The 1st of June 2022

SEEPS 2022 goes Online
General Information and Call for Submissions
Conference Committee Chair: Soocheol Lee , Program Committee Chair: Mihoko WakamatsuManaging Director in charge of Conference: Kenji Takeuchi

1. The conference will be held on October 1(Sat.) and 2 (Sun.) as a virtual event
2. Venue: Online, Zoom ID will be announced on the conference web page.
3. Conference web page:
http://www.seeps.org/eng/conference2022.html(English version)
http://www.seeps.org/meeting/2022/(Japanese version)

4. Conference Schedule
October 1(Sat.), 2022:
09:30 ~11:30
Parallel Session 1
11:30 ~13:00

Lunch / Board of Directors Meeting

13:00 ~13:45

General Meeting

14:00~16:00

Parallel Session 2

16:10~17:50

Keynote Speech

19:00~21:00

Virtual Social EventOctober 2(Sun.), 2022:
9:30~11:30
Parallel Session 3
11:30~12:45

Lunch / Board of Directors Meeting

13:00~14:00

President Speech / Award Ceremony

14:10~16:10

Parallel Session 4

16:20~18:20

Parallel Session 5

5. Application and submission of abstracts for General sessions, Speed Talk sessions, andOrganized sessions
Apply for these sessions on the conference website. The deadline for applications and abstract
submissions is strictly at noon on Monday, June 20, 2022. Please note the following:

(a) Registration and application will begin at early June 2022. SEEPS will email its members and post
a notice on the conference website when registration opens.
(b) Each person may present only once across the General sessions, Speed Talk sessions, andOrganized sessions. However, for co-authored papers, authors may apply to present on multiple
papers if each person presents only once.
(c) Visit the conference website for the required abstract format. Abstracts must be prepared in either
Japanese or English.
(d) In principle, accepted presentations will be allocated in any of the parallel sessions in the timetable(see 4. Conference Schedule above).
(e) When graduate student presenters apply and submit their abstracts, they must clearly state that theiraffiliation is as a graduate student and include the name of their adviser.
(f) Please be aware that certain kinds of cancellations after application to present will be subject to thefollowing penalties by a decision of the board:― Withdrawals from presenting later than 1½ months before the conference are subject topenalties.
―Presenters who withdraw on or before the day of the conference two years consecutively may
not present at the following year’s conference.
―Presenters who cancel their presentation on the day of the conference may not present at thefollowing year’s conference.
―Withdrawal notices must be submitted by email to the Program Committee.
※It is exempt from the penalties if the participants feel sick or have any symptoms and send an
email to the Program Committee (Mihoko Wakamatsu, mwakam0@kaiyodai.ac.jp) before thebeginning of the conference (8:30 am on the October 1).
6. Submissions
6-1. Applying to present at General sessions(a) The presenter must be a SEEPS member. Non-members must complete the membership procedures
before application and abstract submission. Visit the SEEPS website if you wish to become amember.
(b) When applying to present, select a first and a second preference from the common themes below.

1. Environmental Economics and Policy/ Theory

13.

Business and Environment

2. Climate Change and Carbon Neutral

14.

Environment and Economic Growth

3. Renewable Energy

15.

Environment and Technology

4. Energy in General

16.

Trade and Environment

5. Natural Disaster17. Sustainable Development

6. Radioactive Waste and Fukushima Reconstruction 18.

Cities and Transportation

7. Waste and Recycle Policy

19.

Asia and Developing Countries

8. International Resource Circulation

20.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

9. Environmental Risk

21.

Natural Resource and Agriculture

10. Non-market Valuation

22.

Water and Watershed Policy

11. Environmental Labelling, Life Cycle Assessment

23.

Air Pollution and Policy

24. Others

12. Environmental Governance(c) Select one analysis method from below.

A. Microeconomics – Theory

F. Experimental Economics

K. Other Social Science

B. Macroeconomics – Theory

G. Law

L. Engineering

C. Microeconomics – Applied

H. Political Science

M. Natural Science

D. Macroeconomics – Applied

I. Sociology

N. Interdisciplinary

E. Stated/Revealed Preference

J. Business Administration

O. Other(d) Select whether you wish to present in the English session. Depending on the number of applications,
we may not hold a separate English session.
(e) Enter your preference for discussants. Please note that we may not be able to accommodate yourpreferences.
6-2. Applying to present at Speed Talk sessions(a) Speed Talk sessions consist of short oral presentations of your research without discussants (10minutes for oral presentation + 5 minutes for questions from the floor).
(b) Speed Talk sessions do not require the submission of the full paper.
(c) Speed Talk sessions are arranged as parallel sessions with the General sessions.
(d) When applying to present, select whether you wish to present in the English session. Depending on
the state of the applications, we may not hold a separate English session.
(e) We intend to offer a prize for the best Speed Talk. The award winners will be honoured at theawards ceremony on 2nd October.
(f) The presenter must be a SEEPS member. Non-members must complete the membership procedures
before applying. See the SEEPS website if you wish to become a member.

6-3. Applying to present with no preference for General sessions or Speed Talk sessions(a) Proceed as in 6-1. Applying to present at the General sessions above.
6-4. Applying to present at Organized sessions(a) We invite applications for three types of Organized sessions: research reports, tutorials, and panel
discussions. Tutorials teach research methods to young researchers, and panel discussions are fordiscussions on specified topics, based on research outcomes. Organized sessions are generally
limited to one session (two hours) per item, excluding tutorials.
(b) Each organizer may apply for only one Organized session. The organizer must be a SEEPS member.
Non-members must complete the membership procedures before applying. Please visit the SEEPS
website if you wish to become a member. The presenter of an Organized session does not have to
be a member.
(c) The organizer must apply with a written proposal and describe the type of Organized session, its
title, organizer, chairperson, presenters, discussants, and an outline of the proposed session. Please
be aware that the organizer should inform the presenters, and discussants of any notices from theProgram Committee.
(d) Individual presentation abstracts (no more than two pages for each report) should be registeredseparately by the presenters for the Organized sessions.
(e) An individual cannot apply to present in more than one session at the same time.
(f) Organized sessions will generally be allocated as follows due to the compilation of the program:
Parallel Session(2), Saturday, October 1, or Parallel Session(4), Sunday, October 2, 2022(g) Organizers selected for the Organized sessions must transfer the event payment of JPY 50,000 by
Tuesday, August 16, 2022. The payee account and other information will be provided when thesessions are accepted. If you cannot submit your payment by this date, please contact the conference
organizers.
(h) Tutorials in the Organized sessions are exempt from the event payment for the sessions.

7. Acceptance for General sessions, Speed Talk, and Organized sessions(a) Acceptance for General sessions, Speed Talk, and Organized sessions will be decided by theProgram Committee, and participants will be notified by Friday, July 29, 2022. (See below for theselection standards.)(b) We intend to ask presenters, except graduate students, to act as chairpersons or discussants.
However, please note that we may ask graduate student presenters to act as discussants as well.
* Selection standards for applications
Although SEEPS requires only the submission of the abstract when applying to present, the analysis
results and conclusion must still be clearly described at this stage. Please be advised that we may
reject a presentation if the report abstract comes under any of the following conditions.
● Abstracts that describe only the research plan
● Abstracts that do not describe the analysis results, conclusion, analysis method, etc., and thatclearly have incomplete contents● Abstracts with insufficient relevance to the topics discussed by SEEPS● Abstracts that merely state facts already known to many members or that state opinions thatcannot readily be considered analysis● Abstracts intended for personal benefit or that seek to promote individuals, groups,organizations, political parties, or religions● Abstracts not submitted within the deadline● For Speed Talk sessions, the requirement for a conclusion is not as strict as for General sessions,and preliminary research reports may also be acceptable.
8. Submitting full papers for General sessions
The deadline for submitting full papers is midday (noon) on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Please notethat this deadline is strict and late submissions cannot be accepted. Submit papers through theconference website. The Program Committee will forward the submitted papers to the discussantsprior to the conference. The file format is at your discretion, but you are requested to provide PDF
files if possible. Papers must be prepared in either Japanese or English.
The format is generally at your discretion, but we refer you to the submission guidelines below as
appropriate on the SEEPS website:
・Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (in Japanese) submission guidelines
・Environmental Economics and Policy Studies submission guidelines
https://www.springer.com/journal/10018/submission-guidelines

Papers are not required for the submission to the Speed Talk sessions. For the Organized sessions,the decision of whether to ask presenters to submit papers and when the paper should be submitted isleft to the organizers.

9. Notice of the time and date of their presentations at the conference(a) Presenters will learn the time and date for their presentations in General sessions, Speed Talk
sessions, and Organized sessions at the conference once the program details are finalized andpublished on the conference website (scheduled for mid or late August 2022).
(b) If you have applied with no preference for General sessions or Speed Talk sessions, a notice ofyour presentation type, whether General session (common themes) or Speed Talk, will also begiven once the program details are finalized and published on the conference website (scheduledfor mid or late August 2022).
(c) Student presentations for Speed Talk sessions will be carefully reviewed by the Program
Committee, and the best Speed Talk will be awarded at the awards ceremony on Sunday, October
2, 2022.
10. Registration fees for the Conference
Registration fees are required regardless of the number of days you participate. The fee varies
depending on membership. Pre-registration is due by September 7(Wed.), 2022. For how to register,
please refer to “Pre-registration / Payment of various expenses” below.

Pre-RegistrationOn-site Registration

General (Members)

3,000 yenStudents (Members)

1,000 yen

We do not accept on-site

General (Non-member)

4,000 yenregistration

Students (Non-member)

2,000 yen

※ Supporting members may register one participant as a general member.
※ Senior members fall into the same category with student members.
※ Non-member discussants participating in the General sessions are exempted from paying theregistration fee.
※ Non-member presenters and discussants participating in the Organized sessions are required topay the registration fee.
※ Those who want to cancel their conference participation after payment, please contact SEEPS
Conference Help Desk (seeps-desk@conf.bunken.co.jp) by September 12(Mon.) 2022. Preregistration fee deducted 1000 yen for overhead expenses will be refunded. If the participants
feel sick or have any symptoms, please send an email to the Program Committee (MihokoWakamatsu, mwakam0@kaiyodai.ac.jp) before the beginning of the conference (8:30 on
October 1).
※ If the conference could not be held normally in case of Novel Coronavirus or natural disaster,
the full amount of the pre-registration fees will be refunded.

11. Virtual Social Event
Social gathering will be held virtually from 19:00 on Saturday, October 1 by online. Free of charge.
Non-members are required to pay the registration fee for the conference.
12. Pre-registration/Payment of fees
The system for pre-registration and payment of fees for the annual SEEPS conference will be inoperation by early June, 2022, by the SEEPS Annual Conference Help Desk, consigned toInternational Academic Publishing Co., Ltd. As soon as the system is up and running, members will
be notified by SEEPS via email as well as information provided on the conference website.
Please log in to the system and follow the procedure for pre-registration and payment of expenses
using the ID and password for SEEPS members. The payment deadline for the application for theconference participation fee is September 9 (Fri.), 2022. If payment is not completed by this date,advance pre-registration will be canceled.
13. Important dates▪

Early June, 2022
Web page for submission to General sessions, Speed Talk, and Organized sessions up andrunning. Payment system for pre-registration of the conference up and running▪

June 20(Mon.) 2022
Noon deadline for registration of General sessions, Speed Talk sessions and Organizedsessions, abstracts submissions.

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July 29(Fri.) 2022
Notifications of acceptance of presentations▪

August 16(Tue.) 2022:
Noon: General session full paper submission deadline, Deadline to pay Organized session fees▪

Mid to Late-August, 2022
Program details made public on the conference website

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September 7(Wed.) 2022:
Deadline for pre-registration▪

September 9(Fri.) 2022:
Payment deadline for pre-registration of the conference fee▪

September 30(Fri.) 2022: Board of Directors Meeting▪

October 1(Sat.) 2022: Conference day 1, General Meeting, Key Note Speech, Social
Gathering, Board of Directors Meeting▪

October 2(Sun.) 2022: Conference day 2, President Speech, Award Ceremony, Board ofDirectors Meeting

14. Contact Details:
If you have any queries, please contact the following:
Regarding registrations and registration fees:
SEEPS Conference Help Desk
Academy Center 358-5 Yamabuki-cho Shinjuku Tokyo 162-0801
E-mail：seeps-desk@conf.bunken.co.jp
FAX：03-5227-8632
Regarding General, speed talk and organized sessions:
SEEPS 2022 Conference Program Committee:
Mihoko Wakamatsu
Department of Marine Policy and Culture, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-57 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477
Tel: +81-3 5463-0542
E-mail: mwakam0@kaiyodai.ac.jp
Any other general queries regarding the SEEPs 2022 annual conference:Managing Director in charge of Conference
Kenji Takeuchi
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
E-mail: takeuchi@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp

SEEPS 2022 Conference Committee
Soocheol Lee
Faculty of Economics, Meijo University
E-mail:slee@meijo-u.ac.jp