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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Environmental governance is facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Levels of government and administration tend not to ‘fit’ environmentally relevant scales, resulting in inefficiencies and spatial externalities. Tension exists between the traditonal nested hierarchies of national political-administrative systems and trends towards both the upscaling of governance in the form of multinational agreements or the growing influence of supra-national levels and downscaling by decentralization or engagement of a diversity of local non-state actors.
Cutting across established systems of multi-level governance, new task-specific governance levels (Hooghe and Marks) are emerging, which may improve the fit with environmental scales (Young). Such processes of re-scaling create a need for adaptation at different levels, while altering power positions and the scope of action for state and non-state actors (Brenner; Gibbs et al.; wyngedouw). Thus, the effectiveness of environmental governance as affected by scale problems and rescaling processes also raise issues of legitimacy and equity.
This symposium seeks to map out the breadth of perspectives from which scalar issues in environmental governance can be addressed. It aims to bring together contributions with diverse, but complementary – and hitherto largely unconnected – strands of research on scale and humanenvironment relations in order to:
- present and discuss state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical research on scale and environmental governance from diverse perspectives and disciplinary fields;
- explore dissonances and resonances between the various perspectives, identifying promising avenues of future research in collaboration;
- appraise methods of applying concepts of scale in empirical research on environmental governance;
- draw lessons from the above on ways of refining and grounding existing conceptualisations of scale in environmental governance and
- explore the implications for improved, effective and legitimate forms of environmental governance.
The closing session will feature a reflection by Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University, UK)
Venue and dates
07.03.2013 - 08.03.2013
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
03/07/2013 08:45 - 03/08/2013 17:00
Event venue:
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstraße 22/23
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
02/26/2013
Sender/author:
Jan Zwilling
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event42627
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