October 25-27, 2012
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai 400 065, India.
Call for Papers
The International Workshop on Advances in Energy Studies 2012 is the
eighth edition in an ongoing series of biennial meetings dedicated to
advances, innovation and vision in energy and energy-related
environmental and socio-economic issues. Energy security for
sustainable development is one of the most obvious but least discussed
topics in the present times. In this workshop, the Energy Studies
community will bring the issue to centre stage and challenges the
participants to come up with practical solutions to the problem.
Paper submission:
The call for papers is now open and proposals for contributions can be
submitted through our website: http://www.igidr.in/conf/AES2012
through the 'Submit Abstract' menu before February 29, 2012. They
need to be set in MS-Word format and not exceed 500 words. Please put
your name and e-mail id in the abstract file. For convenience include
your name as part of the file name. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed by a panel of experts. Selected abstracts will be
considered for full papers/posters. Papers/posters will be further
reviewed for final acceptance. The accepted papers will be invited for
presentation and published in the conference proceedings. Select
papers presented at the conference will be brought out as a volume
later.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Energy Security
Energy Dynamics
- Energy demand and supply security
- Energy inter-dependence
- Energy trade and investment engagement
- Security in Persian Gulf
- Political economy of energy supply
Energy dynamics of emerging economies
Trilateral energy demand --US, Europe and Asia
Regional energy competitiveness
Energy crisis and coordinated responses
Cross-border energy Trade
Role of Technology in Development
Institutions and Governance
-Renewable energy technologies and resources
- Energy transition, security and competitiveness
- Efficiency patterns--industrial, transportation, agricultural and
household sectors
- Perspectives of Nuclear energy
- Capacity building in Energy technology management
The human dimension--institutions and patterns for the governance of
energy systems
Energy infrastructure
Universalisation of modern energy services
Urbanization--alternative energy patterns for the cities of the third millennium
- Long-term energy security
Registration fee: Rs.2,000/- (Academics); Rs.1,000/- (students),
Rs.5,000/- (industry delegates). Demand Draft should be drawn in
favour of "IGIDR" payable at Mumbai, India. For foreign delegates the
fee is US $150 (Academics); US $ 50/- (students) (through 'paypal').
Prof. B.Sudhakara Reddy
Organising Committee Chairman
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Goregaon (East), Mumbai 400 065, India.