmental policy analysis.

09:00 - Welcome address, ANDREA RINALDO (EPFL & Università degli studi di Padova)
09:15 - Introduction, IGNAZIO MUSU (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)
09:30 - PARTHA DASGUPTA (Cambridge University)
10:30 - SIMON LEVIN (Princeton University)
11:30 - MARINO GATTO (Politecnico di Milano)

12:30 - Lunch

14:00 - ALESSANDRO TAVONI (London School of Economics)
15:00 - MATTEO MARSILI (ICTP Trieste)
16:00 - AMOS MARITAN (Università degli studi di Padova)
17:00 - PAOLO D'ODORICO (University of Virginia)

18:00 - Conclusions IGNAZIO MUSU, ANDREA RINALDO 

The Workshop is organized around the invited keynote lectures, meant to be followed by extended discussion open to all participants in a very informal setting.

Participation is free but registration is needed.   

Scientific Committee:
Partha Dasgupta
Marino Gatto
Simon Levin
Andrea Rinaldo

Secretariat: Lucia Macaluso, lucia.macaluso@istitutoveneto.it where registration is to be sent.