This training course addresses the implications of environmental change for equity in earth system governance. To this end, the summer school links the work of scholars on ‘global governance architecture’ to debates on the distributional effects of environmental governance and change.
Particular attention will be paid to the question to what extent the shift from government to governance improves the capacity of the existing global governance architecture in ensuring a fair and equitable distribution of costs and benefits of environmental change across societies.
The series of courses jointly organised with the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, aims to train and educate Ph.D. students and young researchers in the latest theoretical developments, empirical studies and practical implications in the field.
Each participant is invited to present her/his research results. By stimulating academic discussions and interpersonal exchanges, the training course aims at establishing a network of young researchers and developing a research agenda for the future.
The training course will be held back to back with the 2010 Berlin Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, which is held on the topic, ‘Social Dimensions of Environmental Change and Governance’.
the lectures and presentations in the training course focus on the following questions:
- To what extent does the shift from government to governance increase the ability of the global governance architecture to ensure the provision of global public goods?
- To what extent does the shift from government to governance improve the capacity of the existing global governance architecture in ensuring a fair and equitable distribution of costs and benefits of environmental change and governance?
- How are distributional issues in contemporary global environmental governance dealt with?
- Is the emerging global environmental governance architecture sufficiently reflecting equity and justice dimensions between the North and the South?
To generate answers to these and other related questions, the summer school seeks to bring together scholars from International Relations, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, and Political Theory who work on governance mechanisms and equity issues in international environmental politics.
Structure of the training courseThe training course offers thematic lectures and workshops with internationally renowned experts, forums for discussion of research results with the participating faculty, empirical and case study oriented modules, a simulation exercise, a field trip and many interactive elements and occasions for networking. Each day will have a thematic or methodological focus and will include empirical or practical lectures and interactive modules.
Participants shall benefit from the training course by obtaining an overview of the latest research on governance procedures, its critiques as well as its distributional and equity effects. In addition the training course shall give an overview of challenges and principles of justice in global environmental politics. Furthermore the participants will be introduced to the controversial discussion about the measurement of common welfare. Last but not least the participants may also benefit from the presentation and in-depth discussion of their own research results and networking.
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