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.
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Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: From forests to rangelands
Dougill, A. J., Stringer, L. C., Leventon, J., Riddell, M., Rueff, H., Spracklen, D. V. & Butt, E., 19.11.2012, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 367, 1606, p. 3178-3190 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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LeNA: Leitfaden für die Nachnutzung von Altablagerungen
Striegnitz, M. & Panebianco, S., 06.2010, Fachtagung: 25 Jahre Sanierung der Deponie Georgswerder : Umgang mit baulich gesicherten Altlasten: Erkenntnisse und Perspektiven; Tagungsband zur Fachtagung vom 10. und 11. Juni 2010. Hamburg, F. H. (ed.). Hamburg: Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, p. 135-147 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Learning in participatory environmental governance – its antecedents and effects. Findings from a case survey meta-analysis
Newig, J., Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E. & Challies, E., 2019, In: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 21, 3, p. 213-227 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Learning in environmental governance: opportunities for translating theory to practice
Gerlak, A. K., Heikkila, T. & Newig, J., 02.09.2020, In: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 22, 5, p. 653-666 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Landscape-scale biodiversity governance: Scenarios for reshaping spaces of governance
Leventon, J., Schaal, T., Velten, S., Loos, J., Fischer, J. & Newig, J., 01.05.2019, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 29, 3, p. 170-184 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Kommunikation, Partizipation und digitale Medien: Partizipation
Newig, J., 03.2014, Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften. Heinrichs, H. & Michelsen, G. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, p. 381-397 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education
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IWRM through WFD implementation? Drivers for integration in polycentric water governance systems
Schröder, N., 22.05.2019, In: Water (Switzerland). 11, 5, 27 p., 1063.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania
Newig, J., Milcu, A. I., Hartel, T., Mikulcak, F. & Fischer, J., 06.2013, In: Environmental Conservation. 40, 2, p. 129-137 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Integrating regional perceptions into climate change adaptation: a transdisciplinary case study from Germany's North Sea Coast
Schmidt, A., Striegnitz, M. & Kuhn, K., 12.2014, In: Regional Environmental Change. 14, 6, p. 2105-2114 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Institutional Proxy Representatives of Future Generations: A Comparative Analysis of Types and Design Features
Rose, M., 08.03.2024, In: Politics and Governance. 12, p. 1-21 21 p., 7745.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review