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.
- Conference Presentations
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Speaker)
21.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
23.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference „Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet“, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.12.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference “Governing good and governing well”: The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
28.05.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
conference of the International Sociological Association, RC 24 Environment and Society, “Double Standards and Simulation: Symbolism, Rhetoric and Irony in Eco-Politics”,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.09.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Constitutions, Democratic Self-Determination and the Institutional Empowerment of Future Generations: Mitigating an Aporia
Michael Rose (Speaker)
08.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Democratic Myopia and Future Generations: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
Michael Rose (Speaker)
08.06.2017 → 09.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Demokratiekonferenz „Gegenseitige Blicke über die Grenze: Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz“ 2012
Jens Newig (Speaker)
21.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Demokratie und Wahlrecht
Michael Rose (Speaker)
11.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Determinants of Researchers' Roles in Real-World Transitions: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Real-World Laboratories.
Michael Rose (Speaker)
18.06.2017 → 21.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Multikriterielle Evaluationsstudie – Ein transdisziplinäres Instrument zur integrativen Entscheidungsfindung
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
22.11.2012 → 23.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does participation benefit the environment? Insights from a meta analysis of 259 cases of public environmental decision-making
Ed Challies (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does transdisciplinarity improve academic and societal research outcomes? Empirical results from a large-N empirical study
Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker), Jens Newig (Panel participant), Matthias Bergmann (Panel participant) & Daniel J. Lang (Panel participant)
14.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Encounter at Dynamic Eye Level: 15 Roles Adopted by Actors in Science-Practice Collaborations
Annaliesa Hilger (Coauthor), Michael Rose (presenter) & Michael Rose (Coauthor)
05.10.2021 → 08.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of a Belt and Road Project in Montenegro – National Agency and External Influences
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
07.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study from Montenegro
Johanna Coenen (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
24.08.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor), Simon Bager (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
05.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental governance research: Interdisciplinary, Policy-oriented - and Cumulative?
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2018
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions - ECPR 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker)
13.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Evidence-based governance or governance learning? How policy-makers design participation processes for EU Floods Directive implementation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Evidence orientation in Earth System Governance Research
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Michael Rose (Speaker)
09.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues
Jens Newig (Speaker), Michael Rose (Coauthor) & Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Coauthor)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Forum for young researchers engaging in transdisciplinarity
Judith Kahle (Speaker), Esther Maria Meyer (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Panel participant)
12.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
From the Environmental State to the Sustainability State? Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives
Michael Rose (Speaker)
01.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Governance challenges in telecoupled systems (with Andrea Lenschow and Edward Challies)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
How Do Civil Servants Use Social Science Evidence for Designing Participatory Governance Processes?
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.08.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
(How) Do National Sustainability Institutions Shape Climate Governance?
Okka Lou Mathis (Coauthor), Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
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
ISA Word Congress of Sociology 2010
Jens Newig (Speaker)
11.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Justice, Democracy and Future Generations
Michael Rose (Speaker)
27.06.2022Activity: 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
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
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
Linking modes of governance and social-ecological outcomes in environmental evaluation
Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Speaker) & Ed Challies (Speaker)
09.02.2012 → 10.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Mapping participation in public environmental decision-making processes: An international database on published case studies
Ed Challies (Speaker)
05.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Media and Climate-friendly Behavior – Do Media have an Impact on Individual Action for Climate Protection?
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Mitigating Democratic Myopia as a Means to Mitigate Climate Change: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
Michael Rose (Speaker)
07.09.2016 → 10.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Modes and impacts of sustainability research. Introducing ‘MONA: Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes – A comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
08.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Polity for sustainability: Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions for empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker), Okka Lou Mathis (Coauthor), Michael Rose (Coauthor), Jens Newig (Coauthor) & Steffen Bauer (Coauthor)
14.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‚Proxy-Repräsentation‘ als demokratische Innovation: Wie zukünftige Generationen politisch repräsentiert werden können
Michael Rose (Speaker)
19.09.2013 → 21.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Qualitätskritieren und Wirkungen von nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung
Daniel J. Lang (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker) & David Lam (Speaker)
07.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reflexive Multi-Criteria Evaluation as a tool to integrate Multiple Values into Decision-Making – a Case Study from Germany
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
09.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Reflexive Multi-Criteria Evaluation as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Scientists and Stakeholders
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
18.03.2013 → 20.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sufficiency: The Missing Elephant in the EU Trade and Biodiversity Agenda?
Johanna Coenen (Speaker) & Nicolas Roux (Speaker)
05.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability through Institutional Failure & Decline? Archetypes of Productive Functions
Pim Derwort (Speaker)
06.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research