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.
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Future generations in present-day democracy. The theory and practice of proxy representation.
01.05.12 → 06.12.16
Project: Dissertation project
PLUS Change: PLUS Change - Participatory Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a Changing world.
01.06.23 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
Planning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a changing world
01.06.23 → 01.06.26
Project: Research
Wissenschaftsraum "Nachhaltigkeitsgovernance globaler Wertschöpfungsketten"
01.08.24 → 31.07.28
Project: Research