Professorship for Governance and Sustainability
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
We are a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds from political science, geography, sociology, systems science, or environmental sciences. Our research centers around the big challenges of governance in the context of environmental and sustainability politics. Politics and policy on multiple levels, from the very local to the global, working across scales, and involving a variety of stakeholders and process forms, from top-down policy implementation to processes of social learning in collaborative networks form the center of investigation. We ask whether and how participation and collaboration foster environmental sustainability? How can sustainability transitions be governed? How to meet the challenges of governing global social-ecological teleconnected systems? We use in-depth case studies as well as large-N case survey meta-analysis to improve the evidence-base of sustainability governance. Much of our research is inter- and transdisciplinary in nature, involving stakeholders from outside academia.
Main research areas
- 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
Just new democratic bells and whistles? Assessing the formal capacity of institutions for future generations to influence policy-making
Rose, M. (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
Challies, E. (Speaker)
03.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum)
Bergmann, M. (Speaker), Jahn, S. V. (Speaker) & Kahle, J. (Speaker)
23.05.2016 → 31.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Linking modes of governance and social-ecological outcomes in environmental evaluation
Jager, N. W. (Speaker) & Challies, E. (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
Challies, E. (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?
Lüdecke, G. (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
Rose, M. (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’
Newig, J. (Speaker)
08.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal
Rose, M. (Speaker)
26.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Polity for sustainability: Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions for empirical analysis
Rose, M. (Speaker), Mathis, O. L. (Coauthor), Rose, M. (Coauthor), Newig, J. (Coauthor) & Bauer, S. (Coauthor)
14.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research