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.
Session on "Evaluation of Transition Policy" at the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions in Lund, Sweden
Date:
13/06/2011
Excerpt:
This thematic session on "Evaluation of Transition Policy" aims to reflect on (1) the role of policy evaluation in transitions and (2) requirements and methods for policy evaluation in transitions. Sabine Weiland will give a paper on "Policy appraisal – a contribution to 'better' and more sustainable policies?" ... The Evaluation of Climate Policy: Theory and Emerging Practice in Europe
Date:
02/06/2011
Excerpt:
This new publication on the evaluation of climate policy attempts to provide the first systematic cataloging of the emerging patterns of policy evaluation undertaken in different parts of the European Union. ... Presentation of Research Results from LIAISE WP2 "Science for IA tools and procedures" at the IAIA 2011 Conference
Date:
28/05/2011
Excerpt:
The recent research results of LIAISE WP2 "Science for IA tools and procedures" will be presented at the IAIA 2011 Conference. Aranka Podhora will present aspects of "Gender and diversity in policy impact assessment" in the session "Gender Impact Assessment: between benefits, betterment and betrayal". LIAISE session on "Research for Policy Impact Assessment: Examples from the Americas" at IAIA 2011
Date:
28/05/2011
Excerpt:
A LIAISE session on "Research for Policy Impact Assessment: Examples from the Americas" will be held at the annual conference of the IAIA 2011, organised by Aranka Podhora (ZALF). LIAISE News Bulletin - 7th Issue
Date:
20/05/2011
Excerpt:
The Green Week Conference 2011 will be held in Brussels from May 24 to May 27 with this year's theme: Resource Efficiency - Using less, living better. Improving resource efficiency is a flagship initiative of the European Commission and is a core topic of DG Environment. A number of policy initiatives are expected to establish and to implement... LIAISE Session at 2011 Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance "Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges"
Date:
17/05/2011
Excerpt:
A LIAISE session on "Linking Research to Practice. Knowledge, Measurement and Policy Appraisal" was held at the Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance "Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges", 17-20 May, 2011, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Research Project: Institutions and Procedures of Parliamentary Sustainability Policy
Date:
05/05/2011
Excerpt:
The Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at the Freie Universität Berlin has begun a new research project on institutions and procedures of parliamentary sustainability policy. ... Colloquium on SUSMETRO at the Technical University (TU) Berlin
Date:
04/05/2011
Excerpt:
Dirk Wascher, FU Berlin, is going to present the project SUSMETRO, offering a set of tools and interactive processes for assessing the impacts of spatial planning with regard to the self-supportive capacities of a region (ecological footprint) in terms of food, recreation and nature conservation. Paper Back book: Climate Change Policy in the EU
Date:
01/04/2011
Excerpt:
A recent publication on EU climate policy has just come out in paper back.
LIAISE News Bulletin - 6th Issue
Date:
30/03/2011
Excerpt:
The 2011 International Regulatory Reform Conference held in Amsterdam on March 10 and 11 in Amsterdam, organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Dutch government, brought together ca. 300 participants from Europe and abroad to discuss innovations and trends in tools for better regulation...