Organisation profile

Sustainability has many facets. Inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching characterize the School of Sustainability. Scientists in our research projects work together in the laboratory, on the heath, in the grassland, in the classroom, with the city administration, with farmers, with non-governmental organizations, with companies, with students in the lecture hall and of course at their desks.

Furthermore, we work with regional and national political actors, e.g. ministries, as well as international organizations, e.g. UNEP, UNESCO, EU. We are part of national and international bodies, e.g. sustainability advisory boards of companies, member of the German Sustainability Award, World Biodiversity Council (IPBES), in order to contribute to social change with scientific findings.

Main research areas

Vision
Sustainability science investigates on a theoretical, conceptual and empirical level how to promote sustainable development and how to find and implement effective solutions for current social and ecological challenges. The aim is to create a more sustainable future.

Sustainability researchers are called upon to take responsibility for their research, which is anchored in existing scientific knowledge and methods and serves to make the world a better place for everyone.

Mission
We promote change towards a sustainable future by developing theories, concepts and practices of inclusive education for sustainability, research, governance and management.

We acknowledge the diversity and dynamics of values, norms and behaviour and contribute with transdisciplinary methods to ensuring that tensions and differences between different disciplines, methods, topics and standards are fruitfully taken up and used with productive compromises and further developments towards sustainable development.

Principles
The School of Sustainability is guided by the normative concepts of ecological system integrity and social and economic justice.

Ecological system integrity refers to the safeguarding of life-support systems, as well as the maintenance of the well-being of life on Earth.

With social and economic justice we strive for a world in which all people can fulfil their potential without endangering system integrity and the well-being of others.

Information about the School
The School of Sustainability includes...
... ca. 25 professors
... ca. 100 research assistants
... ca. 1000 students in Bachelor and Master courses

In various inter- and transdisciplinary projects we are constantly researching and working together on changes and solutions for current challenges.

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  1. 2011
  2. Power poles and tall trees adjacent to sunflower fields increase pest damage caused by the invasive Rose-ringed Parakeet in Israel

    Schäckermann, J. (Speaker), Mandelik, Y. (Speaker) & Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 14th International Conference "Business Ethics and Risk Management" - 2011

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    08.12.201110.12.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 5. Netzwerk21 Kongress 2011RIO+20 – Nachhaltig vor Ort!

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    08.12.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  5. 5. Netzwerk21 Kongress 2011RIO+20 – Nachhaltig vor Ort!

    Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)

    08.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  6. Nachhaltigkeit lehren und lernen – Potenziale einer Nord-Süd-Hochschulpartnerschaft

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    13.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. Workshop am Österreichischen Zentrum für Begabungsförderung und Begabungsforschung - ÖZBF 2011

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    22.12.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. 2012
  9. 10th Brazilian Bee Research Meeting (Encontro sobre Abelhas) 2012

    Leonhardt, S. (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 5th European Conference of Apidology - EurBee 2012

    Leonhardt, S. (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. 6. Netzwerktreffen Sozialwissenschaftliche Klimaanpassungsforschung 2012

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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  1. Vom Nutzen enger Kanäle – Diskursverknappung als Methode
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  4. Die Ziegeleien in Sande und Lohbrügge
  5. Anthropologie der Praxis
  6. Wie lange sind wir in diesem Jahr in der Schule?
  7. Improving the Role of Governments in Promoting Environmental Management Accounting
  8. Hochschulen und Nachhaltigkeit
  9. Tax avoidance, tax risk and the cost of debt in a bank-dominated economy
  10. First record of a Mermithidae (Nematoda) from the meloid beetle Meloe violaceus Marsham, 1802 (Coleoptera
  11. Das Projekt „Fach-an-Sprache-an-Fach“
  12. Discharge and fate of biocide residuals to ephemeral stormwater retention pond sediments
  13. Gender, Netzwerk, Aneignung. Professionalisierungsprozesse in digital-materieller Musikproduktion
  14. Entrepreneurial Investing
  15. Hochschulen und nachhaltige Entwicklung
  16. Leuphana startet Wissenstransfer für unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeit
  17. Sustainability of rural electrification programs based on off-grid photovoltaic (PV) systems in Chile
  18. Zur psychophysischen Bedeutung c-förmiger Simplex-Organisationen bei der Multidimensionalen Skalierung
  19. Training participation of a firm´s aging workforce
  20. Das akademische Prekariat
  21. Integratives Gendering in der Lehre am Beispiel der Universität Lüneburg im Projekt Gender-Kompetenz in naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Studiengängen, Lehre, Forschung und in der Hochschulorganisation
  22. Ordnung, die sich bildet
  23. Wild Seeds
  24. Mindestanforderungen an das Betreiben von Handelsgeschäften.
  25. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of meaning-centered group psychotherapy in cancer survivors