Prof. Dr. Jens Newig
Member of Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Communication (INFU)
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Prof. Dr. Jens Newig
Scharnhorststraße 1, UC16.015
21335 Lüneburg
Fon 04131.677-1726
Fax 04131.677-2819
newig@uni.leuphana.de
Professor for Sustainable Development and Participation
CV
- Professor for Sustainable Development and Participation at the Institute of Environmental and Sustainability Communication, Leuphana University Lüneburg as a temporary associate professorship (10/2008 bis 09/2009)
- Opening of Habilitation procdure with a cumulative work on “Environmental Governance in the Light of Participation and Effectiveness: Case studies and models” at Osnabrück University (03/2008)
- Assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research at Osnabrück University (since 12/2001)
- Co-ordinator and co-applicant of the German-Austrian research project “PartizipA – Participative modelling, actor- and ecosystem analysis in regions with intensive agriculture”, www.partizipa.net (10/2003 bis 03/2007)
- 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)
- Internship 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)
Areas of specialization
- 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



