Webinar December 4, 2020 with academics from England, Holland, Germany, Finland
register here: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/DD619A15E5F7CCCD
EU’s environmental policies are under huge changes. The European Green Deal as a sustainability transition policy path is mainstreaming many long-term targets of environmental policy. On the other hand, the implementation of ambitious environmental and climate targets is under discussions. LYY Institute from University of Eastern Finland is organizing this webinar to discuss the trajectories of EU’s environmental policy and the roles of Germany, the Netherlands and Finland as some of the key players in these processes. We look to the historical development and discuss the future challenges.
Preliminary agenda
14:00 Opening words, Mariana Galvão Lyra, LYY coordinator
14:10 EU Environmental Policy Trajectories, Professor Anthony Zito
14:25 Netherlands’ role and politics in the EU environmental policymaking, Professor Duncan Liefferink
14:40 Germany’s role and politics in the EU environmental policymaking, Professor Andrea Lenschow
14:55 Finland’s role and politics in the EU environmental policymaking, Professor Rauno Sairinen
15:10 Q&A session
15:35 Discussion session: comparisons, challenges, and future possibilities
16:00 Final words, Professor Rauno Sairinen, University of Eastern Finland
Practical information
Online Zoom webinar. Registration until 2nd of December is required. The link for the webinar will be announced after registration. For more information: mariana.lyra@uef.fi
Link for signing up: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/DD619A15E5F7CCCD
Main speakers:
Anthony Zito, Professor of European Public Policy at Newcastle University
Anthony R. Zito is Professor of European Public Policy at Newcastle University. In 2020 Dr. Zito is Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre at Newcastle University and Co-Editor of Environmental Politics. His research focuses on governance, learning theory, networks, environmental politics and European Union decision-making. He has authored numerous journal articles and two monographs: Creating Environmental Policy in the European Union (2000) and Environmental Governance in Europe (2013, with R. Wurzel and A. Jordan). He has recently co-authored: (a) with C. Burns et al., ‘De-Europeanizing or disengaging? EU environmental policy and Brexit,” Environmental Politics (2019); and with Ole Pedersen, ‘Fracking Frames and the Courts’, Environmental Law Review (2018), He was Co-Investigator in the EU Horizon 2020 grant project entitled: ‘Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe’ and is currently the leader of the Newcastle team for ‘The Transatlantic Perspectives on Energy and Cities’, a grant funded through the Erasmus+ Programme (2018-2021).
Duncan Liefferink, Assistant Professor Environmental Policy
Dr. Duncan Liefferink is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Governance and Politics, Faculty of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main research fields are European and comparative environmental politics, with a particular interest in the dynamic interrelationship between national and EU environmental policy making.
Andrea Lenschow, Professor of European Integration at Osnabrück University
Andrea Lenschow works as a professor of European Integration at Osnabrück University in Germany. She received her PhD from New York University and subsequently worked in postdoctoral positions at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the European University Institute in Florence and at Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, before joining the faculty at Osnabrück University in 2003. She works on environmental policy and governance issues in the European Union and about global commodity flows. In the widely used textbook on Policy Making in the European Union, edited by H. Wallace, M. Pollack, A. Young and C. Roederer-Rynning (Oxford University Press), she is contributing the chapter on Environmental Policy.
Rauno Sairinen, Professor Environmental Policy
Rauno Sairinen works as a professor of environmental policy at the University of Eastern Finland and as a scientific leader of the Institute for Natural Resources, Environment and Society. His major research themes have concerned mining policies and its social responsibility, environmental and natural resources governance, social impact assessment, environmental policy instruments and community planning.