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.
- Conference Presentations
How Do Civil Servants Use Social Science Evidence for Designing Participatory Governance Processes?
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.08.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
(How) Do National Sustainability Institutions Shape Climate Governance?
Okka Lou Mathis (Coauthor), Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
How viable are institutional innovations for national long-term governance? Lessons from a comparative empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Institutionen für zukünftige Generationen und ihre Institutionalisierung unter den Bedingungen einer gegenwartsfixierten Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
25.09.2018 → 28.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
ISA Word Congress of Sociology 2010
Jens Newig (Speaker)
11.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Justice, Democracy and Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Just new democratic bells and whistles? Assessing the formal capacity of institutions for future generations to influence policy-making
Michael Rose (Speaker)
24.08.2022Activity: 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
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
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
Mapping participation in public environmental decision-making processes: An international database on published case studies
Ed Challies (Speaker)
05.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Mitigating Democratic Myopia as a Means to Mitigate Climate Change: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
Michael Rose (Speaker)
07.09.2016 → 10.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Polity for sustainability: Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions for empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker), Okka Lou Mathis (Coauthor), Michael Rose (Coauthor), Jens Newig (Coauthor) & Steffen Bauer (Coauthor)
14.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‚Proxy-Repräsentation‘ als demokratische Innovation: Wie zukünftige Generationen politisch repräsentiert werden können
Michael Rose (Speaker)
19.09.2013 → 21.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Qualitätskritieren und Wirkungen von nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung
Daniel J. Lang (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker) & David Lam (Speaker)
07.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reflexive Multi-Criteria Evaluation as a tool to integrate Multiple Values into Decision-Making – a Case Study from Germany
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
09.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Reflexive Multi-Criteria Evaluation as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Scientists and Stakeholders
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
18.03.2013 → 20.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sufficiency: The Missing Elephant in the EU Trade and Biodiversity Agenda?
Johanna Coenen (Speaker) & Nicolas Roux (Speaker)
05.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability through Institutional Failure & Decline? Archetypes of Productive Functions
Pim Derwort (Speaker)
06.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The EU governs beyond borders to address the displacement of environmental impacts
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor) & Simon Bager (Coauthor)
31.08.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The influence of polycentricity on collaborative environmental management – the case of EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany
Jens Newig (Oral presentation)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Politics of Sustainability Indicators in Rhineland-Palatinate: A Case Study
Michael Rose (Speaker)
03.07.2013 → 05.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of social science evidence in decisions on the design of participatory governance: Tentative findings from a German mixed-methods study
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: 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
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
Transforming Well-Being in Wuppertal: Conditions and Constraints
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Katrin Maibaum (Speaker)
01.09.2016 → 03.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
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
Types of institutional proxy representatives for future generations in democracies: A comparative empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker)
06.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Unravelling the paradox of public participation: Beyond competing claims about effectiveness
Ed Challies (Coauthor)
21.09.2013Activity: 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
Why and how do civil servants (not) use social science evidence to decide on participatory governance processes? A mixed-methods study on evidence-informed participatory governance in German states, counties and municipalities
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wie wirkt Transdisziplinarität? Abschlusssymposium des Forschungsprojekts MONA - Modi nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung im Vergleich
Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker), Jens Newig (Speaker), Matthias Bergmann (Speaker) & Daniel J. Lang (Speaker)
14.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
2nd European-Chinese RiBaGo (River Basin Governance) Workshop
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
3rd EU-China River Basin Governance Research Network Workshop - RiBaGo 2011
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JAGFOS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Interessen zukünftiger Generationen: neue Modelle der Repräsentation
Michael Rose (Plenary speaker)
16.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
E-learning module on “Participation” in the context of IWRM – “Social Science” Part
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Expert workshop ‘Sustainability: platforms to facilitate deliberative policy learning’, MCC Berlin
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Governance und Transformation: Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
IHDP Open Meeting
Jens Newig (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Symposium “Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management (UPEM)”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
07.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.12.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Leverage points for sustainability transformation in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Institutional perspectives
Jens Newig (Speaker)
16.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Meta analysis as a strategy of evidence-based participation research: The example of the project ‘EDGE’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
28.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Methods workshop: A social science perspective on coastal issues
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
24.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
NSSI Factory, IED
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker) & Michael Rose (Panel participant)
06.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Policy learning and evidence-based governance in mandated participatory planning
Jens Newig (Speaker)
27.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Potentials, limits and context factors of participation for achieving environmental sustainability
Jens Newig (Speaker)
31.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Productive Functions of Failure and Destruction for Societal Transitions towards Sustainability – A Systems Approach
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Representing Future Generations in Parliament
Michael Rose (Panel participant)
22.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Telecoupling. A current challenge to global environmental governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
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
The Water Framework Directive: Policy Implementation Through Multi-Level Governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Transformative Indikatoren: Wirkungsabschätzungen in Reallaboren
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Katharina Schleicher (Speaker)
07.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
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 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
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
- Presentations (poster etc.)
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
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
Governance induces telecoupling: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Ed Challies (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Media Impact on Climate Protection
Gesa Lüdecke (presenter)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
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
Representing Future Generations Today
Michael Rose (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 10.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Social Media, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Daniel Schulz (presenter)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research