| 08:00 – 08:30 |
Registration |
| 08:30 – 08:45 |
Welcome, workshop organization |
| 08:45 – 10:15 |
Theme Panel: What is a region? |
| Panel moderation: Juliet Fall, University of Geneva |
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Anssi Paasi, University of Oulou |
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Anthony Lehmann, University of Geneva |
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John Allen, Open University (UK) |
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Ronan Uhel, European Environment Agency |
| 10:15 – 10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 |
Theme Panel: Environmental regions in multilevel governance |
| Panel moderation: Jörg Balsiger, ETH Zurich |
|
Ron Witt, United Nations Environment Programme |
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Liliana Andonova, The Graduate Institute, and Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire |
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Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Theme Panel: Regional security and the environment |
| Panel moderation: Miriam Prys, German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
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Richard Matthew, University of California Irvine |
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Saleem H. Ali, University of Vermont |
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Benedikt Korf, University of Zurich |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00 – 16:45 |
Parallel Session A |
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Panel A1 |
| Panel moderation: Andreas Klinke, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology |
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Eva Lieberherr, Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland — Regionalization of water governance: Efficient, effective and legitimate governance of the Swiss water sector? |
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Ieva Kapaciauskaite, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania — Environmental governance in the Baltic Sea Region and the role of non-governmental actors |
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Kristina Zumbusch and Roland Scherer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland — Limits for successful cross-border governance of environmental and spatial development |
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Panel A2 |
| Panel moderation: Juliet Fall, University of Geneva |
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Jon Marco Church, Harvard University, USA — The Ideology of Environmental Regionalism under the Test of the Alpine Convention, with comparative reflections from the Andes |
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Cristina Del Biaggio, University of Geneva, Switzerland — Bridging national boundaries: How networks of local actors are building the Alpine region |
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Sundar Kumar Sharma, Kathmandu University, Nepal — Political Economy of Climate Change Governance in Himalayan Region of Asia: A Case study of Nepal. An Analytical discourse of Regional Environmental Governance |
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Stefan Marzelli, Institute for Environmental Planning, Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, Germany — How to find suitable instruments supporting sustainable regional development? |
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Neil Craik, University of Waterloo, Canada — Bundled Transgovernmentalism: North American Climate Governance and the Lessons Learned from the Security and Prosperity Partnership |
| 16:45 – 17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00 – 18:45 |
Parallel Session B |
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Panel B1 |
| Panel moderation: Miriam Prys, German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
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Ralf Nordbeck, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Austria — Pan-European environmental cooperation: Achievements and limitations of the “Environment for Europe” process |
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Inga Jacobs, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Pretoria, South Africa — A Community of Interest, is there such a thing? Constructing a multi-level normative framework for water governance in the Orange Senqu Basin and poilcy implications for the SADC region |
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Isabelle Lamaud and Fanny Florémont, University of Bordeaux, France — Regional processes and environmental governance in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Panel B2 |
| Panel moderation: Liliana Andonova, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
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Jörn Harfst and Peter Wirth, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Germany — Structural change in former mining regions: Raising capacities in multi-level governance systems |
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Marco Pütz, Federal Institute of Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Switzerland — Power, Scale and Ikea: Analysing urban sprawl and land use planning in the metropolitan region of Munich, Germany |
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Frances Drake, University of Leeds, UK — How is Climate Change used to Define English Regions? |
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Norman Backhaus, University of Zurich, Switzerland — Landscapes, spatial totalities or special regions? |
| 20:00 |
Workshop dinner at Brasserie des Halles de l'Île |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Theme Panel: Regional economic dynamics and the environment |
| Panel moderation: Andreas Klinke, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology |
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Wilbert van Rooij, Aidenvironment |
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W. Scott Prudham, University of Toronto |
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Henrik Selin, Boston University |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 |
Theme Panel: New environmental regionalism |
| Panel moderation: Bernard Debarbieux, University of Geneva |
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Jörg Balsiger, ETH Zurich |
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Frédéric Giraut, University of Geneva |
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William Jackson, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00 – 14:30 |
Theme Panel: Environmental regionalization, democracy, and civil society |
| Panel moderation: Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire |
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Andreas Klinke, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology |
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Lorraine Elliott, Australian National University, Australia |
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Nicolas Evrard, European Association of Elected Representatives from Mountain Areas |
| 14:30 – 15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Roundtable Discussion |
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Greg Greenwood, Mountain Research Ininiative |
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Bernard Debarbieux, University of Geneva |
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Jörg Balsiger, ETH Zurich |
| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Workshop Follow-up |
| 17:00 |
Workshop Closing |
