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Jens Newig
Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Jens Newig is a Professor of Governance and Sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He heads the Institute of Sustainability Governance of Leuphana’s Faculty of Sustainability and is a member of the Center for the Study of Democracy. He holds a doctoral degree in Environmental Law from Dresden Technical University and in political science and systems science. His research interest is in inter- and transdisciplinary governance research. He has been leading an ERC project on the link between participatory governance and environmental outcomes and has been PI on several other research projects. He is currently (2024–2028) heading a consortium of four research institutions on the sustainability governance of global supply chains.
MORE ABOUT JENS NEWIG >2023
Johanna Coenen, Gabi Sonderegger, Jens Newig, Patrick Meyfroidt, Edward Challies, Simon L. Bager, Louise M. Busck-Lumholt, Esteve Corbera, Cecilie Friis, Anna Frohn Pedersen, Perrine C.S.J. Laroche, Claudia Parra Paitan, Siyu Qin, Nicolas Roux, Julie G Zaehringer
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social proble...
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...
2020
Jens Newig, Edward Challies, Benedetta Cotta, Andrea Lenschow, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability
Telecoupling constitutes a particular class of globalized environmental issues that are neither local-cumulative, nor transboundary, nor concerning global commons, but that arise because of specific linkages between distal regions. Such telecoupled issues, e.g., associated with global commodity chai...
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-...
