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Sunday 10 August 2008

Time Event Type Details
7:30 AM Shuttle Pick-up Transportation  
8:30 AM A Circular Economy for China: Theory and Practice from an Ecological Economics Perspective Semi-Plenary Chair: Joan Martinez-Alier
Speaker: Zhu Dajian
9:30 AM Transition to a Global Sustainable Metabolism: Possible and Impossible Futures Semi-Plenary Chair: Joan Martinez-Alier
Speakers: Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helga Weisz
9:30 AM Coffee    
10:45 AM   Contributed Paper Sessions Scientific Committee
  The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity - TEEB Progress and Next Steps Round Table Chair: Pavan Sukhdev
Participants: Joan Martinez-Alier, Peter May, Anantha Duraiappah, Haripriya Gundimeda, Pushpam Kumar
12:30 PM Lunch    
1:30 PM Equity, Well-Being and Ecosystem Services Panel Session Moderator: Anantha Duraiappah
Speakers: Jorge Ferrao, Pushpam Kumar, Richard Norgaard
3:15 PM Coffee   Available until 5:00 PM
3:45 PM   Contributed Paper Sessions Scientific Committee
  Inclusive Wealth Round Table Anantha Duraiappah and others - Discussion of a UNEP Programme
5:00 PM CEECEC Sponsored Film Screening on Sustainable development in Kenya:
Trash is Cash (40 min) and Dongo Kundu (20 min)
Film Screenings and Discussion Organizer: Leah Temper
Trash is cash tells the story of Dandora dumping site, from the perspective of Formada, a youth self help group. The dump is a health hazard but also a source of income for the slum dwellers.
Guests: Director Alessandra Argenti from the Kenyan NGO Cultural Video Foundation and the students of Formada (a kenyan community based organization from Dandora, the slum where the documentary was shot).
Dongu Kundu documents the vitality of Kenya’s coastal region in the context of Tiomin Resources plans to strip-mine titanium in this ecologically rich environment.
Guests: Dr. Kamau Gachigi, Lecturer and Researcher, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Nairobi.
6:00 PM Book Launchings Round Table Pushpam Kumar, Joan Martinez-Alier – Oxford University Press thematic collections of papers from ISEE 2006 Delhi
  Regional Society Meetings Meeting Chair: Regional Society Executives
7:00 PM Banquet and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen award Award Ceremony NGR Award Committee: John Gowdy, Joan Martinez-Alier, Sigrid Stagl
Speaker: Brendan Fisher
9:00 PM Shuttle Return Transportation