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Panel Sessions

 

    Panel Session 1 Friday, 9:00 - 10:30
     
A: Integration & Innovation   Scope of Policy Integration (Chair: Axel Volkery)
  Helen Briassoulis Policy integration for complex policy problems: what, why and how
  Evert Meijers, Dominic Stead Policy integration: what does it mean and how can it be achieved? a multi-disciplinary review
  Derk Loorbach Governance and transitions. an integrative policy-framework based on complex systems thinking.
  Meg Huby, Steve Cinderby, Anne Owen Integration in practice: challenges for research and policy
     
B: National & Regional    Policy Integration in the European Union (Chair: Christian Hey)
  Magalie Bourblanc The multi-level integration of policies : linear or circular movement ?
  Rolf-Ulrich Sprenger Integration of environmental and employment policies: assessment of the eu experience to date
  Clare Coffey, Ann Dom Environmental policy integration in europe: looking back, thinking ahead
     
C: Indicators & Assessments   Impact Assessment 1 (Chair: Stefanie Pfahl)
  Duncan John Russel The environment test and policy integration: a new dawn or a false start?
  Lise Frendo, Edwin Zaccaï Integration at local level: lessons learned from the environmental impact assessment (eia) system in the walloon region (belgium)
  Jan-Peter Voß Policy integration through foresight
  J. Ivan Scrase, Willam R. Sheate Strategic environmental assessment (sea): will sustainability be weak enough to dilute it?
     
D: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Water   Agriculture (Chair: Keya Choudhury)
  Peter H. Feindt Greening european agricultural policy – multi-level strategies between trade, budget, agricultural and environmental policy
  Benjamin Nölting Analysing the institutional setting – how to promote the organic farming und food sector?
  Michael Søgaard Jørgensen Policy integration in the shaping of organic food as strategy in the danish food sector – what happened to the environmental concern as driving force
     
E: Resources & Waste   Primary Resources (Per-Olof Busch)
  Claudia Zingerli, Kurt Bisang, Willi Zimmermann Challenges of policy integration: intersectoral coordination in international and national forest policy
  Philipp Späth, Matthias Weber, Harald Rohracher, Ines Oehme Policy coordination to support a transition to sustainable production systems. Lessons to be learned from the case of biorefineries in austria
  A. Laakso, E. C. H. Keskitalo Multi-level governance in renewable resource industries in norway and finland
     
F: Energy & Climate Change   USA, EU and Russia (Chair: Sascha Müller-Kraener) 
  Heike Schroeder Implementation without ratification: vertical interplay and the case of california’s climate change policy
  Vladimir Kotov EU-russia “kyoto deal”: a case of policy integration? analyses of advantages and risks of an informal agreement
  Alexander Ochs, Detlef Sprinz Europa riding the hegemon? transatlantic climate policy relations
     
G: Interplay   International Organizations (Chair: Fariborz Zelli)
  Steffen Bauer, Frank Biermann Partners or competitors? Policy integration for sustainable - development between united nations agencies
  Markku Lehtonen International peer review as a tool promoting policy integration: the case of the OECD environmental performance reviews
     
       
    Panel Session 2 Friday, 16:00 - 18:00
     
A: Integration & Innovation   Fostering Innovations: Policies I (Chair: Frans Berkhout)
  Maj Munch Andersen The innovation system approach to eco-innovation  – a new policy rationale
  Maïder Saint-Jean, Marie Belis-Bergouignan, Vanessa Oltra Environmental policy and innovation in a supply chain perspective: the case of wood industry
  Tim Foxon, Zen Makuch, Macarena Mata, Peter Pearson Towards a sustainable innovation policy – institutional structures, stakeholder participation and mixes of policy instruments’
  Reinhard Steurer Strategic public management (spm) as holistic approach to policy integration
     
B: National & Regional    National Policy Integration 1 (Chair: Claudia Koll)
  Ashok Sharma Reverse integration of environmental concerns into sectoral policies through simulation of greener development plans: a situational analysis from india
  Ralph A. Luken, Paul Hesp Developing and transition economy efforts to achieve policy integration for sustainable development
  Gökhan Orhan Centralised regulation, involvement of local people, leadership of key policy actors or all? Conditions of successful environmental policy integration in turkey
  Rob Ball Cultural and organizational issues for sustainable development in local authorities
     
C: Indicators & Assessments   Impact Assessment 2  (Chair: Jan Peter Voss)
  Klaus Jacob, Julia Hertin, Matteo Bartolomeo, Axel Volkery, Mario Cirillo, David Wilkinson Ex-ante sustainability appraisal of national-level policies: a comparative study of assessment practice in seven countries
  Camilla Opoku How well is the EU’s impact assessment procedure performing: policy coordination and sustainable development outside europe
  E. Carina H. Keskitalo Institutional learning in ia? What we assume on the communicative process
  Raimund Bleischwitz, Latsch Assessment criteria for a sustainability impact assessment in europe
     
