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Dear Collegues,
Please find attached the Call for Papers of the "2004 Berlin Conference on
the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change". The topic of this
year`s conference is "Greening of Policies – Interlinkages and Policy
Integration". We are confident that the event will be as successful as in
the years 2001 to 2003 and that it will draw as many interesting
contribution from social science and other relevant disciplines.
Please find attached the Call for Papers (PDF-file). For more information
visit the 2004 Berlin Conference-homepage at
www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2004/index.htm.
Dr. Klaus Jacob (Chair)
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Call for Papers
“Greening of Policies – Interlinkages and Policy Integration” 2004 Berlin
Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Berlin, 3-4 December 2004
The Environmental Policy and Global Change section of the German Political
Science Association (DVPW) and its partners invite papers for the 2004
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, to
be held in Berlin on 3-4 December 2004. This year’s discussions will address
the theme “Greening of Policies – Interlinkages and Policy In-tegration”.
The 2004 Berlin Conference has been endorsed by the International Human
Dimensions Programme (IHDP) core projects “Institutional Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change (IDGEC)” and “Industrial Transformation”
(IHDP-IT), and is organised by the Environmental Policy Research Centre of
the Freie Universität Berlin. Additional support is provided by the Global
Governance Project (glogov.org).
The Policy Problem
Problems of Global and Regional Environmental Change are by their very
nature sector-related problems. Insofar, their solution requires
sector-integrated approaches of policy-making that abandon the parallel
pursuit of contradictory policies. Thirty years of environmental
policy-making at the national and international level reveal, however,
striking problems to establish interlinkages that lead to an integration of
regimes and joined-up policy-making, both horizontally on each level of
political decision-making and vertically between the different layers of the
multi-level system of international governance.
At the national level, new cross-cutting issues such as environmental
protection have been institutionalized mostly in a separate way, without
changing the framework conditions for action in the policy sectors mainly
responsible for environmental deterioration. Also, new international
environmental agreements have been institutionalized separately from other
policy regimes.
One crucial factor in explaining this path of development is the traditional
organization model of bureaucracy that is based upon specialization and
division of work. It has proven to be successful in a number of ways. It
fails, however, in addressing the needs of cross-cutting problems such as
environmental protection. The challenge, both at the national and
international level, is to establish institutional provisions that allow
actors to pursue a more coordinated approach. Special attention has to be
paid to mutual interaction between regimes and policies on the international
and national level, such as trade and environment.
The struggle for coherence and policy integration is going into its fourth
decade. Mean-while, the overall framework conditions of policy-making have
considerably changed: Proc-esses of economic and political globalization
have deepened, new forms of governance have emerged and new actors have
entered the stage, such as International Organizations or transnational
advocacy-networks. The result is a significant increase of the complexity of
policy-making.
What is needed is a comprehensive review of the gathered experiences, in
order to learn, which strategies might be applied best at which level
against the background of this increased complexity of policy-making.
The analysis of past experiences requires a joint effort of different
disciplines. In particular political scientist and lawyers can improve the
understanding of institutions for policy integration. It is furthermore
necessary to assess the impacts of policies on the different dimensions of
sustainability to inform policy makers about integration requirements and
hence form the knowledge basis of policy coherence and integration.
Different tasks might be best suited at different levels, but the concrete
allocation of competencies and responsibilities is a question open to
discussion. This requires a close co-operation of many different
disciplines. Possible foci of such efforts are integrated models and
integrated assessments. The conference should bring about a stocktaking of
both the institutional basis of policy integration on the different levels
of policy making as well as an improvement of the knowledge basis for a
furthering of integration.
Core Questions
Given the obstacles for a more far reaching consideration of environmental
concerns in sectoral policy making processes on both the national and the
international level there is a need for an analysis of instruments and
strategies, and the institutional setting in which they are implemented.
Which approaches have proven to be successful, what are the impediments?
Against this background contributions are particularly invited on the
following issues:
1) Analysis of policy integration in practice: What kinds of
institutions are successful in strengthening policy integration? Which
actors, which instruments and strategies were the driving forces of a
greening of policies? We are interested in case studies from differ-ent
policy fields and from different levels of policy making. What are the
implications of policy integration for environmental policy? Is there
evidence for a diluting of environmental concerns by building up an
over-complexity of integration requirements and a loss of advantages gained
by specialization? What is the role of law in codifying integra-tion
requirements? In how far are major trends, e.g. economic and political
globaliza-tion, from government to governance, from environmental protection
to sustainable de-velopment affecting integration efforts?
