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.

Main research areas

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    06.06.2009

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

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    28.05.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. IHDP Open Meeting

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    29.04.2009

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

  5. 2008
  6. 5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JAGFOS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    01.11.2008

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

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    05.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 1st ISA Forum of Sociology 2008

    Schulz, D. (Speaker)

    05.09.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    16.06.2008

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

  10. 2007
  11. NSSI Factory, IED

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    30.10.2007

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

  12. 2006
  13. International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    14.12.2006

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

  14. IDGEC Synthesis Conference - 2006

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    06.12.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. WZB-Kongress „Bürgergesellschaft – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“ - 2006

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    19.10.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  16. Lüneburg Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability Communication - 2006

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    22.06.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Conference on Participatory Approaches in Science & Technology - PATH 2006

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    04.06.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  18. 2006 ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop ‘Efficiency versus Democracy? Towards New Syntheses’

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    25.04.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Workshop “Governance for Sustainable Development – Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control” - 2006

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    06.02.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  20. 2005
  21. Workshop on German-Dutch-Perspectives on Current Issues of Environmental Social Sciences

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    17.11.2005

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

  22. 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    09.10.2005

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