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.
Governance challenges in telecoupled systems (with Andrea Lenschow and Edward Challies)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Governance induces telecoupling: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Governance und Transformation: Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Sarah Velten (Member)
01.04.2013 → 15.12.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Herbsttagung „Partizipation und Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung“ des Arbeitskreises Politische Ökonomie 2004
Jens Newig (Speaker)
22.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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 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
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
IDGEC Synthesis Conference - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.12.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research