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.
Evidence-based governance or governance learning? How policy-makers design participation processes for EU Floods Directive implementation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Evidence orientation in Earth System Governance Research
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Michael Rose (Speaker)
09.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues
Jens Newig (Speaker), Michael Rose (Coauthor) & Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Coauthor)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Forum for young researchers engaging in transdisciplinarity
Judith Kahle (Speaker), Esther Maria Meyer (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Panel participant)
12.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
From the Environmental State to the Sustainability State? Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives
Michael Rose (Speaker)
01.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Frühjahrstagung "Ungleichheit und Umverteilung" des Arbeitskreises Politische Ökonomie 2003
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.05.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Gender und Diversity: Welche Rolle spielt Vielfalt in der transdisziplinären Nachhaltigkeitsforschung?
Judith Kahle (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker)
01.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
General Conference - ECPR 2019
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
04.09.2019 → 07.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2014 → 2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees