Space is Limited - RSVP required to: Muriel Rouyer (Muriel_Rouyer@hks.harvard.edu) AND Jessica McClanahan (Jessica_McClanahan@hks.harvard.edu)
While sustainable development becomes an urging concern of fast developing and urbanizing areas in the world, European cities offer a balanced model of development encouraged by the European Union with its policy award “Green Capitals of Europe”. This model of urban planning and multilevel governance redefines democracy at the local and transnational levels. European and national policy experts, urban and democratic theorists of Europe and America present and debate the innovative ways of Europe towards sustainability.
PROGRAM:
9:00-10:45 : Green Cities of Europe. The Urban Way to Sustainability
- Florent Lardic, Sustainable Development Special Advisor, Nantes, Green Capital of Europe 2013
- Richard Forman, PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
- Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
- Discussant: Quinton Mayne, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 : Democracy Redefined: Europe and Nature
- James Bohman, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies, University of Saint-Louis
- Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, HKS
- Pepper Culpepper, Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-16:00: Sustainable Policies and Multilevel Governance in Europe
- Christian Burgsmueller, Counselor - Head of the Energy, Transport and Environment Section, European External Action Service, Washington DC
- Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe; Professor of International Relations and Political Science
- Discussant: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, HKS
