Conference Programme FRI, 5 DEC
Conference Programme SAT, 6 DEC
Panel Sessions

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A1: Sub-National Strategies
# Territorial bottom-up approaches aiming at integrating environmental and employment objectives: A comparative analysis of 170 case studies in the EU
Rolf-Ulrich SPRENGER
Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich (Ifo), Germany
# Transnational Public-Private Partnerships for Industrial Transformation: Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of a New Governance Mechanism
Frank BIERMANN/Hans-Dieter SOHN
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands


B1: Conceptual Approaches to Transition Strategies
# 'Innovation systems and policy-making processes for the transition to sustainability'
Tim FOXON/Zen MAKUCH/Macarena MATA/Peter PEARSON
Environmental Policy and Management Group, Dept. of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
# Transforming industrial sustainability under different transition contexts
Adrian SMITH/Frans BERKHOUT/Andy STIRLING
Environment & Energy Programme, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
# Time strategies in environmental innovation policy - the case of the mobile fuel cell and its infrastructure
Christian SARTORIUS
Technical University Berlin, Energy Systems Unit, Germany

C1: Business and Society
# Governance of Sustainable Development: Co-Evolution of Corporate and Political Strategies
Raimund BLEISCHWITZ/ Thomas LANGROCK
Wuppertal Institute, Germany
# Private Environmental Governance and the Sustainability Transition: Emergence and Impact of NGO-Business Partnerships
Philipp PATTBERG
MecGlo Research Group, The Global Governance Project, Germany

D1: Global Development: Past and Future
# Environmental Benefits of Unintended Economic Developments: Results from a Comprehensive Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emission and Energy Balances
Manfred BINDER
Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
# Global Multisector/Mulitcountry 3 - E Modelling From COMPASS to GINFORS
Bernd MEYER/Christian LUTZ/Marc Ingo WOLTER
University of Osnabrück and Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung, Germany

E1: Environmental Management Systems
# The Social Construction of Environmental Management Systems
Anja SCHAEFER
King’s College London, United Kingdom
# Management systems and the environmental performance of companies
Julia HERTIN1/Frans BERKHOUT1/Daniel TYTECA2/Walter WEHRMEYER3
1 Freeman Centre, SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
2 Université catholique de Louvain, Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Belgium
3 School of Engineering, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
# Eco-efficiency in Finnish EMAS Reports: All Talk No Action or Just Action without Talk
Sanna ERKKO1/ Per MICKWITZ2/Matti MELANEN2
1 Union of the Baltic Cities, Commission on Environment Secretariat, Finland
2 Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
# Coherence in Environmental Efforts for Industrial Transformation
Ulrik JØRGENSEN/Erik LAURIDSEN HAGELSKJÆR
IPL / Innovation and Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

A2: Governments and Governance: National and local Experiences I
# Industrial stress, economic performance and local governance as drivers of local sustainability: measurements and determinants
Tania BRAGA/Irina MIKAILOVA/Flavia RAVSKY/Ana Paula GONÇALVES DE FREITAS
Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional - CEDEPLAR/UFMG, Brazil.
# Industrial transformation and business liability for ecological damage in the Russian Federation
Knut RICHTER1/Nadezda PAKHOMOVA2
1 Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
2 St. Petersburg State University, Russia
# Critical Review for Multidimensional Governance of Environmental Policy in China
---Focusing on Industrial Pollution Control---
Kenji OTSUKA
Environment and Natural Resource Studies Group Inter-disciplinary Studies Center Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, Japan

B2: Adressing Early Phases of Transitions
# Environmental Policy Shift through Technological Innovation
Joseph HUBER
Martin-Luther-University, Halle/Saale, Germany
# Evaluation of system innovation processes - a pilot study on the transformation of Dutch agriculture to sustainability
Albert FABER/Trudy ROOD/Jan ROS
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands
# Transition processes in production-consumption systems: How research programmes contribute to shaping transition processes towards sustainability
Matthias WEBER1/Phillipp SPÄTH2/I. OEHME2/H. ROHRACHER2
1 ARC Seibersdorf research, Department Technology Policy, Austria
2 Inter University Research Centre Graz (IFZ), Austria

C2: Utilities
# Transformation Dynamics in the Utility Sector
Kornelia KONRAD1/Jan-Peter VOSS2/Bernhard TRUFFER1
1 Centre for Innovation Research in the Utility Sector, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
2 Oeko-Institut – Institute for Applied Ecology, Freiburg, Germany
# Property Rights on Water and Ownership of Water Operators: What accounts (More) for Resource Management and Sustainability?
David AUBIN1/Pierre CORNUT2/Frédéric VARONE1
1 Association universitaire de recherche sur l'action publique (AURAP), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2 Institut de gestion de l’environnement et d’aménagement du territoire (IGEAT), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
# A methodical approach for multi criteria sustainability assessment of water pricing in urban areas
Simone KLAWITTER
Department of Environmental Economics and Policy, University of Technology Berlin, Germany

D2: Understanding Technological Development
# Incorporation Consumer and Business Preferences in Industrial Technology Evolution: a Policy Modelling Application
Bryn SADOWNIK/Mark JACCARD
Energy and Materials Research Group (EMRG), School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Canada
# Transformation in the electricity system: the case of MicroCHP
Corinna FISCHER
Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

