ICTP | FEEM
| The Beijer Institute
The Ecological and Environmental Economics is a joint Programme
of
The
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics - ICTP
Founded in 1964, The Abdus
Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics - ICTP, which receives the
majority of its funding from the Italian Government, is administrated
by the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - UNESCO
and the
International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA. The Centre is located
along the coast of the Adriatic Sea, in the northeast Italy, less
than 10 kilometres from the city of Trieste.
The Abdus Salam ICTP:
- Fosters the growth of advanced studies and research in theoretical
physics and mathematics, especially among researchers from developing
countries.
- Provides an international forum for the exchange of information
and ideas among scientists from the North and the South
- Maintains excellent research facilities for visitors, associates
and fellows, principally from developing countries, who participate
in the Centre's research and training activities.
ICTP offers a well-established tradition as reference and meeting
point for scientists coming from developing countries: since 1964,
the year that the ICTP was established, Trieste has been recognised
by the international academic community as a centre of excellence
in the training of human capital coming from developing countries.
ICTP offers also a well-established expertise in terms of networking
with developing countries: in the last 40 years, around 80.000
visiting researchers coming from over 170 countries have visited
the ICTP.
Fondazione
Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM
Fondazione
Eni Enrico Mattei was founded by Eni and its major companies
and recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in 1989.
It is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute specialising
in energy, environmental and development issues, on an international
scale. The goal of the Fondazione is to promote interaction between
researchers, industry and policy makers and, through research,
to improve the rigour, credibility and quality of recommendations
for public and private decision-making regarding energy and environmental
issues.
The Fondazione's activities are guided by four fundamental criteria:
i) to analyse relevant and innovative research areas
ii) to focus on "real" world issues;
iii) to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches;
iv) to create and foster international research networks.
In the execution of its various programmes, the Fondazione operates
with its own staff as well as involving a world-wide network of
outside researchers. The main research areas are:
- Climate Change Modelling and Policy
- Natural Resources Management
- Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Evaluation
- Knowledge, Technology, Human Capital
- Privatisation, Regulation, Antitrust
- Corporate Sustainable Management
- Voluntary and International Agreements
The Fondazione also supplies technical
support and advice to the public and private decision-making
process in the economic and environmental field, at national
as well as international level (the Ministry of Finance, the
Ministry of the Environment, the Treasury, expert groups under
the umbrellas of the EU, the OECD, the United Nations, the UN
Commission of Sustainable Development, the IPCC, etc.).
FEEM has a large experience in the dissemination of theoretical
and applied research. In ten years FEEM has organised 107 scientific
workshops (over 3000 participants) and nine major conferences
- including the first Congress of European Environmental and
Resource Economists (Venice, 1990), the first World Congress
of Environmental and Resource Economists (Venice, 1998), the
17th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, and
the 57th European Meeting of the Econometric Society -, has
published over 500 working papers and thirty books with Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University
Press. From 1997, FEEM is publishing Equilibri, a quaterly journal
on sustainable development. The web site, established in 1994,
receives over 6 million hits per year.
The
Beijer Institute
The
Beijer Institute is an international research institute
under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Institute was established in 1977 and was reorganized in
1991 to form The Beijer Institute: The International Institute
of Ecological Economics. Core funding is provided by the Kjell
and Märta Beijer Foundation.
The objective of the Beijer Institute is to foster interdisciplinary
work involving ecologists and economists, or more generally
involving natural scientists and social scientists. By being
a research institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
the Institute has unique advantages of accomplishing this objective.
The Academy consists of a blend of natural and social scientists
and is by its own activities reducing artificial barriers between
disciplines.
The inadequate and sometimes catastrophical ways by which environmental
and natural resources are managed, calls for the interdisciplinary
work that the Beijer Institute aims at fostering.
The scientific analysis of the problems arising from the interaction
between humans and their environment are typically analysed
piece wise narrowly by the scientific disciplines concerned
with them. Economists may focus on the role of institutions,
and in particular the role of property rights, in assessing
the problems, forgetting that these must be related to the way
the ecological and other natural systems function. Ecologists
on the other hand most often stop at the level of ecosystems
and do not widen the scope of inquiry to cover the impact on
humanity from environmental changes and how economic behaviour
affects natural systems. In order to achieve a deep understanding
of the interactions of the combined system of humans and nature,
it is necessary to develop an interdisciplinary approach in
which both ecological and economic knowledge is applied to the
development of tools for improved management of the life-supporting
environment.
The Beijer Institute runs research programmes on important environmental
problems in which interdisciplinary cooperation is needed. In
doing so, its goal is that social and natural scientists will
in the end develop a common understanding of what the issues
are and how these should be analysed, and will based on this
propose well founded recommendations for improving the management
of our common heritage.
The Beijer Institute also tries to foster cooperation between
scientists from different disciplines by organising seminars
and conferences, by publications aiming both at the general
public and the scientific community, as well as by encouraging
teaching and training activities on these topics.
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