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WINS Seminar on October 30, 2014 at 3pm (ct.), IRI THESys

Dear colleagues
We welcome you to the session of the WINS Seminar series (Seminar of the
Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems) on
October 30, 2014.

Carsten Mann (Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Center for Technology and
Society, Christian Schleyer (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research -
UFZ), Ladislav Jelinek (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle) Wittenberg): 
The Procedure for Institutional Compatibility Assessment (PICA) and
applications in SES


Dr. Carsten Mann is head of the innovation division at the Center for
Technology and Society, Technische Universität (TU) Berlin. As a forest and
environmental scientist, he has an interdisciplinary background with a
specialization in environmental governance, system transformation and policy
innovation by combining concepts of social-ecology systems with those of
sociology, policy- and institutional analysis.

Dr. Christian Schleyer is a researcher in the Department Environmental
Politics at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in
Leipzig. He has worked on agri-environmental policies, rural development,
market-based instruments for ecosystem services, and water management
issues, in particular reclamations systems. He is currently task leader in
the EU research project OpenNESS Operationalisation of Natural Capital and
Ecosystem Services: From Concepts to Real-world Applications (7. FRP).

Dr. Ladislav Jelinek is a researcher at the Department of Agricultural-,
Environmental- and Food Policy at the Faculty of Natural Science (III) of
Martin-Luther University in Halle. He has worked on land market analysis
functioning, policy modelling of agricultural and rural policies and on the
economic and institutional aspects of land-based renewable energy policies.
Since 2013 he is a member of Kulunda project (`Ecological and Economic
Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes´; BMBF
Sustainable Land Management Program) in which he focuses on institutional
analysis of the implementation of soil conservation policies in Kulunda
steppe. One task in the project deals with the PICA testing in the study
region. 

Abstract:

Ex-ante impact assessment of agricultural, environmental, and rural policies
has become an integral part of political decision-making processes in the
European Union. While a variety of agri-environmental modelling tools
exists, ex-ante policy assessment tools capturing the institutional
dimension are rare and need to be improved. In this presenation, we
introduce a standardized procedure for ex-ante assessing institutional
aspects for policy implementation: the Procedure for Institutional
Compatibility Assessment (PICA). PICA has been designed as an explorative
and flexible, yet formalized methodology that enables policy-makers to
identify, at an early stage, potential institutional incompatibilities. To
empirically test PICA for the first time, the tool was applied to the
implementation of the EU Nitrate Directive in two differing departments in
Auvergne, France. Therefore literature reviews and interviews with experts
and stakeholders involved, or likely to be involved, in the regional
implementation processes were used to predict crucial institutional aspects
for the implementation of the Nitrate Directive. As a result, PICA was able
to detect various similar and distinct features in the respective
institutional contexts of the departments, confirming its practicability and
predictable power. Further, in another application PICA was recently used to
analyse the existing institutional, administrative and technical constraints
in the implementation of land conservation policy on part of Siberian steppe
in Russia. Specifically, the PICA was tested on the command-control measure
that banned a largely applied crop residues burning practice on agricultural
and forest land.



It will take place on: 

Thursday, October 30, 2014 3pm (ct.)
Quartier Stadtmitte
Friedrichstr. 191
10117 Berlin
4th floor, room 4088
Map and room location
http://www.iri-thesys.org/contact
http://www.iri-thesys.org/directions_quartier191/at_download/file 


The mission of The Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of
Social-Ecological Systems (WINS) is to advance communication between
academic communities (economists, political scientists, geographers,
sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others) that study the
role of institutions and governance structures in social-ecological systems
and their transformation. It is an open platform for both advanced and young
scholars to work symbiotically. WINS is based at Humboldt University's
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment
Systems (IRI THESys). The overarching scholarly aim is to facilitate the
accumulation of knowledge and the development of new, interdisciplinary and
problem-oriented analytical theories and methods, bridging the multiplicity
of approaches that have been established over time. Integrative discourses,
interdisciplinary research and an advanced studies program will serve as
conduits towards this goal. The ultimate purpose is to strengthen policy
making through enhanced dialogue with practitioners and stakeholders. For
more information please see here: https://www.wins.hu-berlin.de/

Berlins environmental research community is among the most prolific in
Europe and the world and we want to take advantage of that. Thus, throughout
the 14 sessions of the series we will introduce the work of prominent
scholars from Research Institutes that center around Berlin. Additionally,
we have visits by scholars from other European Universities. 

WINS Seminar sessions will take place every Thursday, 3pm, during the
winter semester (except for the public holidays). 
We are looking forward to inspiring presentations and productive exchanges.

Organiser of the WINS Seminar series



Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ihre
Ines Jeworski

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften
Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie Hannoversche Str. 27
10099 Berlin
Bundesrepublik Deutschland       
Tel. 0049 (30) 2093-46365
Fax: 0049 (30) 2093- 6497
E-mail: i.jeworski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.resource-economics.hu-berlin.de


Ines Jeworski
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Life Sciences 
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences 
Division of Resource Economics
Hannoversche Str. 27
D-10099 Berlin
Tel. 0049 (30) 2093-46365
Fax: 0049 (30) 2093- 6497
E-mail: i.jeworski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.resource-economics.hu-berlin.de
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