ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION IN RUSSIA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI 25.-27.4.2000
Organisers:
The Aleksanteri Institute (The Finnish Centre for Russian and East
European Studies)
Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki
Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science
Place:The Main Building of the University of Helsinki, Small festival
hall (address: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
Language: The official language of presentations and papers is
English
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 25 April
15.00 Registration
16.00 Opening of the Conference, Director Markku Kivinen
16.15 Oleg Yanitsky: Risk Society and Environmental Policy in
Russia
Dinner
Wednesday, 26 April
Chair: Janne Hukkinen
9.00 - 10.00 Vladimir Kotov: Russia's Path to Ecological
Modernisation
10.00-10.30 Boris Segerståhl and Lassi Heininen: Nuclear
Waste Policy, International Negotiations and Ecological
Restoration in the Barents Region
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.30 Monica Tennberg: International Environmental
Cooperation in the Northwest Russia: The Envolving Euro-Arctic
Dimension
11.30-12.00 Natalia Yakovleva and Tony Alabaster: Foundations
and Trusts for Ecological Modernization: A Case Study of The
Sapi Fund in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
Chair: Markku Kivinen
13.30-14.30 Alexey Yablokov: Ecological modernization in Russia:
Problems and Perspectives
14.30-15.00 Jonathan D. Oldfield: Sustainable Development and
the Russian Federation
15.00-15.30 Open
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
Chair: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
16.00-16.30 György Kovác: A Socio-ecological Interpretation of
the Condratieff-Cycles
16.30-17.00 Pentti Malaska and Teemu Haukioja: Market
Economy or Capitalism?
Reception
Thursday, 27 April
Chair: Ilmo Massa
10.00-11.00 Joan DeBardeleben and Kimberly Heuckroth: Political
Attitudes toward Environmental Issues in Russia
11.00-11.30 Caron Caldwell and Svetlana Stephenson:
Environmentalism, Ecological Modernisation and Sivil Society in
Russia
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-12.30 Erna Lahti: Environmental NGOs in St. Petersburg:
Activities, Problems, and Prospects
for the future
12.30-13.00 Anna Kuzmina: The Conflict on Old-Growth Forests in
Karelia: The Frames of the Main Participants
13.00-13.30 Timo Karjalainen: Institutional Context of
Environmental Policy in the Republic of Komi:
Looking at Societal Capacities for the Environment
13.30-14.30 Lunch
Chair: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
14.30-15.00 Anna-Liisa Tanskanen: Russian Water Sector in
Transition
15.00-15.30 Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen: Water Related Environmental
Health Issues in Karelia
15.30-16.00 Simo Laakkonen, Anolda Cetkauskait and Ausra
Jastait: Pandoras Box: The Environmental Heritage of Soviet
Union: A Case Study of Water Protection in LSSR in
1950-1990
16.00 Summing up the conference, Prof. Yrjö Haila
Coffee
Steering Committee
Prof. Joan DeBardeleben (University of Carleton, Canada)
Prof. Yrjö Haila (University of Tampere)
Dir. Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute)
Prof. Vladimir Kotov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Dr. Ilmari Susiluoto (Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland)
Dr. Pekka Sutela (Bank of Finland)
Academician AlexeyYablokov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Oleg Yanitsky (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Organizing Committee
Information Officer Päivi Paloposki (Chair, Aleksanteri Institute,
University of Helsinki)
Director Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of
Helsinki)
Dr. Ilmo Massa (Department of Social Policy, University of
Helsinki)
Prof. Janne Hukkinen (Helsinki University of Technology)
Lic.Soc.Sci Rauno Sairinen (Centre for Urban and Regional
Studies, University of Helsinki)
M.Sc. Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen (Department of Geography,
University of Helsinki)
Registration
The registration fee is 800 FIM (146 USD, 133 Euro), which
includes admission to the conference, opening party with dinner,
refreshments during the workshop, a reception and conference
materials or 400 FIM (73 USD, 66,5 Euro), which indludes
admission to conference and conference materials. For
students the participation (including conference materials) is free.
The closing day for registration to conference is 7th April, 2000.
Registration and conference contact details:
Information Officer Kirsti Ekonen
Ecological Modernization in Russia
Aleksanteri Institute
P.O. Box 4
00014 University of Helsinki
Tel. +358-9-19124186, 19124175
Fax +358-9-19123822
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.halvi.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conferences/conference1.ht
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