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.
  1. Democratic Myopia and Future Generations: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization

    Michael Rose (Speaker)

    08.06.201709.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Democracy and Intergenerational Justice: Overcoming Harmful Short-termism Through New Institutions?

    Jonathan Matthias Hoffmann (Organiser), Gah-Kai Leung (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Organiser)

    08.09.202009.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  3. Constitutions, Democratic Self-Determination and the Institutional Empowerment of Future Generations: Mitigating an Aporia

    Michael Rose (Speaker)

    08.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Conference on Participatory Approaches in Science & Technology - PATH 2006

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    04.06.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  5. Conference “Governing good and governing well”: The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    28.05.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Conference „Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet“, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    02.12.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Coastal Zone Canada - CZC 2014

    Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)

    17.06.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. Catholic University of Louvain

    Johanna Coenen (Visiting researcher)

    11.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  9. Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance - ESG 2021

    Jens Newig (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Organiser)

    09.09.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch