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.
  1. 2009
  2. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    03.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. IHDP Open Meeting

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    29.04.2009

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

  6. 2008
  7. 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

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

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    05.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. 1st ISA Forum of Sociology 2008

    Daniel Schulz (Speaker)

    05.09.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Workshop “Governance für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Prinzipien und praktische Relevanz”

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    16.06.2008

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

  11. 2007
  12. NSSI Factory, IED

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    30.10.2007

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