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.
Agri-food globalisation and governance for environmental sustainability: Challenges and opportunities of a global commodity chains approach
Ed Challies (Speaker)
30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association: ‘Conflict, Citzenship and Civil Society’, Network: Environment & Society,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
6th Workshop on Unintended Consequences
Pim Derwort (Participant)
07.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
6. Netzwerktreffen Sozialwissenschaftliche Klimaanpassungsforschung 2012
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JAGFOS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
4th World Sustainability Forum - WSF 2014
Sarah Velten (presenter)
01.11.2014 → 30.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - OSM 2019
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
24.04.2019 → 26.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Darmstädter Tage der Transformation - DTdT 2022
Michael Rose (Moderator)
17.03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
3rd International Conference on Biodiversity and the UN Millennium Development Goals
Julia Leventon (Speaker)
29.10.2014 → 31.10.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research