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.
MONA: Modes of sustainability-related research in comparison (MONA): Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes - a comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects
Lang, D. J., Newig, J., Jahn, S. & Kahle, J.
30.08.13 → 08.09.21
Project: Research
Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge
Vilsmaier, U., Lang, D. J., Newig, J., Fischer, J., Schomerus, T., von Wehrden, H., Sieveking, A., Klaniecki, K. T., Dorninger, C., Clarke, E. A., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Lam, D., Patru-Duse, I. A., Jager, N. W., Derwort, P., Patru-Duse, I. A., Apetrei, C., Freeth, R. C., Engbers, M., Peukert, D., Berkau, A. J., Lutz, L. M., Leventon, J. & Abson, D.
01.04.15 → 31.03.21
Project: Research
Klimafolgenanpassung: Klimafolgenanpassung - Analyse der Entwicklung einer Klimaanpassungsstrategie für Niedersachsen
Striegnitz, M., Saretzki, T. & Ebermann, V.
01.04.11 → 30.06.18
Project: Research
GOVERNECT: Governance of Environmental Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems of Global Inter-Regional Connectedness
Lenschow, A., Newig, J., Challies, E. & Cotta, B.
01.04.17 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
Future generations in present-day democracy. The theory and practice of proxy representation.
01.05.12 → 06.12.16
Project: Dissertation project
EDGE: Evaluating the Delivery of participatory environmenal Governance using an Evidence-based research design
Newig, J., Jager, N. W. & Challies, E.
01.04.11 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
ECOPAG: Environmental consequences of participatory governance – A Comparative Meta-Analysis of Case Studies in Environmental Decision-Making
Newig, J. & Adzersen, A.
01.03.09 → 14.04.15
Project: Research