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.
- Presentations (poster etc.)
An Evidence-based Approach to the Assessment of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: A conceptual and methodological overview of the ‘EDGE’ project
Ed Challies (presenter)
05.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Governance induces telecoupling: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Ed Challies (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Media Impact on Climate Protection
Gesa Lüdecke (presenter)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Reflexive Multikriterielle Evaluation – Ein Instrument zur antizipativen Konfliktminderung bei Strategieentscheidungen im Küstenschutz
Anke Schmidt (presenter)
04.03.2013 → 06.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Representing Future Generations Today
Michael Rose (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 10.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Social Media, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Daniel Schulz (presenter)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research