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.
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance
Ed Challies (Speaker)
04.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Intergenerational Justice Review (Journal)
Michael Rose (Editor)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Institutionen für zukünftige Generationen und ihre Institutionalisierung unter den Bedingungen einer gegenwartsfixierten Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
25.09.2018 → 28.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Institute of Sustainability Governance (Organisational unit)
Jens Newig (Chair)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Inaugural Meeting of the Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation at Earth System Governance Taskforce and Meeting Day - 2021
Jens Newig (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Organiser)
10.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
IHDP Open Meeting
Jens Newig (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
IDGEC Synthesis Conference - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.12.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
How viable are institutional innovations for national long-term governance? Lessons from a comparative empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
How effective is participation in public environmental decision-making? Early findings from a meta analysis of 250 case studies
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.08.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research