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A conference sponsored by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
Monona Terrace,
Madison, Wisconsin
Monday, January 31, 2005
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- Linda Bochert
- Linda Bochert is a partner in Michael, Best and Friedrich’s Land and Resources Practice Group. She joined the law firm in 1991, after 17 years with the Wisconsin departments of Natural Resources and Justice. Her practice includes wastewater permitting, storm-water management, air permitting, wetlands regulation, navigable waters and public trust doctrine issues, conservation easements, and large facility, landfill, pipeline and power plant siting. In 2003 she was listed in Corporate Counsel’s Best Lawyers for Environmental Law. She served on the Green Tier drafting committee.
- Tom Burke
- Tom Burke is a co-founder of Third Generation Environmentalism. The London organization emphasizes the use of communication technology to help environmentalists to work together better across the institutional and political boundaries. Burke is an honorary professor of law with University College in London, and is a visiting professor at Imperial College. He serves on the London Sustainable Development Commission, and as a member of council with English Nature, the government agency responsible for biodiversity. Burke has worked with government, non-governmental organizations and business as an advisor to secretaries of state for the environment and as director of the Friends of the Earth in the United Kingdom.
- Cary Coglianese
- An
associate professor of public policy, Cary Coglianese is chair
of the Regulatory Policy Program at the Center for Business and
Government at Harvard University. In spring 2005, he is a
visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. He
studies how institutional procedures for judicial review,
regulatory analysis and public participation affect the
activities of government agencies. Recently, he has also focused
on environmental management systems and the relationship between
the private and public sectors in achieving environmental policy
goals.
Related paper: Management-Based Strategies for Improving the Private Sector's Environmental Performance by Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash - Mike Gromacki
- A chemical engineer, Mike Gromacki is director of quality / safety / environment for Cook Composites and Polymers, which manufactures resins for composites and coating applications. The company is a Green Tier pilot project. While completing his engineering studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he interned with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources hazardous waste minimization program. His primary professional experience relates to hazardous waste management and minimization, process safety management, and environmental, safety and quality management systems.
- Neil Gunningham
- Initially trained in law, professor Neil Gunningham now specializes in environmental regulation, management and
policy. Before Regulatory Institutions Network and School of
Resources Environment and Society at the Australian National University in 2002, he was foundation director of the Australian Centre for
Environmental Law (also at the ANU) and visiting scholar at the
University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of
Economics. He is a recent consultant to the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Nations
Environment Program and various environmental regulatory
agencies in Australia.
Conference paper: Reconfiguring Environmental Regulation: The Future Public Policy Agenda, by Neil Gunningham presented at Environmental Law in a Connected World, Jan. 31, 2005. Presentation slides. - Scott Hassett
- Gov. Jim Doyle appointed Madison attorney and outdoor enthusiast Scott Hassett as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in 2003. Hassett came to the DNR from Lawton & Cates, S.C., where he handled civil, criminal, employment and environmental litigation cases on a statewide basis for 22 years. Hassett has served as chair and a member of the Board of Directors of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin.
- Steve Hiniker
- Involved with 1,000 Friends of Wisconsin since its inception as a founding board member, Steve Hiniker joined the staff as executive director in 2003. Before then, he was executive director of the Wisconsin Citizens Utility Board, a non-profit organization that represents the interests of residential utility customers. As environmental policy coordinator for the city of Milwaukee, he developed and successfully lobbied for environmental liability reform legislation ("brownfields legislation") and developed pro-transit transportation funding plans.
- Chris Howes
- Chris Howes is acting head of modern regulation at
the Environment
Agency, the main
environmental regulator in England and Wales. He oversees the
agency's policies on permitting and inspection for air, land and
water regulation, and integrated pollution prevention and
control. His team is leading a program to streamline regulatory
processes and reduce the administrative burden of regulation. He
has worked as a process industry and radioactive substances site
inspector and as a safety and environmental management systems
assessor.
Presentation slides: Degrees of Risk -- Regulation in the 21st Century, by Chris Howes, presented at Environmental Law in a Connected World conference, Jan. 31, 2005. - Bradley Karkkainen
- Law professor Bradley Karkkainen is a nationally recognized authority in environmental and natural resources law. His research centers on innovative strategies for environmental regulation and natural resources management, with an emphasis on mechanisms that promote continuous adaptive learning, flexibility, transparency and policy integration. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in 2004, Karkkainen held a visiting appointment at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002-03, and was with the Columbia Law School in New York City from 1995 to 2003.
