XIV INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Cape Town (South Africa), May 10-12, 2017
The actual meeting will take place at the Sustainability Institute which is located in the Lynedoch EcoVillage
TOWARDS A HUMAN-CENTERED SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SYSTEM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Objective
The XIV International Colloquium to take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa in May 2017 has the theme “Towards a Human-Centered Sustainable Economic and Social System for the 21st Century”. It aims to promote understanding of the global challenges facing humanity, through scientific analysis, recognizing the interconnectedness of today’s global socioeconomic challenges. The industrial, scientific and technological revolutions of the last two centuries have brought previously unimaginable economic prosperity to several billion people in what is now a truly globalized world. At the same time poverty persists and unemployment, inequality, economic and social instability are getting worse. The great transformations to our natural and human environments pose real threats to both human welfare and the planet. So far, governance institutions have not been able to adapt to this new Anthropocene Age nor to distribute evenly and fairly the fruits of knowledge and progress. The XIV International Colloquium calls for novel thinking and action in relation to the need for a truly human-centered and sustainable economic and social system, one that ensures adequate attention to human needs, economic prosperity, fair distribution and sustainable use of natural resources. The Colloquium stimulates papers in the fields of: economic inequality and contradictions between human welfare and ecological sustainability, social and potential power to achieve human civilization, alternative governance arrangements appropriate for challenges we face, implicit premises underlying contemporary economic theories and policies, changes in socioeconomic thinking as an interpretative framework of human welfare and well-being, society and economy as complex systems, new schemes for managing the role of money and financial markets in promoting human-centered development.
The various panels will discuss mainly issues in the world economy rarely addressed by current literature.
Organizing Committee
Mark Swilling, School of Public Leadership of Stellenbosch University of South Africa, Cape Town,(President).
Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira, University of Brasilia, Brazil, (Vice-President & Honorary Member).
Garry Jacobs, Chief Executive Officer, World Academy of Art and Science, India.
Ricardo Azevedo Araújo, Coordinator of the Graduate program, Department of Economics, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
António Mendonça, President of ISEG, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, Graduate School of Humanity and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, President of the World Academy of Art and Science and World University Concortium, Brazil.
Winston Nagan, University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Maria Rosa Borges, Vice-President of ISEG, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Stefan Brunnhuber, Head of Department, Diakonie Hospital, Dresden, Germany.
Jorge Thompson Araújo, World Bank, Washington-DC, USA.
Emilson Silva, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Selection Committee of Articles
Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira, Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, Mark Swilling and Garry Jacobs.