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1991
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Jens Newig is affiliated with Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany and primarily conducts research in the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's research concentrates on several main topics such as Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Public Policy and Administration Research, Environmental Sustainability in Business, and Organic Food and Agriculture.

Jens Newig has contributed to various publication venues with recurrent outputs in journals including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Policy and Governance
  • Ecology and Society
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Earth System Governance

Their recent papers include works such as:

  • Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies, 2023, Global Environmental Change
  • Governing Transitions towards Sustainable Agriculture-Taking Stock of an Emerging Field of Research, 2021, Sustainability
  • Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative, 2020, Environmental Policy and Governance
  • How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison, 2020, Policy and Society
  • Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability, 2020, Ecology and Society

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Nicolas W. Jager, Edward Challies, Michael Rose, Johanna Coenen, and Elisa Kochskämper.

Best Publications

  • What is social learning

    Mark Reed;Mark Reed;Anna Clair Evely;Georgina Cundill;Ioan Fazey

  • Leverage points for sustainability transformation

    David James Abson;Jörn Fischer;Julia Leventon;Jens Newig

  • Environmental governance: participatory, multi-level - and effective?

    Jens Newig;Oliver Fritsch

  • A review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science

    Patric Brandt;Anna Ernst;Fabienne Gralla;Christopher Luederitz

  • What Is Sustainable Agriculture? A Systematic Review

    Sarah Velten;Julia Leventon;Nicolas Wilhelm Jager;Jens Newig

  • Synapses in the Network: Learning in Governance Networks in the Context of Environmental Management

    Jens Newig;Dirk Günther;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Importance of Actors and Agency in Sustainability Transitions: A Systematic Exploration of the Literature

    Lisa-Britt Fischer;Jens Newig

  • The Environmental Performance of Participatory and Collaborative Governance: A Framework of Causal Mechanisms

    Jens Newig;Edward Challies;Nicolas W. Jager;Elisa Kochskaemper

  • How does the context and design of participatory decision making processes affect their outcomes? Evidence from sustainable land management in global drylands

    Joris de Vente;Mark S. Reed;Lindsay C. Stringer;Sandra Valente

  • From Planning to Implementation: Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Approaches for Collaborative Watershed Management

    Tomas M. Koontz;Jens Newig

  • Governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: How important are participation, policy coherence, reflexivity, adaptation and democratic institutions?

    Lisa-Maria Glass;Jens Newig

  • Multilevel water governance and problems of scale: setting the stage for a broader debate.

    Timothy Moss;Jens Newig

  • Multi-level governance, policy implementation and participation: the EU's mandated participatory planning approach to implementing environmental policy

    Jens Newig;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Communication Regarding Sustainability: Conceptual Perspectives and Exploration of Societal Subsystems

    Jens Newig;Daniel Schulz;Daniel Fischer;Katharina Hetze

  • Steering for Sustainable Development: a Typology of Problems and Strategies with respect to Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Power

    Jan-Peter Voß;Jens Newig;Britta Kastens;Jochen Monstadt

  • The role of public participation in managing uncertainty in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive

    Jens Newig;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Katja Sigel

  • Experiments in climate governance – A systematic review of research on energy and built environment transitions

    Paula Kivimaa;Paula Kivimaa;Mikael Hildén;Dave Huitema;Dave Huitema;Andrew Jordan

  • Transforming European Water Governance? Participation and River Basin Management under the EU Water Framework Directive in 13 Member States

    Nicolas W. Jager;Edward Challies;Elisa Kochskämper;Jens Newig

  • Does public participation in environmental decisions lead to improved environmental quality?: towards an analytical framework

    Jens Newig

  • Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative

    Johanna Coenen;Johanna Coenen;Simon Bager;Patrick Meyfroidt;Jens Newig

  • What Is Sustainable Agriculture? A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2015, 7, 7833-7865

    Sarah Velten;Julia Leventon;Nicolas Jager;Jens Newig

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Governance Synapses in the Network: Learning in Governance Networks in the Context of Environmental Management

    Jens Newig;Dirk Günther;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University
Dave Huitema
Dave Huitema Wageningen University & Research
Paula Kivimaa
Paula Kivimaa University of Sussex
Tomas M. Koontz
Tomas M. Koontz University of Washington
David J. Abson
David J. Abson Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Lindsay C. Stringer
Lindsay C. Stringer University of York
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
Daniel J. Lang
Daniel J. Lang Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Mateus Batistella
Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

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