International MESO Symposium: Sharing Experiences in MENA countries - Local Analyses and Competences

The Symposium will take place in Damascus (Syria) on 17-19 June 2008 and aims at bringing together decision makers, industry leaders and key academia which are working with environmental economics analysis or interested in it. Its main focus will be: “Sharing Experiences in MENA countries”.

The MESO programme has focused on connecting micro and macro evaluations on a middle level, the MESO level. The objective of the meso-economic studies is to seize the importance of the flows, measure them together with their transformations and impacts on the environment. Then, the consequences of these actions are translated into economic monetary terms, first into environmental degradation costs (damages and inefficiencies), second, into remediation costs. Finally, these costs are related to the value added (VA) of the concerned entity. Last, prospective scenarii are run in order to assess the evolution of environmental damage and economic inefficiencies over time.

It’s time to share approaches and successes, examine encountered difficulties, define future needs and set new perspectives. The Symposium aims at:
• Bringing together decision makers, industries leaders and key academia
• Providing an overview of elaborated MESO studies in the MENA region
• Disseminating and exchanging experiences
• Enabling benchmarking
• Facilitating further partnerships
• Exploring future trends

Please return your registration form no later than 8th June.