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Cities and Governance for Sustainable Development: Conference in Vilnius (28-30 September 2006)
Sustainable
development requires economic, environmental and social policies to be designed
and implemented in a mutually reinforcing way. This implies a need for new management
thinking to improve policy coherence and increase the role of knowledge in the
formulation and implementation of policies as well as better communication with
civil, society and business. Sustainable development should not be conceived as
an additional requirement but as overarching principle, which governs the development
processes. This issue will be the key theme of the Conference "Cities and Governance
for Sustainable Development" (CIGSUD).
The Conference will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 28-30 September 2006. It is organised by the Baltic Environmental Information Dissemination System (BEIDS), National Commission on Sustainable Development of Lithuania (NCSDL), Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. It is supported by the European Reference Point for Technology Transfer for Sustainable Development (ERP,http://tutech.de/sd) and the Interreg IIIB Project "Castles of Tomorrow" (http://www.castletomorrow.net/).
It will provide a forum for a dialogue between researchers, politicians and the public and business sectors with the aim of encouraging the integration of economics, ecology, management and social policies into an interdiscipline aimed at developing a sustainable world. CIGSUD is a continuation of a series of Vilnius Conferences on Sustainable Development (www.mii.lt/SDIS, www.mii.lt/SIID-2003). For more information please visit the web site: http://www.mii.lt/CIGSUD/
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- European Seminar on Sustainability Research, Lithuania (16-17 May 2006)
- International Conference "Current Issues of Sustainable Development" (1/4/2006)
- Conference: "Protection of population from increased noise influence" (21/3/2006)
- Waste to Energy 2005 (12/07/2005)
- New book (03/29/2004)
- BEIDS Five Years (01/06/2004)
- Floods in Germany (08/21/2002)
- BEIDS Meeting in St. Petersburg a success (10/06/2002)
- BEIDS Supports Cities Seminar in Riga (11/06/2002)
- Stockholm as Leading Region of Europe (12/30/2002)
- Integrative Approaches to Sustainability: Conference in Latvia (03/02/2003)
- Specialist meeting looks at sustainability indicators in the Baltic (04/20/2003)
- BEIDS: a new emphasis (10/06/2003)