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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(Neue) Medien, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Lüdecke, G. & Schulz, D., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft: Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 132-151 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung und EU Hochwasserrisikomanagement-Richtlinie
Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Kochskämper, E., 2014, In: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung. 58, 6, p. 339-340 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit durch zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation? Zum Stand der Debatte in der internationalen Literatur
Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2011, Zukunft der Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung: Chancen. Grenzen. Herausforderungen.. Handler, M. & Trattnigg, R. (eds.). Wien: Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (Lebensmittelministerium), p. 55-64 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Operationalizing ecosystem services for the mitigation of soil threats: A proposed framework
Schwilch, G., Bernet, L., Fleskens, L., Giannakis, E., Leventon, J., Marañón, T., Mills, J., Short, C., Stolte, J., Van Delden, H. & Verzandvoort, S., 01.08.2016, In: Ecological Indicators. 67, p. 586-597 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Paired case research design and mixed-methods approach
Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E., Challies, E. & Newig, J., 2018, Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation. Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 28-36 9 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Participation and Effective Environmental Governance: Causal mechanisms and beyond
Kochskämper, E., Jager, N. W., Newig, J. & Challies, E., 2018, Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation. Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 149-159 11 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation
Kochskämper, E. (ed.), Challies, E. (ed.), Jager, N. W. (ed.) & Newig, J. (ed.), 16.10.2017, London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 180 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Participation for effective environmental governance? Evidence from Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom
Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Newig, J. & Jager, N. W., 01.10.2016, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 181, p. 737-748 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Participation in environmental governance: legitimate and effective?
Newig, J. & Kvarda, E., 2012, Environmental governance: The challenge of legitimacy and effectiveness. Hogl, K., Kvarda, E., Nordbeck, R. & Pregernig, M. (eds.). Cheltenham et al.: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 29-45 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review