- Rob Kramers
- Rob Kramers is a senior advisor with InfoMil,
the national information center for environmental licensing and
enforcement in the Netherlands. He is an expert in the European
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive, and he
assists the ministry with the development new and alternative
approaches in regulating industrial installations. As
coordinator of international projects, Kramers assists InfoMil
as it helps European Union state implement legislation. He
earlier worked as a government inspector and regulator.
Faster Permitting or Greener Thinking. Presentation slides related to Kramers' talk (not shown at conference). - David Laws
- David Laws is a director of the Environmental Technology and Public Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His research focuses on the comparative study of regulatory and planning institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
- Klaus Mittelbach
- Klaus Mittelbach, Ph.D., is director of environmental policy for the Federation of German Industries, an organization for 36 industrial sector associations and groups. Mittelbach oversees environmental protection, occupational health and safety, consumer and climate change policy, and sustainable development. He works with Econosense, which promotes sustainable development for Germany’s economy. He is chair of the supervisory board of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme in Germany. Mittelbach earlier worked in the printed circuit boards industry and in environmental policy with the Association of the German Chemical Industry.
- Emilia Müller
- Emilia Müller has been state secretary in the Bavaria State Ministry of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection since 2003. A member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2003 and a member of its Environment Committee, she was town councilor in Bruck, Upper Palatinate, from 1990 to 2004. Since 1996, she has served as district councilor in Schwandorf County. She is a certified chemical technologist, and has worked at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Genetics at Munich and the University of Regensburg, Institute of Physiology.
- Dan Roczniak
- As director of implementation and performance issues for the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® Team, Dan Roczniak coordinates the management systems certification process in which all council members and partners must conduct third-party audits. He manages ACC’s Responsible Care mutual assistance network, which facilitates the sharing of information on health, safety, environment, security and other performance issues to promote continuous improvement. Roczniak also participates in ACC’s work with chemical trade associations overseas to promote Responsible Care’s growth.
- Bob Stephens
- Bob Stephens is president of the
Multi-State Working Group
on Environmental Performance, a U.S. coalition of government,
business and non-governmental organization working on
environment and sustainable development policies. Stephens also
is a consultant to the United Nations Environment Program’s
Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics, and secretariat
to the Best Practice Network for Sustainable Development. After
30 years of service, Stephens retired in 2004 from California’s
environmental protection agency as the assistant secretary for
environmental management and sustainability.
Sustainability. Presentation slides by Bob Stephens shown at Environmental Law in a Connected World conference, Jan. 31, 2005. - Jurgen van der Heijden
- Jurgen van der Heijden is with the Centre for Environmental Law
and Law of Spatial Development at the University of Amsterdam.
He is affiliated with the Ius Commune Research School, the
Amsterdam School for Social Research, and the Massachusetts
Institute for Technology's
Department for Urban Studies and Planning. As coordinator of legal research
for Habiforum, the Dutch Centre for Multiple Space Use, he works
with a group that is examining with proactive involvement in the
development of large spatial projects. His research has looked
at the role of the law in governance, including public-private
partnerships.
Beyond Compliance, Beyond Covenants: Comparing Dutch Legal Practice with Wisconsin's Green Tier, van der Heijden's paper presented at Environmental Law in a Connected World conference, Jan. 31, 2005. Presentation slides. - Graham Wilson
- A professor of political science and public affairs, Graham Wilson compares public policies with a focus on advanced democracies, the relationship between business and government, and policies areas that include agriculture, occupational safety and the environment. He has published extensively on interest groups in the United States and advanced democracies generally. His current project compares countries’ efforts to develop alternatives to traditional environmental regulation. He has served as consultant to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
- Hongjun Zhang
- Hongjun Zhang, Ph.D., is an expert in Chinese environmental law
and policy. As a director in the Legislative Office of China’s
National People's Congress for drafting and implementing
environmental laws, he focused on water, air, waste, noise and
land use. Now senior counsel with the law firm Holland & Knight LLP,
Zhang counsels clients in the chemical, electronics, consumer
products, agricultural, energy, paper, real estate and food
industries on environmental, investment, trade and joint venture
matters. Zhang has authored more than 40 articles and book
chapters on environmental law and policy.
China's Emerging Environmental Law in the Global Perspectives: Where We Are Now: The State of Play in Regulatory Innovation Internationally. Presentation slides by Hongjun Zhang shown at Environmental Law in a Connected World conference, Jan. 31, 2005.
Sponsored by the
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Information and registration: shelton@lafollette.wisc.edu.