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Conference Programme - preliminary version

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Fri, 17 Nov
 
08:00-09:00 Registration
 
09:00-09.30 WELCOME ADDRESSES
Klaus Jacob, Environmental Policy Research Centre
Werner Väth, Vice President of the Freie Universität Berlin
09:30-10:45 „GOVERNING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS“
Martin Jänicke, Freie Universität Berlin
“MANAGING AN EXPLOSION?”
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna
10:45-11:30 Meet your Colleagues Session – Extended Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 “DISCOUNTING AND THE ROLE OF RELATIVE PRICES IN LONG-TERM ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES”
Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 Panel A.1—
Resource Management (I): Agriculture
Panel A.2—
Resource Policies: European and National Strategies
Panel A.3—
Monitoring and Assessment (I)
Panel A.4—
Institutional Innovations: Role and Transformation of the Nation State
Panel A.5—
Participatory approaches (I)
14:50-15:40 “CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON RESOURCE USE”
Bas de Leeuw, UNEP, Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics
“REDUCING RESOURCE FLOWS: PRICES, INFORMATION AND MARKET FAILURE”
Paul Ekins, PSI London
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel B.1—
Resource Management (II): Biodiversity
Panel B.2—
Transport
Panel B.3—
Monitoring and Assessment (II)
Panel B.4—
Teaching I
17.45-19:15 Panel C.1—
Resource Management (III): Fishery
Panel C.2—
Sectoral Modernisation
Panel C.3—
Institutional Innovations: Transboundary Water
Panel C.4—
Participatory Approaches (II)
Panel C.5—
Resource Management (IV): Biodiversity (II)

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Sat, 18 Nov

08:45-09:00 Registration (continued)
09:00-10.30 Panel D.1—
Climate Change Policies
Panel D.2—
Resources and Security: Energy
Panel D.3—
Institutional Innovations
Panel D.4—
Resource Management (V): Reforming the Water Sector
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 “RESOURCES, SCENARIOS, AND APPROACHES FOR EFFECTIVE CLIMATE POLICIES”
Antonio Pflueger, IEA
“CREATING ECONOMIC GROWTH FROM A CLIMATE CONSTRAINT“
Chris Mottershead, British Petroleum
12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:45 SEMIPLENARY
ENERGY SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT COUNTS MOST?
Claudia Kemfert, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Abstract (pdf)
SEMIPLENARY
“TOWARD UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL TENSION: NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMPETING ECONOMIC HISTORIES”
Daniel Bromley, University of Wisconsin
Abstract (pdf)
15:00-16:30 Panel E.1—
Resources and Development
Panel E.2—
Resources and Property Rights
Panel E.3—
Resource Management (VI): Forestry (I)
Panel E.4—
Resource Use and Policies
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Panel F.1—
Resource Management (VII): Biodiversity (III)
Panel F.2—
Resource Policies:
European and national Strategies (II)
Panel F.3—
Resource Management (VIII): Forestry (II)
Panel F.4—
Land Use Policies
Panel F.5—
Resource Management (IX): Water
18.30-19:15 “ONE PLANET BUDGETING WITH THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT: OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS”
Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network
Abstract (pdf)
19:15 Adjourn
20:30 Dinner in traditional restaurant (by invitation)

 


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