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.
Coastal Zone Canada - CZC 2014
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
17.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Catholic University of Louvain
Johanna Coenen (Visiting researcher)
11.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – A comparative empirical analysis of the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations
Michael Rose (presenter)
14.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance - ESG 2021
Jens Newig (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Organiser)
09.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Annual conference of the German Geographical Society 2012
Ed Challies (presenter)
10.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
An Evidence-based Approach to the Assessment of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: A conceptual and methodological overview of the ‘EDGE’ project
Ed Challies (presenter)
05.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
All-Affected, Non-Identity and the Political Representation of Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
09.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research