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.
- 2010
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Symbolische Gesetzgebung zwischen Machtausübung und gesellschaftlicher Selbsttäuschung
Newig, J., 2010, Wie wirkt Recht?: ausgewählte Beiträge zum Ersten Gemeinsamen Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen Luzern, 4. - 6. September 2008. Cottier, M., Estermann, J. & Wrase, M. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 301-322 22 p. (Recht und Gesellschaft (Law and Society); vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
- 2009
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Erratum: Formalised and non-formalised methods in resource management-knowledge and social learning in participatory processes: An introduction
Newig, J., Haberl, H., Pahl-Wostl, C. & Rothman, D. S., 04.2009, In: Systemic Practice and Action Research. 22, 2, p. 125 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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Anpassungsstrategien zum Klimawandel touristischer Pilotdestinationen in Küsten- und Mittelgebirgsregionen
Matzarakis, A., Möller, A., Kreilkamp, E., Carstensen, I., Bartels, C., Burandt, S. & Endler, C., 2009, Klimaschutz und Anpassung an die Klimafolgen: Strategien, Maßnahmen und Anwendungsbeispiele. Mahammadzadeh, M., Biebeler, H. & Bardt, H. (eds.). 1 ed. Köln: Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft , p. 253-262 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Bloggen für eine Nachhaltige Entwicklung?!
Schulz, D., 2009, In: Umweltwirtschaftsforum. 17, 1, p. 149-154 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Environmental governance: participatory, multi-level - and effective?
Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2009, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 19, 3, p. 197-214 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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More input, better output: Does citizen involvement improve environmental governance?
Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2009, In search of legitimacy. Blühdorn, I. (ed.). Opladen [u.a.]: Verlag Babara Budrich, p. 205-224 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Science, policy and implementation gaps: An exploration of groundwater management in Hungary
Leventon, J., 2009, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 73, 13, Supplement, p. A747Research output: Journal contributions › Conference abstract in journal › Research › peer-review
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Sich mit dem Klima wandeln! Ein Tourismus-Klimafahrplan für Tourismusdestinationen: Informationsbroschüre des Forschungsprojektes KUNTIKUM der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg und der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Bartels, C., Barth, M., Burandt, S., Carstensen, I., Endler, C., Kreilkamp, E., Matzarakis, A., Möller, A. & Schulz, D., 2009, Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, 60 p.Research output: Working paper › Project reports › Research
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The case survey method and applications in political science
Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2009, Washington: ASPA - American Political Science Association, 15 p. (APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper.).Research output: Working paper › Working papers