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.
- Conference Presentations
1. Gemeinsame Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen - 2008
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
2006 ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop ‘Efficiency versus Democracy? Towards New Syntheses’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.04.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
24.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th World Congress of the International Political Science Association - IPSA 2018
Pim Derwort (Speaker)
21.07.2018 → 25.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association: ‘Conflict, Citzenship and Civil Society’, Network: Environment & Society,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
All-Affected, Non-Identity and the Political Representation of Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
09.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research