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.
  1. 2019
  2. Published

    Towards productive functions? A systematic review of institutional failure, its causes and consequences

    Derwort, P., Jager, N. & Newig, J., 15.06.2019, In: Policy Sciences. 52, 2, p. 281-298 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  3. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Seeing polycentrically: Examining governance situations using a polycentricity lens

    Blomquist, W. A. & Schröder, N. J. S., 30.09.2019, Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity. Thiel, A., Blomquist, W. A. & Garrick, D. E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 45-64 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  5. Published
  6. Published

    Das Reallabor als Forschungsprozess und -infrastruktur für nachhaltige Entwicklung: Konzepte, Herausforderungen und Empfehlungen

    Rose, M., Wanner, M. & Hilger, A., 12.2019, 2 ed., Wuppertal: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie, 32 p. (Wuppertal Paper; no. 196).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  7. Published

    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/worksChapterpeer-review

  8. 2020
  9. Published

    Seven Building Blocks for an Intergenerationally Just Democracy

    Rose, M. & Hoffmann, J. M., 2020, Stuttgart: Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, 29 p. (FREG Position Paper)(SSRN eLibrary).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  10. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review