Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is an advanced research institute established and fully funded by the Reserve Bank of India for carrying out research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view. Starting as a purely research institution, it rapidly developed into a full-fledged teaching cum research organisation when it launched a Ph.D. program in the field of development studies in 1990. The objective of the Ph.D. programme is to produce researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds who can address issues of economics, energy and environment policies.

Description:
8th Biennial International Workshop 2012: “Advances in Energy Studies” Energy Security and Development—the Changing Global Context, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. 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.

Topics:

• Energy Security
• Role of Technology in Development
• Energy Dynamics
• Institutions and Governance

Paper submission:
The call for papers is now open and proposals for contributions can be submitted through our website, 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.

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’).

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Contact details:
Prof. B. Sudhakara Reddy
Organising Committee Chairman
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research,
Goregaon (East),
Mumbai 400 065
Website: www.igidr.ac.in/