Prof. Dr. Martin Jänicke
Prof. Dr. Martin Jänicke
Freie Universität Berlin – Environmental Policy Research Centre
Member of the German Advisory Council on Environment
Homepage
hauptman@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Research Focus
The Environmental Policy Research Centre is a research institute which is foremost active in exploring the potentials, restrictions and impacts of national environmental policy-making within the wider context of global environmental governance. Its work is based mainly on comparative research of industrialised countries and ex-post analysis of environmental policies. Thereby, considerable attention is paid to the development of new strategic concepts for environmental policy-making.
This orientation draws on a tradition of political science research at the Department of Political and Social Sciences reaching back to the Seventies. Comparative research on environmental policies of industrialised countries accompanied the beginning of environmental policy in Germany. Similarly early, the issues of ecological modernisation and structural change in industrialised countries have been discussed.
Selected Publications
Jacob, Klaus / Beise, Marian / Blazejczak, Jürgen / Edler. Dietmar / Haum, Rüdiger / Jänicke, Martin / Loew, Thomas / Petschow, Ulrich / Rennings, Klaus: Lead Markets of Environmental Innovations. Heidelberg-New York: Physica 2005, 273 p., (= ZEW Economic Studies, Vol. 27)
Jänicke, Martin / Jacob, Klaus: Ecological Modernisation and the Creation of Lead Markets. In: Weber, Matthias / Hemmelskamp, Jens (Eds.): Towards Environmental Innovation Systems. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer Verlag 2005, pp. 175-193
Jänicke, Martin: Trend-setters in environmental policy: the character and role of pioneer countries. In: Jörgens, Helge (Ed.): Diffusion and Convergence of Environmental Policies in Europe. In: European Environment. Special Issue. Vol. 15 (2005), No. 2, pp. 129-142
Jänicke, Martin / Jacob, Klaus: Lead Markets for Environmental Innovations: A New Role for the Nation State. In: Global Environmental Politics. Vol. 4 (2004), No. 1, pp. 29-46
Jänicke, Martin: Governance of Pioneers - Innovation Inducing Environmental Regulation and the Role of Lead Markets. In: Bleischwitz, Raimund / Yasuhiro, Kanda (Eds.): Symposium "Governance of Markets for Sustainability": Conference in the Japanese-German Policy Dialogue on Environmental Issues, October 13-14, 2003 München: Iudicium 2004, S. 19-25, (= Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, jdzb documentation, Vol. 6)
Jänicke, Martin: The Role of the Nation State in Environmental Policy: The Challenge of Globalisation. In: Altner, Günter / Michelsen, Gerd (Hrsg.): Friede den Völkern. Nachhaltigkeit als interkultureller Prozess. Frankfurt/M.: Verlag für Akademische Schriften 2003, S. 67-80
Jänicke, Martin / Jörgens, Helge / Jörgensen, Kirsten / Nordbeck, Ralf: Governance for Sustainable Development: Germany. In: OECD (ed.): Governance for Sustainable Development. Five OECD Case Studies. Paris: OECD-Publications 2002, pp. 113-153
Congress-Abstract
地球環境ガバナンス―最終的責任を求めて―
環境政策は、市場性の高い技術的解決手法の利用が可能な分野、たとえば、水質保全や大気清浄の分野において、多くの成果をおさめている。しかし、気候変動、地下水汚染、土地利用、あるいは種の絶滅のような「未解決の問題」が存在しており、これに対しては、さらなる戦略的アプローチが必要とされている。地球環境ガバナンスは、1992年のリオ・デ・ジャネイロでの国連サミット以来、この方向に沿った一つの重要な手法であり（中核文書はアジェンダ21）、それは、多様な階層、多様な利害関係者および多岐の分野にわたる戦略として、目的志向的で、協力的、統合的なアプローチに基づいている。しかし、この種の戦略の高度な複雑性に対しては、既存の制度上の能力では、しばしば対応しきれていない。さらには、環境問題に対する責任の普遍性が、実際には、誰も責任を負わない状況をもたらしている。それゆえ、最終的責任に関する問題は、とくに、われわれが自発的で協力的なアプローチに依存している場合には、重要となる。政府および国民国家は、依然としてこの役割を果たしうるのか。環境政策において、それが現在まで十分ではなかったことが議論される。
Global Environmental Governance: in Search of Final Responsibility
Environmental policy has been successful where marketable technical solutions have been available (as in water or air pollution control). But there are “persistent problems” such as climate change, groundwater pollution, urban land use, or loss of species which need more ambitious, strategic approaches. Global environmental governance – since the UN summit in Rio de Janeiro – has been an important step in this direction (the core document being the Agenda 21). As multi-level, multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral strategy it relies on goal-oriented, cooperative and integrative approaches. But the high complexity of this kind of strategy has often overtaxed the existing capacities. Moreover, the universality of responsibilities for environmental problems may lead to a situation where actually nobody is responsible. Therefore, the question of final responsibility becomes important, especially if we rely on voluntary and cooperative approaches. Is government and the nation state still able to play this role? It is paradoxically environmental policy, where the role of national governments has been relatively strong within the global policy arena. So far, however, it is not strong enough. This will be discussed.