May 19, 2020

SEEPS 2020 Goes Online:
General Information and Call for Submissions
SEEPS2020 Conference Committee Chair
Kenji Takeuchi
SEEPS2020 Program Committee Chair
Kazuyuki Iwata
1. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this year’s conference will be held on 26 Septemberand 27 September 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/html/meetings/conference2020.html (English version)
http://www.seeps.org/meeting/2020/ (Japanese version)

4. Conference Schedule
Saturday, September 26, 2020
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

16:15~17:45

Keynote Speech

18:00~20:00

Social Gathering

Sunday, September 27, 2020
9:30~11:30

Parallel Session 3

11:30~12:45

Lunch / Board of Directors Meeting

12:50~13:45

President Speech / Award Ceremony

13:50~15:50

Parallel Session 4

16:00~18:00

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5. Application and submission of abstracts for Oral sessions, Speed Talk sessions and Organized
Oral sessions

Apply for these sessions on the conference website. The deadline for applications and abstractsubmissions is strictly at 12:00 noon on Monday, June 15, 2020. Please note the following:(a) Registration and application will begin by the end of May, 2020. SEEPS will email its members
and post a notice on the conference website when registration opens.
(b) Poster sessions will not be held for this conference, but Speed Talk sessions have been added. See
section 6-2 Applying to present at Speed Talk sessions for information about Speed Talk sessions.
(c) Each person may present only once across the Oral sessions, Speed Talk sessions, and Organized
Oral sessions. However, for co-authored papers, authors may apply to present on multiple papers if
each person presents only once.
(d) Visit the conference website for the format of abstract. The conference website also contains anarchive of abstracts from last year’s conference for your reference. Abstracts must be prepared ineither Japanese or English.
(e) In principle, presentations will be arranged according to 4. Conference Schedule above.
(f) When graduate students apply for presentations, they must clearly state that their affiliation is as agraduate student and include the name of their adviser.
(g) 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 1.5 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 in writing or by email to the program committee.

6. Submissions
6-1. Applying to present at Oral sessions(a) The presenter on the day must be a SEEPS member. Non-members must complete the membershipprocedures before application and abstract submission. Visit the SEEPS website if you wish tobecome a member.
(b) When applying to present, select a first and a second preference from the common themes below.

1. Environmental Policy / Theory

13. Business and Environment

2. Climate Change

14. Environment and Economic Growth

3. Renewable Energy

15. Environment and Technology

4. Energy and Air Pollution

16. Trade and Environment

5. Natural Disaster17. Sustainable Development

6. Radioactive Waste and Fukushima Reconstruction

18. Urban and Transportation

7. Waste and Recycle Policy

19. Asia and Developing Countries

8. International Resource Recycle

20. Biodiversity and Ecosystem
29. Environmental Risk

21. Natural Resource Management

10. Non-market Valuation

22. Water and Watershed Policy

11. Environmental Labelling

23. Agriculture and Food

12. Life Cycle Assessment

24. Other(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) Make sure to enter your preference for discussants. However, please note that we may not be able
to accommodate your preferences. Please understand that if you do not designate discussants, yourpresentation may be scheduled in the Speed Talk session.
6-2. Applying to present at Speed Talk sessions(a) Poster sessions have been replaced with Speed Talk sessions for this conference. Speed Talksessions consist of short oral presentations of your research without discussants (10 minutes for oralpresentation + 5 minutes for questions from the floor).
(b) As in the former Poster sessions, Speed Talk sessions do not require the submission of the full paper.
(c) Speed Talk sessions are arranged as parallel sessions with the Oral 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) As in the former Poster sessions, we intend to offer an award for the best Speed Talk.
(f) Please note that only students are eligible for the best Speed Talk award.
(g) 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 Oral sessions or Speed Talk sessions(a) Proceed as in 6-1. Applying to present at Oral sessions above.
6-4. Applying to present at Organized Oral sessions(a) We invite applications for three types of Organized Oral sessions: research reports, tutorials, andpanel discussions. Tutorials teach research methods to young researchers, and panel discussions arefor discussions on specified topics, based on research outcomes. Organized Oral sessions are
generally limited to one session (two hours) per item, excluding tutorials.
(b) Each organizer may apply for only one Organized Oral session. The organizer must be a SEEPS
member. Non-members must complete the membership procedures before applying. Please visit3the SEEPS website if you wish to become a member. The presenter of an Organized Oral session
does not have to be a member.
(c) The organizer must apply with a written proposal and describe the type of Organized Oral 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 fromthe program committee.
(d) Individual presentation abstracts (no more than two pages for each report) should be registeredseparately by the presenters for the Organized Oral sessions.
(e) An individual cannot apply to present in more than one session at the same time.
(f) Organized Oral sessions will generally be allocated as follows due to the compilation of theprogram:
14:00–16:00, Saturday, September 26, or 13:50–15:50, Sunday, September 27, 2020(g) Organizers selected for the Organized Oral sessions must transfer the event payment of JPY 50,000
by Tuesday, August 11, 2020. 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 Oral sessions are exempt from the event payment for the sessions.
7. Results of acceptance for Oral sessions, Speed Talk, and Organized Oral sessions(a) The results of acceptance for Oral sessions, Speed Talk, and Organized Oral sessions will bedecided by the program committee, and participants will be notified by Sunday, July 26, 2020. (Seebelow for the selection 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 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 Oral sessions,and preliminary research reports may also be acceptable.
8. Submitting full papers in Oral sessions
The deadline for submitting full papers is midday (12:00 noon) on Tuesday, August 11, 2020.
Please note that this deadline is strict and late submissions cannot be accepted. Submit papers throughthe conference 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.

