Assist. Prof. Dr. Nicolas W. Jager
Postdoc
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, GERMANY
Jul 2021
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Jun 2024
Associate Junior Fellow
Projects & Publications
Social-Ecological Fit And Intergovernmental Cooperation in Federal Systems
| Jul 2021
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Jun 2024
Abstract
Abstract of the workshop project
As many of today’s urgent sustainability challenges cut across territorial boundaries, traditional
governance responses often lead to piecemeal solutions neglecting the environmental integrity of
ecosystems. This problem of ‘social-ecological fit’, while well-acknowledged in international and inter-local
settings, could gain less attention in the context of federal systems (e.g. Germany, USA, Brazil), where
authority over environmental resources is split within countries between several substates. Hence, this
workshop will address the question: How can we assess social-ecological fit within federal systems and
its potential to meet the pressing regional environmental challenges? To approach this question this
workshop will serve as a forum to bring together experts on various aspects of federalism and
intergovernmental cooperation, with those from the field of social-ecological fit and social-ecological
networks. Social-ecological network approaches provide a promising avenue for the study of socialecological systems as they merge in the same scientific model biophysical dynamics within and between
ecosystems, with the social and institutional dynamics set out to address these. Providing space for a
dialogue between the two fields of federalism and social-ecological fit will stimulate cross-fertilization of
ideas in order to come up
As many of today’s urgent sustainability challenges cut across territorial boundaries, traditional
governance responses often lead to piecemeal solutions neglecting the environmental integrity of
ecosystems. This problem of ‘social-ecological fit’, while well-acknowledged in international and inter-local
settings, could gain less attention in the context of federal systems (e.g. Germany, USA, Brazil), where
authority over environmental resources is split within countries between several substates. Hence, this
workshop will address the question: How can we assess social-ecological fit within federal systems and
its potential to meet the pressing regional environmental challenges? To approach this question this
workshop will serve as a forum to bring together experts on various aspects of federalism and
intergovernmental cooperation, with those from the field of social-ecological fit and social-ecological
networks. Social-ecological network approaches provide a promising avenue for the study of socialecological systems as they merge in the same scientific model biophysical dynamics within and between
ecosystems, with the social and institutional dynamics set out to address these. Providing space for a
dialogue between the two fields of federalism and social-ecological fit will stimulate cross-fertilization of
ideas in order to come up