Prof. Dr. Jens Newig

Prof. Dr. Jens Newig
Scharnhorststr. 1, C11.105
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-1726
Fax +49.4131.677-2819
newig@uni.leuphana.de

Professor for Sustainable Development and Participation

Since June 2010 Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg
Assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research at Osnabrück University (12/2001 until 05/2010)
Temporary professorship at Leuphana University Lüneburg (10/2008 until 09/2009)
Doctoral degree (Dr. iur.) with a socio-legal study on Symbolic Environmental Legislation Dresden Technical University, Prof. Dr. Martin Schulte, with a scholarship of the Volkswagen Foundation (summa cum laude) (10/1999 until 05/2002)
Junior Consultant at the strategic Management Consultancy Agency Gemini Consulting, Bad Homburg: Consultancy project regarding the strategic re-orientation of a logistics service provider (06/1998 until 09/1998)
Diploma in geo-ecology (environmental sciences) at Bayreuth University with grade ‘excellent’ (05/1998)
Maîtrise and Ingénieur-Maître in Gestion et Génie de l’Environnement at Université Paris 7 (scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service) (06/1996)
Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (01/1992 bis 05/1998)

Environmental Politics, Policy and Governance for Sustainable Development
Participatory Governance and collaborative decision processes
Actor analysis
Effectiveness and legitimacy of governance in multi-level systems
Learning and networks in steering complex systems in the context of natural resource management; social network analysis
Comparative analysis, case study meta-analysis, field experiments
Agenda setting, issue attention cycles
Water policy and water resources management
Sustainable agriculture and sustainable land management
Interfaces between and integration of natural and social sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research

11.07.2010, Zuehlsdorff

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