Regional and Global Aspects of Sustainability and Bioeconomy
Session Chair: doc. Ing. Eva Cudlínová, CSc. (in Czech / English)
Room: F2
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Management of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Session Chair: Ing. Martin Pech, Ph.D. (in Czech / English)
Room: - F3, Building F
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Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Aspects of Social and Economic Development
Session Chair: Ing. Robert Zeman, Ph.D. (in Czech / English)
Room: F1, Building F
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Mathematical-statistical Modelling and Optimization in Practice
Session Chair: doc. Ing. Jana Klicnarová, Ph.D. (in Czech / English)
Room: F5, Building F
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Market Research and Sustainable Marketing in Trade and Tourism
Session Chair: Ing. Viktor Vojtko, Ph.D. (in Czech / English)
Room: F4, Building F
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Criminal aspects of entrepreneurship in the European context and Insolvency Proceedings
Session Chair: JUDr. Martin Slobodník (in Czech / English)
Room: F4, Building F
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Economic Impacts of Changes and Policies in the Fields of Finance, Accounting and Taxation
Session Chair: Ing. Zita Drábková, Ph.D. & Ing. Jaroslav Svoboda, Ph.D. (in Czech / English)
Room: A309, Deanship of Faculty of Economics
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Economics of Agriculture
Session Chair: Ing. Daniel Kopta, Ph.D.; Ing. Radek Zdeněk, Ph.D. (in Czech / English)
Room: A009, Deanship of Faculty of Economics
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Plenary Session
Keynote speaker prof. Karl Bruckmeier will starts Plenary Session with paper: "The significance of economic knowledge in the environmental sustainability discourse" - building F - F4
The significance of economic knowledge in the environmental sustainability discourse
Abstract: The discourse on environmental sustainability gained significance in the past three decades in science and in the policy process, in many countries, indicating more and more problems with environmental pollution and limited availability of natural resources. Many local, regional, national and global activities and policy programmes were initiated to support sustainable development, but the success in terms of environmental improvements is limited so far, as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and further global assessments showed. For the future sustainability process a critical review of the practices of knowledge use is required. Economics is only one of many disciplines providing knowledge for the sustainability process, and it is not a paradigmatically unified science; different approaches compete in analysing and explaining environmental problems. Sustainable development depends on knowledge from the natural and social sciences and interdisciplinary syntheses. With interdisciplinary knowledge integration come up questions of knowledge selection: Which knowledge, from which disciplines should be applied and combined in the sustainability discourse and the governance processes? How to deal with incompatible or contradicting knowledge and information? Which social and cultural resources, beyond the natural and economic resources, are required for sustainble development in a given area or country and globally?These questions guide the search for possible improvements of the governance processes through inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge syntheses which are required because all dimensions of sustainability, economic, social and ecological, are connected to each other and functionally dependent on each other. Knowledge integration cannot be done in the policy and governance processes alone where power- and interest-related aspects dominate. With interdisciplinary research and knowledge integration failures of prior sustainability policies become visible: usually these are discussed as market, policy or community failures in the governance processes, whereas failures through inadequate knowledge practices are rather neglected. Main requirements to improve the knowledge practices in sustainability governance include epistemologically and methodologically refined approaches of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and learning from the inefficiency of prior sustainability policies.
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Social evening
Conference Social Programme
Reception for Conference Participants
- Departure of the bus for Reception from Deanship of Faculty of Economics (17:45)
- Reception for conference participants - Budvar Brewery (18:00 - 23:00).
Excursion to Brewery Budvar
- Excursion to the Budvar Brewery (19:30)
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