Private Environmental Regimes: Challenges for Governance

Posted by: Ad van Dommelen on August 15, 2008 11:41:16 AM +02:00

International Workshop, 5 September 2008,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

With globalisation, the 'rules of the game' of international problem-solving through intergovernmental treaties is changing. A number of different trends in international environmental governance involving non-state actors are becoming visible...

READ MORE in the full workshop programme, which is available for download HERE.

Registration

Participation is free of charge. Please send an e-mail to aysem.mert[at]ivm.vu.nl before the day of the workshop indicating your participation.

Venue

Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (see the campus map included in the programme which is available for download above)

This workshop is coordinated by the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Global Governance Project (www.glogov.org) and SENSE Research School. The workshop forms a part of the Vidi project of Prof. Joyeeta Gupta, “Intergovernmental and Private International Environmental Regimes: Compatibility with Good Governance, the Rule of Law and Sustainable Development”, funded by the Netherlands Scientific Organisation (NWO).

8:30 - 9:00	Coffee and cookies; welcome
Session 1	*Private Governance: Implications, Transformations, Challenges* Chair: Frank Biermann
9:00 - 9:30	Changing Rules of the Governance Game: Implications for the Environment & North-South Relations. Speaker: Joyeeta Gupta.
9:30 - 10:00	Global Governance: From Radical Transformation to Neo-Liberal Management. Speaker: Henk Overbeek.
10:00 - 10:30	Challenges of new forms of governance for International Law. Speaker: M. Sornarajah.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
Session 2	*Private Governance: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and GMOs* Chair: Frank Biermann
11:00 - 11:30	Interaction Management by Partnerships: The case of biodiversity and climate change. Speakers: Bas Arts & Ingrid Vissermaker. Discussant: Henk Overbeek.
11:30 - 12:00	Corporate Social Responsibility and GMOs. Speaker: Jennifer Clapp. Discussant: Phillip Pattberg.
12:00 - 12:30	Regulating the Market Beyond the Patent: On open source in biotechnology. Speaker: Eric Deibel. Discussant: Joyeeta Gupta.
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
Session 3	*Private Governance: Actors, Policies, Mechanisms* Chair: Klaus Dingwerth
13:30 - 14:00	Collaborative Environmental Governance: Beyond the State? Speaker: Neil Gunningham. Discussant: Bram Büscher.
14:00 - 14:30	Foreign Investment Contracts: Unexplored mechanisms of global governance. Speaker: Kyla Tienhaara. Discussant: Harriet Bulkeley.
14:30 - 15:00	Privatisation of Governance: On myths, narratives and other inevitabilities. Speaker: Ayşem Mert. Discussant: Jennifer Clapp.
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15: 30 - 16:30	Summary and wrap-up. Chair: Joyeeta Gupta.
16:30 -	Drinks