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.
- 2012
Linking modes of governance and social-ecological outcomes in environmental evaluation
Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Speaker) & Ed Challies (Speaker)
09.02.2012 → 10.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Ed Challies (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
1st Conference of the Energy and Society Network 2012
Lisa-Britt Fischer (Speaker)
22.03.2012 → 24.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Hofgeismarer Forum für Umweltrecht und Umweltpolitik 2012
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Demokratiekonferenz „Gegenseitige Blicke über die Grenze: Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz“ 2012
Jens Newig (Speaker)
21.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
13th International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) XIII World Congress on Rural Sociology 2012
Ed Challies (Chair)
04.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance
Ed Challies (Speaker)
04.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Alternative Adaptation Strategies Value-Tree Method as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Science, Practice and the General Public into Decision-Making
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Agri-food globalisation and governance for environmental sustainability: Challenges and opportunities of a global commodity chains approach
Ed Challies (Speaker)
30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The Impact of Television Program on Individual Action for Climate Protection regarding Adolescents in Germany
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer