June 3, 2021

SEEPS 2021 Goes Online:
General Information and Call for Submissions
SEEPS2021 Conference Committee Chair
Kenji Takeuchi
SEEPS2021 Program Committee Chair
Hidemichi Fujii
1. The conference will be held on September 25 (Sat.) and 26 (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/conference2021.html (English version)
http://www.seeps.org/meeting/2021/ (Japanese version)

4. Conference Schedule
Friday, September 24, 2021 Pre-Conference:
Challenges for Energy and Environmental Policy toward Carbon-Neutral East Asia
Saturday, September 25, 2021
10:00-11:30

Keynote Speech

11:45-12:45

Lunch / Board of Directors Meeting

13:00-13:45

General Assembly of Members

14:00-16:00

Parallel Session 1

16:30-18:30

Parallel Session 2

19:00-20:00

Virtual Gathering

Sunday, September 26, 2021
9:00-11:00

Parallel Session 3

11:30-12:30

Lunch / Board of Directors Meeting

13:00-13:45

President’s Speech / Award Ceremony

14:00-16:00

Parallel Session 4

16:30-18:30

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 12:00 noon on Monday, June 14, 2021. Please note the following:(a) Registration and application will begin in early June, 2021. 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 and Organizedsessions. For co-authored papers, authors may apply multiple papers if each person presents onlyonce.
(c) Visit the conference website for the format of abstract. Abstracts must be prepared in either
Japanese or English.
(d) Presentations will be assigned to sessions according to the schedule in Section 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 one and half months before the conference are subjectto penalties.
・ 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.
・ The penalties are exempted when the participants feel sick or have any symptoms. Please
send an email to the Program Committee (Hidemichi Fujii, hidemichifujii@gmail.com)
before the beginning of the conference (08:30 on September 25).
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. Please visit the SEEPS website if you wish to becomea member.
(b) When applying to present, select a first and a second preference from the common themes below.

1.

Environmental Policy/ Theory

14.

Environment and Economic Growth2.

Climate Change

15.

Environment and Technology

3.

Renewable Energy

16.

Trade and Environment

4.

Energy and Air Pollution

17.

Sustainable Development

5.

Natural Disaster18.

Urban and Transportation

6.

Radioactive Waste and Fukushima Reconstruction 19.

Asia and Developing Countries

7.

Waste and Recycle Policy

20.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem

8.

International Resource Recycle

21.

Natural Resource Management

9. Environmental Risk

22.

Water and Watershed Policy

10. Non-market Valuation

23.

Agriculture and Food

11. Environmental Labelling

24. Environmental Governance

12. Life Cycle Assessment

25.

Other

13. Business and Environment(c) Select one analysis method from below.

A. Microeconomics – Theory

F. Experimental Economics

K. Other Social Science

B. Macroeconomics – Theory

G. Law

L. EngineeringC. 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) Make sure to enter your preference for discussants. However, please note that we may not be able
to accommodate your preferences. If you do not designate discussants, your presentation may bescheduled in the Speed Talk session.
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 applications, we may not hold a separate English session.
(e) We intend to offer a prize for the best Speed Talk. Please note that only students are eligible for thebest Speed Talk prize.
(f) The presenter 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.
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 General sessions above.
6-4. Applying to 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 fordiscussions 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. 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, itstitle, 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) Abstracts of presentations (no more than two pages for each presentation) should be registeredseparately by the presenters for the Organized sessions.
(e) An individual cannot apply to present in more than one session during the conference.
(f) Organized sessions will generally be allocated as follows:
14:00–16:00, Saturday, September 25, or 14:00–16:00, Sunday, September 26, 2021
(g) Organizers selected for the Organized sessions must transfer the event payment of JPY 50,000 by
Tuesday, August 10, 2021. 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 conferenceorganizers.
(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 results will be notified by Sunday, July 25, 2021.
(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 criteria 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 come 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 Generalsessions, and preliminary research reports may also be acceptable.
8. Submitting full papers for General sessions
The deadline for submitting full papers is 12:00 noon on Tuesday, August 10, 2021. 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 organizers should decide whether to ask presenters to submit papers and when the papers shouldbe submitted.

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 (mid or late August 2021).
(b) If you have applied with no preference for General sessions or Speed Talk sessions, 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.
(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,
September 26, 2021.

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 1 (Wed.), 2021. Registration is notpossible after the date and we do not accept on-site registration. All participants (Members/Nonmembers) should register by then. For how to register, please refer to Section 12. Pre-registration /Payment of various expenses below.
Pre-Registration

On-site registration

General (Members)

3,000 yenStudents (Members)Free

We do not accept

General (Non-members)

4,000 yen

on-site registration

Students (Non-members)

2,000 yen-Support members may register one participant as a general member.

-

Non-member discussants participating in the General sessions are exempted from paying theregistration fee.

-Non-member presenters and discussants participating in the General sessions are required to
pay the registration fee.

-Those who want to cancel the participation of the conference after payment, please contact
SEEPS Conference Help Desk (seeps-desk@bunken.co.jp). If the participants feel sick orhave any symptoms, please send an email to the Program Committee (Hidemichi Fujii,hidemichifujii@gmail.com) before the beginning of the conference (08:30 on September 25).
Pre-registration fee deducted 1,000 yen for overhead expenses will be refunded in case of asudden illness or an accident.

-If the conference could not be held normally in case of Novel Corona virus or natural
disaster, full amount of the pre-registration fees will be refunded.

11. Virtual Gathering
Virtual gathering will be held from 19:00 on Saturday, September 25 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 of the annual SEEPS conference will be inoperation by early June, 2021. As soon as the system is up and running, members will be notified by
SEEPS via e-mail 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 expensesusing the ID and password for SEEPS members.
The payment deadline for the application for the conference participation fee is September 3 (Fri.),2021. If payment is not completed by this date, advance pre-registration will be canceled.
13. Important dates§

By the early June, 2021
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 14 (Mon.)
12:00 noon deadline for registration of General sessions, Speed Talk sessions and Organizedsessions, abstracts submissions.

§July 25 (Sun.)
Notifications of acceptance of presentations§

August 10 (Tue.)
12:00 noon: General session full paper submission deadline
Deadline for the event payment of Organized sessions§Mid-AugustProgram details made public on the conference website§

September 1 (Wed.)
Deadline for pre-registration of non-reporting participants§

September 3 (Fri.)Payment deadline for pre-registration of conference fee§

September 24 (Fri.): Pre-Conference, Board of Directors Meeting§

September 25 (Sat.): Conference Day 1, General Assembly of Members, Keynote Speech,
Board of Directors Meeting, Virtual Gathering§

September 26 (Sun.): Conference Day 2, President’s Speech, Award Ceremony, Board ofDirectors Meeting

14. Contact Details:
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:
Regarding on registrations and registration fees:
SEEPS Conference Help Desk
Academy Center 358-5 Yamabuki-cho Shinjuku Tokyo 162-0801
seeps-desk@bunken.co.jp
FAX：03-5227-8632
Regarding on General, Speed Talk and Organized Sessions:
SEEPS 2021 Conference Program Committee
Hedemichi Fujii
Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University
hidemichifujii@gmail.com
Any other questions regarding the SEEPS 2021 conference:
SEEPS 2021 Conference CommitteeKenji Takeuchi
Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University
takeuchi@econ.kobe-u.ac.jp