2) Instruments and knowledge basis for policy integration: What
methods are available or currently under development that allow for an ex
ante evaluation of the effects of policies on the different dimensions of
sustainability? What indicators are available that allow an assessment in
how far a policies are integrated? What experiences are available in
integrating the different domains of knowledge for such an assessment?
3) Multi-level aspects: To what extent are international regimes
affecting the capacities at the national level for a greening of policies
and vice versa? What efforts have been undertaken to ensure also a vertical
integration among the different levels of policy making? In how far are
impacts in other countries considered in approaches of policy integration,
in particular in respect of developing countries? What mechanisms proved to
be successful in ensuring the coherence of the different international
regimes, in particular between environmental and trade regimes?
Plenary speakers include
- Frans Berkhout: Director, ESRC Sustainable Technologies Programme; Senior
Fellow and Co-ordinator, SPRU Environment and Energy Programme; Chair of the
IHDP-IT Scientific Steering Committee; University of Sussex, Brighton.
- William Lafferty: Director, Program for Research and Documentation for a
Sus-tainable Society, ProSus; Oslo.
- Guy B. Peters: Maurice Falk Professor of American Government; Michigan
State University, Pittsburgh.
- Jürgen Trittin: Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety; Berlin.
- N.N. (t.b.c.): Representative of the World Bank Group; Washington.
- Oran Young: Chair, IDGEC Scientific Steering Committee; Bren School of
Environmental Science and Management University of California; Santa
Barbara.
Special panel Teaching
This years Berlin Conference will host a special panel on academic
environmental teaching programs. Complex environmental problems as climate
change, loss in biodiversity, ground water pollution, degradation of soil
caused by human activities ranging from global to local level challenge
academia in many respects.
To tackle these problems contributions from a variety of natural and social
science disciplines are needed. Topics such as the deterioration of the
earth system, institutional measures for the greening of policies, policy
impact assessment, strategic approaches to multi-level environmental
governance require an interdisciplinary perspective.
Hence academic training has to adapt new forms of systematic
interdisciplinary cooperation. Professional training needs to integrate
elements such as interdisciplinary communication, methods of
problem-oriented approaches and teambuilding. Moreover the ground has to be
paved for communication between academia and non-university experts and
practitioners from the state, industry and non-government organisations.
How can academic programs respond to these challenges? We invite papers to
exchange experiences in teaching environmental sciences, dealing with
questions such as:
How can curriculum design of Bachelors and Masters level environmental
teaching pro-grams respond to the challenges of inter- to transdisciplinary
sciences? How can interlinkages between research and teaching be created
most suitable? What can be learned from pioneering interdisciplinary
projects in terms of institutional design for interfaculty co-operation
bridging the gaps between the disciplines?
How can communication beyond academia be improved? What kind of
problem-solving skills are required from the perspective of both public and
private organisations involved in environmental governance? How can the
international cooperation of academic environmental science programs be
advanced also in regard to capacity building for environmental academic
education?
How to participate
The 2004 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change is the fourth of its kind in Germany. The last meetings, gathered
around 200 participants from all over the world each for intensive two-day
debates. While the Berlin Conferences have so far been organised by the
German Political Science Association, we also seek dialogue with colleagues
from economics and other fields of the social sciences. Furthermore, we
welcome representatives of natural and integrative sciences. The conference
will be held in English.
Prospective paper-givers should send an abstract of their paper that
outlines the main argument, method and finding of the research to the
conference office ([log in to unmask]). The submission must include
name, affiliation and address of the author(s) and must not exceed 300
words.
Deadline
The deadline for submissions is August 15th, 2004. All paper and panel
submissions will be reviewed before being accepted for the conference
programme. We will send out decisions on acceptance of papers by September
15th, 2004. We expect all presenters to e-mail the final version of their
paper by November 15th. Full papers submitted earlier will be posted on our
web site to initiate early discussion. Financial Support We are making all
efforts to ensure funding to reimburse the travel costs of some paper
presenters. For earlier conferences, generous donor support allowed us to
reimburse parts of the travel costs of many non-German participants, with
special consideration of participants from developing countries and
countries with economies in transition and of more junior colleagues.
Further Information
For questions or suggestions, please contact
Klaus Jacob, chair, 2004 Berlin Conference [[log in to unmask]]
phone: ++49 (0)30 838 54492
fax: ++49 (0)30 838 56685
Daniel Pentzlin, manager, 2004 Berlin Conference [[log in to unmask]]
phone: ++49 (0)30 838 56688
fax: ++49 (0)30 838 56685
Environmental Policy Research Centre
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Ihnestrasse 22
14195 Berlin
FFU-Website: www.fu-berlin.de/ffu
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