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.
- 2015
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Critical reflection on knowledge and narratives of conservation agriculture
Whitfield, S., Dougill, A. J., Dyer, J., Kalaba, F. K., Leventon, J. & Stringer, L. C., 01.03.2015, In: Geoforum. 60, 3, p. 133-142 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Applying a capitals approach to understand rural development traps: A case study from post-socialist Romania
Mikulcak, F., Haider, J. L., Abson, D., Newig, J. & Fischer, J., 01.02.2015, In: Land Use Policy. 43, 2, p. 248-258 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Assessing Online Consultation in Participatory Governance: Conceptual Framework and a Case Study of a National Sustainability-related Consultation Platform in Germany
Schulz, D. & Newig, J., 01.01.2015, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 25, 1, p. 55-69 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Beyond carbon, more than forest? REDD plus governmentality in Indonesia
McGregor, A., Challies, E., Howson, P., Astuti, R., Dixon, R., Haalboom, B., Gavin, M., Tacconi, L. & Afiff, S., 2015, In: Environment and Planning A. 47, 1, p. 138-155 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2014
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Practical critique: Bridging the gap between critical and practice oriented REDD+ research communities’
McGregor, A., Weaver, S., Challies, E., Howson, P., Astuti, R. & Haalboom, B., 01.12.2014, In: Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 55, 3, p. 277-291 15 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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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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Delivering community benefits through REDD plus : Lessons from Joint Forest Management in Zambia
Leventon, J., Kalaba, F. K., Dyer, J. C., Stringer, L. C. & Dougill, A. J., 07.2014, In: Forest Policy and Economics. 44, p. 10-17 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Reining in rascal geographies of neoliberalism in the periphery?
Challies, E., 07.2014, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 4, 2, p. 131-136 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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What Role for Public Participation in Implementing the EU Floods Directive? A comparison with the Water Framework Directive, early evidence from Germany, and a research agenda
Newig, J., Challies, E., Jager, N. W. & Kochskämper, E., 07.2014, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 24, 4, p. 275–288 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review