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Prof. Kull to speak at a Rio+20 Symposium
On June 18th Prof. Michael Kull from the Department of Public Administration will speak at the “Public Administration and Rio+20: The Role of the Visible Hand of Public Institutions in Creating a Sustainable Future” Symposium, which is a side event of the side event of the Rio+ 20 Earth Summit.
The symposium, organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), will discuss the role of public administration in contributing to deliver the “institutional framework for sustainable development and green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication”, the two main themes of the Rio+20 Conference.
The sessions will discuss the new set of reforms in public management, organizations and policies in the different levels that are needed to create greener economic growth in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. During the event, the special issue of the journal Public Administration and Development (PAD, Wiley-Blackwell) on Rio+20 will be launched.
Professor Kull will introduce the article “Advancing the Governance of Cross-Sectoral Policies for Sustainable Development: A Metagovernance Perspective” he co-authored with Dr. Stamatios Christopoulos and Dr. Balázs Horvath from UNDP Europe and the CIS. This article will be published in the special issue of PAD launched at this event.
