Easy
- Eco 2 Conference Program
!!
Papers, Presentations and Speeches of
the EASY - ECO 2 participants
are available for download on the Proceedings
- site !!

| 9:00
- 10:00 |
Registration,
Coffee
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| 10:00
- 10:45 |
Welcome
Adresses |
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| Uwe
Schubert |
Coordinator
of Easy - Eco 2 |
Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
| Isabella
Kossina |
Executive
City Councillor for Environment of Vienna
|
City
of Vienna
|
A |
| Wolfram
Tertschnig |
Department
for Sustainable Development and Environmental Subsidies |
Federal
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
|
A |
Sultana
Gruber
|
Sustainable
Products, Environmental Desk |
Bank Austria-Creditanstalt
|
A |
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| 10:45
- 12:30 |
Topic |
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|
Rupert
Willis
|
Evaluation
of Sustainable Development on EU - Level
|
European
Commission, DG Environment
|
B |
| Peter Hardi |
Integrated
Reporting and Sustainabillity Assessment: The State of the Art
|
International
Institute for Sustainable Development
|
CA |
James Medhurst
|
A Thematic
Evaluation of the Contribution of the Structural Funds to Sustainable
Development - Methods and Lessons
|
GhK Consulting |
UK |
|
| 12:30
- 13:30 |
Buffet
lunch |
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13:30
- 15:30
|
Presentation
of Country Reports on Evaluation of Sustainability |
| Alessandro
Bonifazi |
Country
Survey Italy |
Vrije Universiteit
Brussels |
I |
| Claudio
Cattaneo, Beatriz Izquierdo |
Country
Survey Spain |
University
of Deusto |
E |
Anikó
Zseni,
Orsolya Barsi
|
Country
Survey Hungary |
Széchenyi
lstván University |
HU |
Janis Aizsalnieks
|
Country
Survey Finland |
European
Commission, DG Environment |
B |
| Comments
& Questions |
Tom Bauler
|
Country
Survey Belgium |
Universite
Libre de Bruxelles |
B |
Matt Grace
|
Country
Survey United Kingdom |
Scott
Wilson |
UK |
Christian
Gessner,
Nikolaos Hasanagas
|
Country
Survey Germany |
Witten/Herdecke
University |
D |
Markus
Langer
|
Country
Survey Austria |
Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
| Comments
& Questions |
|
| 16:00
- 17:00 |
Presentation
of Country Reports on Evaluation of Sustainability |
Daniel
Wiener
|
Country
Survey Switzerland |
ecos,
Basel |
CH |
Igor Arzhenovskiy
|
Country
Survey Russia |
Nizhny
Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
RU |
Gerlinde Struhkamp
|
Country
Survey United States |
Centre
for Evaluation |
US |
| Comments
& General Discussion |
|
| 18:30
- 19:15 |
Guided
tour through the Inner City of Vienna
(Meeting point in front of the Oktogon) |
|
| 9:00
- 10:30 |
Keynote
Speeches |
|
|
Martin
Jänicke
|
The
Agenda 21 Modell of Environmental Governance - Lessons learned
from Johannesburg
|
Freie
Universität Berlin
|
D |
Louise
Rickard
|
Environmental
reporting in the context of Sustainable development |
European
Environmental Agency
|
DK |
Nancy MacPherson
|
Using Meta
Analyses to Support Improved Performance |
IUCN
|
CH |
|
| Workshop
- Sessions |
The
sessions will take place in the following rooms:
- Session
A-1, B-1 and C-1: Oktogon,
Großer Sitzungssaal
- Session
A-2, B-2 and C-2: Oktogon,
Kleiner Sitzungssaal
- Session
A-3, B-3 and C-3: Renngasse
2, Clubraum (2nd floor)
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|
| 11:00
- 12:30 |
Session
A-1: Using Sustainability Indicators in Evaluation Processes
|
| Joe
Ravetz |
Evaluation
of regional strategies: linking 'Resource Productivity' to policy
'Decision Space' |
Manchester
University |
UK |
|
Andrea Scheller |
MONET
evaluates sustainable development in Switzerland |
Swiss
Federal Statistical Office |
CH |
|
Jan Dictus |
Peer
Review for European Urban Sustainable Development, PRESUD |
