This conference provides an opportunity for all those interested in the issue of sustainability in the wine sector, to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the conference’s special topic. We welcome papers from the following fields: consumer economics, economic impacts of globalization, market structure, firm strategy, and market performance, firm objectives, organization, and behavior, regulation and industrial policy, economic history: agriculture, natural resources, environment, and extractive industries, agricultural markets and marketing • cooperatives • agribusiness, agricultural finance (Q14), agriculture and environment, R&D • agricultural technology, agriculture in international trade, agricultural policy (Q18), valuation of environmental effects, climate • natural disasters and their management • global warming, environment and development • sustainability, tourism and development.