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.
Mitigating Democratic Myopia as a Means to Mitigate Climate Change: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
Michael Rose (Speaker)
07.09.2016 → 10.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Modes and impacts of sustainability research. Introducing ‘MONA: Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes – A comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
08.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Networking workshop Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht -HHG 2013
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
07.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
NSSI Factory, IED
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker) & Michael Rose (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
Jens Newig (Speaker)
27.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Polity for sustainability: Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions for empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker), Okka Lou Mathis (Coauthor), Michael Rose (Coauthor), Jens Newig (Coauthor) & Steffen Bauer (Coauthor)
14.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Potentials, limits and context factors of participation for achieving environmental sustainability
Jens Newig (Speaker)
31.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research