Preliminary Program Participants and Abstracts

Procedure

Lead Papers

Dr. Grigori Abramia, Vassily A. Agaphonoff, Dr. Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Mark Anielski, Dr. Keith G. Brown,Thorkil Casse and Fabiana Issler, Danny Cassimon, Jim Christiansen, Dr. Parzival Copes, Stevan Dedijer, George L. De Feis, Dr. John C. Dernbach, Dr. ir. J.Dewulf and J. Mulder and H.J. van der Kooi and J. de Swaan Arons, Dott. Giuseppe Di Vita,Professor Gerard D’Souza and Ramkumar Bendapudi, Louise Dunne and Frank Convery,David S. Evans and C. Coulthard and I. Henderson and P. Jones, Ian G. Gilchrist, Dr. Hans W. Gottinger, Dr. Yuriy Grynyuk, Dr. Tee L. Guidotti, Xiaohui Hao, Vladimír Hudek, Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy, Dr. Tao Jiyi,ANITA KON, Isabelle Lambiel, Tonu Lausmaa, Ming Lei, David S. Liebl, Dr. Sue L.T. McGregor, Laszlo Miklos, Faysal Abdel-Gadir Mohamed and Nimat Abdel-Karim Ahmed, Dr. Yew-Kwang Ng, S.G. Patil* and L.B. Hugar* and M.S. Veerapur* and J. Yerriswamy* and T. Cross† and A.C. vanLoon† and G.W. vanLoon†,Roland Prelaz-Droux, Alfredo Quarto, BAHIRWA AMOS RUHONGORE, E.Mohan Reddy , Dirgha N. Tiwari (Dr. Eng.), Pavel Toma, Kamil Vilinovic and Milan Chrenko,David Wissink,Heinrich Wohlmeyer and Hermann Dissemond,Yiming Wu

Dr. Grigori Abramia

Director
Georgian Center for Environmental Research
Paper title: Elements of Sustainability in the History of Georgian Legislation
geocer@mmc.net.ge
http://www.georgia-gateway.org/NGOinGeorgia/WB/001.htm

Vassily A. Agaphonoff

Rainbow Keepers Rostov Group
Paper title: World Economic-Ecological Model
rkrostov@don.sitek.net

Dr. Ahsan Uddin Ahmed

Head
Environment and Development Division
Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP)
BANGLADESH
Paper title: Challenges to Achieve Sustainable Development in Bangladesh in a Warmer World bup@bdcom.com, neelormi@juniv.ed

Mark Anielski

Executive Director
Centre for Performance Measurement & Management (CPMM)
Faculty of Business
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Alberta
and
Senior Fellow
Redefining Progress (San Franscisco / Washington D.C.)
http://www.rprogress.org
and
President
AMI - Anielski Management Inc.
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Paper title: Towards an Inclusive Yardstick of Societal Well-being Paper title: How Modified National Accounts, using the Genuine Progress Indicator or the ISEW, might be used to Manage the Sustainable Well-being of Societies
anielski@ualberta.ca

Dr. Keith G. Brown

Dean and Managing Director
Department of Economic and Technological Innovation
University College of Cape Breton
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Canada
and
Assistant Professor of Marketing in the School of Business
Ph.D in Marketing from the University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
University College of Cape Breton
Nova Scotia
Paper title:
A Journey From Coal and Steel to Economic Innovation - Cape Breton Style
kbrown@uccb.ns.ca

Thorkil Casse and Fabiana Issler

Center for Development Research
(formerly Instituto do Homen e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia)
Paper title:
Methods of assessing the long-term economic sustainability of a resource dependent economy: Lessons from Paragominas, eastern Amazonia, Brazil

Danny Cassimon

Assistant Professor of Development Finance
University of Antwerp
Universitary Faculties Saint Ignatius Antwerp-UFSIA(UFSIA)
Department of Applied Economics
Belgium
Paper title: FINANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT USING A FEASIBLE TOBIN TAX
danny.cassimon@ufsia.ac.be

Jim Christiansen

Sierra Club
France
Paper title: How to Influence Business Organizations on Issues Related to Managing the Earth in the Long Term
James_Christiansen@rens.com

Dr. Parzival Copes

Emeritus Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Institute of Fisheries Analysis
Simon Fraser University
West Vancouver
British Columbia
Paper title: On the harmonization of interacting impacts upon human beings, use of resources, economic growth and environmental needs.
copes@sfu.ca

Stevan Dedijer

Consultant Integrated Intelligence: Biological - Individual - Technological - Governing - Social system
Department of Business Administration
Lund University
Sweden
and
Croatia
Paper title: Global Intelligence for Development of
a. Poor and
b. Small Countries
stevan.dedijer@fek.lu.se
sdedijer@du.tel.hr

George L. De Feis

Executive Director
American Managemen Association-Operation Entreprise
New York
NY 10019-7420
U.S.A.
and
gdefeis@amanet.org
New Contact Information, effective 2/14/00
George L. De Feis
Executive Director & CEO
U.S.A.
Please use the following e-mail for the future: gldefeis@aol.com
Paper title:
An insight to Managing the Four-Legged Stool of Sustainable Development: Involve Youth Early
http://www.operationenterprise.com

Dr. John C. Dernbach

Associate Professor
School of Law
Widener University
Harrisburg
U.S.A.
Paper title: Sustainable Development as a Framework for National Governance
John.C.Dernbach@law.widener.edu

Dr. ir. J.Dewulf and J. Mulder and H.J. van der Kooi and J. de Swaan Arons

Prof. Dr. ir. Herman Van Langenhove
Department of Organic Chemistry
Ghent University
Gent
Belgium
herman.vanlangenhove@rug.ac.be
Dr. ir. Jo. Dewulf
Department of Organic Chemistry
Ghent University
Coupure Links 653
Gent
Belgium
Jo.Dewulf@rug.ac.be
JanMaarten Mulder
Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
J.mulder@stm.tudelft.nl
J.deSwaanArons@STM.TUDelft.nl
Paper title: The Search for a Parameter Quantifying Technological Sustainability: Development of a Sustainable Coefficient

Dott. Giuseppe Di Vita

University of Catania
Faculty of Law
Paper title: Secondary Materials, Exhaustible Resources and Growth Rates
gdivita@lex.unict.it

Professor Gerard D’Souza and Ramkumar Bendapudi

Ramkumar Bendapudi
West Virginia University
Doctoral Student and Graduate Research Assistant
Div. of Resource Management
West Virginia
U.S.A
and
Professor Gerard D’Souza
Div. of Resource Management
Paper title:
"U.S Conservation Policies and Sustainable Development Principles: Consistency or Contradictory?"
gdsouza@wvu.edu

Louise Dunne and Frank Convery

Research Fellow
Environmental Institute
National University of Ireland Dublin
frank.convery@ucd.ie
Paper title: Key Indicators of Urban Environmental Performance in Ireland
Email: louise.dunne@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/~envinst/envstud/

David S. Evans and C. Coulthard and I. Henderson and P. Jones

David S. Evans
CSC Project Management Services
Sr. Risk Analyst
Calgary
Alberta
Paper title: Risk Analysis to Measure Sustainable Development Elements for Large Construction Projects
CSCDaveE@cs.com
Authors:
D. Evans, Ph.D., P. Geol

Ian G. Gilchrist

M.Sc.
Ecologist
Golder Associates Ltd.
igilchrist@golder.com

Dr. Hans W. Gottinger

Professor of Economics
University of Maastricht (RL)
International Institute for Environmental Economics and Management
Germany
Paper title:
Sustainability: Marco vs Micro
hg528@bingo.baynet.de
hg528@bingo-ev.de
gottih@rpi.edu
hwgott@aol.com

Dr. Yuriy Grynyuk

Ukrainian State Forestry University
(Stradch Forest Research Station)
Ukraine
Paper title: Forest Wealth as a One of the Basis of Sustainable Development in Ukraine

Paper title: Ecological Education in Aspect of Sustainable Development Consciousness
grinrost@forest.lviv.ua

Dr. Tee L. Guidotti

Dr. Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine
13-103 Clinical Sciences Building Edmonton, Alberta
Paper title: ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF URBAN ECOSYSTEMS
Paper title: Sustainable Development can only be sustained if it is socially responsive
eohtlg@mail.gwumc.edu

Xiaohui Hao

Researcher in Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development
Chief of Resource and Environment Division
Associate Professor
Institute of Spatial Planning and Regional Economy
The State Development Planning Commission
China
Paper title: Policies and Measures for mitigating GHGs in Chinese Power Sector
haoxh@mx.cei.gov.cn

Vladimír Hudek

Director
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
rec@changenet.sk
Website: www.rec.sk

Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy

Raghbendra Jha
Professor
Indira Gandi Insitute of Development Research
General Vaidya Marg
Goregaon (E)
India
rjha@igidr.ac.in
http://www.igidr.ac.in/facu/rjha.htm
and
Dr. K.V. Bhanu Murthy,
Reader in Economics
Professor
University of Delhi

Pitampura
India
Paper title:
Sustainability: Behavior Property Rights and Economic Growth
and
Dramatic play presentation: Chetan Awakens (about the Environment and writen to teach children )
by Dr. K.V. Bhanu Murthy
kvbm@del3.vsnl.net.in
bsmm@vsnl.com

Dr. Tao Jiyi

Professor
Social Sciences Department
Ji Nan University
Guang Dong
China
Paper title: Underground Work and Life and the World Sustainable Development
Paper title: International Cooperation and World Sustainable Development

ANITA KON

São Paulo
Brasil
Paper title:
Regional Distribution of the Working Population in a Developing Country: The Case of Brazil
anitakon@pucsp.br
anitakon@exatas.pucsp.br

Isabelle Lambiel

Paper title:
Sustainable Development: How to make a change?
isabellelambiel@hotmail.com

Tonu Lausmaa

Renewable Energy
Re-En Centre TAASEN
Estonia
Paper title: About a Sustainable Economy Definition
tlausmaa@teleport.ee

Ming Lei

Associate Professor of Peking University(P.R.China)
Associate Professor of Donated Chair of Kyoto University(Japan)
Guanghua School of Management
Peking University
P.R.China
and
Division of Societal System Planning for Energy
Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Japan
Paper title: Integrated System of Economy-Environment Accounting of China (CSEEA)----System Design and Trial Estimation (1992)
leiming@gsm.pku.edu.cn
mlei@uji.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp

David S. Liebl

University of Wisconsin
Engineering Solid & Hazardous Waste Education Centre
U.S.A.
Poster presentation: Indicators of Sustainable Development in the Context of Community, Social and Economic Development Programming throughout the United States
LIEBL@EPD.engr.wisc.edu

Dr. Sue L.T. McGregor

Professor
Coordinator, Peace and Conflict Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada and
Nova Scotia
Canada
Paper title: The Role of Families in Sustainable Development (Proposal for an Open Informal Discussion Roundtable)
sue.mcgregor@msvu.ca
SMCGREGO.Employee.msvu@msvu1.msvu.ca
SMCGREGO@msvu1.msvu.ca
http://www.msvu.ca

Laszlo Miklos

(see also Vilinovic and Chrenko)
Minister
The Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic
Member of Governmental Committee for Sustainable Development
Paper title: Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic
rec@changenet.sk
Internet: www.rec.sk

Faysal Abdel-Gadir Mohamed and Nimat Abdel-Karim Ahmed

United Nations Development Programme
Bahrain Registry
Manama, Bahrain
Paper title: Impact of Globalization on Small Island States
undpbah@batelco.com.bh

Dr. Yew-Kwang Ng

Professor
Department of Economics
Monash University
Paper title: Why do Economists Overestimate the Costs of Public Spending on Research and Environmental Protection
Paper title: Overestimation of costs of Public Spending on Research and Environmental Protection
kwang.ng@buseco.monash.edu.au

S.G. Patil* and L.B. Hugar* and M.S. Veerapur* and J. Yerriswamy* and T. Cross† and A.C. vanLoon† and G.W. vanLoon†

*University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India and †Queen’s University, Kingston
Gary W. vanLoon
Department of Chemistry
Paper title: Measures of agricultural sustainability – a study in South India
vanloon@chem.queensu.ca

Roland Prelaz-Droux

Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Switzerland
Paper title: Measurement and management of sustainable development in Switzerland, China, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Senegal.
Roland.Prelaz-Droux@epfl.ch

Alfredo Quarto

Executive Director
Mangrove Action Project
USA
Paper title: Towards Local Community Involvement in Mangrove Rehabilitation and Sustainable Management in the Developing World
mangroveap@olympus.net
web site: http://www.earthisland.org/map/map.html

E.Mohan Reddy

Master of Communications and Journalism (MCJ)
Joint Director (Corporate Communications)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
Paper title: Socio Economic impact of Oil and Gas Drilling and Production Activity for Sustainable Development
ongcpr@vsnl.com

BAHIRWA AMOS RUHONGORE

MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE CONSULTANT
LECTURER DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
FINANCE OFFICER
MBARARA UNIVERSITY
MBARARA,UGANDA
E-mail: mustmed@infocom.co.ug
abr_ltd@hotmail.com
Website: www.abahirwa.8m.com

Dirgha N. Tiwari (Dr. Eng.)

Environmental Economist
Kathmandu, Nepal
Paper title:
Environmental Accounting, Sectoral and Economywide Sustainability: Indicators and Implications of Environmental-economic Policies in Nepal
dntiwari@hotmail.com

Pavel Toma

Director of the UNDP project
The Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic
Paper title: "Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic"
E-mail: toma@flora.lifeenv.gov.sk
Website: www.lifeenv.gov.sk

Kamil Vilinovic and Milan Chrenko

Kamil Vilinovic, Project Manager of the UNDP project
and
Milan Chrenko, Project Assistant of the UNDP project
Project started December 1998
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
CO Slovakia
Executing Agency: Ministry of Environment
Implementing Agency: Regional Environmental Centre, Country Office Slovakia
REC Slovakia
Slovak Republic
Paper title: Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic
rec@changenet.sk
Internet: www.rec.sk

David Wissink

Manager Rural and Economic Development
Tabubil, Western Province
Papua New Guinea
wissink.david.d@bhp.com.au

Heinrich Wohlmeyer and Hermann Dissemond

Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien
Paper title:Analysis of the Effects of the present World Trade Order on the agricultural markets in the light of conditioning sustainable Development. Identification of necessary changes and proposals for the positioning of Austria within the coming WTO-negotiations
h350p3@edv2.boku.ac.at

Yiming Wu

International Business School
Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
Xialuo
Nanchang
Jiangxi Province
China
wu_yiming@usa.net
wym66@163.net

Comments and Recommendations from Participants (by name and address)

Summary of Comments from Participants