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.
- 2015
Policy learning and evidence-based governance in mandated participatory planning
Jens Newig (Speaker)
27.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
- 2014
Productive Functions of Failure and Destruction for Societal Transitions towards Sustainability – A Systems Approach
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
4th World Sustainability Forum - WSF 2014
Sarah Velten (presenter)
01.11.2014 → 30.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd International Conference on Biodiversity and the UN Millennium Development Goals
Julia Leventon (Speaker)
29.10.2014 → 31.10.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tag der Politikwissenschaft 2014
Judith Kahle (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Coauthor), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Matthias Bergmann (Coauthor)
28.10.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Mapping participation in public environmental decision-making processes: An international database on published case studies
Ed Challies (Speaker)
05.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
How effective is participation in public environmental decision-making? Early findings from a meta analysis of 250 case studies
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Methods workshop: A social science perspective on coastal issues
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
24.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Coastal Zone Canada - CZC 2014
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
17.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer