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.
Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Workshop “Governance for Sustainable Development – Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control” - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop “Governance für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Prinzipien und praktische Relevanz”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
16.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Workshop on German-Dutch-Perspectives on Current Issues of Environmental Social Sciences
Jens Newig (Speaker)
17.11.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
WZB-Kongress „Bürgergesellschaft – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“ - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Zehnter Großer Konvent der Schader-Stiftung
Michael Rose (Coauthor)
04.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Zukunftsgerechtigkeit als Leitprinzip kommunalen Planens und Handelns
Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker)
23.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer