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.
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Interessen zukünftiger Generationen: neue Modelle der Repräsentation
Michael Rose (Plenary speaker)
16.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie - Ausgewählte Herausforderungen
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
E-learning module on “Participation” in the context of IWRM – “Social Science” Part
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Expert workshop ‘Sustainability: platforms to facilitate deliberative policy learning’, MCC Berlin
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Governance und Transformation: Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
IHDP Open Meeting
Jens Newig (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research