News
This section offers the most recent news on the work and outcome of the LIAISE network activities. The monthly LIAISE News Bulletin, the bi-annual Innovation Report, and a direct access to all official project deliverables and to partner contributions and homepage issues relevant for Impact Assessment. News include an up-to-date calendar of events, publication lists, training schools, Toolbox Front office activities, and targeted policy information. Core LIAISE news will be supplemented by information on relevant institutional and individual achievements, modification of the consortium, Policy Advisory Board insights and other topics.
Landscape Scenarios and Multifunctionality – Making Land Use Impact Assessment Operational
Date:
20/09/2011
Excerpt:
Katharina Helming (ZALF) and Marta Perez-Soba of (ALTERRA) have recently edited a special feature on some of the challenges of making land use impact assessment operational for policy making. ... LIAISE Innovation Report No. 3, 'Science-policy Interface'
Date:
08/09/2011
Excerpt:
This innovation report deals with the science-policy interface and the interactions going on at the interface. Drawing on writings from the rich body of literature of knowledge utilization studies in political science and in science and technology studies we look at the conditions of science-policy interaction. ... LIAISE - A Network of Impact Assessment Excellence
Date:
31/08/2011
Excerpt:
In the latest issue of 'International Innovation', Jan Erik Wien, co-ordinator of the LIAISE Network of Excellence, discusses how work developing a shared toolbox is helping to bridge the gap between Impact Assessment and sustainability expertise, providing a platform for improving resource efficiency and attaining sustainable development. ... LIAISE Contacts with Chinese German Centre for Impact Assessment (CGCIA)
Date:
01/08/2011
Excerpt:
From August to November 2011, Katharina Helming (ZALF, Müncheberg) is visiting professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research/Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR/CAS). ... LIAISE News Bulletin - 8th Issue
Date:
25/07/2011
Excerpt:
In the run-up to the 2012 World Summit in Rio de Janeiro, a major debate on a “Green Economy” is evolving. The OECD developed a Green Growth Strategy, published in May 2011 (see policy section below). The strategy recognizes the potential benefits of green growth and, unlike previous OECD publications, considers green growth as ... Green Economy Discourses in the Run-Up to Rio 2012
Date:
15/07/2011
Excerpt:
The study analyses central contributions to the debate on the concept of a Green Economy in the run-up to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. It does so by identifying the pillars on which the various understandings of a green economy are based as well as analysing policy concepts published and statements made. ... Policy Instruments in Practice
Date:
01/07/2011
Excerpt:
Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. ... Bridging the Science-Policy Gap
Date:
23/06/2011
Excerpt:
At the 6th Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis "Discursive Spaces. Politics, Practices and Power", Sabine Weiland (FUB) presented a paper entitled "How to bridge the science-policy gap: knowledge brokering for more sustainable policies?". ... Berlin Sustainability Talk with Andrew Jordan: Climate Policy Innovation
Date:
15/06/2011
Excerpt:
In his talk Prof. Andrew Jordan will seek to explore the concept of (climate) policy innovation, including the conditions under which it might occur (or fail to occur), speculate on its empirical prevalence and suggest what it would take to fully evaluate its effects/future potential. LIAISE Session at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics
Date:
14/06/2011
Excerpt:
A LIAISE session on "Impact Assessment – opportunities and challenges for linking science and policy in the quest for sustainable development" will be held at the 2011 ESEE Conference, 14-17 June, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey.