[gep-ed] vacancy: (Assistant/Associate) Professor International Politics (including environmental/climate affairs)

[Katja Biedenkopf]

.
  *   Your gross monthly salary is calculated according to the pay scales for 
senior academic staff. The start date is 1 October 2022.
  *   You will do most of your work at the City Campus, located in Antwerp’s 
city centre, in a dynamic and stimulating working environment.
  *   Find out more about working at the University of Antwerp here and 
discover all the other benefits.

Want to apply?

  *   You can apply for this vacancy through the University of Antwerp’s online 
job application platform up to and including Wednesday 1 December 2021 (by 
midnight Brussels time). Click on 'apply', complete the online application form 
and don’t forget to include the following documents: (1) your motivation 
letter, (2) the completed job application appendix for ZAP, (3) your academic 
CV, (4) a research plan that shows how you intend to integrate your research 
into the research group International Politics (max. 3 pages), (5) a course 
content proposal for four courses in line with your areas of expertise, and (6) 
two recommendation letters.
  *   We ask candidates to create an ORCiD or a Google Scholar account and 
mention their ID in the application.
  *   The selection committee will review all of the applications as soon as 
possible after the application deadline. As soon as a decision has been made, 
we will inform you about the selection procedure’s next steps. The selection 
interviews and sample lessons for shortlisted candidates are planned in January 
and February 2022.
  *   The selection committee consists of Prof. Dirk De Bièvre, Prof. David 
Gijbels, Prof. Tom Sauer, Prof. Jorg Kustermans, Prof. Sarah Van de Velde, Mr. 
Robin Vanderborght, Prof. Nadia Molenaers, Prof. Katja Biedenkopf, Prof. Maria 
Mälskoo.
  *   If you have any questions about the online application form, please check 
the frequently asked questions or send an email to j...@uantwerpen.be. If you 
have any questions about the job itself, please contact Prof. dr. Dirk De 
Bièvre, chair of the Department of Political Science, 
dirk.debie...@uantwerpen.be, Prof. dr. Tom Sauer, spokesperson of the research 
group IP, tom.sa...@uantwerpen.be, en Prof. dr. Jorg Kustermans, chair of 
program committee of the MA International Relations and Diplomacy, 
jorg.kusterm...@uantwerpen.be<mailto:jorg.kusterm...@uantwerpen.be>.



The University of Antwerp received the European Commission’s HR Excellence in 
Research Award for its HR policy. We are a sustainable, family-friendly 
organisation that invests in employee growth. We encourage diversity and attach 
great importance to an inclusive working environment and equal opportunities, 
regardless of gender identity, disability, race, ethnicity, age, sexual 
orientation, religion or belief. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds 
to apply.

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[gep-ed] CFA: Carbon Pricing Policy Making Through a Sectoral Lens

[Katja Biedenkopf]

Call for Abstracts

Workshop

“Carbon Pricing Policy Making Through a Sectoral Lens”

7 & 8 March 2022



In the 1990s, governments started pricing carbon – initially by adopting carbon 
taxes – in order to disincentivise the use of carbon-intensive products and 
processes. In the 2000s, a new type of carbon pricing policy started to 
diffuse: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading (ETS). Various carbon pricing 
policy designs in the form of a carbon tax, a GHG ETS or a combination of both 
have been adopted by diverse jurisdictions at the subnational, national and 
supranational level. Researchers have started investigating why and how those 
policies were adopted in some jurisdictions and sectors but not in others (for 
example Biedenkopf et al. 2017; Wettestad & Gulbrandsen 2018). Yet, a 
comparative analysis of agenda-setting, policy formulation and policy adoption 
in a broad range of jurisdictions with an explicit focus on sectoral 
differences and dynamics is still missing.



Carbon pricing policies address and are applied in different sectors. For 
example, the national Chinese ETS initially focuses on the electricity sector 
only, while the California ETS covers a wide range of sectors. Whereas some 
studies assess carbon pricing policies’ effectiveness in specific sectors, 
research on the dynamics and factors that shape their agenda-setting, policy 
formulation and policy adoption from a sectoral perspective is scarce, if not 
absent. In our workshop, we aim to take a sector-specific approach to 
understanding carbon pricing policy-making. Individual sectors require diverse 
price levels to encourage decarbonisation. They are characterised by different 
interest and stakeholder constellations. Jurisdictions’ economies depend to 
varying degrees on different sectors; and the impact on low-income households 
varies depending on the sector in which prices of carbon-intensive products and 
processes rise. These and other factors shape agenda-setting, policy 
formulation and policy adoption in multiple ways. In the workshop, we aim to 
focus on those dynamics in a comparative manner.



We will organise a workshop that specifically focuses on carbon pricing 
agenda-setting, policy formulation and policy adoption in diverse jurisdictions 
and sectors, and invite submissions of abstracts specifically on:

  *   Analysing carbon-pricing agenda-setting, policy formulation and policy 
adoption in single case studies or comparative studies
  *   Investigating specific sectoral dynamics of carbon-pricing 
agenda-setting, policy formulation and policy adoption
  *   Exploring the role of sector-specific impacts on (in)justices and the 
respective influence on carbon-pricing agenda-setting, policy formulation and 
policy adoption



We especially encourage abstract submissions focusing on under researched 
geographical regions on this topic and from various disciplinary angles.



Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to 
katja.biedenk...@kuleuven.be by 30 
November 2021.



We will notify all submitters of the result of the selection by 15 December 
2021.



The workshop will be held in a hybrid format on 7-8 March 2022. Participants 
who can travel to Leuven will be invited to participate in person, while we 
will also enable virtual participation for those who cannot travel. We have 
limited financial support for travel and accommodation expenses.



References

Biedenkopf, Katja, Patrick Müller, Peter Slominski and Jørgen Wettestad. 2017. 
Special Issue: A Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading? Experiments, 
Actors, and Diffusion. Global Environmental Politics 17(3).

Wettestad, Jørgen and Lars H. Gulbrandsen (eds.). 2018. The Evolution of Carbon 
Markets. Design and Diffusion. London: Routledge.

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[gep-ed] PhD Position on US Sustainability Politics

[Katja Biedenkopf]

PhD Position on US Sustainability Politics
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60069271

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Leuven International 
and European Studies research group search a dynamic and motivated full-time 
researcher to pursue a PhD in the context of an ambitious six-year 
interdisciplinary research programme on connectivity, contestation and 
cooperation in global governance (CONNECTIVITY). The PhD researcher will focus 
on the United States of America, including internal dynamics, external 
activities and their interaction. S/he will focus on sustainability policy and 
politics. The exact focus will be identified jointly with the supervisor, Prof. 
Dr. Katja Biedenkopf. Possible focal areas are climate justice, carbon pricing 
and the Green New Deal.

Bringing together more than fifteen scholars from a diversity of disciplinary 
backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences, CONNECTIVITY offers a timely 
assessment of how differences between prominent states’ perceptions and 
translations of international norms impact upon cooperation in the 
international system. The programme’s ultimate ambition is to generate novel 
insights into how international cooperation may be best fostered amidst the 
crisis of the current global order. CONNECTIVITY aims to deliver (i) a 
fundamental rethinking of theories that are built on the assumption of 
globally-accepted values, including a critical reflection of current 
Western-centred conceptualisations of foreign policy and international law; 
(ii) new essential knowledge on the impact of different views on international 
law and international relations; and (iii) key insights aimed at finding new 
common ground to foster international cooperation.

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies is an interdisciplinary 
research centre of excellence at the University of Leuven which conducts 
research pertaining to globalization, governance processes and multilateralism 
(www.globalgovernancestudies.eu<http://www.globalgovernancestudies.eu>). The 
Leuven International and European Studies (LINES) research group includes 
researchers who are experts on various topics including European Union foreign 
policy, EU and United States external trade policies, climate and energy policy 
in Europe, North America and Asia and the regional and multilateral dimensions 
of global governance (www.kuleuven.be/lines<http://www.kuleuven.be/lines>).

Your opportunity

  *   You pursue a PhD in political science/international relations.
  *   You develop research expertise in the area of United States and 
international sustainability policy and politics. The concrete research focus 
will be chosen in close consultation with your main supervisor.
  *   You publish research results in academic journals.
  *   You collaborate with other research centres and institutes within and 
outside KU Leuven.
  *   You share your expertise and research results within and outside KU 
Leuven.
  *   You pay attention to the valorisation of research results at the academic 
level or in society.
  *   You take initiative, together with other colleagues, in order to make 
your research unit a dynamic research environment.
  *   You are employed in a dynamic, international and growing research 
environment and contribute to its current and future research activities.

Your profile

  *   You have a Master’s degree.
  *   You have a strong and demonstrated interest in political 
science/international relations, the United States, and sustainability policy 
and politics.
  *   You have excellent analytical and writing skills.
  *   You have an inquisitive mind.
  *   You have profound expertise and experience in applying qualitative 
methods. Mastery of quantitative methods is an asset.
  *   You are able to organize your own research activities while working as 
part of a research group. You are able to handle various tasks at the same time 
while keeping strict deadlines.
  *   You enjoy working in a multicultural research project and have experience 
in collaborating in multicultural teams.
  *   You are willing to travel and conduct field research outside of Belgium.
  *   You master English in an excellent manner. Knowledge of other languages 
is an asset.
  *   You have excellent study results (you must have graduated in the top 5% 
of your class).


Our offer

We offer a full-time fixed-term contract to pursue a PhD (evaluation each year) 
starting as soon as possible in a dynamic interdisciplinary and multicultural 
research environment.

Interested?

  *   For more information, please contact Prof. Dr. Katja Biedenkopf 
(katja.biedenk...@kuleuven.be<mailto:katja.biedenk...@kuleuven.be>).
  *   Applications must be received no later than 26 October 2021 (midnight).
  *   KU Leuven implements an equal opportunity and diversity policy.

How to apply?

  *   Apply online: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60069

[gep-ed] Webinar "Can a Price on Carbon Drive Climate Action Towards Net-Zero by 2050?

[Katja Biedenkopf]

​The 
PolyCarbon<https://soc.kuleuven.be/lines/sustainable-futures-research-group/polycarbon>
 team invites you to the webinar:
CAN A PRICE ON CARBON DRIVE CLIMATE ACTION TOWARDS NET-ZERO BY 2050?
29 September 16:00-18:00 CEST


REGISTER 
HERE<https://soc.kuleuven.be/lines/sustainable-futures-research-group/polycarbon/activities-1/registration_all4climate>

Carbon pricing is high on the international climate change agenda, with 
international institutions like the World Bank and OECD promoting the spread of 
carbon pricing policies globally. But can putting a price on carbon drive 
climate action towards net-zero by 2050?
A diverse panel of academic experts and practitioners will reflect on this 
topic by discussing the potential and barriers of carbon pricing policies 
across different jurisdictions.
The event will start with a roundtable discussion featuring:

  *   Prof. Dr. Jos Delbeke, KU Leuven & European University Institute
  *   Dr. Gørild Heggelund, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
  *   Ms. Rajinder Sahota, California Air and Resource Board
  *   Mr. Marcos Castro, Partnership for Market Readiness, World Bank
  *   Prof. Dr. Johan Lilliestam, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
  *   Ms. Bianca Gichangi, Eastern African Alliance on Carbon Markets and 
Climate Finance
  *   Mr. Damien Meadows, European Commission
The webinar will include a Q followed by closing remarks from Prof. 
Dr. Katja Biedenkopf, KU Leuven.
You can find more information about the webinar 
here<https://soc.kuleuven.be/lines/sustainable-futures-research-group/polycarbon/activities-1/carbon-pricing-and-net-zero>.
This webinar is organised by the ERC-funded project Polycarbon. Visit the 
PolyCarbon-website<https://soc.kuleuven.be/lines/sustainable-futures-research-group/polycarbon>
 to learn more about our project.
The webinar is an ALL4CLIMATE-ITALY 2021<https://all4climate2021.org/> event 
and is hosted by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance 
Studies<https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs>, KU Leuven.
The 
PolyCarbon<https://soc.kuleuven.be/lines/sustainable-futures-research-group/polycarbon>
 project is funded by ERC<https://erc.europa.eu/>.

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[gep-ed] Five PhD opportunities on carbon pricing policies

[Katja Biedenkopf]

We are searching for five dynamic and motivated full-time researchers to join 
our 
team.
 The fully-funded PhD positions will be part of the ERC project PolyCarbon 
(Polycentric Carbon Pricing Governance: Cooperation, Contestation and 
Connectivity).

The PolyCarbon project aims to uncover, investigate and understand the 
underlying mechanisms and conditions for the expansion and contraction of the 
global system of carbon pricing governance. It will:

  *   chart the entire global system of carbon pricing policies,
  *   explain the causes of adoption and rejection of (ambitious) carbon 
pricing policies, and
  *   analyse the interaction among the various carbon pricing policies 
globally.

Overall, we are currently searching for five PhD researchers to join the 
PolyCarbon team. Different team members will focus on the carbon pricing 
policies of the different world regions: Africa and the Middle East, Asia, 
North America and Oceania, Latin America, and Europe. The entire team will put 
together all regional expertise and research to understand the entire 
polycentric carbon pricing system.

Please find below the individual job ads:

  *   PhD Position on Carbon Pricing Policies: Focus 
Europe
  *   PhD Position on Carbon Pricing Policies: Focus 
Asia
  *   PhD Position on Carbon Pricing Policies: Focus Africa and the Middle 
East
  *   PhD Position on Carbon Pricing Policies: Focus North America and 
Oceania
  *   PhD Position on Carbon Pricing Policies: Focus Latin 
America

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[gep-ed] PhD position: “The United States’ Internal and External Contestation of Sustainability and/or Trade Norms”

[Katja Biedenkopf]

PhD position: “The United States’ Internal and External Contestation of 
Sustainability and/or Trade Norms”
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55439983

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Leuven International 
and European Studies research group search a dynamic and motivated full-time 
researcher to pursue a PhD in the context of an ambitious six-year 
interdisciplinary research programme on connectivity, contestation and 
cooperation in global governance (CONNECTIVITY). The PhD researcher will focus 
on the United States, including internal dynamics, external activities and 
their interaction. S/he will focus on sustainability and/or trade policy and 
politics. The exact focus will be identified jointly with the supervisor, Prof 
Dr Katja Biedenkopf. Possible focal areas are climate justice, carbon pricing 
and the Green New Deal.

Bringing together more than fifteen scholars from a diversity of disciplinary 
backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences, CONNECTIVITY offers a timely 
assessment of how differences between prominent states’ perceptions and 
translations of international norms impact upon cooperation in the 
international system. The programme’s ultimate ambition is to generate novel 
insights into how international cooperation may be best fostered amidst the 
crisis of the current global order. CONNECTIVITY aims to deliver (i) a 
fundamental rethinking of theories that are built on the assumption of 
globally-accepted values, including a critical reflection of current 
Western-centred conceptualisations of foreign policy and international law; 
(ii) new essential knowledge on the impact of different views on international 
law and international relations; and (iii) key insights aimed at finding new 
common ground to foster international cooperation.

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies is an interdisciplinary 
research centre of excellence at the University of Leuven which conducts 
research pertaining to globalization, governance processes and multilateralism 
(www.globalgovernancestudies.eu<http://www.globalgovernancestudies.eu>). The 
Leuven International and European Studies (LINES) research group includes 
researchers who are experts on various topics including European Union foreign 
policy, EU and United States external trade policies, climate and energy policy 
in Europe, North America and Asia and the regional and multilateral dimensions 
of global governance (www.kuleuven.be/lines<http://www.kuleuven.be/lines>).

Responsibilities

  *   You pursue a PhD in political science/international relations.
  *   You develop research expertise in the area of United States and 
international sustainability and/or trade policy and politics. The concrete 
research focus will be chosen in close consultation with your main supervisor.
  *   You publish research results in academic journals.
  *   You collaborate with other research centres and institutes within and 
outside KU Leuven.
  *   You share your expertise and research results within and outside KU 
Leuven.
  *   You pay attention to the valorisation of research results at the academic 
level or in society.
  *   You take initiative, together with other colleagues, in order to make 
your research unit a dynamic research environment.
  *   You are employed in a dynamic, international and growing research 
environment and contribute to its current and future research activities.

Profile

  *   You have a Master’s degree.
  *   You have a strong and demonstrated interest in political 
science/international relations, the United States, and sustainability/trade 
policy and politics.
  *   You have excellent analytical and writing skills.
  *   You have an inquisitive mind.
  *   You have profound expertise and experience in applying qualitative 
methods. Mastery of quantitative methods is an asset.
  *   You are able to organize your own research activities while working as 
part of a research group. You are able to handle various tasks at the same time 
while keeping strict deadlines.
  *   You are enjoy working in a multicultural research project and have 
experience in collaborating in multicultural teams.
  *   You are willing to travel and conduct field research outside of Belgium.
  *   You master English in an excellent manner. Knowledge of other languages 
is an asset.
  *   You have excellent study results (you must have graduated in the top 5% 
of your class).

Offer
We offer a full-time fixed-term contract to pursue a PhD (evaluation each year) 
starting as soon as possible in a dynamic, interdisciplinary and multicultural 
research environment.

Interested?
Apply online. With your application please submit:

  *   A motivation letter
  *   Transcript of marks (Master’s degree)
  *   A brief research proposal in the area of “the United States’ internal and 
external contestation of sustainability and/or trade norms” (max. 5 pages)

For more information please con

[gep-ed] CfP: workshop and special issue on adapting to climate change

[Katja Biedenkopf]

Call for papers for a workshop in Leuven (Belgium) and a special issue in 
Sustainability
on ‘Adapting to Climate Change the Interplay between International and Domestic 
Institutions in the Context of Climate Finance’

More information on the special issue and theme of the workshop can be found 
here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Climate_Finance

We welcome proposals from academics, practitioners and advanced doctoral 
students. In particular, we strongly encourage submissions from developing 
countries. The submission deadline is 9 October 2019. Your proposal should 
include the following details:

  *   Full Name
  *   Organisation
  *   Position
  *   Email address
  *   Paper title (max. 160 characters)
  *   Abstract (max. 500 words)
  *   Names of any co-authors



Proposals should be send to Dr. Axel Marx: 
axel.m...@kuleuven.be



The authors of the accepted proposals will be invited to a workshop on 11 
December at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of 
Leuven where drafts of the papers will be discussed. Full papers will be 
considered for a special issue of the journal Sustainability (deadline 31 March 
2020).

Limited funding for workshop participants will be available, in particular for 
participants from developing countries. This event is part of a workshop series 
organised in the context of the KU Leuven Global Minds programme.

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[gep-ed] EXTENDED DEADLINE: workshop on "The Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: Experiments, Innovation, Actors, Drivers and Consequences"

[Katja Biedenkopf]

Call for abstracts for a fully funded workshop:

The Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: 
Experiments, Innovation, Actors, Drivers and Consequences

8-9 February 2016, Leuven

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 30 NOVEMEBR 2015

 Emissions Trading & Experimentation
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading has gained prominence since the early 
2000s. The overarching topic for this workshop is the emergence of carbon 
markets in different jurisdictions and their existing and potential linkages. 
The driving factors for adopting emissions trading systems, their different 
designs, the main actors involved and the main effects and consequences will be 
part of the workshop discussion. Establishing a market is always accompanied by 
uncertainty. Its functioning cannot be predicted with entire certainty. For 
this reason, they can be considered experiments that produce information about 
successes and failures and that may need to be adjusted in cases of 
unanticipated events. The workshop will discuss to what extent the experiment 
concept is a suitable overarching framework for research in this issue area.

This fully funded workshop will bring together about 30 scholars and 
practitioners under the flag of the COST Action INOGOV (Innovations in Climate 
Governance) to discuss carbon markets, their drivers, innovation and 
experimentation. It aims to foster better and more integrated analytical 
discussions about carbon markets and how they play into the broader debate on 
climate policy and governance innovation. We invite social scientists from all 
disciplines and welcome theoretical papers and empirical studies. The aim of 
the workshop is to produce a set of manuscripts that form a special issue or an 
edited book.

Topical themes
We invite contributions that analyse how and why different jurisdictions 
adopted GHG emissions trading systems. This includes the identification of 
factors that can explain innovative adjustment of ETS to domestic preferences 
and contexts and the evolution of ETS over time. Papers addressing the various 
formal and informal connections between different ETS and the role of public 
and private actors are very welcome. We aim to bring together different 
in-depth case studies to identify global patterns of diffusion, 
cross-fertilisation and idiosyncratism. The workshop aim at looking at the 
bigger picture of an emergent, though fragmented, global web of carbon markets. 
It strives to investigate in greater detail the different forms of 
experimentation, innovation and coordination between the different existing and 
emergent ETS.

Papers that address the following and related questions are welcome:
-   Who adopts an ETS and who doesn’t? Can we identify adoption and 
non-adoption patterns?
-   How can we conceptualise the (potential) connections between the 
different ETS?
-   What role does diffusion play? What global patterns of diffusion, 
cross-fertilisation and ideosyncratism can we identify?
-   To what extent and how does the design of systems differ?
-   What is the relationship between design and effectiveness (in 
contributing to emissions cuts)?
-   What domestic and international factors can explain innovation, 
experimentation and adjustment of emissions trading?
-   What role do actors, in particular policy entrepreneurs, play in ETS 
innovation and experimentation?
-   What is the role of organisations such as the World Bank, UNDP, UNFCCC 
and ICAP?
-   What role do networks play?
-   To what extent and how well do multilateral and bilateral organisations 
and actors coordinated in this issue area, for instance in the case of China?
-   Can the EU ETS be considered a hub and reference point for the 
development of ETS’ in other jurisdictions?
-   To what extent and how is the promotion of emissions trading integrated 
in the bilateral aid programmes and diplomacy of states such as Germany, the 
UK, and the US?
The workshop aims at condensing and integrating findings so as to generate a 
synthesis that can contribute to both academic research and policy-making.

