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

    Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit durch zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation? Zum Stand der Debatte in der internationalen Literatur

    Newig, J. & Fritsch, O., 2011, Zukunft der Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung: Chancen. Grenzen. Herausforderungen.. Handler, M. & Trattnigg, R. (eds.). Wien: Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (Lebensmittelministerium), p. 55-64 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung und EU Hochwasserrisikomanagement-Richtlinie

    Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Kochskämper, E., 2014, In: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung. 58, 6, p. 339-340 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  3. Published

    Non-identity – So what? A political scientist’s perspective on a curious but somehow arbitrary problem

    Rose, M., 2019, In: Intergenerational Justice Review. 5, 2, p. 54-55 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    (Neue) Medien, Partizipation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Lüdecke, G. & Schulz, D., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft: Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 132-151 20 p.

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

  5. Published

    Nachhaltige Gesellschaft: Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?

    Heinrichs, H. (ed.), Kuhn, K. (ed.) & Newig, J. (ed.), 2011, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 222 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch gesellschaftliche Partizipation und Kooperation? – eine kritische Revision zentraler Theorien und Konzepte

    Newig, J., Kuhn, K. & Heinrichs, H., 2011, Nachhaltige Gesellschaft: Welche Rolle für Partizipation und Kooperation?. Heinrichs, H., Kuhn, K. & Newig, J. (eds.). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 27-45 19 p.

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

  7. Published

    Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate

    Moss, T. & Newig, J., 07.2010, In: Environmental Management. 46, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  8. Published

    Multi-Level Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale

    Newig, J. (ed.) & Moss, T. (ed.), 2010, Springer. 142 p. (Environmental Management; vol. 46, no. 1)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  9. Published

    Multi-level Governance, Policy Implementation and Participation: The EU’s Mandated Participatory Planning Approach to Implementing Environmental Policy

    Newig, J. & Koontz, T. M., 07.02.2014, In: Journal of European Public Policy. 21, 2, p. 248-267 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Multi-level Governance, Multi-level Deficits: The Case of Drinking Water Management in Hungary

    Leventon, J. & Antypas, A., 2012, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 22, 4, p. 253-267 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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