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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Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative
Coenen, J., Bager, S., Meyfroidt, P., Newig, J. & Challies, E., 01.01.2021, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 31, 1, p. 3-17 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Learning in environmental governance: opportunities for translating theory to practice
Gerlak, A. K., Heikkila, T. & Newig, J., 02.09.2020, In: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 22, 5, p. 653-666 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison
Ulibarri, N., Emerson, K., Imperial, M. T., Jager, N. W., Newig, J. & Weber, E., 01.10.2020, In: Policy and Society. 39, 4, p. 617-637 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Cumulating evidence in environmental governance, policy and planning research: towards a research reform agenda
Newig, J. & Rose, M., 02.09.2020, In: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 22, 5, p. 667-681 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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What goes around, comes around? Access and allocation problems in Global North-South waste trade
Cotta, B., 01.06.2020, In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. 20, 2, p. 255-269 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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A typology of actors and their strategies in multi-scale governance of wind turbine conflict within forests
Jürges, N., Leahy, J. & Newig, J., 07.2020, In: Land Use Policy. 96, p. 1-9 9 p., 104691.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Wasted money, wasted time? The sustainability of EU assistance to Hungary and Poland’s waste management sector
Cotta, B., 01.03.2018, In: EMECON - Employment and economy in Central and Eastern Europe. 7, 1, p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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A new vision of sustainable management in mining and post-mining landscapes
Apaéstegui Campos, J., Barbosa, P. M., Brandão, L., de Azevedo, A. C., Casanova, M., Cord, A., Gerner, N., Giese, E. C., Händel, F., Jager, N. W., Jessen, G. L., Lepenies, R., Marchezini, V., Pujoni, D., Salma, A., Sánchez, A. S., Schierz, A., Stemke, M., Ussath, M., Val, P., Whaley-Martin, K., Yamamoto, F. Y. & Zorzal-Almeida, S., 2019, Halle: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V., 28 p. (Science policy report).Research output: Working paper › Research communication reports › Research
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Do environmental preferences in wealthy nations persist in times of crisis? The European environmental attitudes (2008-2017)
Cotta, B. & Vincenzo, M., 01.03.2020, In: Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. 50, 1, p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Democratic innovation and environmental governance
Newig, J., Challies, E. & Jager, N. W., 05.12.2019, Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance. Elstub, S. & Escobar, O. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 324-338 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › 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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Editorial
Rose, M. & Hoffmann, J. M., 2019, In: Intergenerational Justice Review. 5, 2, p. 47 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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German forest management stakeholders at the science-society interface: Their views on problem definition, knowledge production and research utilization
Juerges, N. & Jahn, S., 01.02.2020, In: Forest Policy and Economics. 111, 10 p., 102076.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Alternative discourses around the governance of food security: A case study from Ethiopia
Jiren, T. S., Dorresteijn, I., Hanspach, J., Schultner, J., Bergsten, A., Manlosa, A., Jager, N., Senbeta, F. & Fischer, J., 01.03.2020, In: Global Food Security. 24, 11 p., 100338.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Demarcating transdisciplinary research in sustainability science—Five clusters of research modes based on evidence from 59 research projects
Jahn, S., Newig, J., Lang, D. J., Kahle, J. & Bergmann, M., 01.04.2022, In: Sustainable Development. 30, 2, p. 343-357 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Beyond practitioner and researcher: 15 roles adopted by actors in transdisciplinary and transformative research processes
Hilger, A., Rose, M. & Keil, A., 01.11.2021, In: Sustainability Science. 16, 6, p. 2049-2068 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes
Jager, N. W., Newig, J., Challies, E. & Kochskämper, E., 01.07.2021, In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 31, 3, p. 616-616 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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Case study meta-analysis in the social sciences. Insights on data quality and reliability from a large-N case survey
Jager, N. W., Newig, J., Challies, E., Kochskämper, E. & von Wehrden, H., 01.01.2022, In: Research Synthesis Methods. 13, 1, p. 12-27 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Complexity in Water Management and Governance
Kirschke, S. & Newig, J., 12.06.2021, Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples. Bogardi, J. J., Gupta, J., Nandalal, K. D. W., Salamé, L., van Nooijen, R. R. P., Kumar, N., Tingsanchali, T., Bhaduri, A. & Kolechkina, A. G. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature AG, p. 801-810 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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How to Explain Major Policy Change Towards Sustainability? Bringing Together the Multiple Streams Framework and the Multilevel Perspective on Socio-Technical Transitions to Explore the German “Energiewende”
Derwort, P., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J., 01.08.2022, In: Policy Studies Journal. 50, 3, p. 671-699 29 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review