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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Discussants: Markus Jachtenfuchs, Helmut Weidner
Moderated by Michael Zürn
Since 1972, the international community has developed a whole new array of ecological goals and policies, in order to address transboundary and global environmental threats. Peter M. Haas will analyze the evolution of multilateral environmental governance over the last 35 years. He will argue that a new set of collective aspirations and practices have emerged in the international environmental realm, in large part due to the systematic influence of international organizations and transnational scientific networks (epistemic communities) who have politically informed international politics with new ways of understanding the global ecosystems and how national interests are affected by them. He will look at questions such as: how have collective understandings of environmental threats evolved? How have state policies changed and what is the role of international regimes in this process? What policy lessons have been learned?
Peter M. Haas is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the WZB's Karl W. Deutsch Guest Professor 2009. His "epistemic communities" methodology, developed in the 1990s, has become a foundation of today's environmental politics, policy research, and analysis. He is currently working on a book project analyzing the evolution of multilateral environmental governance, integrating constructivist and institutional insights about the influence of international organizations and scientific networks on international environmental governance (in particular UNEP).
Markus Jachtenfuchs is Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
Helmut Weidner is a Senior Researcher in the WZB research unit "Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions."
Michael Zürn is Director of the WZB research unit "Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions."
Information on participating / attending:
The WZB provides for child care during the lecture. If you are interested, please respond by 11 December 2009, indicating the number of children and their ages.
To register, please reply by 14 December, 2009, to Mary Kelley-Bibra: mary@wzb.eu
Date:
12/17/2009 18:00 - 12/17/2009 21:00
Registration deadline:
12/14/2009
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Room A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
12/07/2009
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event29675
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