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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Medien und klimabewusstes Verhalten: Die Bedeutung des Fernsehens für ein nachhaltiges Alltagshandeln bei Jugendlichen
Lüdecke, G., 04.04.2013, München: oekom verlag GmbH. 287 p. (Hochschulschriften zur Nachhaltigkeit; vol. 58)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Meeting the challenge of (co-)designing real-world laboratories: Insights from the Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal project
Rose, M. & Maibaum, K., 15.10.2020, In: GAIA. 29, 3, p. 154-160 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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More effective natural resource management through participatory governance? Taking stock of the conceptual and empirical literature – and moving forward
Newig, J., 31.08.2012, Environmental governance: The challenge of legitimacy and effectiveness. Hogl, K., Kvarda, E., Nordbeck, R. & Pregernig, M. (eds.). Cheltenham et al.: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 46-68 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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More input, better output: Does citizen involvement improve environmental governance?
Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2009, In search of legitimacy. Blühdorn, I. (ed.). Opladen [u.a.]: Verlag Babara Budrich, p. 205-224 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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MSPs for the SDGs: Assessing the collaborative governance architecture of multi-stakeholder partnerships for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Glass, L-M., Newig, J. & Ruf, S., 01.08.2023, In: Earth System Governance. 17, 17 p., 100182.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Multi-level Governance, Multi-level Deficits: The Case of Drinking Water Management in Hungary
Leventon, J. & Antypas, A., 2012, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 22, 4, p. 253-267 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Multi-level Governance, Policy Implementation and Participation: The EU’s Mandated Participatory Planning Approach to Implementing Environmental Policy
Newig, J. & Koontz, T. M., 07.02.2014, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 21, 2, p. 248-267 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Multi-Level Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale
Newig, J. (ed.) & Moss, T. (ed.), 2010, Springer. 142 p. (Environmental Management; vol. 46, no. 1)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate
Moss, T. & Newig, J., 07.2010, In: Environmental Management. 46, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch gesellschaftliche Partizipation und Kooperation? – eine kritische Revision zentraler Theorien und Konzepte
Newig, J., Kuhn, K. & Heinrichs, H., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft: Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 27-45 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research