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.
Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)
23.05.2016 → 31.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Just why, how and when should more participation lead to better environmental policy outcomes? A causal framework for analysis
Ed Challies (Speaker)
03.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Just new democratic bells and whistles? Assessing the formal capacity of institutions for future generations to influence policy-making
Michael Rose (Speaker)
24.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Justice, Democracy and Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (Journal)
Michael Rose (Editor)
07.2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
ISA Word Congress of Sociology 2010
Jens Newig (Speaker)
11.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.12.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Transdisciplinarity Conference - td-net 2015
Jens Newig (Speaker), Matthias Bergmann (Coauthor), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Coauthor), Judith Kahle (Coauthor) & Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor)
08.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Symposium “Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management (UPEM)”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
07.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference “Complexity and Integrated Resources Management” - IEMSS 2004
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.06.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research