Practicalities and submission deadlines
The workshop will be funded under the 4 year COST Action INOGOV (IS1309 
Innovations in Climate Governance: Sources, Patterns and Effects) (2014-8). 
INOGOV will cover reasonable travel costs and accommodation of all invited 
authors, subject to standard COST reimbursement and eligibility rules.

Prof Michael Grubb, University College London has confirmed his participation 
as keynote speaker.

Interested participants/authors are invited to submit a 500-word abstract by 30 
November 2015 as a first step towards full paper development. Please send your 
abstract to Katja Biedenkopf: katja.biedenk...@soc.kuleuven.be.

Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 14 December 2015. 
Contributing authors are expected to submit their paper by 25 January 2016 (at 
the latest) to be distributed to all particip

[gep-ed] Call for abstracts: The global turn to greenhouse gas emissions trading: Experiments, innovation, actors, drivers and consequences

[Katja Biedenkopf]

Call for abstracts

The global turn to greenhouse gas emissions trading: Experiments, innovation, 
actors, drivers and consequences

Deadline: 16th November 2015



Emissions Trading & Experimentation

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading has gained prominence since the early 
2000s. The overarching topic for this workshop is the emergence of carbon 
markets in different jurisdictions and their existing and potential linkages. 
The driving factors for adopting emissions trading systems, their different 
designs, the main actors involved and the main effects and consequences will be 
part of the workshop discussion. Establishing a market is always accompanied by 
uncertainty. Its functioning cannot be predicted with entire certainty. For 
this reason, they can be considered experiments that produce information about 
successes and failures and that may need to be adjusted in cases of 
unanticipated events. The workshop will discuss to what extent the experiment 
concept is a suitable overarching framework for research in this issue area.

This fully funded workshop will bring together about 30 scholars and 
practitioners under the flag of the COST Action INOGOV (Innovations in Climate 
Governance) to discuss carbon markets, their drivers, innovation and 
experimentation. It aims to foster better and more integrated analytical 
discussions about carbon markets and how they play into the broader debate on 
climate policy and governance innovation. We invite social scientists from all 
disciplines and welcome theoretical papers and empirical studies. The aim of 
the workshop is to produce a set of manuscripts that form a special issue or an 
edited book.

Topical themes

We invite contributions that analyse how and why different jurisdictions 
adopted GHG emissions trading systems. This includes the identification of 
factors that can explain innovative adjustment of ETS to domestic preferences 
and contexts and the evolution of ETS over time. Papers addressing the various 
formal and informal connections between different ETS and the role of public 
and private actors are very welcome. We aim to bring together different 
in-depth case studies to identify global patterns of diffusion, 
cross-fertilisation and idiosyncratism. The workshop aim at looking at the 
bigger picture of an emergent, though fragmented, global web of carbon markets. 
It strives to investigate in greater detail the different forms of 
experimentation, innovation and coordination between the different existing and 
emergent ETS.

Papers that address the following and related questions are welcome:

Who adopts an ETS and who doesn’t? Can we identify adoption and non-adoption 
patterns?
How can we conceptualise the (potential) connections between the different ETS?
What role does diffusion play? What global patterns of diffusion, 
cross-fertilisation and ideosyncratism can we identify?
To what extent and how does the design of systems differ?
What is the relationship between design and effectiveness (in contributing to 
emissions cuts)?
What domestic and international factors can explain innovation, experimentation 
and adjustment of emissions trading?
What role do actors, in particular policy entrepreneurs, play in ETS innovation 
and experimentation?
What is the role of organisations such as the World Bank, UNDP, UNFCCC and ICAP?
What role do networks play?
To what extent and how well do multilateral and bilateral organisations and 
actors coordinated in this issue area, for instance in the case of China?
Can the EU ETS be considered a hub and reference point for the development of 
ETS’ in other jurisdictions?
To what extent and how is the promotion of emissions trading integrated in the 
bilateral aid programmes and diplomacy of states such as Germany, the UK, and 
the US?
The workshop aims at condensing and integrating findings so as to generate a 
synthesis that can contribute to both academic research and policy-making.



