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
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
Determinants of Researchers' Roles in Real-World Transitions: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Real-World Laboratories.
Michael Rose (Speaker)
18.06.2017 → 21.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Multikriterielle Evaluationsstudie – Ein transdisziplinäres Instrument zur integrativen Entscheidungsfindung
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
22.11.2012 → 23.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does participation benefit the environment? Insights from a meta analysis of 259 cases of public environmental decision-making
Ed Challies (Speaker)
01.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does transdisciplinarity improve academic and societal research outcomes? Empirical results from a large-N empirical study
Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker), Jens Newig (Panel participant), Matthias Bergmann (Panel participant) & Daniel J. Lang (Panel participant)
14.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Encounter at Dynamic Eye Level: 15 Roles Adopted by Actors in Science-Practice Collaborations
Annaliesa Hilger (Coauthor), Michael Rose (presenter) & Michael Rose (Coauthor)
05.10.2021 → 08.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of a Belt and Road Project in Montenegro – National Agency and External Influences
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
07.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study from Montenegro
Johanna Coenen (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
24.08.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research