EASY-ECO Budapest Conference
Conference programme
October 15, Thursday
| 7:00-9:00 pm |
Informal reception for the grantees
(Octogon aula, CEU main building) |
October 16, Friday
| 2:00-2:10 pm |
Auditorium, CEU main building: Opening of
the conference by Stuart Durrant, Managing Director of the CEU Business
School |
| 2:10-3:40 pm |
Plenary. Chair: Peter Hardi |
| 2:10-2:20 pm |
Overview of the conference and expectations |
| 2:20-2:35 pm |
André Martinuzzi: "EASY ECO - looking back and
looking forward" |
| 2:35-2:40 pm |
Logistical information: Ursula Kopp |
| 2:40-3:25 pm |
Keynote: Marc Epstein: "Integrating Sustainability
Impacts into Management Decisions: Paradox, Challenges, and Solutions" |
| 3:25-3:40 pm |
Q&A |
| 3:40-4:10 pm |
Break |
| 4:10-5:00 pm |
Plenary. Chair: André Martinuzzi
Aleh Cherp: "Five Minds for Sustainability:
Fostering Good Sustainability Evaluation Skills"
Diana Urge-Vorsatz: "The shell of our stakeholder
responsibility: Building(s for) sustainable development"
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| 5:00-5:15 pm |
Open floor discussion. Moderator: Ursula Kopp |
| 5:15-5:45 pm |
Keynote: Alan AtKisson: "Of Indicators and Dreams: The
Past and Future of Sustainability Assessment" |
| 5:45-6:00 pm |
Q&A |
| Evening |
Free program or optional: Budapest by night (bus tour, dinner and
walk in the Castle district) or boat tour with folklore program and
dinner |
October 17, Saturday
(Auditorium, Popper and Gellner Rooms and Lecture Room 203)
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Parallel sessions (3 papers per session; 20 minute
presentation, 10 m Q&A) |
| 10:30-11:00 am |
Break |
| 11:00 am-12:30 pm |
Parallel sessions (3 papers per session; 20 minute presentation,
10 m Q&A) |
| 12:30-1:30 pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:30-4:00 pm |
Plenary (Auditorium). Chair: Marina Fischer-Kowalski
Keynote: David
Berry: "When the house is burning what indicators of materials,
combustion, labor and water availability are most useful?" followed
by open floor discussion;
Business stakeholders: keynote presentations
Regine Barth: "Rhetoric or Reality: CSR Impact Assessment -
a tool to evaluate the contribution of businesses to sustainability";
Robert Braun: "The Politics of Corporations: Corporate Social
Responsibility, Corporate Communities, and the Future of Corporate
Strategy"; and
Katalin Szomolanyi: "Corporate Sustainability
from the Stakeholder Point of View" |
| 4:00-4:30 pm |
Break |
| 4:30-6:30 pm |
Parallel sessions (4 papers per session; 20 minute presentation,
10 m Q&A) |
| 7:30-10:00 pm |
Reception and gala dinner, Hungarian Academy of Science |
October 18, Sunday
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Parallel sessions (3 papers per session; 20 minute
presentation, 10 m Q&A) |
| 10:30-11 am |
Break |
| 11 am-12:45 pm |
Closing Plenary. Chair: Marc Epstein
Keynote presentations: Jochen
Jesinghaus: "Diverting the Mainstream";
Thomas Widmer: "Ethics in sustainability evaluation"; and
Laszlo Pinter: "New Stakeholders at the Gate (Or Old Ones with
New Ideas)" |
| 12:45-1:15 pm |
General discussion |
| 1:15-1:30 pm |
Closing of the conference, Peter Hardi |
Parallel sessions
The thematic outline
given above will be reflected in the topics of the parallel sessions.
The papers presented at the parallel sessions will address the topics
in general terms or in the context of a case study. The topics for parallel
sessions are as follows:
- Stakeholder engagement: Challenges for evaluation
- Corporate stakeholders:
evaluating CSR and corporate governance
- Stakeholders in regional and
urban sustainable development
- Public acceptance in corporate and development
projects
- Sustainability assessments in practice
- Researchers as stakeholders:
Developments in evaluation methodologies
For further details, please see the  preliminary
timetable (PDF, 148 kB) (last updated: 14 October 2009)
Keynote speakers
We have the pleasure to have the following leading authorities on the
topics of SD, CSR and stakeholder management as keynote speakers:
Alan AtKisson
President & CEO, AtKisson Group, Sweden
President, International Network of Resource Information
Centers (a.k.a. the Balaton Group), USA
Regine Barth
Head of Environmental Law & Governance Division, Institute for Applied
Ecology, Germany
David Berry
Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable, Advisory Committee on Water Information,
USA
Robert Braun
Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
Aleh Cherp
Professor and Director for Research, Central European University;
Coordinator of MESPOM Consortium, International Institute for Industrial
Environmental Economics at Lund University
Marc J. Epstein
Professor, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University,
USA
Peter Hardi
Professor and Director, Center for Business and Society, CEU Business
School, Hungary
Jochen Jesinghaus
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research
Centre, European Commission, Italy
André Martinuzzi
Associate Professor, Head of the Research Institute for Managing Sustainability
(RIMAS), Vienna University of Economics and Business,
Austria
Laszlo Pinter
Director, Measurement and Assessment Program, International
Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada
Katalin Szomolányi
Head of Corporate Sustainability Department Magyar Telekom, Hungary
Diana
Urge-Vorsatz
Professor and Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy
Policy (3CSEP), CEU, Hungary
Thomas Widmer
Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Ethics Committee, American Evaluation Association
Plenary Chairs
Peter Hardi
Professor and Director, Center for Business and Society, CEU Business School,
Hungary
André Martinuzzi
Associate Professor, Head of the Research Institute for Managing Sustainability
(RIMAS), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Marina Fischer-Kowalski
Chairperson, Easy-Eco 2008-2010
Advisory Board
Professor and Director, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna,
Austria
Marc J. Epstein
Professor, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University,
USA
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