Prof. Dr. Jens Newig

Member of Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Communication (INFU)

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