D: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Water   Biodiversity (Chair: Katharina Voss)
  Zuhre Aksoy Conserving genetic resources: linkages between local, national, and international levels
  Mark Axelrod Chilling international cooperation: constraining new institutions with old institutional rules
  Stefan Jungcurt, Thomas Meyer Ambiguity and contradiction: strategic instruments for international agreements
     
E: Resources & Waste   Renewables (Chair: Bernd Hirschl) 
  Ruth Brand Networks in renewable energy policies in germany and france
  Joseph Szarka Wind power, discourse coalitions and policy integration
  M. Bechberger, D. Reiche The spread of renewable energy feed-in tariffs (refits) in the EU-25
  Andrea Bunting Wind Power Policy in Australia: An Uncertain Future
     
F: Energy & Climate Change   Energy and Electricity (Chair: Lutz Mez)
  Dierk Bauknecht Electricity policy integration: the role of market regulators
  Atle Midttun Green Electricity Markets: Market Design, Entreprenurial Discovery And Political Legitimacy 
  Måns Nilsson Environmental policy integration as learning: the case of swedish energy policy
  Martha Djourdjin, Antoaneta Yotova Social capital for energy efficiency: the need of partnership for policy integration and implementation in the case of bulgaria
     
G: Interplay   International Organizations (Chair: Otto Keck)
  Steffen Behrle, Robert Marschinski Beyond greening: explaining the effectiveness of the world bank as an international environmental organization
  Tamar Gutner Explaining the gaps between mandate and performance: agency theory and world bank environmental reform
  B. Görlach, M. Knigge, M.Schaper Light at the end of the tunnel? Participation and Transparency in Export Credit Agencies’ Cover Decisions
     
H: Teaching   Coping with complex environmental problems - linking research and teaching (Chair: Miranda Schreurs)
 
  Carel Dieperink, Peter Driessen The development of multidisciplinary bachelor and master’s programmes and the inter-linkage between research and teaching
  G. Laumann, H. Schroeder Global perspectives for the education of environmental managers: Interdisciplinary teaching on global environmental change research
  Niroj Kumar Mohanty, Shisher Kumra Collaboration and cooperation in environmental education programme
  C. Zingerli, W. Zimmermann Environmental policy for engineers and natural scientists: a teaching module
     
       
    Panel Session 3  Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30
     
A: Integration & Innovation   Fostering Innovations: Products (Chair: Jürgen Blazejczak)
  Vergragt, Szejnwald Brown Policies for social learning: bounded socio-technical experiments
  M. Butter, Carlos Montalvo Finding niches in green innovation policy
  Ursula Triebswetter, Johann Wackerbauer Environmental innovation in the german automotive industry: policy drivers and consequences for competitiveness
     
B: National & Regional    National Policy Integration 2 (Chair: Alexander Carius)
  Axel Volkery, Klaus Jacob, Francois Bregha, Laszlo Pinter, Darren Swanson Coordination challenges and innovations in national sustainable development strategies based on a 19-country analysis
  Gerald Berger, Ronald J. Pohoryles Policy integration and capacity-building in regional sustainable development: comparative analysis of experiences in europe
  Antypas, Rezessy, Szeker Environmental policy integration in hungary: an overview of current status and challenges
  Munira Sultana Greening Bangladesh: Saving environment nationally and globally
     
C: Indicators & Assessments   Instruments for Policy Integration (Chair: Claudia Kemfert)
  William M. Lafferty, Olav Larsen, Audun Ruud Institutional provisions for environmental policy integration: An analysis of the “Environmental Profile of the State Budget” and the “National Environmental Monitoring System” in Norway
  Tilmann Rave Greening subsidies in germany – interlinkages to selected policies
  Alexander Moutchnik Running at least twice as fast as possible. Politicization of environmental management standards.
  Evert Meijers, Dominic Stead Policy integration in practice: some experiences of integrating transport, land-use planning and environmental policies in local government
     
D: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Water   Water Use 1: European Countries (Chair: Tanja Börzel)
  Giorgos Kallis, Helen Briassoulis Integration of EU water and development policies: vision or plausible expectation?
  Andreas Thiel Environmental policy integration and the multi-level and multi-sectoral reality of water use development in the algarve, portugal.
  Rutger van der Brugge Complex adaptive systems and transition management
     
E: Resources & Waste   Marine Pollution (Chair: Frank Biermann) 
  Uta Schuchmann A new model for the solution of resource use conflicts in coral reef areas. From integrated coastal management to integrated coastal governance in palawan, philippines.
  Thomas Höfer, Lutz Mez Sustainability in the life-cycle of renewable primary products- case report: governing the maritime transport of liquids
  Sabine Campe A tanker for the tankers? The international maritime organization’s ef-forts to integrate shipping safety and fighting marine pollution
  Tonilyn P. Lim Eco-industrial development as a framework in managing philippine economic zones
     
F: Energy & Climate Change   Climate Change, Ozon Depletion and Adaption (Chair Julia Hertin)
  A. Yotova, M. Djourdjin Implementation of the UNFCCC in bulgaria: an analytical review
  Richard S. Odingo The importance of adaptation studies and adaptation policies in responding to climate variability and climate change in east africa
  Sikina Jinnah Domestic Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Potential for WTO Conflict.
  Ralph A. Luken, Tamas Grof The Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund and Sustainable Development
     
G: Interplay   Trade (Chair: Steffen Bauer)
  Astrid Fritz Negotiating environmental issues in free trade agreements. The case of new zealand
  Nicholas A. Ashford Integration of governance in national law with international environmental law and trade regimes
  Fariborz Zelli  International regime conflicts on environmental issues
  Parashar Kulkarni “market friendly means of promoting sustainable exports: how successful are ecolabels in promoting sustainable exports from developing countries to developed countries” lessons from the indian leather footwear industry?
     
I: Transatlantic Relations   Environmental Politics in the US and an Enlarged EU: Norms, Institutions, and Policy Outcomes I  (Chair: Miranda Schreurs)
  Kirsten Jörgensen The USA and Germany: Potentials for mutual trans-Atlantic Policy-Learning at sub-State Level in the area of governance for ecological sustainab
  Patricia M. Keilbach Transatlantic Food Fights in an Era of Globalization: Struggling to Define Menus, Rules and Choices
  Kristine Kern Climate Change Policy in the European Union and the United States. Federal and Sub-federal Initiatives in Multi-level Systems
     
       
    Panel Session 4 Saturday, 16:15 - 18:00
     
A: Integration & Innovation   Fostering Innovations: Policies II (Chair: Rolf-Ulrich Sprenger)
  Paula Kivimaa, Per Mickwitz Greener technologies through greener policies? Environmental policy integration into finnish technology policies
  William M. Lafferty, Audun Ruud, Olav Larsen Environmental policy integration: how will we recognize it when we see it? The case of green innovation policies in norway
  Peter van Humbeeck, Jan Larosse, Ilse Dries Governance for linking innovation policy and sustainable development in flanders (belgium)
  Johan Nel, Louis Kotzé, Esmé Snyman From fragmentation to collaboration: strategies to improve inter-sector coherence in environmental authorisations in south africa
     
C: Indicators & Assessments   Sustainability Indicators (Chair: Ann Dom)
  Tom Bauler Policy relevance of indicators for sustainable development
  Rafael Ziegler The indicator syndrome – a methodological study of sustainability indicators, agenda 21 and agenda 20
  Jürgen Blazejczak The balanced scorecard approach to integrating sustainability policies
     
D: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Water   Water Use 2: non-European Countries (Chair: Fabrice Renaud)
  Tsafrir Gazit Checks and balances in the israeli water system
  Italy Fischhendler, Eran Feitelson, David Eaton The short- and long-term ramifications of linkages involving natural resources: the u.s.-mexico transboundary water case
 

Joseph Adelegan

The history of environmental policy and pollution of water sources in Nigeria (1960-2004): The way forward
     
E: Resources & Waste   Waste and Transport (Chair: Helge Jörgens)
  Bulkeley, Hudson, Watson Vertical and horizontal integration in the governance of uk municipal waste policy.
  Frank Schiller Interlinkages between the vertical integration of waste policy and its horizontal progression.
  Katy Whitelegg, Brigitte Ömer-Rieder Are policy niches better than co-ordinated strategies? A comparison of horizontal policy making in austrian environment, transport and innovation policy.
  Daniel Bongardt Environmental policy integration through diagonal policy-processes – the european dimension of the greening of german transport policy
     
G: Interplay   Legal Frameworks of Nation States (Chair: Markku Lehtonen)
  Werner Scholtz Co-operative approaches to environmental governance
  Dragoljub Todic Legal and institutional framework for integration of environmenatal policy - development in serbia
  Willemien du Plessis Legal mechanisms for cooperative governance in south africa: successes and failures
  Engobo Emeseh The limitations of law in promoting synergy between environment and development policies in developing countries: a case study of the petroleum industry in nigeria
     
H: Teaching   Integrating Social Science Disciplines – Innovative forms of teaching (Chair: Michael Maniates t.b.c. )
  Kevin Klein Environmental studies – an interdisciplinary approach
  Kirsten Jörgensen Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Free University of Berlin
  Joseph J. Domask Engaging Practitioners in the Education Process
     
I: Transatlantic Relations   Environmental Politics in the US and an Enlarged EU: Norms, Institutions, and Policy Outcomes II (Chair: Stacy van Deveer)
 
  Miranda Schreurs An Enlarged European Union and the Environment: Implications for EU-US Relations
  Stacy van Deveer Implications of an Expanded EU for US-EU Relations
  Marcus Schaper The U.S., Europe, and National Interest: Environmental Standard-Setting when Trade Interests Collide