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. 2012
  2. University of South Australia

    Zvezdov, D. (Visiting researcher)

    05.03.201202.04.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  3. Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement - Eine Einführung

    Beckmann, M. (Lecturer)

    13.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Informationsansprüche im Atom- und Strahlenschutzrecht

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Leaving you mother - what next?: seed dispersal and seed predation

    Pufal, G. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. Soziale Dilemmata - Warum ist Nachhaltigkeit so schwierig?: mit FIshBanks-Planspiel

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Wie beeinflussen sekundäre Samenausbreitung und Samenfraß die erfolgreiche Etablierung von Wiesenkräutern?

    Pufal, G. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. 4th Global TraPs Workshop "Defining Case Studies – Setting Priorities”

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    16.03.201218.03.2012

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

  9. Summer School in the context of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning 2012

    Staab, M. (Participant)

    16.03.201222.03.2012

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

  10. 2nd PERL International Conference 2012

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    19.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Biological Diversity and Sustainability Communication: Key Topics and Factors for Success

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    19.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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Publications

  1. Stakeholder engagement in Water Framework Directive planning in the United Kingdom: Two case studies from Northern Ireland and Scotland
  2. Transformation gezielt kommunizieren
  3. Effects of free air carbon dioxide enrichment and nitrogen supply on growth and yield of winter barley cultivated in a crop rotation
  4. Concentration of ciprofloxacin in Brazilian hospital effluent and preliminary risk assessment
  5. Cultural Leadership in Practice
  6. Members of the European Parliament on the Web
  7. Die Evaluationspraxis an Deutschen Schulen
  8. PROVENCE - An Eight Issue Magazine Dedicated to Hobbies
  9. Emotional foundations of the public climate change divide
  10. Scaffolding guided inquiry-based chemistry education at an inclusive school
  11. Il corto digitale nell’economia televisiva del ‘momento’
  12. Umweltrechnungslegung in Südostasien
  13. Are authoritarian China and Russia doomed ?
  14. Ethik und Nachhaltigkeit.
  15. Wood-pastures of Europe
  16. Soziale Lebensqualität für alle
  17. Der "fachdidaktische Code" der Lebenswelt- und/oder (?) Situationsorientierung in der fachdidaktischen Diskussion der sozialwissenschaftlichen Unterrichtsfächer sowie des Lernfeldkonzepts
  18. Emotion regulation mediates the effect of childhood trauma on depression
  19. Einleitung
  20. Access to Finance and Exports - Comparable Evidence for Small and Medium Enterprises from Industry and Services in 25 European Countries
  21. Nachhaltigkeit braucht Auseinandersetzung
  22. Beneath the Second Skin. Mayan Textiles and Bodies in the Art of Manuel Tzoc Bucup and Sandra Monterroso
  23. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Das lyrische Werk / Rom, Blicke
  24. Diesseits und jenseits der Worte
  25. Antinomies of environmental risk perception
  26. Gesellschaftliche Funktionen von Museen zwischen Assimilation und Akkommodation
  27. Die Weiterbildung zum "Zertifikat Waldpädagogik" in Sachsen-Anhalt 2007 - 2008