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.
The importance of scales for legitimate and effective participatory environmental governance. Findings from a multi-level comparative case study of implementing the Water Framework Directive (with D. Schulz)
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
08.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The influence of polycentricity on collaborative environmental management – the case of EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany
Jens Newig (Oral presentation)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Politics of Sustainability Indicators in Rhineland-Palatinate: A Case Study
Michael Rose (Speaker)
03.07.2013 → 05.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of social science evidence in decisions on the design of participatory governance: Tentative findings from a German mixed-methods study
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Sustainable State.
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser), Basil Bornemann (Organiser), Michael Rose (Moderator), Jens Newig (Organiser), Francesco Laruffa (Organiser) & Christen Marius (Organiser)
01.06.2023 → 03.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Water Framework Directive: Policy Implementation Through Multi-Level Governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Time-Induced Political Inequality: Why Future Generations Need Proxy Representation
Michael Rose (Speaker)
29.09.2015 → 30.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Alternative Adaptation Strategies Value-Tree Method as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Science, Practice and the General Public into Decision-Making
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transformative Indikatoren: Wirkungsabschätzungen in Reallaboren
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Katharina Schleicher (Speaker)
07.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Transforming Well-Being in Wuppertal: Conditions and Constraints
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Katrin Maibaum (Speaker)
01.09.2016 → 03.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Two degrees and the SDGs: A network analysis of interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the SDGs
Johanna Coenen (Speaker) & Lisa-Maria Glass (Speaker)
10.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Types of institutional proxy representatives for future generations in democracies: A comparative empirical analysis
Michael Rose (Speaker)
06.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Umweltbewusstsein und Medien (Media and Environmental Awareness): Können Filme unser Alltagshandeln verändern? (Do media make a change?)
Gesa Lüdecke (Lecturer)
01.12.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
UNLEASH 2018
Pim Derwort (Participant)
30.05.2018 → 06.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Unravelling the paradox of public participation: Beyond competing claims about effectiveness
Ed Challies (Coauthor)
21.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Utrecht University
Jens Newig (Visiting researcher)
2021 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Which Research Approach Should I Employ In My Research Project? Developing Criteria-Based Guidance on Choosing the Most Appropriate Research Approach Among TD Case Study, Living Lab, Action Research, Urban Transition Lab, Real-World Lab, Applied Disciplinary Research, and others
Michael Rose (Speaker), Annaliesa Hilger (Speaker), Matthias Wanner (Speaker) & Tom Dedeurwaerdere (Speaker)
10.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Why and how do civil servants (not) use social science evidence to decide on participatory governance processes? A mixed-methods study on evidence-informed participatory governance in German states, counties and municipalities
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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)
14.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Workshop “Governance for Sustainable Development – Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control” - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop “Governance für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Prinzipien und praktische Relevanz”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
16.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Workshop on German-Dutch-Perspectives on Current Issues of Environmental Social Sciences
Jens Newig (Speaker)
17.11.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
WZB-Kongress „Bürgergesellschaft – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“ - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Zehnter Großer Konvent der Schader-Stiftung
Michael Rose (Coauthor)
04.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Zukunftsgerechtigkeit als Leitprinzip kommunalen Planens und Handelns
Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker)
23.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer