The 2020 SURED conference is going to be held in Ascona, Switzerland, May 31-June 4, 2020. The aim of the conference is to compile innovative current research from resource, energy and environmental economics and dynamic economic theory. By bringing together leading experts, junior and senior scholars and young researchers in these fields, the conference covers a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development.

The conference will be the ninth of a series. The SURED conferences in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 were generally considered great successes. Participants came from all over Europe as well as from America and Asia. The conference papers reached the highest international standards and the presentations were very professional.

1. Topics

• environmental economics

• resource economics

• energy economics

• economic dynamics

• growth theory

Keynote and invited lectures are given by internationally distinguished researchers. There are special sessions for young economists.

2. Special issue

A special issue of “European Economic Review” will be devoted to the conference and contain a selection of the best papers.

2.1 Guest editors

Lucas Bretschger, ZTH

lbretschger@ethz.ch

Simone Valente, The University of East Anglia

S.Valente@uea.ac.uk

The normal quality standards of EER apply; the usual refereeing process will be followed. Papers need to make a substantial, novel and relevant contribution to the literature. As regards the topics, many papers will naturally be close to the main theme of the conference that is sustainable resource use and economic dynamics. Contributions do not necessarily need to have a dynamic model, they have to contribute to environmental and resource economics in a significant manner.

2.2 Deadline

The deadline for submission is September 1, 2020.

2.3 Instructions for submission

• You will be able to submit your article from June 1 to September 1, 2020.

• The submission website for this journal will be located at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/eerev

• To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select VSI: SURED 2020 when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.