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.
- 2008
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
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
- 2007
NSSI Factory, IED
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
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
- 2006
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
IDGEC Synthesis Conference - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.12.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Lüneburg Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability Communication - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
22.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference on Participatory Approaches in Science & Technology - PATH 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
04.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research