- Date
- Tuesday 17 Sep 2019, 08:30 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Location
Gent University: Campus Aula, Universiteitstraat 4-6, 9000 Gent, Belgium
This seminar focuses on the topic of environmental crime and power. It intends to cover power from different angles such as the power of state agencies in regulating but also facilitating environmental crime, the role of (multinational) corporations in causing and preventing environmental crime, the connection between environmental and organized crime, but also the involvement of non-governmental organizations in preventing and controlling environmental crime.
The workshop is free of charge but registration is required, see below.
Lunch and refreshments are included.
Registration
Timing | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
8.30-9.00 | Registration & morning coffee/tea | ||
9.00-9.30 | Kick-off: What is power? | Tanya Wyatt | Northumbria University (UK) |
9.30-10.30 | Keynote 1 – Staying in Power: Environmental Crime and Authoritarian Rule | Christoph Stefes | University of Colorado Denver (US) |
10.30-10.45 | Coffee/tea break | ||
10.45-12 | Roundtable 1 – How civil society actors experience interaction with the powerful | ||
Moderator: Jenny Maher | Lydia de Leeuw | SOMO Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (Nthls) | |
Jasper Teulings | Head of legal office, Greenpeace International (INT) | ||
Iwona Mertin | Programme Leader Companion Animals, Eurogroup (EU) | ||
12-13 | lunch | ||
13-14 | Keynote 2 – Mining in Guyana | Delon Omrow | York University (Can) |
14-15 | Roundtable 2 – How environmental regulators experience interaction with the powerful | ||
Moderator: Lieselot Bisschop | Frans Geysels | Chief commissioner - Federal Belgian Police – Environment Unit (Bel) | |
Kathleen Desaegher | (former) Prosecutor on environmental and white collar crime – vice chair of European Network of Environmental Prosecutors (Bel) | ||
Daan Molenaar | Department Head of Inspection & Enforcement, DCMR (Rotterdam environmental inspectorate) (Nthls) | ||
15-15.30 | Coffee, tea and refreshments | ||
15.30-16.20 | Keynote 3 – Bunker fraud, organizational crime & power | Giulia Giarda | Maastricht University (Nthls) |
16.20-17.10 | Keynote 4 – Life course approaches to studying corporate environmental crime | Wim Huisman | VU Amsterdam (Nthls) |
17.10-17.30 | Closing remarks | Yogi Hendlin | Erasmus University Rotterdam (Nthls) |