Institute of Sustainability Governance
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior professorship of Public Law and European Law with Focus on Sustainability
- Professorship for Energy Economics and Energy Policy
- Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
- Professorship for Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law
- Professorship for Sustainability and Politics
- Professorship of Public and International Law with a Focus on Sustainability
Organisation profile
The members of the Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO) focus their work on a fundamental question: Which public institutions and regulation systems are necessary to achieve the normative goal of sustainability in a complex and pluralistic society? The answer to this question is provided by a broad scientific approach which is based on research, academic teaching and knowledge transfer with practitioners on topics of public sustainability governance.
- Presentations (poster etc.)
Agri-food globalisation and governance for environmental sustainability: Challenges and opportunities of a global commodity chains approach
Challies, E. (Speaker)
30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
An Evidence-based Approach to the Assessment of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: A conceptual and methodological overview of the ‘EDGE’ project
Challies, E. (presenter)
05.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Governance induces telecoupling: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative
Coenen, J. (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Interdisciplinary Study Days „Biodiversity - Concept and Value“
Stumpf, K. H. (Speaker)
21.03.2011 → 26.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off
Hoberg, N. (presenter)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Challies, E. (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Media Impact on Climate Protection
Lüdecke, G. (presenter)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Posterpräsentation zum Projekt StudiKommKlima
Möller, S. (Speaker) & Redenius, P. (Speaker)
19.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Reflexive Multikriterielle Evaluation – Ein Instrument zur antizipativen Konfliktminderung bei Strategieentscheidungen im Küstenschutz
Schmidt, A. (presenter)
04.03.2013 → 06.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Representing Future Generations Today
Rose, M. (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 10.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Social Media, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Schulz, D. (presenter)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience
Strunz, S. (presenter)
11.03.2011 → 16.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
2013 Retreat of the Sustainability Economics Group
Engler, J.-O. (Speaker)
08.07.2013 → 09.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
2nd European-Chinese RiBaGo (River Basin Governance) Workshop
Newig, J. (Speaker)
25.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
3rd EU-China River Basin Governance Research Network Workshop - RiBaGo 2011
Newig, J. (Speaker)
30.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JAGFOS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Newig, J. (Speaker)
01.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005
Newig, J. (Speaker)
09.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Das Losprinzip in der Demokratie – Welche Rolle können Bürgerräte für Politik und Gesetzgebung spielen?
Newig, J. (Speaker)
25.02.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Dekarbonisierung der Wirtschaft konkret – Wege und Herausforderungen in Niedersachsen
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
18.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz
Newig, J. (Speaker)
06.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Der Blick nach vorn - Klimapolitik in der Europäischen Union
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
25.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Die Interessen zukünftiger Generationen: neue Modelle der Repräsentation
Rose, M. (Plenary speaker)
16.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der Demokratie
Rose, M. (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie - Ausgewählte Herausforderungen
Rose, M. (Speaker)
26.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
E-learning module on “Participation” in the context of IWRM – “Social Science” Part
Newig, J. (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Environmental governance research - cumulative knowledge or fragmented adhocracy?
Newig, J. (Keynote Speaker) & Rose, M. (Keynote Speaker)
04.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Ergebnisse und Perspektiven aus dem Kommunalen Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer Niedersachsen
Redenius, P. (Speaker)
02.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Ev. Akademie Braunschweig
Maly, C. (Speaker)
20.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Ev. Akademie Braunschweig
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
20.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Expert workshop ‘Sustainability: platforms to facilitate deliberative policy learning’, MCC Berlin
Newig, J. (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Fünfzig Jahre nach morgen - wo werden wir sein? Die ökonomischen Kosten des Klimawandel
Kemfert, C. (Speaker)
01.12.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Gerechtigkeit und Transformation. Eine Tagung in Tutzing
Baier, A. (Coauthor), Biesecker, A. (Speaker) & Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)
11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Governance und Transformation: Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen
Newig, J. (Speaker)
14.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
IHDP Open Meeting
Newig, J. (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)
Newig, J. (Speaker)
06.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Symposium “Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management (UPEM)”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
07.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
14.12.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Maly, C. (Speaker)
12.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Leverage points for sustainability transformation in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Institutional perspectives
Newig, J. (Speaker)
16.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Meta analysis as a strategy of evidence-based participation research: The example of the project ‘EDGE’
Newig, J. (Speaker)
28.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Methods workshop: A social science perspective on coastal issues
Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)
24.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
NSSI Factory, IED
Newig, J. (Speaker)
30.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
Rose, M. (Keynote Speaker) & Rose, M. (Panel participant)
06.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Policy learning and evidence-based governance in mandated participatory planning
Newig, J. (Speaker)
27.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Potentials, limits and context factors of participation for achieving environmental sustainability
Newig, J. (Speaker)
31.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Productive Functions of Failure and Destruction for Societal Transitions towards Sustainability – A Systems Approach
Newig, J. (Speaker)
19.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Representing Future Generations in Parliament
Rose, M. (Panel participant)
22.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Task Force on Access to Information under the Aarhus Convention, UNECE
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
09.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Teilnahme am Podium "Europa- Menschenwürde, Freiheit, Demokratie!?"
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
25.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Telecoupling. A current challenge to global environmental governance
Newig, J. (Speaker)
30.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
The importance of scales for legitimate and effective participatory environmental governance. Findings from a multi-level comparative case study of implementing the Water Framework Directive (with D. Schulz)
Newig, J. (Speaker) & Schulz, D. (Speaker)
08.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Water Framework Directive: Policy Implementation Through Multi-Level Governance
Newig, J. (Speaker)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Transformative Indikatoren: Wirkungsabschätzungen in Reallaboren
Rose, M. (Speaker) & Schleicher, K. (Speaker)
07.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
WATHLINGEN 20_50: Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Exploration Nachhaltig gut leben - Beobachtungen und Empfehlungen für die Samtgemeinde Wathlingen
Redenius, P. (Speaker) & Hoernemann, D. (Speaker)
11.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Wie kann eine gerechte und dezentrale Energiewende gelingen?
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
29.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“
Newig, J. (Speaker)
30.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Workshop “Governance für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Prinzipien und praktische Relevanz”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
16.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Workshop on German-Dutch-Perspectives on Current Issues of Environmental Social Sciences
Newig, J. (Speaker)
17.11.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Zukunftsgerechtigkeit als Leitprinzip kommunalen Planens und Handelns
Rose, M. (Keynote Speaker)
23.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
- Conference Presentations
1. Gemeinsame Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen - 2008
Newig, J. (Speaker)
05.09.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Newig, J. (Speaker), Challies, E. (Speaker) & Kochskämper, E. (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Newig, J. (Speaker) & Koontz, T. M. (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Newig, J. (Speaker), Jager, N. W. (Speaker) & Schulz, D. (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2006 ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop ‘Efficiency versus Democracy? Towards New Syntheses’
Newig, J. (Speaker)
25.04.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
24.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance
Newig, J. (Speaker)
06.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th World Congress of the International Political Science Association - IPSA 2018
Derwort, P. (Speaker)
21.07.2018 → 25.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association: ‘Conflict, Citzenship and Civil Society’, Network: Environment & Society,
Newig, J. (Speaker)
03.09.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Aarhus-Convention and Nuclear Energy
Schomerus, C.-T. (Speaker)
24.09.2016 → 25.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
All-Affected, Non-Identity and the Political Representation of Future Generations
Rose, M. (Speaker)
09.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
An Axiomatic Approach to Decision under Knightian Uncertainty
Engler, J.-O. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)
15.02.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Newig, J. (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers
Rose, M. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Speaker)
21.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability
Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)
29.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Basic Rights in the Basic Law
Bertram, A. (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
23.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Betriebssysteme für Containerterminals
Brinkmann, B. (Speaker)
01.04.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bodenkommunikation in Schutzgebieten – Erfahrungen mit einem neuen Bildungskonzept für Akteure informeller Umweltbildung in einem Biosphärenreservat
Lütkemöller, D. (Speaker)
06.10.2016 → 07.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bodenschutz im Spannungsfeld von Umwelt- und Naturschutz: Flächenrecycling und Naturschutzrecht
Sanden, J. (Speaker)
20.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – A comparative empirical analysis of the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations
Rose, M. (presenter)
14.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Characterizing Commercial Cattle Farms in Namibia: Risk, Management and Sustainability
Olbrich, R. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)
18.09.2013 → 20.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference „Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet“, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Newig, J. (Speaker)
02.12.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference “Governing good and governing well”: The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance
Newig, J. (Speaker)
28.05.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
conference of the International Sociological Association, RC 24 Environment and Society, “Double Standards and Simulation: Symbolism, Rhetoric and Irony in Eco-Politics”,
Newig, J. (Speaker)
02.09.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Constitutions, Democratic Self-Determination and the Institutional Empowerment of Future Generations: Mitigating an Aporia
Rose, M. (Speaker)
08.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Democratic Myopia and Future Generations: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
Rose, M. (Speaker)
08.06.2017 → 09.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Demokratiekonferenz „Gegenseitige Blicke über die Grenze: Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz“ 2012
Newig, J. (Speaker)
21.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Demokratie und Wahlrecht
Rose, M. (Speaker)
11.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Determinants and management consequences of normative views of sustainability in Namibian commercial cattle farming
Olbrich, R. (Speaker)
22.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Determinants of Researchers' Roles in Real-World Transitions: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Real-World Laboratories.
Rose, M. (Speaker)
18.06.2017 → 21.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Multikriterielle Evaluationsstudie – Ein transdisziplinäres Instrument zur integrativen Entscheidungsfindung
Schmidt, A. (Speaker)
22.11.2012 → 23.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Distributing responsibility for the provision of public goods
Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker)
16.02.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does Frontal Residence Help Larval Fish ?: Growth and abundance of larval dab, Limanda limanda, within a developing frontal system in the North Sea
Olbrich, R. (Speaker)
01.10.2007 → 03.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does frontal residence help larval fish? Growth and abundance of larval dab, Linanda Limanda, within a developing frontal system in the North Sea.
Olbrich, R. (Speaker)
13.07.2007 → 15.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does participation benefit the environment? Insights from a meta analysis of 259 cases of public environmental decision-making
Challies, E. (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptual framework and empirical evidence from public decision-making processes in 23 democracies
Rose, M. (Coauthor), Newig, J. (Coauthor) & Jager, N. W. (presenter)
13.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptual framework and empirical evidence from public decision-making processes in 23 democracies
Rose, M. (Speaker), Jager, N. W. (Coauthor) & Newig, J. (Coauthor)
18.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does transdisciplinarity improve academic and societal research outcomes? Empirical results from a large-N empirical study
Jahn, S. V. (Speaker), Kahle, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Panel participant), Bergmann, M. (Panel participant) & Lang, D. J. (Panel participant)
14.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ecological justice in agricultural systems. An evaluation of success factors and barriers by the example of the Philippine farmer network MASIPAG.
Glotzbach, S. (Speaker)
12.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eine Untersuchung organisierter Nachhaltigkeit in solidarischer Landwirtschaft
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
05.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research