'Devolution and the Evolution of Environmental Governance in Wales' - Professor Karen Morrow
Starts: Wednesday 24 April 2013
6:30 pm
Ends: Wednesday 24 April 2013 9:30 pm
Ends: Wednesday 24 April 2013 9:30 pm
| Event type | Lecture |
| Location | Hamilton Centre, Brunel Univeristy |
Professor Karen Morrow, University of Swansea, will provide a keynote presentation examining the impact of devolution on environmental governance in Wales. The free celebratory dinner focuses on the environment and how policy and regulation are developed to protect it.
Key themes will include: the original ‘asymmetric’ 1998 devolution and its subsequent evolution, the sustainability duty imposed upon the Welsh Government and how this has shaped and is shaping relevant policy and legal contexts, the relatively slow progress made in developing Welsh legislation under the initial devolution settlement, the fundamental changes that have been introduced under the 2006 legislation in order to address this, the Welsh Government’s current legislative programme in respect of the environment, focussing specifically on the White Paper on proposals for the Sustainable Development Bill and the creation of the new ‘Single Body’ to administer much of environmental regulation in Wales. Karen Morrow has been Professor of Environmental Law at Swansea University since 2007. She is co-director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy (CEELP). Her research interests focus on theoretical and practical aspects of public participation in environmental law and policy, and she has published extensively in this area. She co edits the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and serves on the editorial board of the Environmental Law Review. She is a member of the environment section of the Society of Legal Scholars, and the UK Environmental Law Association.
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