GoverNat works on case studies in water and biodiversity governance in order to see whether using participatory processes and analytical decision tools improves the practice of environmental governance in Europe. Researchers will combine concepts from economics, political and legal sciences, as well as from ecology, hydrology, philosophy and sociology. A common work plan will be elaborated in the common training events, so that GoverNat research results are structured in a systematic and comparative way.
GoverNat provides for
- multidisciplinary training in key elements of environmental governance,
- interdisciplinary research, as fellows develop a special research question appropriate to their interests, to the supervising capacities of their hosts, and to the need for complementarity within the research training network.
- transdisciplinary case studies, as fellows apply participatory processes during their internships with the praxis partners, and
- an integration of these three elements. Particularly the experienced fellows feed the experiences gained with the case studies back to their disciplinary backgrounds.
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