This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 266800
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 publicise and disseminate FESSUD research results.
Preliminary programme
Monday, May 11
08:45-09:45
Registration & Coffee/Tea
09:45-10:00
Welcome Address
Sune Sunesson, Director of the Pufendorf Institute
10:00-12:00
Session 1: Money, Gold and Corporate Social Responsibility
10:00: Alf Hornborg, Lund University, Redesigning money to curb globalization
10:30: Julie Ann de los Reyes, Manchester University, Mining shareholder value: Financialization in
the gold mining industry
11:00: Costanza Consolandi, Siena University, The role of corporate social responsibility in sustainable
development
11:30: Discussion
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Session 2: Financialisation and Sustainability of Built Environments I
13:30: Eric Clark, Lund University, Financialisation of built environments
14:00: Galip Yalman, University of Ankara, Phases of urban development and housing finance in
Ankara
14:30: Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Lund University, Financialisation of built environments in Stockholm
15:00-15:30
Coffee/Tea Break
The views expressed during the execution of the FESSUD project, in whatever form and or by whatever medium, are the sole responsibility of the authors. The
European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 266800
15:30-17:00
Session 3: Financialisation and Sustainability of Built Environments II
15:30: Anders Lund Hansen, Lund University, Financialisation of built environments in Copenhagen
16:00: Sònia Vives Miró, University of the Balearic Islands, Mortgaged cities: Uneven geography of
urban financialization in Spanish cities in crisis
16:30: Discussion
17:15-18:00
Keynote lecture: The Limits to Financialisation
Brett Christophers, Uppsala University
19:00
Social Dinner (venue to be announced)
Tuesday, May 12
09:00-10:30
Session 4: Green Growth, Low-Carbon Transitions and Financialisation of Energy
09:00: Andrew Gouldson, Leeds University, Green growth and the governance and financialisation of low
carbon transitions
09:30: Giampaolo Gabbi, Siena University, What's special about financial instruments on energy
commodities: An investors', corporate, and banking perspective
10:00: Discussion
10:30-11:00
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:00
Concluding Discussion
Alessandro Vercelli, Siena University, Reflexions on WP7
12:00
Lunch and Departure
The views expressed during the execution of the FESSUD project, in whatever form and or by whatever medium, are the sole responsibility of the authors. The
European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein