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.
- 2015
Demokratie und Wahlrecht
Michael Rose (Speaker)
11.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Does participation benefit the environment? Insights from a meta analysis of 259 cases of public environmental decision-making
Ed Challies (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Evidence-based governance or governance learning? How policy-makers design participation processes for EU Floods Directive implementation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Just why, how and when should more participation lead to better environmental policy outcomes? A causal framework for analysis
Ed Challies (Speaker)
03.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Transdisciplinarity Conference - td-net 2015
Jens Newig (Speaker), Matthias Bergmann (Coauthor), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Coauthor), Judith Kahle (Coauthor) & Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor)
08.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Modes and impacts of sustainability research. Introducing ‘MONA: Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes – A comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
08.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Time-Induced Political Inequality: Why Future Generations Need Proxy Representation
Michael Rose (Speaker)
29.09.2015 → 30.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
All-Affected, Non-Identity and the Political Representation of Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
09.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2016
Komplexe Systeme transformieren I - Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
04.04.2016 → 20.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
23.05.2016 → 31.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education