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Completed research programs

Research Unit: Civil Society and Transnational Networks





Research Projects


The research unit was closed on 30th. September 2005
 
IPR - Intellectual Property Rights - Conflict Dynamics and Conflict Regulation in the Regime of Intellectual Property (Continuation of the Project "The Emergence of a Transitional Civil Society")
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Organisation and implementation of stakeholder-Dialogs in Co operation with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) on issues of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology
Funding: Grundprojekt "The Emergence of a Transitional Civil Society" WBCSD / WZB, since 01.04.2003 own resources of the WZB
Scientists: >Wolfgang van den Daele, > Rainer Döbert , >Achim Seiler (until 2004)
Duration: 01.04.2001 - 30.09.2004
Online-Mediation
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The Internet has proven to be an efficient medium for national and transnational mobilization of people and resources for conflict. Can it also be used just as effectively to manage conflict? This question is addressed in the project on Internet-aided mediation processes. An accompanying study of an Internet-aided mediation process is planned as well.
In cooperation with the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems Technology) and "Autonome intelligente Systeme" (St. Augustin) as well as other Scientists (AG-Online)
Funding: WZB
Scientists: > Hans-Joachim Fietkau, > Matthias Trénel
Duration: since 2000
Facilitating Deliberation Online, Dissertation
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Study of the potential of the Internet for the idea of deliberative democracy
Funding: Hans Böckler Stiftung
Scientist: > Matthias Trénel
Duration: 01.04.2001 - 31.10.2005
Governing Climate Change in the UK and Germany: Local Governments and Transnational Networks
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This research project will compare how transnational networks affect the capacity of local governments to address climate change in Germany and the UK.
In cooperation wit the University of Durham
Funding: Anglo-German-Foundation
Scientists: > Kristine Kern, Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham,
Duration: 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2004
Governing a Common Sea (GOVCOM) ? Changing Modes of Governance in the Baltic Sea Region (Verbundprojekt)
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Research on new modes of governance in the Baltic Sea Region
in Co operation with the Abo Akademi University , the University Tampere, the Finish Environment Institute and the  University Greifswald,
Funding: Academy of Finland
Scientists: > Kristine Kern
Duration: 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2005
Transnational City Networks in Europe
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Research on "glocal" Governance through transnational city-networks
Funding: WZB
Scientists: >Kristine Kern, >Stefan Niederhafner
Duration: 2001 - 30.09.2005
Transnational City Networks New Actors in the Institutional Arrangement of the EU
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Dissertation
Research on integration of transnational city networks in the Institutional Arrangement of the EU
Funding: Hans Böckler Stiftung
Scientist: > Stefan Niederhafner
Duration: 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2005
Environmental cooperation - civil society strategies of problem solution in sustainable development policies
Study of achievements and limits of civil society arrangements (stakeholder procedure) in the area of environmental and sustainable development policy,
Funding: WZB
Scientist: > Helmut Weidner
Duration: since 2004
(The project as moved to the research unit >TKI on 01.09.2005)
ICZM - Integrated Coastal Zone Management: Spatial Planning Strategies for
the Coast and the Sea
An assessment of integrated coastal zone management in Europe: Problems of spatial planning at the intersection of land and sea.
Project partners: Institute of Geography, Kiel University, Research and Technology Centre West Coast, Kiel University
Funding: The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning and the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing.
Scientists: > Bernhard Glaeser, Kira Gee
Duration: 01.03.2003 - 31.10.2004
         
         
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  Environmental cooperation/sustainable development cooperation & equity
Study of forms of cooperation between enterprises and other groups (Local Agenda 21) in the area of sustainable development under justice aspects.
Funding: The Tamaki Foundation
Scientist: > Helmut Weidner
Duration: 01.06.2002 - 31.12.2003
   
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 Die Aufschlüsselung von moralischen Konflikten im Umweltbereich: Grade der Normativierung von Natur
     
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