Practicalities and submission deadlines

The workshop will be funded under the 4 year COST Action INOGOV (IS1309 
Innovations in Climate Governance: Sources, Patterns and Effects) (2014-8). 
INOGOV will cover reasonable travel costs and accommodation of all invited 
authors, subject to standard COST reimbursement and eligibility rules.

Prof Michael Grubb, University College London has confirmed his participation 
as keynote speaker.

Interested participants/authors are invited to submit a 500-word abstract by 16 
November 2015 as a first step towards full paper development. Please send your 
abstract to Katja Biedenkopf: katja.biedenk...@soc.kuleuven.be.

Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 30 November 2015. 
Contributing authors are expected to submit their paper by 25 January 2016 (at 
the latest) to be distributed to all participants before the workshop. The 
drafts will intensively be debated at the workshop, which will take place on 
8-9 February 2016.

Authors with specific quest

[gep-ed] Vacancy University of Leuven

[Katja Biedenkopf]

Dear all,

The University of Leuven in Belgium is hiring a new (Assistant) Professor. 
Please find the full vacancy on this website: 
https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/53198704

Although this is not an exclusively environmental position, candidates with 
research experience in sustainable development are encouraged to apply.

Reflexivity and Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences


The Faculty of Social Sciences of the KU Leuven invites applications for a 
full-time tenured position within the Professorial Academic Staff in the area 
of reflexivity and qualitative research methods in the social sciences. The 
successful candidate can provide evidence of empirical research experience in 
this area, by preference with a focus on gender, social inequalities and/or 
sustainable development.

Research
The successful candidate is expected to teach, conduct research, and provide a 
scientific contribution to society. He/she will conduct research on reflexivity 
and qualitative research methods in the social sciences.  In his/her research, 
the successful candidate approaches qualitative research methods in the social 
sciences from a critical theoretical perspective with specific attention for 
contemporary theoretical developments that problematize the epistemological and 
ontological assumptions that undergird existing social science research. The 
successful candidate links this perspective to his/her own empirical research 
experience, preferably in one or more of the following topics: gender, social 
inequalities and/or sustainable development. Interdisciplinary or 
transdisciplinary research experience is considered to be a particular asset 
here.

The successful candidate develops a research program in which he/she actively 
seeks to acquire competitive research funding. He/she does so on the basis of 
his/her substantive research experience, preferably with respect to gender, 
social inequalities, and/or sustainable development. He/she is also expected to 
actively seek to connect his/her own research with relevant existing 
international research networks. Research will be conducted within the  
research unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences to which the substantive 
research experiences of the successful candidate is best aligned. The 
successful candidate is required to put its methodological experience at the 
service of the further development of the qualitative methodological expertise 
of the Faculty of Social Sciences as a whole, particularly, but not 
exclusively, through the Faculty's PhD School.

Teaching

The successful candidate will teach about reflexivity and qualitative research 
methods in the social sciences.

Just like in the case of research, he/she approaches qualitative research 
methods in the social sciences from a critical theoretical perspective with 
specific attention for contemporary theoretical developments that problematize 
the epistemological and ontological assumptions that undergird existing social 
science research. The successful candidate links this perspective to his/her 
own empirical research experience, preferably in one or more of the following 
topics: gender, social inequalities and/or sustainable development. 
Interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research experience is considered to be 
a particular asset here. The objective is to help students in the development 
of their theoretical and methodological self-awareness.

Apart from teaching on reflexivity and qualitative research methods in the 
social sciences additional teaching obligations will be attributed depending on 
the substantive empirical research experience of the successful candidate. 
He/she will also supervise dissertations.

Requirements

The successful candidate is holder of a PhD in social sciences, a PhD in social 
and cultural anthropology, or an equivalent. He/she has expertise in the area 
of reflexivity and qualitative research methods in the social sciences, 
preferably with a focus on gender, social inequalities, and/or sustainable 
development.

He/she has a proven ability to raise and manage competitive research funding, 
and to provide a scientific contribution to society.

He/she is active in international academic networks and has a proven track 
record of excellent and internationally recognized research, as evidenced by an 
extensive record of recent scientific publications in national and 
international peer reviewed journals and books.

