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Andrea Lenschow
University of Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Andrea Lenschow studied social economics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1984 to 1987 and political science (MA) and public administration (MPA) at the Pennsylvania State University from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1995, she worked on her Doctorate in Political Science as a scholarship holder at New York University. This was followed by post-doctoral stays as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. From 1997 to 2003, she worked as a Postdoc and lecturer at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg. In 2003, Lenschow was appointed to a junior professorship at the School of Social Sciences at Osnabrück University. In 2007, she took over the W3 professorship for European Politics and Integration at the same school. From 2009-2011, she was Dean of the School of Social Sciences and from 2015-2017 Managing Director of the newly created Institute of Social Sciences. From 2011 to 2022, she was an internal member of the University Council of Osnabrück University. Since October 1, 2022, Prof. Dr. Andrea Lenschow has been Vice President for International Affairs, Diversity and Academic Staff Development at Osnabrück University. Her research focuses on European and comparative environmental and climate governance, tackling questions of policy integration and coordination, implementation, modes of governance as well as leadership. In recent years, she widened the governance perspective to the global level addressing the environmental and sustainability effects of transnational flows or supply chains.
MORE ABOUT ANDREA LENSCHOW >2023
Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate accountability in the area of human rights and the environment?
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable for human rights and environmental impacts throughout their supply chains. However, we still need a better understanding about to wha...
2023
Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany
In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due diligence norm into domestic legislation has, however, been h...
2022
Benedetta Cotta, Johanna Coenen, Edward Challies, Jens Newig, Andrea Lenschow, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical perspectives. We present the results of a systematic l...
2021
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest-risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy-making processes at ...
2021
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow, Edward Challies, Benedetta Cotta, Jens Newig
Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil
The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are suppose...
2016
Andrea Lenschow, Jens Newig, Edward Challies
Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling-...
