Regional Environmental Governance

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Theoretical Issues, Comparative Designs

Geneva, June 16-18, 2010

Workshop Program

Day 1 - June 16, 2010

(Find the program for the COST panel discussion here)
17:30 Welcome note, University of Geneva
17:45 Inaugural address
  Speaker to be confirmed
18:15 Keynote addresses
  Stacy Vandeveer, University of New Hampshire
  Roderick Neumann, Florida International University

Day 2 - June 17, 2010

08:00 – 08:30 Registration
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome, workshop organization
08:45 – 10:15 Theme 1 Panel: What is a region?
  Anssi Paasi, University of Oulou
  Anthony Lehmann, University of Geneva
  John Allen, Open University (UK)
  Ronan Uhel, European Environment Agency
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15 Theme 2 Panel: Environmental regions in multilevel governance
  Ron Witt, United Nations Environment Programme
  Liliana Andonova, The Graduate Institute, and Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire
  Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 Theme 3 Panel: Regional economic dynamics and the environment
  Jan Joost Kessler, Aidenvironment
  W. Scott Prudham, University of Toronto
  Henrik Selin, Boston University
14:45 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:30 Parallel Session A (see Call for papers)
  Panel A1
  Panel A2
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 18:15 Parallel Session B (see Call for papers)
  Panel B1
  Panel B2
19:00 Dinner

Day 3 - June 18, 2010

08:30 – 10:00 Theme 4 Panel: Regional security and the environment
  Richard Matthew, University of California Irvine
  Participant #2 (to be confirmed)
  Participant #3 (to be confirmed)
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Theme 5 Panel: New environmental regionalism
  Jörg Balsiger, ETH Zurich
  Frédéric Giraut, University of Geneva
  William Jackson, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  Rosa Laura Romeo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Theme 6 Panel: Environmental regionalization, democracy, and civil society
  Andreas Klinke, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
  Daniel Maselli, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
  Participant #3 (to be confirmed)
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:30 Roundtable Discussion
  Bernard Debarbieux, University of Geneva
  Jörg Balsiger, ETH Zurich
  Participant #3 (to be confirmed)
16:30 – 17:00 Workshop Follow-up
18:00 Workshop Closing

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