Professorship for Governance and Sustainability

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

We are a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds from political science, geography, sociology, systems science, or environmental sciences. Our research centers around the big challenges of governance in the context of environmental and sustainability politics. Politics and policy on multiple levels, from the very local to the global, working across scales, and involving a variety of stakeholders and process forms, from top-down policy implementation to processes of social learning in collaborative networks form the center of investigation. We ask whether and how participation and collaboration foster environmental sustainability? How can sustainability transitions be governed? How to meet the challenges of governing global social-ecological teleconnected systems? We use in-depth case studies as well as large-N case survey meta-analysis to improve the evidence-base of sustainability governance. Much of our research is inter- and transdisciplinary in nature, involving stakeholders from outside academia.

Main research areas

  • 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. Das Losprinzip in der Demokratie – Welche Rolle können Bürgerräte für Politik und Gesetzgebung spielen?

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    25.02.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

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

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    08.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    04.06.2006

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

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    28.05.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    02.12.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Coastal Zone Canada - CZC 2014

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    17.06.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  7. Catholic University of Louvain

    Coenen, J. (Visiting researcher)

    11.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  8. Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance - ESG 2021

    Newig, J. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Organiser)

    09.09.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Publications

  1. Gelingende Ethik-Lehre in der Medizin. Erkenntnisse aus der Lehrforschung
  2. Jugendhilfe und Schule
  3. Kunst durch Kredit
  4. Klimaschutz durch Biokohle
  5. The Political Role of the Business Firm
  6. Ritualisierte Bewegungsexzesse
  7. Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Niedersachsen
  8. Investigations in the magnesium-tin system
  9. Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South
  10. The effects of psychotherapy for adult depression on suicidality and hopelessness
  11. West Africa
  12. Brutareale und Brutbiologie der Greifvogelarten der Mongolei
  13. Lernen von älteren oder Lernen durch jüngere Geschwister? Effekte der Geschwisterkonstellation auf die Lesekompetenz und Hausaufgabenhilfe in PISA 2000-E
  14. Institutionelle Friedenssicherung
  15. Motiv-Tätigkeitskongruenzen in nachberuflicher Arbeitstätigkeit
  16. Abteilung orientierte Gesundheitsförderung für Mitarbeiter – was Führungskräfte tun können und sollten
  17. Machen Kinder doch glücklich?
  18. A new Parazuphium Jeannel, 1942 species (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Zagros Mountains in Iran
  19. Kaufpreiszahlung auf Notaranderkonto
  20. "Passwort Deutsch"
  21. Rezension zu Christoph Weischer: Sozialforschung. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft (Konstanz) 2007. 415 Seiten
  22. Integrating the German and US perspective on organizational practices for later-life work: The Later Life Work Index
  23. Strengthening Sensory Sustainability Science - Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
  24. Das AECC Chemie stellt sich vor
  25. Polizei und Jugendliche in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik