Call for Special Subtracks / Sessions is open now! (deadline for submissions: October, 28th)
The 2026 conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) will be held in Ghent, Belgium from June 30 to July 03 (Conference website).
This is ESEE’s 16th biennial conference, which will be held at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Ghent University, Belgium. ESEE extends warm thanks to the local organisers of this important conference for our Society.
The main theme is: Looking for (the) Just Judges – Promoting Sustainable and Inclusive Well-Being in Turbulent Times
The conference brings together ecological economists from across Europe, and is organized in collaboration with the city of Ghent and several local NGOs. It will host a series of keynote lectures, parallel sessions, poster sessions, and social activities.
The Call for Special Subtracks / Special Sessions is out now and will be open until October 28th (23:59). Two special formats are provided within the ESEE2026 conference:
Open Special Subtrack: here one proposes to add a Subtrack to the ESEE2026 programme that is centered around a specific topic within ecological economics that does not fit clearly within any of the (sub)tracks proposed by the conference organizers – see this link for a full overview of the ESEE programme. If approved, the Subtrack is added to the final programme of the conference and will be open to all conference participants who can submit their work to the Subtrack. A Subtrack will afterwards translate into one or more sessions – in the traditional format of a series of presentations – depending on the interest of conference participants.
Closed Special Session: here you propose a Session organized around a specific topic related to ecological economics, for which the organizers wish to deviate from the traditional format of sessions at the ESEE2026 conference – i.e. the organizers want to have a session that is not a series of presentations of participants, but, for instance, a roundtable or interactive discussion. These Special Sessions are closed in the sense that only pre-approved scholars will be allowed to present (including the Session proposers themselves). The Scientific Committee will only accept a limited number of Closed Special Sessions.
The full Call is available here – please read carefully before preparing a submission.
Submissions are possible via ConfTool at https://www.conftool.pro/
Conference Programme
The ESEE2026 conference programme consists of 11 main tracks and 58 subtracks. The main tracks include:
Beyond GDP: Rethinking Well-being and Prosperity
Ecological Boundaries, Biophysical Realities and the Commons
Justice, Equity, and Inclusive Futures
Socio-Ecological Transformation in Times of Crisis
Technology, Work and Care
Institutional Innovation and Governance
Ecological Macroeconomics, Public Finance, and Money
Sufficiency, Values, and Behavioral Change
Reimagining Places and the Urban-Rural Divide
Rethinking Business and Finance Developments in Ecological Economics as a Scientific Field
The full programme – including subtracks – can be found here.
Call for Abstracts
The Call for Abstracts will follow later this year.