He/she possesses good didactic, communicative, and organizational skills and is 
a capable team worker.

He/she has an extensive (inter)national network of academic contacts in his/her 
field of research.

The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not 
speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven 
will provide language training to enable you to take part in meetings.  Before 
teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to 

[gep-ed] Call for Abstracts, Workshop: EU External Environmental Governance Beyond its Neighbourhood

[Katja Biedenkopf]

Call for Abstracts

for a workshop on

 

EU External Environmental Governance Beyond its Neighbourhood

 

19  20 April 2013

Berlin

 

This workshop adopts a wide angle on a broad variety of different external 
governance efforts in which the EU engages, including international 
negotiations, policy promotion and the use of market power. It strives to 
analyse the effectiveness of different EU external environmental governance 
efforts, to identify different patterns EU external environmental governance 
and to explore the conditions in non-EU countries and internationally that 
enable or impede effective EU external governance.

 

The slow progress of international climate negotiations and the ‘failed’ 
leadership of the European Union at the Copenhagen conference of the parties to 
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change attracted significant scholarly 
attention. Finding consensus on a suitable post-Kyoto Protocol agreement poses 
major challenges. The difficulties with the ‘traditional’ multilateral way of 
governing global environmental problems through treaties gave rise to a search 
for solutions that complement and support these efforts. The EU has set 
ambitious domestic climate targets and strives for similar commitments of other 
major polluters. In other environmental policy areas such as chemicals policy, 
the EU also leads by adopting and promoting ambitious regulation. Apart from 
multilateral negotiations, the EU’s toolbox comprises bilateral agreements, 
cooperation efforts with non-EU jurisdictions at different levels of 
governance, coercion and incentives, and external effects of EU pioneering 
policy through learning, competition and emulation.

 

Studies show that the further remote from the EU’s neighbourhood a jurisdiction 
is located, the more important become domestic conditions in non-EU countries 
because the EU’s leverage diminishes. The workshop stresses this aspect and 
strives to investigate the interplay between non-EU domestic factors and the 
EU’s external governance activities. EU scholars recently have paid increasing 
attention to the external effects of EU policies and institutions on countries 
beyond the EU’s neighbourhood. They propose conceptualisations of EU external 
governance and Europeanisation beyond Europe. This workshop aims at 
contributing to this emerging field by focusing on the area of environmental 
policy.

 

We invite paper proposals that cover, in particular, the following aspects and 
questions. Ideally, papers will cover a number of these elements. Both 
individual case studies and comparative studies are invited.

 

- Different EU activities and mechanisms: What kind of external governance 
tools and activities (international negotiations, policy promotion, capacity 
building, conditionality etc.) does the EU engage in with what result? 
Conditionality figures highly in the EU’s neighbourhood and accession policy. 
However, it becomes less salient in EU external governance beyond its 
neighbourhood. What mechanisms prevail in external environmental governance?

 

- Different domestic factors in third countries: The success of EU external 
governance efforts depends on certain scope conditions. Which domestic factors 
foster the effectiveness of or constitute a barrier to EU external 
environmental governance?

 

- Different levels of governance: Not only nation states, also subnational 
entities and international organisations can be subject to external effects of 
EU environmental policy. How can we characterise the EU’s external 
environmental governance in a multilevel context?

 

- Different regions and countries: How can we characterise EU external 
environmental governance in different countries and regions of the world? Are 
there differences with regard to the EU’s approach and its effectiveness?

 

- Different institutional embeddedness: To what extent is a non-EU jurisdiction 
embedded in regional networks that are not directed towards Europe (Asia, Latin 
America, Africa etc.)

 

- Different policy subfields: How can we characterise EU external governance in 
different areas of environmental policy? Are there differences between policy 
types (for example product- vs. process-related) and policy areas (for example 
climate change vs. biodiversity)?

 

Interested authors are invited to send an abstract (max. 500 words) to Katja 
Biedenkopf (k.biedenk...@uva.nl) and Diarmuid Torney (diarmuidtor...@gmail.com) 
by 31 December 2012. Invited paper givers will be asked to submit their final 
paper by 5 April 2012.

 

The workshop is funded by the Kolleg Forschergruppe (KFG) The Transformative 
Power of Europe of the Freie Universität Berlin. Accommodation and travel 
expenses will be covered for invited paper givers.