Professorship for Governance and Sustainability

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

We are a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds from political science, geography, sociology, systems science, or environmental sciences. Our research centers around the big challenges of governance in the context of environmental and sustainability politics. Politics and policy on multiple levels, from the very local to the global, working across scales, and involving a variety of stakeholders and process forms, from top-down policy implementation to processes of social learning in collaborative networks form the center of investigation. We ask whether and how participation and collaboration foster environmental sustainability? How can sustainability transitions be governed? How to meet the challenges of governing global social-ecological teleconnected systems? We use in-depth case studies as well as large-N case survey meta-analysis to improve the evidence-base of sustainability governance. Much of our research is inter- and transdisciplinary in nature, involving stakeholders from outside academia.

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.
  1. 2010
  2. Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    30.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  3. 2009
  4. Conference „Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet“, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    02.12.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. KUNTIKUM-Abschlusskonferenz - 2009

    Daniel Schulz (Speaker)

    21.10.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    03.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    06.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  8. Conference “Governing good and governing well”: The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    28.05.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. IHDP Open Meeting

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    29.04.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  10. 2008
  11. 5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JAGFOS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    01.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  12. 1. Gemeinsame Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen - 2008

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    05.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. 1st ISA Forum of Sociology 2008

    Daniel Schulz (Speaker)

    05.09.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch