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European Association for Bio-economic Studies
EABS or European Association for Bioeconomic Studies, was established in 1990 to promote the study and application of Bioeconomics, an academic discipline based on a new scientific paradigm attempting to integrate biological and economic science, and to disseminate the scientific achievements of its founder, Professor Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1995).
The uniqueness of Professor Georgescu-Roegen’s thought is in an evolutionist vision of mankind’s economic development associated with the laws of nature, in particular entropy, “the most economical of the laws of physics”.
He was first in posing the question of humanity’s economics in its global and biological context, considering present-day humanity as well as future generations.
The Association has organized public lectures and international conferences, the first of which took place in Rome in 1991. The second international conference on Implications and Applications of Bioeconomics was held at Palma de Mallorca in 1994. In 1998 the first international colloquium was organized in the same location, on the theme: Cybernetics, Ecology and Bioeconomics. The top economists and Cybernetics’ specialists delivered papers and debated on how to confront some of the main challenges of this millennium.