Professorship for Governance and Sustainability

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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.
  1. Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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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).

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  3. Published

    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).

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  4. Published

    Partizipation und Kooperation zur Effektivitätssteigerung in Politik und Governance?

    Newig, J., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft: Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 65-79 15 p.

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  5. Published

    Partizipation und neue Formen der Governance

    Newig, J., 2011, Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Groß, M. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 486-502 17 p.

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  6. Published

    Proxy-Repräsentation: Die institutionelle politische Repräsentation der Stimmlosen am Beispiel zukünftiger Generationen

    Rose, M., 2021, Im Namen des Volkes: Zur Kritik politischer Repräsentation. Neubauer, M., Stange, M., Reske, C. & Doktor, F. (eds.). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck GmbH and Co. KG, p. 275-302 28 p. (POLITIKA; vol. 21).

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  7. Published

    Researching participation in environmental governance through the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive

    Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., Challies, E. & Jager, N. W., 2018, Participation and Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from Implementing the European Water Framework Directive. Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 3-10 8 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).

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  8. Published

    Stakeholder and citizen involvement for Water Framework Directive implementation in Spain: Three case studies from Andalusia, Cantabria and Catalonia

    Kochskämper, E., Schütze, N. & Ballester, A., 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. 64-89 26 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).

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  9. Published

    Stakeholder engagement in Water Framework Directive planning in the United Kingdom: Two case studies from Northern Ireland and Scotland

    Challies, E., 2018, Participation and Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from Implementing the European Water Framework Directive. Kochskämper, E., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 90-113 24 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).

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  10. Published

    Stakeholder involvement for Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany: Three case studies from Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein

    Schütze, N. & Kochskämper, 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. 39-63 25 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).

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  11. Published

    Steuerung nachhaltiger Entwicklung

    Newig, J. & Voß, J-P., 2010, Nachhaltigkeit regieren: Eine Bilanz zu Governance-Prinzipien und -Praktiken. Steurer, R. & Trattnigg, R. (eds.). Müchen: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 239-257 19 p.

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