PROGRAMME (FINAL)
12 April 2012
9:00 – 9:30 - Registration
9:45 – 10:00 - Opening session
10:00 – 12:30
PANEL 1 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (I)
Chair: Jan Bucek (Comenius University, Slovakia)
Discussant: Zoltán Hajdú (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Pawel Swianiewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Economic downturn and fiscal stress of local governments in Poland: a real problem or storm in a tea-cup?
Mihály Lados (Institute of Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Science West Hungarian Department, Hungary) - Global financial crisis – local response on public debt: the case of Hungary and comparison of CEE countries.
Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell & John McDonagh (National University of Ireland, Ireland) - Government and local governance arrangements to support sustainable rural and regional development in a globalizing era.
Marta Lackowska-Madurowicz (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Polish cities face the EU money – urban financial rescaling or game played by national and regional rules.
PANEL 2 – CITIZEN E-PARTICIPATION IN URBAN GOVERNANCE (I)
Chair: Stefan Höffken (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Discussant: Rassem Khamasi (University of Haifa, Israel)
Sylvie Occelli (Instituto de Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy) - Designing socio technical systems for policy activity: some evidence from the Piedmont Region.
Michał Czepkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) - A framework for incorporating Web-based Public Participation GIS into Polish spatial planning practice.
Andrea D’Urso & Fabio Famoso (University of Catania, Italy) - A proposal project of public spaces regeneration in Catania through a Web based PPGIS.
Kevin C. Desouza & Akshay Bhagwatwar (Virgina Tech & Indiana University, USA) -Citizen Apps and Urban Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Apps and their Impacts.
Titiana-Petra Moldovan (University of Turku, Finland) - New Participatory Design for Urban Planning
LUNCH
12 APRIL, 14:00 – 16:00
PANEL 3 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (II)
Chair: Hans Thor Andersen (Danish Building Research Institute, Denmark)
Discussant: Mihály Lados (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)
Boris Bakota (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia) - Possible changes to current administrative structure of the republic of Croatia.
Bahdan Sarazhynski (University od Deusto, Spain) - Local governance in Belarus: problems and perspectives
Ciprian Alupului (University of Iasi, Romania) - Territorial governance in time of crisis: the emergence of partnerships at local level in Romania.
PANEL 4 – CITIZEN E-PARTICIPATION IN URBAN GOVERNANCE (II)
Chair: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Discussants: Sylvie Occelli (Instituto de Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy)
Rassem Khamasi (University of Haifa, Israel)
Harald Baldersheim (University of Oslo, Norway) - Internet voting in local elections – the experiences of Norway 2011.
Stefan Höffken & Bernd Streich (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Collaborative monitoring of derelict land – mobile devices for a participative data management.
Jüri Kõre (Institute of Sociology and Social Policy University of Tartu, Estonia) - Using of Internet-based info channels and e-services by disabled people. The improvement of the system of services in conditions of economic crisis.
Arturo di Bella (University of Catania, Italy)- Digital Citizenry in Italian Southern City.
12 APRIL , 16:30 – 18:30
PANEL 5 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (III)
Chair: Pawel Swianiewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Discussant: Bríd Quinn (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Ján Buček & Andrej Sopkuliak (Comenius University, Slovakia) - Local self-government finance in Slovakia under the pressure of economic and debt crisis in 2008-2011: Strategies, measures and consequences.
António Manuel Figueiredo (University of Porto, Portugal) - The double crisis of Portuguese economy and the “tongs effect” on local governance.
Hans Thor Andersen (Danish Building Research Institute, Denmark) - Local strategic politics.
Reijer P. Hendrikse (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Commonalities & Differences in the Financialization of Local Government in Europe: Observations from ‘Golden City’ Pforzheim (Germany) and ‘Rebel City’ Cork (Ireland).
12 APRIL, 18:30 – 19:30 – IGU Commission on Geography of Governance Meeting
13 APRIL 2012
13 APRIL, 9:00 – 10:30
PANEL 6 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (IV)
Chair: Renato Lima de Oliveira (MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Discussant: Hans Thor Andersen (Danish Building Research Institute, Denmark)
Rassem Khamasi (University of Haifa, Israel) - Controlling and Management of Urban Sprawl lead a formation of Distorted Urbanized Region: Jerusalem area.
