The TCS Research Group maintains an intense activity of academic collaboration at international and national level, as well as with other research groups of the Catalan university system.
This collaboration translates into research projects in areas of common interest, joint organization or participation in conferences and workshops, collaboration at doctoral or master's level, scientific publications and other relevant activities for the parties involved.
The group actively participates in the following international networks:
- European Environmental Law Forum (http://www.eelf.info/)
- European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE) (http://www.encle.org/)
- IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (http://www.iucnael.org/)
- Network on Business, Conflict and Human Rights-BCHR network (https://www.networkbchr.org/)
- Red Docente Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo - REDOEDA (http://www.redoeda.com/)
- Red Mercado y medio ambiente-ECOVER (http://www.redecover.es/)
- Red Sudamericana para las Migraciones Ambientales - RESAMA (https://resama.net/)
- Xarxa G-Net. Equality Training Network: (http://www.gendertraining.eu/inicio/)
The network in which the Group operates is very extensive. The universities, centres or institutes at the international level with which the Group maintains academic relations are identified below.
Europe:
- Germany: Deutsches Forchungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung Speyer (FÖV), Universität Speyer (Karl-Peter Sommermann); Lateinamerika-Institut - Freie Universität Berlin (Martha Zapata Galindo).
- Austria: E-Voting.cc / Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation, Sulz, Austria (Robert Krimmer); Institute for Social Ecology, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies, Alpen Adria - Universität Klagenfurt Austria (Willi Haas).
- Denmark: DemTech - Democratic Technology / IT University of Copenhagen (Carsten Schürmann).
- France: Centre for International and European Research and Studies (CERIC, Aix-en-Provence), (Sandrine Maljean-Dubois); CIDCE-CRIDEAU, Université de Limoges, (Michel Prieur, Fernanda Cavedon-Capdeville).
- Italy: Università degli Studi di Torino (Rosario Ferrara, Sergio Foa', Anna Porporato); Università del Salento (Gabriella De Giorgi, Francesco Tuccari, Marco Brocca).
- Luxemburg: Université de Luxembourg (Lukas Sosoe / Luis Ojeda).
- Norway: The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research - FAFO, Oslo (Mark Taylor)
- The Netherlands: Migration & Diversity Center / Migration Section - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Thomas Spijkerboer); University of Groningen University, Department of Business Law, European Law and Tax Law (Lorenzo Squintani)
- Portugal: Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra (José Manuel Pureza); Universidade de Lisboa (Jorge Miranda / Carla Amado Gomes)
- United Kingdom: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, London, (Mauricio Lazala); Business, Human Rights and Environment Research Group, University of Greenwich (Olga Martín Ortega); Centre for Political Theory and Global Justice, University of Leeds (Garrett Wallace Brown); University of Cambridge (Jorge E. Viñuales); University of Strathclyde Law School- Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, (Francesco Sindico, Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann)
- Sweden: Department of Human Geography, Lund Universitet, (Alf Hornborg)
America:
- Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas y Sociales (UNC), Córdoba, (Rodolfo Salassa)
- Brasil: Center for European Strategic Research - Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó (Ernani Contipelli); Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara. Belo Horizonte (André de Paiva Toledo/Romeu Thomé); Instituto de Direito Romeu Felipe Bacelar (Daniel Wunder Hachem); Instituto O Direito por um Planeta Verde, São Paulo (José Rubens Morato Leite); Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Daniel Wunder Hachem); Universidad de Fortaleza (Bleine Queiroz Caúla); Universidad de Marília, (Valter Moura do Carmo); Universidad de Rio de Janeiro (Rosângela Lunardelli Cavallazzi); Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Miguel Etinger de Araújo Júnior); Universidade Federal do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (José Rubens Morato Leite)Universidad Federal do Paraná, Curitiba (Danielle Annoni); Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro-Brasil (Vanessa Iacomini).
- Canada: Centre d'études sur le droit international et la mondialisation (CEDIM), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal (Bernard Duhaime, Bruce Broomhall); University of Ottawa (Penelope Simons, Jamie Benidikson, Yves Le Boutillier).
- Colombia: Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Facultad de Derecho UNAB. Bucaramanga, Santander (Aída Fernández de los Campos); GIDCA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, (Gregorio Mesa).
- Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica, Jorge Cabrera Medaglia.
- Ecuador: FLACSO-Ecuador, Ecuador (Alberto Acosta).
- United States: Center for International Environmental Law, Washington, USA (Marcos Orellana); Seattle University School of Law, Seattle (Carmen González).
- México: Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA) (Astrid Puentes, Rafael González Ballart); Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (AIDH) (Luis Efrén Ríos Vega); Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH), (Rodolfo Godínez Rosales); Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional de México, México (Marisol Anglés Hernández).
- Perú: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Mariano Castro Sánchez-Moreno
- Chile: Centro de Derecho Ambiental, Universidad de Chile (Pilar Moragas)
Asia:
- Singapore: Asia - Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore, (Lye Lin Heng, Koh Kheng Lian)
Africa:
- South Africa: Institute for Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (Alexander Paterson); Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom (Louis Kotzé).
Oceania:
- Australia: Australia Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Armidale (Paul Martin); Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney (Sophie Riley); School of Law, University of South Australia, Adelaide (Karen Bubna-Litic).
- New Zeeland: The New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL), University of Auckland, New Zeeland (Klaus Bosselmann)
The research group also maintains stable collaborative relationships with governments at different territorial levels or with centres linked to these public administrations.
Local governments:
Collaboration with local governments is carried out through specific structures linked to the research group, namely: CEDAT, the Chair of Local Legal Studies and, CEDAT (www.cedat.cat) is co-funded by the Tarragona City Council; the Màrius Viadel y Martín Chair of Local Legal Studies (/catedres/catedra-estudis-juridics-locals-marius-viadel-martin/) is co-funded by the Tarragona Provincial Council (Diputació de Tarragona); and the Tarragona Smart Mediterranean City Chair (http://www.tarragonasmart.cat/mediterranean-city/projectes-estrategics/catedra-2/) is co-funded by Fundación Tarragona Smart Mediterranean City (the Tarragona Smart Mediterranean City Foundation). We work also with the Barcelona Provincial Council (Diputació de Barcelona.
Regional government:
The Group cooperates regularly with the Catalan government's Land and Sustainability Department in various activities, including the joint publication of Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental since 2010. The group now also works with the regional government in the joint organisation of the Catalan Environmental Law Conference.
Spanish government:
The group regularly works with Centro Internacional de Estudios de Derecho Ambiental (CIEDA, the International Centre of Environmental Law Studies) that depends on the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT, the Energy, Environmental and Technological Research Centre), a public research organisation attached to the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Various members of the TCS group are members of the editorial board of Revista Actualidad Jurídica Ambiental, which is published by CIEDA, and they work with it regularly, furnishing commentaries on case-law of environmental interest from the Spanish Supreme Court and the high courts of justice of the Spanish regions.
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