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Organization and the ecological crisis
– a lecture series
Lecture 3: Can Economics Be Ecological? A Dialogue with Inge Røpke
Time: 1. October 2025 from 15:00-17:00
Location: Kien K2.53
This is a series of public lectures in which connoted scholars will present research addressing the ecological crisis and organization. Speakers will focus on their research’s concrete suggestions for how we can better organize
and / or on the impact of their work for new and more productive forms of scholarly societal engagement today. The lecture series serves as a platform for discussion, networking, and collaboration among scholars, educators, students, and experts.
Lecture 3: Can Economics Be Ecological? A Dialogue with Inge Røpke
In this seminar, Inge Røpke – Denmark’s first professor of ecological economics – will reflect on what we can learn from the trajectory of ecological economics.
The seminar will cover three main themes:
(1) What happens to economics when we add “ecological”? How ecological economics has attempted to redefine the foundational building blocks of the discipline.
(2) What has been the trajectory of ecological economics in Denmark? Røpke will reflect on her own experience – both as an academic and as a public figure – and the successes and failures of advancing ecological economics in a Danish context.
(3) Why we need to pay attention to sufficiency. Røpke will discuss how sufficiency should become a political and societal goal if we are to develop an ecological economy.
Program
15:00 – Lecture and Q&A
16:00 – Reception and networking
B io:
Inge Røpke is Professor Emerita of Ecological Economics at Aalborg University’s campus in Copenhagen, Department of Sustainability and Planning. She has published widely on ecological economics, consumption and environment, energy use and information technology
in everyday life, and ecological macroeconomics. Her 2020 paper “Econ 101 – in need of a sustainability transition”, published in Ecological Economics, sums up insights across these fields. Together with colleagues, she has written introductory teaching material
on ecological economics, freely available as a website:
http://www.ecomacundervisning.dk/?lang=en
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Organised by
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Department of Organization
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Date
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1. October 2025
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Time
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15:00 – 17:00
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Location
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Kilen K2.53
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Sign up
https://cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1300/here
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