IES Research - Environment and Sustainable Development

This research cluster conducts high quality and policy-relevant research, education and academic services in the selected focus areas of work, combining in particular political science and law.

The cluster covers a wide range of topics with particular emphasis on climate change, various aspects of sustainable production and consumption, energy, biodiversity and the management of genetic resources, trade and the environment, environmental liability and damage, and maritime and marine issues. In doing so, it analyses relevant developments in EU and international law and relations, compares relevant national law and policy in the EU and beyond, explores governance arrangements and institutions, and addresses environmental rights.

The cluster is lead by Academic Director Sebastian Oberthür and Senior Research Fellow Harri Kalimo and is supported by one Post-doctoral Researcher (Koen Van den Bossche), eleven junior researchers (Katja Biedenkopf, Armelle Gouritin, Claire Dupont, Justyna Pozarowska, Radostina Primova, Ioannis Spyridakis, Florian Rabitz, Thuy Van Tran, Olof Soebech, Alexander Daniell and Laura Boone), one associate researcher (Thomas Sattich) and two interns (Veronika Jurcova and Johanna Van Vrede).

The Environment and Sustainable Development research team at the IES co-organizes the Environmental Policy Forum with the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), the cluster is also actively involved in the IES Lecture Series and holds Environmental Discussion Groups on a regular basis and open to the public.

The next Environmental Policy Forum will take place on 26 January 2012 and is titled: "EU-Chinese trade relations in context of rare earth export limitations and the recent WTO ruling on this issue." (working title)
 

Current projects

Project	Researcher
CORPUS	Harri Kalimo, Olof Soebech, Alexander Daniell
Co-ordination and accountability in function of European policy-making: A case study on the EU energy market policy	Radostina Primova
Co-ordination and accountability of the EU in international politics	Ioannis Spyridakis
Coping with institutional complexity: the European Union's external policy on genetic resources	Florian Rabitz
Governance through Regulatory Complexes: The International and European Management of Genetic Resources	Justyna Pozarowska
Climate Policy Integration in the EU	Claire Dupont
Policy Recycling? The External Effects of European Union Environmental Policy on the United States	Katja Biedenkopf
EU Environmental Liability Schemes	Armelle Gouritin
Producer Responsibility Related Issues	Harri Kalimo
Navigation in the Arctic	Laura Boone
Freedom of navigation in the Exclusive Economic Zone: EU approach	Thuy Van Tran

Previous projects

Instruments for Sustainable Consumption and Greening of the Market	Katja Biedenkopf , Harri Kalimo & Òlöf Söebech
Redefining the Common European Fisheries Policy	Koen Van den Bossche

Recent publications

E. Franckx, K Van den Bossche, Regional Issues and Ocean Law: The African region, in: Implementing the Law of the Sea: Institutions and Regions in Ocean Governance pp. 1-33 (Harry N. Scheiber and Jin-Hyun Paik, eds., Brill, 2012)

Kalimo, H., Daniell, A., Söebech O. & Shahin, J. 2011. Project CORPUS (Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-Making in Sustainable Consumption). Platform Specific Needs and Solutions Analysis -- A Report on CORPUS Knowledge Brokerage Web Platform. Pp. 20.

Armelle Gouritin, "The International Regime for the Compensation of Oil-pollution Damage: A Good Candidate to Have a Human Rights Law Approach?", 20, RECIEL (2011), 194-207.

René Lefeber and Sebastian Oberthür, Key Features of the Kyoto Protocol’s Compliance System, in: Jutta Brunnée, Meinhard Doelle and Lavanya Rajamani (eds.), Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012, 77-101.

Armelle Gourtin (2012), 'Droit des changements climatiques: légalité du droit de l'Union Européenne au regard du droit international', available at: http://www.sentinelle-droit-international.fr/bulletins/a2012/bulletin_display.php?bull_date=20120122&bull_num=290#113.

Armelle Gouritin (2012), 'Vers la territorialisation des eaux de l'EU?', available at: http://www.sentinelle-droit-international.fr/bulletins/a2012/bulletin_display.php?bull_date=20120129&bull_num=291.

Dupont, Claire. 2012. "Book review. Dankelman, Irene, ed. 2010. Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction." Global Environmental Politics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 128-129.

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