Workshops Workshops 2003   Workshop One Workshop Two Workshop Three Workshop "Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability - Economic Theory and Measurement" The workshop on "Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability - Economic Theory and Measurement" begins with the premise that philosophical and ethical differences are the underlying cause of many disputes on the concept of sustainability in the problematic area of intra- and intergenerational equity. These differences have been laid out in a background paper in preparation of the workshop. Workshop participants discuss theories of distributive justice and how they relate to economic definitions of sustainability. They also explore the underlying assumptions of these theories and how to tackle the key problems faced by the definition of sustainability, i.e., who is the subject of intergenerational justice (the individual or the generation), what is the object of intergenerational justice (welfare or resources), which obligations exist to future generations and how to deal with uncertain future preferences and situations. The second part of the workshop addresses the issue of economic measurement of intergenerational justice. It looks at the methods of generational accounting and overlapping generation models in a fiscal policy context. The closing session of the workshop identifies pressing research needs. Research recommendations are provided in the workshop proceedings. Background paper Programme Proceedings _back to top Workshop "International Institutions for Sustainability" This workshop surveys the institutional dimension of global sustainability. It departs from the economic globalization which has been observed, analyzed and also discussed in a controversial manner during the last decade (see Background Paper). We consider the institutional facts and needs which could support an international sustainable development, asking where do we find promising economic contributions to the sustainability debate, and in which fields does sustainability research need more and better economic advice? We highlight selected issues such as trade and environment or global governance, comprising the international institutional order, the role of civil society and the creation of new, more sustainability-focussed institutions. Research recommendations can be found in our Survey Paper "International Institutions for Sustainability". Background paper Survey Paper Programme Proceedings _back to top Workshop "Measuring Sustainability" The overall objective of the workshop is to identify elements of a research agenda in the field of measuring sustainability - mainly from an economic perspective. The workshop is organized in four sessions: (1) Welfare-related approaches to measuring sustainability are characterized as methods which use some weighting scheme (usually valuation) in order to aggregate diverse information. (2) A variety of indicators can be organized in satellite accounts which are viewed as an extension to existing accounting systems. In general this approach allows for great flexibility with respect to the unit of measurement and applied analytic tools. (3) As systems analytic approaches we understand primarily model based analytical tools to measure sustainability. One feature of these models is their ability to cope with secondary effects. (4) Most of the work on measuring sustainability relates to environmental sustainability. In order to emphasize the importance we attribute to economic and social sustainability objectives we devote a special session to measuring social and economic sustainability. Background paper Survey Paper Programme Proceedings _back to top	Workshops 2003 Workshops 2004