Institutional Designs and Response Capacity - Local and Global Challenges of Climate Politics

Time: 10am-6pm

Speakers

Neil Adger (Exeter): "Private response, public response, and the social contract for climate risks"

Harriet Bulkeley (Durham) (depart. of geography): tba

Simon Caney (Oxford): "Principles for Climate Governance: The Role of Substantive and Procedural Justice"

Frances Cleaver (KLC) (depart. of geography): "Adaptive natural resource management: the promises and pitfalls  of institutional bricolage"

Jens Hoff (Copenhagen): "Climate change: the response capacity of Danish municipalities"

Manfred Moldaschl (Zeppelin): "Democracy as a Barrier against Climate Policy?"

Steve Rayner (Oxford): “Polycentric Policy Architectures”

Katherine Richardson (Copenhagen)

Theresa Scavenius (Copenhagen): “The Democratic Deficit of Climate Politics”

For program and workshop updates please visit http://polsci.ku.dk/kalender/pre-event_workshop/  

Attendance is free, but space is limited. Please register by sending an email to Leni Shapira leni.shapira.cidea[@]gmail.com no later than 27 May 2013. For further information please contact Theresa Scavenius ts[@]ifs.ku.dk. 

WORKSHOP SERIES

CLIMATE WORKSHOP 1

Scholarly attention has focused on the urgent need for implementation of mitigation and adaption climate policies at regional and global levels. The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to take the discussion a step further. Institutional designs differ in how efficient they can react to climate change. The workshop discusses how the study of response capacity can enhance implementation of climate policies at local and global levels. The 2009 Nobel Prize Laureate Elinor Ostrom argued for a multi-level and polycentric approach to climate change and sustainability. Several questions remain however. How to measure an institution¹s response capacity to climate change and policies and resource management? How to map and understand limits of political willingness and institutional capacity to conduct mitigation and adaptation policies? At what level of politics is climate and environmental policies most efficiently implemented in a legitimate and democratic manner? The workshop discusses these and other questions related to the capacity of different institutional designs, financial infrastructure and cognitive barriers of current and future climate politics.