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.
- Visiting an external academic institution
Catholic University of Louvain
Johanna Coenen (Visiting researcher)
11.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Utrecht University
Jens Newig (Visiting researcher)
2021 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- Academic Consultant
Stellungsnahme für öffentliche Sachverständigenanhörung im Deutschen Bundestag zum Thema der Weiterentwicklung des Parlamentarischen Beirats für nachhaltige Entwicklung. 39. Sitzung des Parlamentarischen Beirats für nachhaltige Entwicklung.
Michael Rose (Reviewer)
24.05.2023Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Conference Presentations
1. Gemeinsame Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen - 2008
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker), Edward Challies (Speaker) & Elisa Kochskämper (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Tomas M. Koontz (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st International Conference on Public Policy - ICPP 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker), Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Speaker) & Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2006 ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop ‘Efficiency versus Democracy? Towards New Syntheses’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.04.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
24.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th World Congress of the International Political Science Association - IPSA 2018
Pim Derwort (Speaker)
21.07.2018 → 25.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association: ‘Conflict, Citzenship and Civil Society’, Network: Environment & Society,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2007Activity: 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
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Speaker)
21.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
23.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference „Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet“, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.12.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference “Governing good and governing well”: The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
28.05.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
conference of the International Sociological Association, RC 24 Environment and Society, “Double Standards and Simulation: Symbolism, Rhetoric and Irony in Eco-Politics”,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.09.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Constitutions, Democratic Self-Determination and the Institutional Empowerment of Future Generations: Mitigating an Aporia
Michael Rose (Speaker)
08.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research