Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
We are a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds from political science, geography, sociology, systems science, or environmental sciences. Our research centers around the big challenges of governance in the context of environmental and sustainability politics. Politics and policy on multiple levels, from the very local to the global, working across scales, and involving a variety of stakeholders and process forms, from top-down policy implementation to processes of social learning in collaborative networks form the center of investigation. We ask whether and how participation and collaboration foster environmental sustainability? How can sustainability transitions be governed? How to meet the challenges of governing global social-ecological teleconnected systems? We use in-depth case studies as well as large-N case survey meta-analysis to improve the evidence-base of sustainability governance. Much of our research is inter- and transdisciplinary in nature, involving stakeholders from outside academia.
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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Communication Regarding Sustainability: Conceptual Perspectives and Exploration of Societal Subsystems
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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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483
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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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405
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Social Media als Impuls für partizipative Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation?
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research