Marco Santangelo & Francesca Governa (University of Turin, Italy) - From tea parties to inner circles. How government and governance have shaped Torino in the past twenty years.
Teresa Marat-Mendes (ISCTE, Portugal)- From Local Governance to a Global Sustainable Common Future.
Thorsten Heimann & Nicole Mahlkow (IRS- Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Germany) - The social construction of new challenges in local governance: Climate Change.
Anastasia Rokashevich & Alexandra Tarasenko (Academy of Public Administration, Russia) - The impact of the Economic and Financial Crisis on Local Governance.
PANEL 7 – CITIZEN E-PARTICIPATION IN URBAN GOVERNANCE (III)
Chair: Lukasz Damurski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Discussants: Arturo di Bella (University of Catania, Italy)
M. Kemal Oktem (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
Giovanni Allegretti , Francisco Freitas & Nélson Dias (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Bridging the gap: improving local governance with participatory budgeting and e-Participation.
Lukasz Damurski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) - E-participation in planning: can the East of Europe catch up with the West?
Kamil Demirham, M. Kemal Oktem & Haydar Demirhan (Hacettepe University, Turkey) - E-participation in Turkey: a case study of higher education students.
Ramon Marrades Sempere (Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrolo Local, Spain) - Professionalization, public efficiency and participatory urban decision‐making.
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
13 APRIL, 11:00 – 13:00
PANEL 8 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (V)
Chair: Teresa Marat-Mendes (ISCTE, Portugal)
Hellmut Wollmann (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) – Public Services Provision in European Countries from Public/Municipal to Private Sector – and back to municipal?
Joyce Valdovinos (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3, France) - The building blocks of local water governance: the economic crisis and the evolution of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the U.S. water market.
Bríd Quinn (University of Limerick, Ireland) - Adjusting to austerity or generating growth? Local government reform in times of crisis.
Anja Brauckmann (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Germany) - Regional Effects of Urban Development Projects – a fiscal approach
Renato Lima de Oliveira (MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - Do oil windfalls affect government transparency? Evidence from Brazil
LUNCH
13 APRIL, 14:00 – 16:00
PANEL 9 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (VI)
Chair: Harald Baldersheim (University of Oslo, Norway)
Discussants: Marie Mahon (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Boris Bakota (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia)
Ilona Pálné Kovács (Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) - The ever weakness of the meso in Hungary: reform capacity as a problem.
Zoltán Hajdú (Centre for Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) - The Redistribution of Local and Regional Administrative Competences in the post-2010 Hungarian Public Administration Reform Efforts.
Elson Pires & Lucas Labigalini Fuini (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brasil) - The new modalities of territorial governance in Brazil.
Blanka Markova & Iva Tichá (University of Ostrava, Czeck Republic) - The Impact of Economic Crisis on the Social Policy of the Ostrava City.
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
13 APRIL, 16:30 – 18:30
PANEL 10 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (VI)
Chair: Hellmut Wollmann (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Discussant: Marta Lackowska-Madurowicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Milan Bufon (University of Primorska, Slovenia) - The role of local governance in strengthening cross-border cooperation.
Ryan Gibson & Kelly Vodden (Department of Geography, Memorial University, St John’s, Canada) - Governance, Regionalization, and Inter-Municipal Collaboration: Canadian Experiences in Peripheral Regions of Newfoundland.
Stephanie Steels (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) - Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and citizen-authority engagement: applying developing world solutions to Europe
Mario Reimer & Karsten Rusche (ILS-Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Germany) - Strategic Region Building in Times of Financial Crisis: Opportunities and Threats
Lauren Bulka (Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA) - Impacts of Inter-Municipality Cooperation on Small City Regeneration. Case Study: Clarksburg, West Virginia
Álvaro Román, Jonathan R. Barton & Alejandro Salazar (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) - Political spaces of fragmented spaces: power asymmetries and divergent narratives in glocal industries in Chile.
18:30 – Closing session