Taskforce on Ocean Governance

Call for Papers for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Regional Seas Environmental Cooperation Panel at ECPR 2018

The ESG Oceans Taskforce is issuing a call for papers for a panel on Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Regional Seas Environmental Cooperation co-chaired by taskforce member Judith van Leeuwen together with Dorothea Wehrmann from the German Development Institute.

The panel will take place at the ECPR General Conference of 2018 being held in Hamburg on August 22-25, 2018. This panel is part of section 60 on Regional Seas in Comparative Perspective: Security and Sustainability.

For more information about the ECPR General Conference 2018, see here.

For the section abstract, see here or read below.

In the context of regional seas environmental cooperation, papers are particularly welcomed that discuss

  • exemplary multi-stakeholder collaborations (e.g. different institutional arrangements and actor constellations),
  • different concepts on the governance of multi-stakeholder collaborations in relation to regional sea environmental cooperation,
  • interactions and conflict among different multi-stakeholder collaborations and their embeddedness at the regional and global levels.

Please submit your paper proposal at the latest by 15 January 2018 to dorothea.wehrmann@die-gdi.de and judith.vanleeuwen@wur.nl. Your submission needs to contain the following information:

  • title of the Paper (no more than 20 words)
  • abstract of the Paper (no more than 250 words)
  • Presenter’s email address as registered in their MyECPR account
  • Co-author’s email address as registered in their MyECPR account

Please submit all information in one document, either in Word or pdf format.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Dr. Judith van Leeuwen (Judith.vanleeuwen@wur.nl) or Dr. Dorothea Wehrmann (Dorothea.Wehrmann@die-gdi.de) in case you have any questions.

 

Section 60 Abstract – Regional Seas in Comparative Perspective: Security and Sustainability:

The formulation of environmental policies that are applicable beyond individual nation-states are complex endeavours as, for example, the negotiations on Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean have shown. The priorities of the different state actors engaged often differ. Particularly in environmental politics, moreover, also non-state actors are increasingly involved and contribute, for example, to agenda-setting in regional governance settings such as the Antarctic Treaty System. This panel aims to investigate how multi-stakeholder collaboration contributes to regional sea environmental cooperation. On the one hand, this panel investigates how the perspectives of public and private actors correspond or conflict in different collaborations and how this affects regional seas arrangements. On the other hand, it scrutinizes how depending on the actor constellations and their global embeddedness the evolution of their perspectives and outcome on policy-making processes differ. Which functions do these multi-stakeholder collaboration perform in regional sea environmental cooperation? In this regard, this panel is particularly interested in the roles and significance ascribed to private sector actors as these are generally considered important partners to implement the SDGs. Does their growing inclusion hinder or support the formulation of sustainable environmental policies in regional seas arrangements? In what cases can their inclusion be perceived as a success and why?

Against this backdrop and under consideration of different concepts on the governance of multi-stakeholder collaborations (e.g. public-private partnerships, orchestration), this panel seeks to identify different practices that concern the inclusion of private sector actors in the governance of regional seas. The proposed panel is interested in innovative, theoretically led and empirically rich comparative contributions that explore multi-actor collaborations in different regional seas arrangements, the setting of thematic priorities and the general success ascribed to such partnerships. Overall, this panel seeks to discuss how multi-stakeholder collaborations can be advanced in the context of regional seas arrangements and beyond (e.g. in regard to the quality of outcomes and the duration of negotiation processes).

 

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