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Governat First Summer School, 5-10 July 2007, Leeds, UK

 

The first school in the GoverNat training programme was hosted by the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. The main aim was to introduce the students to the basic issues of Multi-Level Governance and to the GoverNat approach. All GoverNat-PhD-fellows plus one additional PhD student, 2 experienced fellows and several senior researchers participated.

The following table gives you an overview of the presentations; by clicking on the presentations you can download them.

 

 

Thursday 5.7.07

Friday 6.7.07

Saturday 7.7.07

Monday 9.7.07

Tuesday 10.7.07

Aim of the day

Introduction and the New Institution Economics framework

 

Multi-Level Governance architecture in EU & its implications for Biodiversity & Water

Participation in Natural resource management in Europe & its Evaluation

Evaluation & field visit

The Assessment of Governance Schemes

 

GoverNat (PDF, 670 KB), Felix Rauschmayer, UFZ Leipzig

The New Institutional Approach to Environmental Governance (PDF, 132 KB), Jouni Paavola,
University of Leeds

THEMES Summer School and it’s Links to GoverNat Project (PDF, 105 KB), Veronika Chobotova, SAV, Bratislava

Hands on group work (no documentation)

Plenary debriefing

Multi-Level Governance in the EU:
structure, challenges
and governance failures
(PDF, 137 KB)
, Christoph Görg, UFZ Leipzig

Top-down and bottom-up perspectives on EU public policy implementation (PDF, 162 KB) Mikael Skou Andersen, NERI, University of Aarhus

Case studies with hands on group work: see below *)

Plenary debriefing

 

 

 

Practical Approaches to Participation,  (PDF, 436 KB)Richards, C., Blackstock, KL, Carter CE (2004), SERG Policy Brief No.1, Series Editors: CE Carter and CL Spash, Aberdeen, UK: Macaulay Institute

Introducing the Aarhus Convention (PDF, 99 KB) Patricia Quillacq, Florence

Law and Governance of Water in the EU (PDF, 48 KB), Patricia Quillacq, Florence

Participatory Approaches in
Multi-level Governance of Biodiversity
in the European Union (PDF, 146 KB)
Felix Rauschmayer, UFZ Leipzig

Prepare field visits along GoverNat frame

Outcome-oriented Evaluation (PDF, 38 KB) Jouni Paavola, University of Leeds

Evaluating process or outcomes (PDF, 338 KB) Felix Rauschmayer, UFZ Leipzig

Sustainable Uplands
Sustainable Upland Management for Multiple Benefits (PDF, 5.91 MB)
, Claire Quinn,
University of Leeds

field visit

 

 

GoverNat evaluation criteria (PDF, 176 KB),      8 PhD fellows

Re-construct GoverNat framework

Plenary debriefing

 

 

 

*)            Case studies with hands on group work:

Race to the (lagoon) bottom - Cockle fisheries vs. ecosystem preservation in Venice Lagoon (PDF, 696 KB)Matteo Roggero, UFZ, Leipzig
Multilevel features of the case study in Victoria – Australia (PDF, 1.45 MB),
Raphael Treffny, CSWM, University Lancaster                                                                                                                           Multilevel Governance in Regional Forest Plan of Catalonia (PDF, 1.32 MB), Mireia Pecurul, University of Leeds

Participation and governance in Integrated Water Management in the Netherlands (PDF, 583 KB), Anna Wesselink, University of Leeds

  GoverNat fellows with some seniors at the first school in Leeds, July 2007.

The List of Readings:

Day 1: Paavola, J. (2007). Institutions and Environmental Governance: A Reconceptualization. Ecological Economics, 63: 93-103.

Day 2: Marks, G., Hooghe, L., 2004. Contrasting Visions of Multi-level Governance. In: Bache, I. Flinders, M. (Eds.), Multi-level Governance. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press,

Day 3: Richards, C., Blackstock, KL, Carter CE (2004), Practical Approaches to Participation, SERG Policy Brief No.1, Series Editors: CE Carter and CL Spash, Aberdeen, UK: Macaulay Institute.

Days 4&5: Rauschmayer, F., Wittmer, H., 2006. Evaluating deliberative and analytical methods for the resolution of environmental conflicts. Land use policy 23(1), 108-122.

Wittmer, H., Rauschmayer, F., Klauer, B., 2006. How to Select Instruments for the Resolution of Environmental Conflicts? Land use policy 23(1), 1-9.

The List of Additional Readings:

Adger, W. N., Brown, K., Fairbrass, J., Jordan, A., Paavola, J., Rosendo, S. and Seyfang, G. (2003). Towards A ‘Thick’ Analysis of Environmental Decisions. Environment and Planning A 35: 1095-1110.

Bache, I., Flinders, M. (Eds.), 2004. Multi-level Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Berkes, F., Folke C. (Eds.), 1998. Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience.  Cambridge University press, Cambridge, UK.

Conley, A., Moote, M.A., 2003. Evaluating Collaborative Natural Resource Management. Science and Natural Resources 16, 371-386.

Heinelt, H., Getimis, P., Kafkalas, G., Smith, R., Swyngedouw, E. (2002): Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.

Jessop, B., 2002. Governance and Metagovernance: On reflexivity, requisite variety, and requisite irony. In: Heinelt, H., Getimis, P., Kafkalas, G., Smith, R.Swyngedouw, E. (Eds.), Participatory Governance in multi-level context. Opladen, Leske+Budrich, pp. 33-58.

G. Kallis, H., N. Videira, P. Antunes, A. Guimarães Pereira, C. Spash, H. Coccossis, S. Corral Quintana, L. del Moral, D. Hatzilacou, G. Lobo, A. Mexa, P. Paneque, B. Pedregal, R. Santos, (2006), ³Participatory Methods for Water Resources Planning and Governance², Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 24, 215-234.

Paavola, J., Adger, W.N., 2005. Institutional ecological economics. Ecological Economics 53, 353- 368.

Vatn, A. 2006. Institutions and the Environment. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

N. Videira, P. Antunes,  R. Santos,  G. Lobo (2006), Public and Stakeholder Participation in European Water Policy: A Critical Review of Project Evaluation Processes, European Environment, 16, 19-31.

  

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