USSEE New York City Conference (June 23-27)

”Creating Sustainability Within Our Midst: Challenge for the 21st Century”

The 4th biennial conference of the United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) will take place in downtown New York City on the campus of Pace University. Partnering with Pace's Institute for Environmental & Regional Studies as a co-sponsor, the conference will offer a variety of themes and special symposia featuring our collective interests as well as regional issues and amenities.

Topics at the conference include the ecological economics of climate change, energy, biodiversity, ecosystems (such as estuaries) and resource systems (e.g., fisheries and forestry); valuation methodologies and issues thereof; population concerns; regional studies of sustainable development; greening the building industry; green entrepreneurship; and education in ecological economics and sustainability.

The venue, Pace University’s downtown campus, is in the heart of lower Manhattan near Chinatown, South Street Seaport, and the financial district. Pace offers air-conditioned dormitory rooms that will help attendees on limited budgets; in addition, we anticipate getting discounted rates at several local hotels. We also hope to enable participants to purchase CO2 sequestration credits to offset the impacts of traveling to the conference.

We invite appropriate co-sponsorship and underwriting. If interested, please contact conference@ussee.org.