Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
The focus of our work is on participatory, cooperative and network-like communication and decision-making processes in the context of sustainable development. Problem-oriented, inter- and transdisciplinary research investigates structures, processes, context and results of governance. Our activities contribute to current conceptual debates and develop new methods of empirical research with a focus on the integration of knowledge through comparative and meta-analytical methods.
Topics
- The effectiveness of participation in environmental decision-making processes
- Collective leraning and social network analysis
- Environmental and sustainability conflicts: mediation and consensus building
- Issues of complexity and uncertainty os sustainability
- Environmental information: monitoring and evaluation
- Global and multi-level governance and institutional scaling processes
- Public discourse and the role of the media
- Transformation and decay of social-ecological systems
- water resources management, coastal protection and management, land use and reuse of brownfield sites.
Most downloaded publications
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3273
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Communication Regarding Sustainability: Conceptual Perspectives and Exploration of Societal Subsystems
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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583
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What Role for Public Participation in Implementing the EU Floods Directive? A comparison with the Water Framework Directive, early evidence from Germany, and a research agenda
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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517
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The informed society: Final report on the cooperation programme INTERREG-IIIB project “SAFECOAST”
Research output: Working paper › Project reports › Research
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477
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Comparative analysis of public environmental decision-making processes: A variable-based analytical scheme
Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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400
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Social Media als Impuls für partizipative Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation?
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research