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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Governance change and governance learning in Europe: stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation
Challies, E., Newig, J., Kochskämper, E. & Jager, N. W., 03.04.2017, In: Policy and Society. 36, 2, p. 288-303 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Governance approaches to address scale issues in biodiversity management – current situation and ways forward
Mildorfová-Leventon, J., Newig, J., Schaal, T. & Velten, S., 2016, Lund: Lund University, 4 p. (MULTAGRI Policy Brief; no. 3/2016).Research output: Working paper › Research communication reports › Transfer
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Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
Lenschow, A., Newig, J. & Challies, E., 02.01.2016, In: Environmental Politics. 25, 1, p. 136-159 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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German forest management stakeholders at the science-society interface: Their views on problem definition, knowledge production and research utilization
Juerges, N. & Jahn, S., 01.02.2020, In: Forest Policy and Economics. 111, 10 p., 102076.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Führt Bürgerbeteiligung in umweltpolitischen Entscheidungsprozessen zu mehr Effektivität und Legitimität?
Newig, J., Jager, N. W. & Challies, E., 2012, In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. 22, 4, p. 527-564 38 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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From Planning to Implementation: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches for Collaborative Watershed Management
Koontz, T. M. & Newig, J., 08.2014, In: Policy Studies Journal. 42, 3, p. 416-442 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Exploring governance learning: How policymakers draw on evidence, experience and intuition in designing participatory flood risk planning
Newig, J., Kochskämper, E., Challies, E. & Jager, N. W., 01.01.2016, In: Environmental Science & Policy. 55, p. 353-360 8 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
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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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Erratum: Formalised and non-formalised methods in resource management-knowledge and social learning in participatory processes: An introduction
Newig, J., Haberl, H., Pahl-Wostl, C. & Rothman, D. S., 04.2009, In: Systemic Practice and Action Research. 22, 2, p. 125 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research