The Seventh International Conference of the Russian Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE Russian Chapter) in Saint Petersburg, Russia will offer an opportunity to discuss advances in ecological economic approaches to environmentally sustainable policy making. Interdisciplinary and international as well as intercultural dimension of the conference will help to create a multitude of links among the scientists of the world across geographical as well as disciplinary boundaries. The conference will place particular emphasis on international and regional environmental problems, importance of the protection of the Baltic Region, application of the new methodological approaches of ecological economics, as well as the role of information sciences and modelling in environmental-economic management.