E2: Extending the Information Base for Sustainable Development
# Sustainability Initiatives: A View from the United States
Donald A. BROWN1/Sharon MORAN2
1 Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection, USA
2 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
# The impact of public disclosure of environmental performance on financial performance: evidence of India
Shreekant GUPTA
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
# Industrial Ecology - A New Platform for Planning Sustainable Societies
Ramesh RAMASWAMY
Technology Exchange Network (TEN), India

A3: Governments and Governance: National and local Experiences II
# Could Too Little and Too Much Turn Out to be Just Right? – On the relevance of Strategic Environmental Policy
Jürgen BLAZEJCZAK1/Dietmar EDLER2
1 University of Applied Sciences Merseburg, Germany
2 German Institute for Economic Research, Germany
# New Environmental Instruments in the Brazilian Amazonia: Ecological-Economic Zoning and the extractive
Marília STEINBERGER1/Olga Maria SCHILD BECKER2
1 Nucleus of Urban and Regional Studies - University of Brasília, Brazil
2 Geography School - University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


B3: The Role of Time in the Governance of Transition
# Time Strategies of Transitions and the Transformed Role of Subsidies as Innovation Policy Instrument: A Policy Framework demonstrated by Empirical Cases
Jan NILL
Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Germany
# Industrial Transformation in the European Union - the ambiguous role of time
Hartmut ADEN
Universität Hannover, Germany
# Uncertainty towards time as a determining factor for the success of political regulations in the case of EDTA
Daniel WEINER
University of Applied Sciences Lausitz, Department of Economics, SUSTIME-Project, Germany

C3: Industries
# Multi-actor Learning Processes towards Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
Bernd SIEBENHÜNER
Carl-von-Ossietzky-University of Oldenburg, School of Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics and Law, GELENA Research Group, Germany
# Driving Forces for Environmentally Sounder Innovations: The case of Finnish pulp and paper industry
Paula KIVIMAA/Per MICKWITZ
Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
# Transformation in utility systems and the prospect of Evolutionary Governance
Jan-Peter VOSS
Oeko-Institut - Institute for Applied Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

D3: Foresight as an Instrument for Governance
# Green Technology Foresight as Instrument in Governance for Sustainability
Mads BORUP
Technology Scenarios Research Programme, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
# Backcasting for Industrial Transformations and System Innovations towards Sustainability: is it useful for Governance?
Jaco QUIST1/Philip J. VERGRAGT2
1 Technology Assessment Group, Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2 Tellus Institute, Boston, USA
# What can we learn from scenario building for RTD policy in support of sustainable manufacturing?
Anton GEYER/Fabiana SCAPOLO
European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Unit J3: Support to the European Research Area, Spain

E3: Internalising external costs
# Environmental Protection: The Role of Liability System in India
Panta Murali PRASAD
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Eocnomics, India
# Reform and Recovery: A New Taxation System for Environmental Restoration
Deborah S. DAVENPORT/Dave BARNES
Political Science Department, Mississippi State University, USA
# Green fiscal reforms for industrial transformation: rigidities and inertia in mature welfare economies
Johan ALBRECHT
Universiteit Gent - Faculteit Economie & Bedrijfskunde, Center for Environmental Economics and Environmental Management, Belgium

A4: Sustainable Development: An International Challenge
# The legal dimension of sustainable development in the European Union
Sabine FRERICHS
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg, „Märkte und Sozialräume in Europa“, Germany
# Is Europe sustainable? Modelling opportunities and limits for restructuring Europe towards sustainability (MOSUS)
Stefan GILJUM/Friedrich HINTERBERGER
Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria
# Network Failures: How realistic is durable cooperation in global governance?
Wolfgang MEYER/Katrin BALTES
Saarland University, Department of Sociology/Center for Evaluation, Germany

C4: Agriculture
# Industrial Transformation and Agriculture: / Agrobiodiversity Loss as Sustainability Problem
Franziska WOLFF
Oeko-Institut - Institute for Applied Ecology, Freiburg, Germany
# Combining long-term and short-term perspectives on food choice: The case of meat's animal origin
Joop DE BOER
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
# Different levels – different concerns. European agricultural policy reform between national, European and WTO discourse and bargaining areas
Peter FEINDT
University of Hamburg, Research Center on Biotechnology, Society and the Environment, Germany

D4: Renewables
# Linking development priorities and climate policies: the case of Brazilian biomass production
Albert FABER/M. T. J. KOK/E. L. LA ROVERE/S. MINMAN
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands
# Ecological Objectives and the Energy Sector - the German EEG and the European Emissions Trading System –
Verena Leila HOLZER
University of Potsdam, Department of Economics, Germany
# Governance towards renewable energy sources in the EU Accession States
Danyel REICHE
Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

E4: Stimulating voluntary action
# Australian Experiences with 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments: The Greenhouse Challenge and Greenhouse Friendly Programs
Ros TAPLIN
Environmental Management Program, Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
# The European Relief Potential of Green Public Procurement: Methodology and Results
Roger PIERRARD
Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
# Policy transformation from Government to Governance?
The Case of Integrated Product Policy
Dirk SCHEER
Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Heidelberg, Germany



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