Financialisation and Sustainability

Financialisation and Sustainability
A FESSUD Workshop in Lund, 11th and 12th of May 2015
Venue: The Pufendorf Institute, Lund University
Local Organisers: Adam Grydehøj, Eric Clark, Anders Lund Hansen
The workshop aims to promote dialogue and collaboration between researchers working on Finance,
Environment and Sustainability (WP7) and the other researchers in FESSUD. The workshop also aims
to publicize and disseminate FESSUD research results.
Preliminary programme
Monday, May 11
9:00-9:30
Registration, coffee/tea
9:30-10:00
Welcome Address
Professor emeritus Sune Sunesson, Director of the Pufendorf Institute
10:00-12:00 Session: Money, Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility
[all chairs and discussants to be announced]
Alf Hornborg, Lund University, Redesigning money to curb globalization
Costanza Consolandi, Siena University, The role of corporate social responsibility in sustainable development
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:30
Session: Financialisation and Sustainability of Built Environments
Eric Clark, Lund University, Financialisation of built environments
Galip Yalman, University of Ankara, Phases of urban development and housing finance in Ankara
Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Lund University, Financialisation of built environments in Stockholm
Anders Lund Hansen, Lund University, Financialisation of built environments in Copenhagen
15:30-16:00
16:00-17:30
Coffee/tea Break
Keynote lecture: The Limits to Financialisation
Brett Christophers, Uppsala University
19:00
Social Dinner (venue to be announced)
Tuesday, May 12
8:30-10:30
Session: Green Growth, Low-Carbon Transitions and Financialisation of Energy
Andrew Gouldson, Leeds University, Green growth and the governance and financialisation of low carbon
transitions
Giampaolo Gabbi, Siena University, What's special about financial instruments on energy commodities: An
investors', corporate, and banking perspective
10:30-11:00
Coffee/tea break
11:00-12:00
Concluding Discussion
Alessandro Vercelli, Siena University, Reflexions on WP7
12:00-13:00
Coordination Plans for WP7 team
12:30-14:00
Lunch and departure