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.
- Journal articles › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Coenen, J., Sonderegger, G., Newig, J., Meyfroidt, P., Challies, E. R. T., Bager, S., Busck-Lumholt, L. M., Corbera, E., Friis, C., Frohn Pedersen, A., Laroche, P. C. S. J., Parra Paitan, C., Qin, S., Roux, N. & Zaehringer, J. G., 07.06.2023, In: Ecology and Society. 28, 2, 18 p., 24.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Toward the sustainability state? Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions and their impact on policy-making
Mathis, O. L., Rose, M., Newig, J. & Bauer, S., 06.2023, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 33, 3, p. 313-324 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Transboundary Cooperation in European Water Governance - A set-theoretic analysis of International River Basins
Jager, N. W., 01.07.2016, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 26, 4, p. 278–291 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States
Jager, N. W., Challies, E., Kochskämper, E., Newig, J., Benson, D., Blackstock, K., Collins, K., Ernst, A., Evers, M., Feichtinger, J., Fritsch, O., Gooch, G., Grund, W., Hedelin, B., Hernández-Mora, N., Frank, H., Huitema, D., Irvine, K., Klinke, A., Lange, L., Loupsans, D., Lubell, M., Maganda, C., Matczak, P., Parés, M., Saarikoski, H., Slavíková, L., van der Arend, S. & von Korff, Y., 19.04.2016, In: Water. 8, 4, 22 p., 156.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals
Coenen, J., Glass, L-M. & Sanderink, L., 01.07.2022, In: Sustainability Science. 17, 4, p. 1489–1510 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
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
- Published
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
- Published
What is governance in global telecoupling?
Newig, J., Lenschow, A., Challies, E., Cotta, B. & Schilling-Vacaflor, A., 09.2019, In: Ecology and Society. 24, 3, 5 p., 26.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
What is Social Learning? Response to Pahl-Wostl. 2006. “The Importance of Social Learning in Restoring the Multifunctionalityof Rivers and Floodplains”
Reed, M. S., Evely, A. C., Cundill, G., Fazey, I., Glass, J., Laing, A., Newig, J., Parrish, B., Prell, C., Raymond, C. & Stringer, L., 12.2010, In: Ecology and Society. 15, 4, 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
What role for frames in scalar conflicts?
Jürges, N. & Newig, J., 01.12.2015, In: Land Use Policy. 49, p. 426-434 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review