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.
International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.12.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
ISA Word Congress of Sociology 2010
Jens Newig (Speaker)
11.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (Journal)
Michael Rose (Editor)
07.2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Justice, Democracy and Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Just new democratic bells and whistles? Assessing the formal capacity of institutions for future generations to influence policy-making
Michael Rose (Speaker)
24.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Just why, how and when should more participation lead to better environmental policy outcomes? A causal framework for analysis
Ed Challies (Speaker)
03.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
23.05.2016 → 31.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Komplexe Systeme transformieren I - Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
04.04.2016 → 20.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
KUNTIKUM-Abschlusskonferenz - 2009
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
21.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leuphana Energieforum 2012
Lisa-Britt Fischer (Participant)
17.09.2012 → 18.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leverage points for sustainability transformation in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Institutional perspectives
Jens Newig (Speaker)
16.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Linking modes of governance and social-ecological outcomes in environmental evaluation
Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Speaker) & Ed Challies (Speaker)
09.02.2012 → 10.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Ed Challies (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Lüneburg Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability Communication - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
22.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Malta Legal Forum - MLF 2018
Pim Derwort (Participant) & Claus-Thomas Schomerus (Participant)
10.05.2018 → 11.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
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
Media and Climate-friendly Behavior – Do Media have an Impact on Individual Action for Climate Protection?
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Media Impact on Climate Protection
Gesa Lüdecke (presenter)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Meta analysis as a strategy of evidence-based participation research: The example of the project ‘EDGE’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
28.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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