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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What Role for Public Participation in Implementing the EU Floods Directive? A comparison with the Water Framework Directive, early evidence from Germany, and a research agenda
Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Kochskämper, E., 07.2014, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 24, 4, p. 275–288 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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What role for social-ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections?
Challies, E., Newig, J. & Lenschow, A., 07.2014, In: Global Environmental Change : Human and Policy Dimensions. 27, 1, p. 32-40 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Editorial
Rose, M. & Hoffmann, J. M., 2019, In: Intergenerational Justice Review. 5, 2, p. 47 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung und EU Hochwasserrisikomanagement-Richtlinie
Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Kochskämper, E., 2014, In: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung. 58, 6, p. 339-340 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- Scientific review articles › Research
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A review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
Brandt, P., Ernst, A., Gralla, F., Lüderitz, C., Lang, D., Newig, J., Reinert, F., Abson, D. & von Wehrden, H., 08.2013, In: Ecological Economics. 92, August, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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A theory of participation: what makes stakeholder and public engagement in environmental management work?
Reed, M. S., Vella, S., Challies, E., de Vente, J., Frewer, L., Hohenwallner-Ries, D., Huber, T., Neumann, R. K., Oughton, E. A., Sidoli del Ceno, J. & van Delden, H., 01.04.2018, In: Restoration Ecology. 26, S1, p. S7-S17 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda
Cotta, B., Coenen, J., Challies, E., Newig, J., Lenschow, A. & Schilling-Vacaflor, A., 01.08.2022, In: Earth System Governance. 13, 16 p., 100142.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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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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Importance of actors and agency in sustainability transitions: A systematic exploration of the literature
Fischer, L. B. & Newig, J., 13.05.2016, In: Sustainability. 8, 5, 21 p., 476.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate
Moss, T. & Newig, J., 07.2010, In: Environmental Management. 46, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Liu, J., Dou, Y., Batistella, M., Challies, E., Connor, T., Friis, C., Millington, J. D. A., Parish, E., Romulo, C. L., Silva, R. F. B., Triezenberg, H., Yang, H., Zhao, Z., Zimmerer, K. S., Huettmann, F., Treglia, M. L., Basher, Z., Chung, M. G., Herzberger, A., Lenschow, A., Mechiche-Alami, A., Newig, J., Roche, J. & Sun, J., 08.2018, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 33, p. 58-69 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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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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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 contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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What is sustainable agriculture? A systematic review
Velten, S., Leventon, J., Jager, N. W. & Newig, J., 18.06.2015, In: Sustainability. 7, 6, p. 7833-7865 33 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
- Conference abstract in journal › Research › Peer-reviewed
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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