Conference LIMITS TO GROWTH, St Gallen 17-19 Oct 2007

LIMITS TO GROWTH - GROWING BEYOND LIMITS? http://www.oikos-conference.org/2007/html/conference.html

The oikos conference 2007 will focus on growth and sustainability. 20 years after the Brundtland report, “Our common future”, and its impact on the sustainability debate, growth is still the dominating principle in today’s global economy. At the same time, limits to a continuation on this path are increasingly obvious while billions of people face shortages in meeting basic needs.

Is there a growth imperative? Why, Where, what and how do we want to grow? In which areas do we need reductions? The conference will address these questions by taking a closer look at the concept of growth, analysing the implications of growth-based economics, identifying areas for growth and fields where reductions are needed, evaluating alternatives, exploring corporate strategies in view of global growth limits, and discovering opportunities to support the oikos members in integrating those issues into teaching and research at their universities.