SESSION 3 - Economics and industrial ecology: strenghts and limits of existing paradigms

BCU conference room, Unithèque, University of Lausanne

9.00 - 9.10 Welcome message

Prof Lukas Baumgartner, Dean of the Geosciences and Environment Faculty, University of Lausanne, CH

9.10 - 9.15 Session introduction

9.15 - 9.55 Lessons from the efficient market, environmental & ecological economic theories.

Dr. Beat Burgenmeier, professor, director of the Centre of Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, CH 

9.55 - 10.40 The Chinese circular economy model

Dr. Dajian Zhu, Professor, Head, Research Center of Sustainable Development and Governance, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 - 12.30 Economic Rationality and Ecological and Social Reason: Why it is so difficult to actualise the paradigm and the knowledge of industrial ecology

Dr. Rolf Steppacher, senior lecturer, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), Geneva, CH

Valentina Liakhova, PhD candidate, Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva (IUED), CH