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.
- Journal articles › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Do environmental preferences in wealthy nations persist in times of crisis? The European environmental attitudes (2008-2017)
Cotta, B. & Vincenzo, M., 01.03.2020, In: Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. 50, 1, p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Does problem complexity matter for environmental policy delivery? How public authorities address problems of water governance
Kirschke, S., Newig, J., Völker, J. & Borchardt, D., 01.07.2017, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 196, p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies
Newig, J., Jager, N. W., Challies, E. R. T. & Kochskämper, E., 01.09.2023, In: Global Environmental Change : Human and Policy Dimensions. 82, 11 p., 102705.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Driving factors for the regional implementation of renewable energy: - a multiple case study on the German energy transition
Lutz, L. M., Fischer, L-B., Newig, J. & Lang, D. J., 01.06.2017, In: Energy Policy. 105, p. 136-147 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Embedding Evidence on Conservation Interventions Within a Context of Multilevel Governance
Ekroos, J., Leventon, J., Fischer, J., Newig, J. & Smith, H. G., 01.01.2017, In: Conservation Letters. 10, 1, p. 139-145 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Environmental governance: participatory, multi-level - and effective?
Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2009, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 19, 3, p. 197-214 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Environmental governance of a Belt and Road project in Montenegro – National agency and external influences
Coenen, J., Newig, J. & Meyfroidt, P., 01.08.2022, In: Land Use Policy. 119, 14 p., 106136.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative
Coenen, J., Bager, S., Meyfroidt, P., Newig, J. & Challies, E., 01.01.2021, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 31, 1, p. 3-17 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Experiments in climate governance: A systematic review of research on energy and built environment transitions
Kivimaa, P., Hildén, M., Huitema, D., Jordan, A. & Newig, J., 15.12.2017, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 169, p. 17 - 29 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Explaining implementation deficits through multi-level governance in the EU's new member states: EU limits for arsenic in drinking water in Hungary
Leventon, J., 03.07.2015, In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 58, 7, p. 1137-1153 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review