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.
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
Zehnter Großer Konvent der Schader-Stiftung
Michael Rose (Coauthor)
04.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
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
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
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 “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
Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
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
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
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