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.
- 2021
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Participation in multi-level policy implementation: exploring the influence of governance culture
Gollata, J. A. M., Kochskämper, E., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J., 06.12.2021, In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 64, 14, p. 2593-2617 25 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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Success of collaboration for sustainable agriculture: a case study meta-analysis
Velten, S., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J., 10.2021, In: Environment, Development and Sustainability. 23, 10, p. 14619–14641 23 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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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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Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil
Schilling-Vacaflor, A., Lenschow, A., Challies, E., Cotta, B. & Newig, J., 01.04.2021, In: World Development. 140, 12 p., 105281.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The knowledge transfer potential of online data pools on nature-based solutions
Schröter, B., Zingraff-Hamed, A., Ott, E., Huang, J., Hüesker, F., Nicolas, C. & Schröder, N. J. S., 25.03.2021, In: Science of the Total Environment. 762, 11 p., 143074.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation
Kochskämper, E., Koontz, T. M. & Newig, J., 03.2021, In: Ecology and Society. 26, 1, 13 p., 22.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Governing Transitions towards Sustainable Agriculture - Taking Stock of an Emerging Field of Research
Melchior, I. C. & Newig, J., 08.01.2021, In: Sustainability. 13, 2, p. 1-27 27 p., 528.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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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