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.
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
International Symposium “Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management (UPEM)”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
07.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.12.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Leverage points for sustainability transformation in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Institutional perspectives
Jens Newig (Speaker)
16.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Meta analysis as a strategy of evidence-based participation research: The example of the project ‘EDGE’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
28.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Methods workshop: A social science perspective on coastal issues
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
24.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
NSSI Factory, IED
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker) & Michael Rose (Panel participant)
06.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Policy learning and evidence-based governance in mandated participatory planning
Jens Newig (Speaker)
27.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Potentials, limits and context factors of participation for achieving environmental sustainability
Jens Newig (Speaker)
31.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Productive Functions of Failure and Destruction for Societal Transitions towards Sustainability – A Systems Approach
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Representing Future Generations in Parliament
Michael Rose (Panel participant)
22.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Telecoupling. A current challenge to global environmental governance
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
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 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
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
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 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
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
- 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