USSEE's Conference features world-class keynote and plenary speeches, concurrent sessions for paper presentations and poster sessions for collegial exchanges, workshops that are aimed at finding solutions to specific, current and actual issues, clinics for consultations with experts, field trips that show cutting edge applications of ecological economics and press events that highlight exciting developments during the conference. This conference shall explore and expand on projects and case studies taken by academics, and look into apply ecological economics through trans-disciplinary lenses in solving current and practical problems faced by governments, policy advocates, environmentalists, and businesses.