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.
The Water Framework Directive: Policy Implementation Through Multi-Level Governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Sustainable State.
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser), Basil Bornemann (Organiser), Michael Rose (Moderator), Jens Newig (Organiser), Francesco Laruffa (Organiser) & Christen Marius (Organiser)
01.06.2023 → 03.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The role of social science evidence in decisions on the design of participatory governance: Tentative findings from a German mixed-methods study
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Politics of Sustainability Indicators in Rhineland-Palatinate: A Case Study
Michael Rose (Speaker)
03.07.2013 → 05.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The influence of polycentricity on collaborative environmental management – the case of EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany
Jens Newig (Oral presentation)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The importance of scales for legitimate and effective participatory environmental governance. Findings from a multi-level comparative case study of implementing the Water Framework Directive (with D. Schulz)
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
08.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Impact of Television Program on Individual Action for Climate Protection regarding Adolescents in Germany
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
The EU governs beyond borders to address the displacement of environmental impacts
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor) & Simon Bager (Coauthor)
31.08.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Telecoupling. A current challenge to global environmental governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education