City
of Vienna |
A |
| Helmut
Haberl |
CHAIR |
IFF
- Social Ecology |
A |
| Gillian
Bowen |
Rapporteur |
Partners
in Evaluation |
|
|
Session A-2: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
and Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) |
Kerstin
Arbter
|
SEA and
SIA - two participative assessment tools for sustainability |
Technical
Office for Landscape Planning and strategic environmental audits |
A |
Olga Minguez
|
Strategic
Environmental Assessment: The case of the Territorial Strategy
of Navarra (Spain)
|
ECOTEC
Research and Consulting Ltd, Madrid |
E |
Mai Oldgard
|
Expertocratic,
Consultative, Participative or Deliberate SEA ? Toward Guidelines
for Determining an Appropriate Level of Public Involvement in
SEA |
ECON, Centre
for Economic Analysis, Oslo |
NO |
Marjukka
Hiltunen
|
Strategic
Environmental Assessment of policies in Finland - Analysis of
the Climate Strategy Assessment |
Finnish
Environment Institute |
FIN |
Gerhard
Vogel
|
CHAIR |
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
Sam Bartlett
|
Rapporteur |
ECON, Centre
for Economic Analysis, Oslo |
NO |
|
Session
A-3: The National Level - Evaluating
National Sustainability Strategies |
Wolfram Tertschnig,
Elisabeth Freytag
|
Linking
Sustainability Strategies in Europe |
Federal
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management |
A |
Clive
George
|
Applications
of Sustainability Evaluation at the National and International
Strategic Policy Level |
University
of Manchester |
UK |
Reinhard Steurer
|
Evaluating
National Sustainability Strategies: Content versus process oriented
approaches |
Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
Salla Koivusalo
|
Evaluation
Review of Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development
after WSSD and evaltion's future implications |
Helsinki
University of Technology |
FIN |
Fritz Hinterberger
|
CHAIR |
SERI |
A |
Christian Gessner
|
Rapporteur |
Witten/Herdecke
University |
D |
|
| 12:30
-14:00 |
Buffet
lunch |
| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Session
B-1: Methods for Evaluating Sustainable Development |
Marc
Münster
|
Agenda
21: A game worth playing? |
IDHEAP
– Institut de Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique |
CH |
Markku
Lehtonen
|
OECD Environmental
Performance Review Programme: Accountability (f)or Learning? |
C3ED, Université
de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines |
F |
Ger
Klaassen
|
CHAIR |
International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) |
A |
Daniela
Glimm-Lükewille
|
Rapporteur |
University
of Technology Darmstadt |
D |
|
Session B-2: Evaluating Science for Sustainable Development |
Paul Weaver
|
Defining
and evaluating "sustainability science" |
University
of Durham |
UK |
Ulf Andersson
|
The power
of example - An evaluation of how examples of best practices
and success stories are used in the work for sustainability. |
Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency |
S |
Katy Whitelegg
|
Translating
sustainable development into research strategies: Identifing
aims and defining criteria |
ARC Seibersdorf
Research GmbH |
A |
Ingrid
Kaltenegger
|
How to
develop a simple self education methodology for research projects
and teams |
JOINTS
- Joanneum Research Institute of Sustainable Technologies and
Systems |
A |
Uwe Schubert
|
CHAIR |
Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
Alexander
Welzl
|
Rapporteur |
ESPRiT
Consulting GmbH |
A |
|
Session B-3: The Regional and Local Level - Evaluating
Local Agenda 21 Processes |
Naomi Luhde-Thompson
|
LASALA
online |
ICLEI Europe |
D |
Yvonne
Bergensund
|
Environmental
Programme for the City of Stockholm, Sweden, towards Sustainable
Development |
Environment
and Health Administration, City of Stockholm |
S |
Alex C.
