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.
- 2019
Sustainability through Institutional Failure & Decline? Archetypes of Productive Functions
Pim Derwort (Speaker)
06.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - OSM 2019
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
24.04.2019 → 26.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Governance induces telecoupling: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
General Conference - ECPR 2019
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
04.09.2019 → 07.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Environmental Governance of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor), Simon Bager (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
05.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Which Research Approach Should I Employ In My Research Project? Developing Criteria-Based Guidance on Choosing the Most Appropriate Research Approach Among TD Case Study, Living Lab, Action Research, Urban Transition Lab, Real-World Lab, Applied Disciplinary Research, and others
Michael Rose (Speaker), Annaliesa Hilger (Speaker), Matthias Wanner (Speaker) & Tom Dedeurwaerdere (Speaker)
10.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie - Ausgewählte Herausforderungen
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Catholic University of Louvain
Johanna Coenen (Visiting researcher)
11.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- 2020
Two degrees and the SDGs: A network analysis of interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the SDGs
Johanna Coenen (Speaker) & Lisa-Maria Glass (Speaker)
10.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research