Call for papers
The 19th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative is organized by EfD-Tanzania, School of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSoE), and the EfD Global Hub on October 16-19, 2025.
EfD is an international initiative focusing on the application of environmental economics in the Global South. The overall objective of EfD is to support poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the Global South through academic programs, research, and policy interaction. EfD centers are hosted by leading local academic research institutions in 12 countries across the Global South: Chile, Colombia, Central America, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam. EfD has partnerships with Duke University (USA), Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) (Germany), Portland State University (USA), Resources for the Future (USA), Toulouse School of Economics (France), Environmental Economics Program in China (EEPC), Peking University (China), University College Dublin (UCD) (Ireland), and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, (Netherlands). The EfD Global Hub coordinates the network from the School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. EfD supports two Ph.D. programs at Addis Ababa University and the University of Rwanda.
PAPER SUBMISSION
EfD invites submission of extended abstract/full draft papers on environmental and resource economics topics in developing countries and relevant EfD themes.
Please complete this form and submit your manuscript, by March 31, 2025.
Selected authors will be notified by May 31st, after which registration for the Annual Meeting will be open. Final draft accepted papers must be submitted by June 15, 2025, to be included in the final program of the annual meeting. We encourage EfD early career research fellows to submit papers to the annual meeting.
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Please note that additional EfD events (training sessions and collaborative program meetings) will be organized before and after the Annual Meeting. There will also be a policy day and many policy activities.