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.
- 2019
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Governance for Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems
Challies, E., Newig, J. & Lenschow, A., 2019, Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. Friis, C. & Nielsen, J. Ø. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 177-197 21 p. (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Learning in participatory environmental governance – its antecedents and effects. Findings from a case survey meta-analysis
Newig, J., Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E. & Challies, E., 2019, In: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 21, 3, p. 213-227 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Non-identity – So what? A political scientist’s perspective on a curious but somehow arbitrary problem
Rose, M., 2019, In: Intergenerational Justice Review. 5, 2, p. 54-55 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Sustainability through institutional failure and decline? Archetypes of productive pathways
Newig, J., Derwort, P. & Jager, N. W., 03.2019, In: Ecology and Society. 24, 1, 14 p., 18.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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All-affected, Non-identity and the Political Representation of Future Generations: Linking Intergenerational Justice with Democracy
Rose, M., 19.03.2019, Intergenerational Equity: Environmental and Cultural Concerns. Cottier, T., Lalani, S. & Siziba, C. (eds.). Leiden, Boston: Brill Nijhoff Verlag, p. 32-51 20 p. (World Trade Institute Advanced Studies; vol. 4).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: How important are participation, policy coherence, reflexivity, adaptation and democratic institutions?
Glass, L-M. & Newig, J., 01.04.2019, In: Earth System Governance. 2, p. 100031 14 p., 100031.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Clusters of water governance problems and their effects on policy delivery
Kirschke, S., Franke, C., Newig, J. & Borchardt, D., 03.04.2019, In: Policy and Society. 38, 2, p. 255-277 23 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
604 signatories, Kehoe, L., Reis, T., Virah-Sawmy, M., Balmford, A., Kuemmerle, T., Knohl, A., Antonelli, A., Hochkirch, A., Vira, B., Massa, B., Peres, C. A., Ammer, C., Görg, C., Schneider, C., Curtis, D., de la Peña, E., Tello, E., Sperfeld, E., Corbera, E., Morelli, F., Valladares, F., Peterson, G., Hide, G., Mace, G., Kallis, G., Olsson, G. A., Brumelis, G., Alexanderson, H., Haberl, H., Nuissl, H., Kreft, H., Ghazoul, J., Piotrowski, J. A., Macdiarmid, J., Newig, J., Fischer, J., Altringham, J., Gledhill, J., Nielsen, J., Müller, J., Palmeirim, J., Barlow, J., Alonso, J. C., Asencio, J. J. P., Steinberger, J. K., Jones, J. P. G., Cotta, B., Leonhardt, S. D., Wanger, T. C. & Coenen, J., 26.04.2019, In: Science. 364, 6438, p. 341 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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Landscape-scale biodiversity governance: Scenarios for reshaping spaces of governance
Leventon, J., Schaal, T., Velten, S., Loos, J., Fischer, J. & Newig, J., 01.05.2019, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 29, 3, p. 170-184 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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IWRM through WFD implementation? Drivers for integration in polycentric water governance systems
Schröder, N., 22.05.2019, In: Water (Switzerland). 11, 5, 27 p., 1063.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review