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By Jens Newig Starting this fall, Leuphana University is offering a new Master’s programme entitled ‘Sustainability Science: Governance and Law’, as part of a set of four new Master’s programmes that will replace the existing Master of Sustainability Science. Unique in the German university landscape, the new Master’s programme combines a strong research orientation with … Continue reading New Masters programme on Sustainability Governance and Law

Note: Deadline extended until 10 September! We (Michael Rose, Jens Newig and Sina Leipold) welcome contributions to a planned Special Issue in the journal Environmental Policy and Governance. Environmental governance research has generated a vast body of knowledge in recent years, reflecting the immense challenges associated with governing the various sustainability issue confronting humanity. However, … Continue reading Call for abstracts (and papers): Special Issue on Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research

By Jens Newig Governance systems are facing challenges to foster land-use strategies that support climate protection, social well-being and biodiversity conservation. The new EU-funded project “PLUS Change” involves 23 partner organizations across the European Union to provide robust evidence on and improve land-use decision-making for addressing climate change and biodiversity conservation. PLUS Change is co-ordinated … Continue reading “PLUS Change”: New EU-funded project on governing sustainable land use (and open PhD position)

By Jens Newig and Michael Rose We are proud and happy to announce the launch of ParticipationCaseScout: a new web-based tool to explore and analyse a database of public environmental decision processes, with a focus on participatory and collaborative governance in Western democratic states (project 'EDGE'). With the goal of integrating and cumulating fragmented case-based … Continue reading Introducing ParticipationCaseScout – a tool to explore 305 coded cases of public environmental governance

By Jens Newig and Michael Rose For an Innovative Session on 9 September 2021 at the upcoming Earth System Governance Conference (Bratislava / vitual, 7-10 September), we are looking for junior and senior scholars who would like to give short inputs of 5-7 minutes on different aspects of knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research. … Continue reading Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research: Call for Contributions

By Jens Newig and Ed Challies In various projects, we come across the challenge of assessing the 'success' of environmental policy and governance. Regularly, we find three main aspects mentioned: effectiveness, legitimacy, and justice (alongside other, mostly related factors such as efficiency, equity, transparency, and accountability). But how can we succinctly define these evaluative criteria? … Continue reading Assessing 'success' of environmental governance: How to define effectiveness, legitimacy and justice?

By Okka Lou Mathis Prioritise climate protection, promote sustainable food production, increase funds for development cooperation, and create a sustainability ministry: These are just four of the 32 proposals from the citizens’ council on "Germany’s Role in the World", consisting of 154 randomly selected citizens. The Bundestag will receive the final report on 19 March. … Continue reading Citizens’ Councils for Promoting the Global Common Good

By Shirin Malekpour and Jens Newig This research was a collaboration between Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and the Research Group Governance and Sustainability, Leuphana University (Germany). Dr Shirin Malekpour (Monash) is the recipient of the Green Talents award, which enabled her to undertake a research sabbatical at Leuphana in 2019, conducting … Continue reading What it takes to exercise adaptive planning

Current international and European Union environmental policies increasingly promote collaborative and participatory decision-making on appropriate and multiple governance levels as a means to attain more sustainable policies and a more effective and lasting policy implementation. The entailed shifts of geographical scale of governance can be exemplified by the EU Water Framework Directive in that higher-level policies are devolved not only to the member states but to local collaborative decision-making bodies on natural as opposed to territorial scales. To date, empirical evidence and theoretical considerations have remained ambiguous about the environmental outcomes of such modes of governance. At the same time, the relationship between multi-level governance and non-state actor involvement remains a largely uncharted terrain. Accordingly, a twofold research agenda is mapped out: How does public participation work in different governance contexts? And what potential do multi-level governance environments have to foster the effectiveness of participatory governance? Drawing on scholarly literature on multi-level governance, policy implementation, public participation and complex systems, we develop five sets of hypotheses on how the number of policy levels and geographical rescaling affect citizen participation, actor interests and policy outcomes. We present empirical results based on a comparative meta-analysis of 47 case studies in environmental governance in North America and the EU, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. -- Civic participation ; multi-level governance ; re-scaling ; policy implementation ; institutional fit ; meta-analysis ; case survey

Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die unterschiedlichen Strömungen in der relevanten Literatur zu integrieren. Dazu werden analytisch vier produktive Funktionen von Kollaps und Zerstörung herausgearbeitet. Diese werden näher vorgestellt und anhand unterschiedlicher Strömungen in der Literatur diskutiert. Dann wird diskutiert, inwieweit sich "Verfalls"-Prozesse von Transformationsprozessen unterscheiden lassen. Dabei bietet es sich an, eine Systemperspektive einzunehmen. Zur weiteren Illustration werden zehn Typen gesellschaftlicher Strukturen identifiziert, deren Auf- oder Abbau für Nachhaltigkeit relevant sind. Anhand derer werden beispielhaft Implikationen von Auf- und Abbauprozessen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung illustriert. Abschließend werden normative und praktische Fragen der Förderung von Verfallsprozessen angesprochen sowie eine Reihe von Vorschlägen für weitere Forschungen skizziert. (ICB2)