Integrating behavioural, economic and environmental research

An international conference which will conclude a five-year, multi-disciplinary project on sustainability and environmental quality, coordinated by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 19 and 20 November 1998.

The conference will consider the results of this research in the context of similar research programmes elsewhere, in order to disseminate and discuss the findings and conclusions among a multi-disciplinary audience. The conference programme will introduce the research and its specific aims, and will include plenary sessions in its three sub-programmes:

- Sustainable household management;
- Flows and accumulations of material;
- Multinational river basin management.

Three comprehensive scenarios for sustainable development will also be presented during a plenary session covering:

- Weak sustainability, where resources and capital are mutually replaceable with piecemeal environmental problem solving;
- Maximisation of eco-efficiency and economic growth by integrated policy;
- Strong sustainability, comprising the precautionary principle, low substitution of resources by capital, low consumption of resources and lifestyle and technology changes.
For further information, please contact:

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Secretariat of ESR
PO Box 93210
2509 AC Den Haag
The Netherlands
Fax +31-70-3832841
E-mail: esr@nwo.nl