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
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Speaker)
21.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
23.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference „Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet“, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.12.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference “Governing good and governing well”: The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
28.05.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
conference of the International Sociological Association, RC 24 Environment and Society, “Double Standards and Simulation: Symbolism, Rhetoric and Irony in Eco-Politics”,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
02.09.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Constitutions, Democratic Self-Determination and the Institutional Empowerment of Future Generations: Mitigating an Aporia
Michael Rose (Speaker)
08.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Democratic Myopia and Future Generations: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
Michael Rose (Speaker)
08.06.2017 → 09.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Demokratiekonferenz „Gegenseitige Blicke über die Grenze: Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz“ 2012
Jens Newig (Speaker)
21.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Demokratie und Wahlrecht
Michael Rose (Speaker)
11.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer