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
Environmental Governance of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor), Simon Bager (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
05.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental governance research: Interdisciplinary, Policy-oriented - and Cumulative?
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2018
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions - ECPR 2013
Jens Newig (Speaker)
13.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Evidence-based governance or governance learning? How policy-makers design participation processes for EU Floods Directive implementation
Jens Newig (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Evidence orientation in Earth System Governance Research
Jens Newig (Speaker) & Michael Rose (Speaker)
09.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues
Jens Newig (Speaker), Michael Rose (Coauthor) & Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Coauthor)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Forum for young researchers engaging in transdisciplinarity
Judith Kahle (Speaker), Esther Maria Meyer (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Panel participant)
12.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
From the Environmental State to the Sustainability State? Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives
Michael Rose (Speaker)
01.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Governance challenges in telecoupled systems (with Andrea Lenschow and Edward Challies)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research