Environmental Governance
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Date
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Friday, 6 May 2011
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
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Organisers
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LSEE-Research on Southe Eastern Europe, LSE
EKol leg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe” of the Freie Universitat Berlin
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The Workshop was organised by Dr Adam Fagan, Visiting Senior Fellow at LSEE and Reader in Politics at Queen Mary, University of London.
It explored the complexities of Europeanization in the Western Balkans and SEE from the policy perspective of environmental governance. It brought together leading scholars and practitioners, both from Western Europe and the region, working on aspects of Europeanization, environmental governance and regulation in new member states (Bulgaria and Romania as well as CEE states), as well as specialists on political-economy reform in candidate and potential candidate states across South East Europe. The programme ended with a lively roundtable discussion involving academics, NGO activists, policy makers and a representative from DG Enlargement, and a wine reception hosted by Routledge to mark the launch of Green Activism in Post-Socialist Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The general aim of the workshop was to consider the extent to which the experience of Europeanization and environmental governance across Central and Eastern Europe were relevant to South East Europe and the Western Balkans, whether lessons had been learnt and the extent to which the post-conflict states faced distinct challenges. A key question, posed by Professor Tanja Borzel in her keynote address, is to try to understand why the EU exerts a transformative effect at all in these weak states? What can the environmental sector reveal about the constraints and successes of conditionality and social learning?
As the day progressed and discussion intensified, it became increasingly evident that the nexus of Europeanization, environmental regulation and energy security provides an invaluable perspective from which to consider whether EU regulation and conditionality remain relevant in the context of weak states, significant non-EU investment in regional energy sectors, and the slow pace of economic liberalization and reform.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME|
PHOTO GALLERY
Professor Featherstone welcomes the opening panel
Members of the audience listen to the speakers from the first panel
Adam Fagan and Tanja Borzel contemplate questions from the audience
Professor Adanova addresses participants at the workshop
Dr Bojicic-Dzelilovic introduces the third session of the day
Mr Jan Haverkamp (Greenpeace) and Mr Ben Ratenbury (EUCLID),
during the policy dialogue
Ms Anne Burrill (European Commission Directorate General for the Environment), shares her views