Bauert
|
Participatory
Evaluation of Local Agenda 21 Processes |
University
of Berne |
CH |
Michaela
Egger-Steiner
|
Evaluation
of Sustainable Development – An Evaluation Tool Box |
Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
Jürg
Minsch
|
CHAIR |
University
of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
A |
Florentina
Astleither
|
Rapporteur |
Vienna
University of Technology |
A |
|
| 16:00
- 18:00 |
Session C-1: Evaluating Sustainable Rural Development |
Markus Holzer |
Evaluating
Sustainable Rural Development |
European
Commission, DG Agriculture |
B |
Erwin Schmid |
Sustainability
in practice: a case-study on the reorientation of the Common
Agricultural Policy |
Food
and Agricultural Policy Research Institute |
US |
Marja-Liisa Tapio Biström |
Evaluation
of sustainability in rural development programmes – the
concept of different kind of capital as a tool? |
Ministry
of Agriculture and Forestry |
FIN |
Pawel Bryla |
The
evaluative aspects of sustainability in rural development programmes
in Poland |
University
of Lodz |
PL |
Markus Hofreither |
CHAIR |
University
of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
A |
Sebastian Elbe |
Rapporteur |
SPRINTconsult |
D |
|
Session C-2: The Needs for Sustainability Evaluation
in the EU-Accession-Countries |
Eva
Csobod
|
Evaluation
of Sustainability in Hungary and Accession Countries |
REC
Budapest |
HU |
Tomasz
Zylicz
|
Evaluation
of Sustainability in Poland |
Warsaw
University |
PL |
György
Hajnal
|
Sustainability
Strategy or Strategic Sustainability? The case of civil service
training assistance projects for central and eastern europe. |
Hungarian
Institute of Public Administration |
HU |
Kosta
Trajkovski
|
Developing
process on National Assesment report on Sustainable Development
in the Republic of Macedonia. |
Ministry
of Environment and Physical Planning |
MK |
| Jan
Peter Sendzimir |
CHAIR |
IIASA
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
A |
| Silviu
Serban Scrieciu |
Rapporteur |
University
of Manchester |
UK |
|
Session
C-3: The Corporate Level - Evaluating the Sustainability
of Businesses |
Katrin
Ankele
|
Innovation
Impacts of the EU environmental management and auditing scheme
in Germany |
Institute
for Ecological Economy Research |
D |
Armin
Pecher
|
Examining
EMS-Evaluation Studies |
Federal
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management |
A |
Elisabeth Schylander
|
Environmental
Effects of Environmental Management Systems – Evaluation
of the evidence |
Lulea University
of Technology |
S |
Kicheol Kim
|
Stakeholder
orientation of corporate sustainability evaluation methodologies
|
University
of Lueneburg |
D |
Craig
Percival |
Macroanalysis
of the COUNTOUR EHS Benchmarking Process and the conclusions
to be drawn from a UK based study |
White Young Green
Environmental |
UK |
Michael
Narodoslawsky |
CHAIR |
University
of Technology Graz |
A |
| Eckhard
Störmer |
Rapporteur |
freelance |
D |
|
| 20:00 |
Buffet
dinner at Vine Tavern
Heuriger Fuhrgasslhuber
Neustift am Walde 68
1190 Wien
(Maps are available at the Registration Desk) |
|
| 9:00
- 10:30 |
Keynote
Speeches |
|
|
Markus
Knoflacher
|
Assessment
of Sustainability - Can it be Standardised ?
|
Austrian
Research Center Seibersdorf
|
A |
Thomas
Widmer
|
Evaluation
standards applied: Standards as means for improvement and assessment
of evaluation practice in the context of sustainable development.
|
Universität
Zürich
|
CH |
| General
Discussion |
|
| 10:30
- 12:00 |
Moderated
Partner Meetings + Poster Session + Coffee |
| 12:00
- 13:00 |
Presentation
of Workshop - Results (Part 1) |
| 13:00
- 14:00 |
Buffet
lunch |
| 14:00
- 15:00 |
Presentation
of Workshop - Results (Part 2) |
| 15:00
- 16:00 |
Concluding
Session |
|
|
Andre Martinuzzi
|
Summary
of the Conference Results |
Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
Ursula
Kopp
|
"Networking
Award" |
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
Uwe Schubert
|
Farewell |
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration |
A |
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