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
How Do Civil Servants Use Social Science Evidence for Designing Participatory Governance Processes?
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.08.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
(How) Do National Sustainability Institutions Shape Climate Governance?
Okka Lou Mathis (Coauthor), Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
How viable are institutional innovations for national long-term governance? Lessons from a comparative empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Institutionen für zukünftige Generationen und ihre Institutionalisierung unter den Bedingungen einer gegenwartsfixierten Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
25.09.2018 → 28.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance
Ed Challies (Speaker)
04.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ISA Word Congress of Sociology 2010
Jens Newig (Speaker)
11.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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