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.
- Presentations (poster etc.)
Agri-food globalisation and governance for environmental sustainability: Challenges and opportunities of a global commodity chains approach
Ed Challies (Speaker)
30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
An Evidence-based Approach to the Assessment of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: A conceptual and methodological overview of the ‘EDGE’ project
Ed Challies (presenter)
05.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › 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
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Ed Challies (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Media Impact on Climate Protection
Gesa Lüdecke (presenter)
30.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Reflexive Multikriterielle Evaluation – Ein Instrument zur antizipativen Konfliktminderung bei Strategieentscheidungen im Küstenschutz
Anke Schmidt (presenter)
04.03.2013 → 06.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Representing Future Generations Today
Michael Rose (Speaker)
29.07.2013 → 10.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Social Media, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Daniel Schulz (presenter)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
2nd European-Chinese RiBaGo (River Basin Governance) Workshop
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
3rd EU-China River Basin Governance Research Network Workshop - RiBaGo 2011
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
5th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JAGFOS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Interessen zukünftiger Generationen: neue Modelle der Repräsentation
Michael Rose (Plenary speaker)
16.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der Demokratie
Michael Rose (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie - Ausgewählte Herausforderungen
Michael Rose (Speaker)
26.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
E-learning module on “Participation” in the context of IWRM – “Social Science” Part
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Expert workshop ‘Sustainability: platforms to facilitate deliberative policy learning’, MCC Berlin
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
IHDP Open Meeting
Jens Newig (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research