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
Leuphana Energieforum 2012
Lisa-Britt Fischer (Participant)
17.09.2012 → 18.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
An Evidence-based Approach to the Assessment of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: A conceptual and methodological overview of the ‘EDGE’ project
Ed Challies (presenter)
05.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Annual conference of the German Geographical Society 2012
Ed Challies (presenter)
10.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Die Multikriterielle Evaluationsstudie – Ein transdisziplinäres Instrument zur integrativen Entscheidungsfindung
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
22.11.2012 → 23.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Responsible Supply Chains and Networks: Challenges for Governance and Sustainability 2012
Ed Challies (presenter)
24.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Österreichischer Tag der Politikwissenschaft 2012
Ed Challies (Coauthor)
30.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Media and Climate-friendly Behavior – Do Media have an Impact on Individual Action for Climate Protection?
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Media Impact on Climate Protection
Gesa Lüdecke (presenter)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
- 2013
Reflexive Multikriterielle Evaluation – Ein Instrument zur antizipativen Konfliktminderung bei Strategieentscheidungen im Küstenschutz
Anke Schmidt (presenter)
04.03.2013 → 06.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The importance of scales for legitimate and effective participatory environmental governance. Findings from a multi-level comparative case study of implementing the Water Framework Directive (with D. Schulz)
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
08.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research