4The format is generally at your discretion, but we refer you to the submission guidelines below as
appropriate on the website of SEEPS:
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
http://www.springer.com/economics/environmental/journal/10018

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (in Japanese)
http://www.seeps.org/html/journal/index.html

Papers are not required for the submission to the Speed Talk sessions. For the Organized Oral
sessions, the decision whether to ask presenters to submit papers and when the papers should besubmitted is left to the organizers.

9. Notice of the time and date of their presentations at the conference*Presenters will learn the time and date for their presentations in Oral sessions, Speed Talk
sessions, and Organized Oral sessions at the conference once the program details are finalized
and published on the conference website (scheduled for mid or late August 2020).

*

If you have applied with no preference for Oral sessions or Speed Talk sessions, notice of yourpresentation type, whether Oral session or Speed Talk, will also be given once the program
details are finalized and published on the conference website (scheduled for mid or late August2020).

*

Student presenters for Speed Talk sessions will be carefully reviewed by the Program
Committee, and a prize will be awarded for the best Speed Talk at the awards ceremony on
Sunday, September 27, 2020.

10. Registration fees for the Conference
Members of SEEPS can participate to the Conference for free of charge. For non-member,registration fees are required regardless of the number of days you participate. Pre-registration is due
by September 2 (Wed.), 2020. Registration is not possible after the date and we do not accept on-site
registration. All participants (Members/Non-members) should register by then. For how to register,
please refer to Section 12. Pre-registration below.
Pre-Registration

On-site registration

General (Members)FreeStudents (Members)Free

We do not accept

General (Non-members)

4,000 yen

on-site registration

Students (Non-members)

2,000 yen5

-Support members may register one participant as a general member.

-Non-member presenters and discussants participating in the Organized Oral sessions arerequired 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) by Monday, September 7, 2020.

-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. Social GatheringSocial gathering will be held from 18:00 on Saturday, September 26 by online. Free of charge.
Non-members are required to pay the registration fee for the conference.

12. Pre-registration
The system for pre-registration of the annual SEEPS conference will be in operation by the end ofMay, 2020, by SEEPS Annual Conference Help Desk, consigned to International Academic PublishingCo., Ltd. As soon as the system is up and running, members will be notified by SEEPS via e-mail aswell as information provided on the conference website.
Members of SEEPS, please log in to the system and follow the procedure for pre-registration using
the same ID and password for member page of the SEEPS website. For non-members, ID and password
will be provided on the website for pre-registration.
The payment deadline for non-members is Friday, September 4, 2020. If payment is not completed bythis date, pre-registration will be canceled.

13. Important dates§

End of May, 2020
Submission to Oral sessions, Speed Talk, and Organized Oral sessions open
Pre-registration of the conference, social gathering party open§

Monday, June 15, 2020
12:00 noon: deadline for registration of Oral sessions, Speed Talk sessions and Organized Oralsessions, abstracts submissions.

§Sunday, July 26, 20206

Notifications of acceptance of presentations§

Tuesday, August 11, 2020
12:00 noon: deadline for full paper submission (Oral session)
Deadline to pay Organized Oral session fees§

From mid to end of August, 2020: Program details made public on the conference website§

Wednesday, September2 , 2020
Deadline for pre-registration§Friday, September 4, 2020
Deadline to pay pre-registration fee (for non-members)§Saturday, 26 September, 2020: Conference day 1§

Sunday, 27 September, 2020: Conference day 2

14. Contact Details:
If you have any queries please contact the following:
Regarding on registrations and registration fees:
SEEPS Conference Help Desk
Academy Center 358-5 Yamabuki-cho Shinjuku Tokyo 162-0801
E-mail：seeps-desk@bunken.co.jp
FAX：03-5227-8632
Regarding on Oral sessions, Speed Talk sessions and Organized Oral sessions:
SEEPS 2020 Conference Program Committee:
Kazuyuki Iwata
Faculty of Economics Matsuyama University 4-2 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama Ehime, 790-8578
E-mail: seeps.2020@gmail.com
Any other general queries regarding the SEEPS 2020 annual conference:
SEEPS 2020 Conference Committee
Kenji Takeuchi
Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University 2-1 Rokkodai, Kobe Hyogo, 657-8501
E-mail: takeuchi@econ.kobe-u.ac.jp

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