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.
REDD+ and the changing politics and economics of forest protection in Indonesia
McGregor, A., Challies, E., Gavin, M., Weaver, S. & Tacconi, L.
01.01.12 → …
Project: Research
VerS: VerS - Verfall gesellschafticher Strukturen – Chance für nachhaltige Entwicklung
Newig, J. & Balsam, R.
01.07.09 → 31.12.11
Project: Research
WaterScale: WaterScale - Skalenprobleme von Environmental Governance am Beispiel der Institutionalisierung von Flussgebietsmanagement durch die EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie
Newig, J. & Moss, T.
15.06.10 → 31.12.13
Project: Research
WTW: Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal - An Urban Transition Laboratory for Sustainable Economics
01.05.15 → 30.04.18
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Wissenschaftsraum "Nachhaltigkeitsgovernance globaler Wertschöpfungsketten"
01.08.24 → 31.07.28
Project: Research