Presentations
Here you find abstracts and presentations of key note speakers and the workshops of the Law for Social-Ecological Resilience Conference.
Video recordings of most of the key note speakers and the final panel debate of the conference are available through the following link: http://www.stockholmresilience.org/newsandvideos/
The Key note speakers are presented in the order of the conference programme, and the workshop presentations under the heading of each workshop.
Key note speakers:
Wednesday 17 november
Carl Folke, Stockholm University: “What on Earth is Resilience?”
Jonas Ebbesson, Stockholm University: “What in Law is Resilience?”
Frank Biermann, VU University, Amsterdam: “Agency and Accountability in Earth System Governance: Legal implications”
Ellen Hey, Erasmus University, Rotterdam: “Social-Ecological Resilience and International Law: Whose Resilience?”
Barbara Cosens, University of Idaho: “Resilience and Administrative Law in Transboundary River Governance”
Jutta Brunnee, University of Toronto: “International Law and Socio-Ecological Resilience: An Interactional Perspective.”
Thursday 18 November
Gerd Winter, University of Bremen: “Cap and Trade" and Other Means of Ensuring Societal Resilience in Times of Resource Scarcity”
Bonnie McCay, Rutgers University, New Jersey: “The Littoral and the Liminal: Challenges to the Use of Property Rights Approaches to Resilience of Coastal and Marine Systems”
Richard Barnes, University of Hull: “The Capacity of Progerty Rights to Accomodate Socio-Ecological Resilience”
Workshops:
Thursday 18 November
1. Climate Change: General Approaches to Law and Governance
Venla Kinnunen and Sylvia I. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen: Pathways of Accountability through Parliaments vis-à-vis International Hard and Soft Law: The case of Finland and global climate governance
Sanford E. Gaines: Design of a Resilient Post-Kyoto International Climate Regime: A Resilience Assessment of the “Hartwell Paper” Approach
Marleen van Rijswick: Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change: Normative Principles for Adaptation
Jennifer Mohamed-Katerere and Mike Jones: Climate Change and Resilience: Law Must Do More Than Restrain the Heartless
2. Marine Areas and Marine Resources
Lena Gipperth: How does law recognize ecological boundaries?
Mikael Karlsson: Precautionary Legislation for Baltic Sea Resilience
Milena Arias-Schreiber, Marilou Bouchon and Miguel Ñiquen: The Evolution of Adaptive Legal Instruments and the Resilience of the Peruvian pelagic fisheries
Henrik Österblom: Resilience of Illegal Fishing Operators: Using Loopholes in Legal Frameworks at Multiple Layers
3. Environmental Governance: Structures and Theories
Ahjond S. Garmestani and Melinda Harm Benson: Actualizing panarchy within environmental policy: mechanisms for tweaking institutional hierarchies to mimic the social-ecological systems they manage
Stephen Stec: The three-generational world: Resilience and sustainable development norm formation
Froukje Maria Platjouw: How consistency in law affects the sustainable governance of an ecosystem
4. Nature Conservation and Forests
M.E.A. Broekmeyer, P.F.M. Opdam, F.H. Kistenkas & S.A. van Rooij: Rethinking nature conservation law – versie 2: Turning the Natura 2000 appropriate assessment towards a sustainable development assessment
Minna Pappila: Forest regulation and changing paradigms in Finland and Russia
Guilherme Cruz de Mendonça: The Relationship Between the Convention on Biological Diversity and Local Law trough Resilience: a Study of Paraty Director Plan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
5. Environmental Governance: Public Participation and Human Rights
Geoffrey W.G. Leane: Governance, Deliberative Democracy and the Internet: New Possibilities for Legitimising Environmental Law and Policy through Public Discourse
Yves Lador: The UN Human Rights Council in pursuit of resilience
Andreas Duit: Rule of law, stakeholder participation, and environmental management: evidence from 143 Biosphere Reserves in 55 countries
6. Water Courses and Coastal Zones
Lasse Baaner: Good ecological status of surface water’ – a technical provision or a legal norm?
Letícia Albuquerque: Adaptive co-management for the coastal zone: an alternative to the dominant economic model of management of natural resources in Brazil
Henrik Josefsson: Trapped landscapes – a challenge for legal thinking
Friday 19 November
7. Climate Change: Legal Issues and Instruments
David Langlet: Carbon dioxide removal: is effective and adaptive regulation of earth scale climate manipulation conceivable?
Arie Trouwborst: The EU Wild Birds and Habitats Directives and the Adaptation of Nature to Climate Change
Annalisa Savaresi: Reducing emissions from deforestation under the UNFCCC: A new opportunity for forest governance?
Monirul Azam: Climate Change Resilience and Technology Transfer: The Role of Intellectual Property
Herman Kasper Gilissen: The Influence of Liability Law on Adaptation to Climate Change
8. Trade, Economy and Corporate Activities
Åsa Romson: Legal certainty vs. flexibility and adaptability for social-ecological resilience in international investment agreements – a journey through scales of decision-making
Inga Carlmann and Aðalheiður Jóhannsdóttir: Ecological Limits v. Economic Growth. The Role of Law and Legal Theory for the Need of Future Generations
Kadri Sirg: The Independent Recourse Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Its Practice and Impact
Monirul Azam: Climate Change Resilience and Technology Transfer: The Role of Intellectual Property
H. Somsen and F.M. Fleurke: REACH: is precaution the Chemicals Industry’s best friend?
Dangerman, ATCJ, Vennix, JAM, and Sinke, W: The energy system, environmental problems and the role of corporate law
9. Water Management
Margot Hurlbert: Law, Resilience and Multi-level Water Governance in the Canadian Prairie Provinces
Ingo Gentes: Water Law and Politics Under Uncertainty: Implications for Transboundary Water Management in Central America
Tran Tran: Water is country, country is culture: what is the significance of Indigenous knowledge to water regulation in the Kimberley, Australia?
10. Property Rights and Resilience