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.
- 2003
Frühjahrstagung "Ungleichheit und Umverteilung" des Arbeitskreises Politische Ökonomie 2003
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.05.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Workshop „Umweltrecht“ der Lehrstühle Schulte (TU Dresden) und Oebbecke (Univ. Münster) 2003
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2004
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 Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference “Complexity and Integrated Resources Management” - IEMSS 2004
Jens Newig (Speaker)
14.06.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Herbsttagung „Partizipation und Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung“ des Arbeitskreises Politische Ökonomie 2004
Jens Newig (Speaker)
22.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2005
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
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
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
- 2006
Workshop “Governance for Sustainable Development – Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control” - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
2006 ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop ‘Efficiency versus Democracy? Towards New Syntheses’
Jens Newig (Speaker)
25.04.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference on Participatory Approaches in Science & Technology - PATH 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
04.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Lüneburg Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability Communication - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
22.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
WZB-Kongress „Bürgergesellschaft – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“ - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
19.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
IDGEC Synthesis Conference - 2006
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.12.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
- 2007
2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability”
Jens Newig (Speaker)
24.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association: ‘Conflict, Citzenship and Civil Society’, Network: Environment & Society,
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
NSSI Factory, IED
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
- 2008
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
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
1. Gemeinsame Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen - 2008
Jens Newig (Speaker)
05.09.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1st ISA Forum of Sociology 2008
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
05.09.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
- 2009
IHDP Open Meeting
Jens Newig (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
06.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Jens Newig (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
KUNTIKUM-Abschlusskonferenz - 2009
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
21.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
- 2010
Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“
Jens Newig (Speaker)
30.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
ISA Word Congress of Sociology 2010
Jens Newig (Speaker)
11.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
Public Participation and River Basin Management in the WFD - Taking Stock and Looking Forwards - 2010
Mariele Evers (Organiser) & Leonie Lange (Organiser)
01.09.2010 → 03.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Social Media, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Daniel Schulz (presenter)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Sustainability Solutions Initiative - From Knowledge to Action
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
18.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
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
- 2011
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
The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication
Daniel Schulz (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Umweltbewusstsein und Medien (Media and Environmental Awareness): Können Filme unser Alltagshandeln verändern? (Do media make a change?)
Gesa Lüdecke (Lecturer)
01.12.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
- 2012
6. Netzwerktreffen Sozialwissenschaftliche Klimaanpassungsforschung 2012
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Linking modes of governance and social-ecological outcomes in environmental evaluation
Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Speaker) & Ed Challies (Speaker)
09.02.2012 → 10.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence
Ed Challies (presenter)
21.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
1st Conference of the Energy and Society Network 2012
Lisa-Britt Fischer (Speaker)
22.03.2012 → 24.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Hofgeismarer Forum für Umweltrecht und Umweltpolitik 2012
Jens Newig (Speaker)
09.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
13th International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) XIII World Congress on Rural Sociology 2012
Ed Challies (Chair)
04.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance
Ed Challies (Speaker)
04.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Alternative Adaptation Strategies Value-Tree Method as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Science, Practice and the General Public into Decision-Making
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
The Impact of Television Program on Individual Action for Climate Protection regarding Adolescents in Germany
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer