Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
Organisational unit: Section
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.
- 2013
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Ed Challies (presenter)
27.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker), Edward Challies (Speaker) & Elisa Kochskämper (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Tomas M. Koontz (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker), Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Speaker) & Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The influence of polycentricity on collaborative environmental management – the case of EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany
Jens Newig (Oral presentation)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
12th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment - COCE 2013
Gesa Lüdecke (presenter)
06.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Sarah Velten (Member)
01.04.2013 → 15.12.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Reflexive Multi-Criteria Evaluation as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Scientists and Stakeholders
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
18.03.2013 → 20.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions - ECPR 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker)
13.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research