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Governance for Sustainable Development

with Professor Pieter Glasbergen
Utrecht University and Open University, The Netherlands
In this forum, Professor Pieter Glasbergen will address the thesis that to bring about sustainable development, we need new cooperative arrangements between the state, markets and civil societies.

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Biography

Professor Pieter Glasbergen is Professor of Environmental Studies - Policy and Management at two Dutch universities: Utrecht University and the Open University in Heerlen. He specializes in planning and policy issues, particularly with reference to environmental policy, physical planning, water management, and policy for landscape and nature conservation. The articles, reports and books that he has published include both theoretical studies on policy and applied policy evaluation research in the areas mentioned above.
Professor Glasbergen works as an advisor and consultant on strategic research questions for various government bodies. Recent projects have included:
  • the Directorate General of Public Works and Water Management (on integrated water management, project management for big waters, strategic groundwater management, integrated coastal zone management);
  • the Directorate General of Environmental Management (on regional environmental policy, environmental mediation, energy saving in the built environment);
  • the National Physical Planning Agency (on nature and landscape policy);
  • the Dutch Environmental and Nature Planning Bureau (on environmental policy instruments; 
  • the Ministry of Economic Affairs (on Long Term Agreements on Energy Efficiency);
  • the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Nature Conservation (on the protection of nature reserves in the Netherlands);
  • several Dutch provinces (on integrated landuse planning and water management);
  • the Flemish government (on the development of a vision on integrated and sustainable water management).
Professor Glasbergen is a member of various advisory boards, and he chaired the Section of Environmental Policy in the Netherlands Institute for Physical Planning and Housing. He is a member of the board of the Union of Dutch Environmental Scientists. He also was a member of a committee who wrote the perspectives for water managment in the next century (Union of Waterboards). He is one of the editors of Environmental Sciences. Current memberships include the Board of:
  • the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation;
  • the Utrecht Center for Energy Research;
  • the Center for Environmental Law and Policy;
  • the Dutch Inter-university Committee Environmental Sciences
Download Professor Glasbergen's notes (MS Word 140 KB)

Download Professor Glasbergen's presentation (Powerpoint 1 MB)

Respondent

Dr Robyn Eckersley
Robyn Eckersley has specialised in environmental politics and political theory since 1986, having worked previously as a public lawyer (mainly in the field of constitutional law). She was educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, and taught environmental politics and political theory at Monash University from 1992-2001 before joining the Department.

Robyn's research interests include global politics, environmental politics and political theory (particularly theories of justice and democracy). She is on the editorial boards of Environmental Politics; Global Chnage, Peace & Security; Global Environmental Politics; New Political Economy; Organisation and Environment; and Philosophy and Geography.
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