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.
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  1. Conference Presentations
  2. Unravelling the paradox of public participation: Beyond competing claims about effectiveness

    Ed Challies (Coauthor)

    21.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Wie wirkt Transdisziplinarität? Abschlusssymposium des Forschungsprojekts MONA - Modi nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung im Vergleich

    Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker), Jens Newig (Speaker), Matthias Bergmann (Speaker) & Daniel J. Lang (Speaker)

    14.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Academic Consultant
  5. Visiting an external academic institution
  6. Catholic University of Louvain

    Johanna Coenen (Visiting researcher)

    11.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  7. Utrecht University

    Jens Newig (Visiting researcher)

    2021 → …

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  8. Leuphana academic councils and committees
  9. German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)

    Jens Newig (Office)

    20142022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  10. Graduate School (Organisational unit)

    Sarah Velten (Member)

    01.04.201315.12.2014

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  11. Institute of Sustainability Governance (Organisational unit)

    Jens Newig (Chair)

    2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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