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.
  1. Published

    The Interaction of Global Value Chains and Rural Livelihoods: The case of smallholder raspberry growers in Chile

    Challies, E. R. T. & Murray, W. E., 01.2011, In: Journal of Agrarian Change. 11, 1, p. 29-59 31 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    The informed society: Final report on the cooperation programme INTERREG-IIIB project “SAFECOAST”

    Lüdecke, G. & Knolle, M., 03.2008, 41 p.

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch

  3. Accepted/In press

    The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation

    Lécuyer, L., Balian, E. V., Butler, J. R. A., Barnaud, C., Calla, S., Locatelli, B., Newig, J., Pettit, J., Pound, D., Quétier, F. F., Salvatori, V., Von Korff, Y. & Young, J. C., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: People and Nature. 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  4. Published

    The environmental performance of participatory and collaborative governance: A framework of causal mechanisms

    Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W., Kochskämper, E. & Adzersen, A., 05.2018, In: Policy Studies Journal. 46, 2, p. 269-297 29 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    The case survey method and applications in political science

    Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2009, Washington: ASPA - American Political Science Association, 15 p. (APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper.).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  6. Published

    Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science

    Busck-Lumholt, L. M., Coenen, J., Persson, J., Frohn Pedersen, A., Mertz, O. & Corbera, E., 02.01.2022, In: Journal of Land Use Science. 17, 1, p. 386-406 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation

    Kochskämper, E., Koontz, T. M. & Newig, J., 03.2021, In: Ecology and Society. 26, 1, 13 p., 22.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Synapses in the Network: Learning in Governance Networks in the Context of Environmental Management

    Newig, J., Guenther, D. & Pahl-Wostl, C., 12.2010, In: Ecology and Society. 15, 4, 16 p., 24.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Symbolische Gesetzgebung zwischen Machtausübung und gesellschaftlicher Selbsttäuschung

    Newig, J., 2010, Wie wirkt Recht?: ausgewählte Beiträge zum Ersten Gemeinsamen Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen Luzern, 4. - 6. September 2008. Cottier, M., Estermann, J. & Wrase, M. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 301-322 22 p. (Recht und Gesellschaft (Law and Society); vol. 1).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Sustainability through institutional failure and decline? Archetypes of productive pathways

    Newig, J., Derwort, P. & Jager, N. W., 03.2019, In: Ecology and Society. 24, 1, 14 p., 18.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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