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May 15, 2003
9:00 - 10:00 Registration, Coffee
   
10:00 - 10:45 Welcome Adresses    
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
10:45 - 12:30 Topic    
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    
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
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee    
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)

 

May 16, 2003
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
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee    
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)

 

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
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
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)

 

May 17, 2003
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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