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
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