[voew-listserver] 2nd Announcement and Call for Papers, 2005 Berlin HDGEC Conference
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Call for Papers – 2nd Announcement / Deadline 31 May 2005
‘International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance’
2005 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change
Berlin, 2-3 December 2005
The Berlin Conference Steering Committee and the Environmental Policy
and Global Change section of the German Political Science Association
and its partners invite papers for the 2005 Berlin Conference on the
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, to be held in Berlin on
2-3 December 2005. This conference will be the fifth event in the series
of annual Berlin Conferences. This year’s discussions will address the
theme ‘International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance’.
Keynote speakers include:
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Dr Klaus Toepfer, executive director, United Nations Environment Programme
Juergen Trittin, federal minister of the environment, nature
conservation and nuclear safety, Germany (tbc)
The pressing problems of global environmental change have generated new
theoretical understandings, methodological refinements and empirical
knowledge of its institutional dimensions. Most of this work, however,
has concentrated on the principles, norms, rules and decision-making
procedures that underlie the emerging system of global environmental
governance. More systematic work has yet to be done on the actors at the
international level that identify, analyse, manage and evaluate the
pressing problems of global environmental change, notably the plethora
of intergovernmental organisations and programmes that are entrusted
with assisting in the mitigation of, and adaptation to, global
environmental change. We make these organisations hence the central
focus of the 2005 Berlin Conference.
The conference will focus on all types of international organisations,
agencies, programmes, bureaus and secretariats that address global
environmental change. These will include
- all relevant agencies of the United Nations system, ranging from the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to the secretariat of the UN climate
convention;
- the many intergovernmental agencies outside the UN system, such as the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), or the
World Bank;
- regional integration schemes such as the European Union (EU), the
African Union (AU), or the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA);
- new forms of intergovernmental mechanisms that have some
actor-quality, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);
- nongovernmental transnational actors, such as Greenpeace, the World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) or the Global Climate Coalition; and
- novel multi-stakeholder organisations beyond the state, such as the
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the World Commission on Dams (WCD).
Regarding these types of actors, we hope that the conference will
advance knowledge on five questions:
1. Effects: What are the actual effects of international organisations
in global environmental governance? Most international organisations
have clear-cut and ambitious mission statements and policy planning
documents, yet the real-world influence of these agencies is often
unclear and sometimes in doubt. While much previous research has
concentrated on understanding the effectiveness of international
regimes, we hope to devote this conference to furthering the
understanding of the effectiveness of international organisations as
actors in international politics. Papers could examine, for example, the
influence of international organisations on the generation, synthesis
and dissemination of technical or scientific knowledge; on the
initiation, negotiation and further development of international
agreements; or on the implementation of international policies and
programmes ‘on the ground’ in specific countries.
2. Design: Second, we solicit papers that focus on the design of
international organisations and programmes in order to understand how
different types of organisational design influence the effects of
organisations. Such design features could include rules of access and
participation, types of mandate, specification and legalisation of
rules, voting procedures, or intra-organisational design features such
as degree of hierarchisation and types of organisational cultures and
procedures.
3. Interplay: Third, we seek to increase understanding of the role of
international organisations within larger regimes or public policy
networks, including the interplay of international organisations within
the UN system and its influence on organisational effectiveness,
feedback processes with private and public-private actors, the role of
international organisations in initiating or supporting public-private
partnerships, and the vertical interplay across scales.
4. Integration: Fourth, we invite papers that analyse policy integration
within international organisations. Papers may either deal with the
integration of different environmental issues in the policies of one
organisation or with the integration of environmental concerns in the
work and functioning of international organisations that are not
primarily active in environmental policy.
5. Theories: Fifth, and interlinked with the four analytical clusters of
questions above, we hope to contribute to a better theoretical
understanding of the role of international organisations and a better
methodological tool kit to use in this endeavour. To this end, we
particularly invite theoretical, methodological or conceptual papers, in
addition to empirical papers that have a clear theoretical or
methodological motivation. All theoretical approaches that can offer
some contribution to understanding international organisations are
welcome, ranging from functionalism, sociological institutionalism,
rational institutionalism, organization theories or constructivism to
more normative approaches, such as world federalism or theories on the
democratic accountability and legitimacy of international and
transnational organisations.
Finally, we invite papers that focus on teaching global and national
environmental governance, in line with the United Nations Decade on
Sustainable Development in Higher Education. We especially encourage
paper submissions about teaching programmes that focus on global
environmental institutions and organisations that respond to the
particular requirements of global environmental change, including its
complexity, global causes and impacts, and the need of interdisciplinary
understanding.
The 2005 Berlin Conference has been endorsed by the core projects
‘Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change’ and
‘Industrial Transformation’ of the International Human Dimensions
Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Papers that focus their
analysis of international organisations on the key questions of these
two global research programmes are therefore particularly invited for
presentation. We especially welcome papers that analyse international
organisations with a view to problems of fit, scale, and interplay. The
Conference has also been endorsed by the Association for Ecological
Economic Research (VOEW) and the German Federation of Scientists (VdW).
The 2005 Berlin Conference is organised by the Global Governance Project
(Glogov.org) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Institute for
Environmental Studies), the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Environmental
Policy Research Centre), the University of Oldenburg and the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research. Additional support is provided by
Volkswagen Foundation, Germany.
The conference will be held in English. Proposals for papers or for
side-events should be sent by e-mail to bc2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The
body of the e-mail (no attachments please) should contain
- the title of the proposed paper,
- an abstract of less than 300 words (longer abstracts will be rejected.
No graphs, references, tables etc. in the abstracts please), and
- the complete address and professional affiliation of all (co)-author(s).
The deadline for proposals is 31 May 2005.
All paper submissions will be reviewed by an international review panel.
Notification of the decision will be sent by e-mail no later than 30
June 2005. Full papers are expected by 15 November 2005.
We are making all efforts to ensure funding to reimburse the travel
costs of some conference participants, with a preference for junior
colleagues and colleagues from developing countries. Paper presenters
and other participants are asked to contribute a registration fee of 120
Euros (50 Euros for students with valid student ID) upon registration.
More information is available at the conference website at
http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2005/index.html.
Conference Chair
Frank Biermann, Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam; and Global Governance Project
frank.biermann@xxxxxxxxx
Conference Co-Chair
Bernd Siebenhuener, School of Computing Science, Business
Administration, Economics and Law, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet
Oldenburg; and Global Governance Project
bernd.siebenhuener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Conference Manager
Anna Schreyoegg, Global Governance Project
schreyoegg@xxxxxxxxxx
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