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.
- 2016
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
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
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
Gender und Diversity: Welche Rolle spielt Vielfalt in der transdisziplinären Nachhaltigkeitsforschung?
Judith Kahle (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker)
01.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Die Zukunft gestalten - Transdisziplinäre Projektarbeit
Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
10.2016 → 03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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
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