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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  2. Media Impact on Climate Protection

    Lüdecke, G. (presenter)

    30.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Transfer

  3. Räume und Orte für transdisziplinäre Forschung schaffen

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    30.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  4. Impulse aus der Alltags- und Lebensstilforschung der Cultural Studies für eine Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Holz, V. (Oral presentation)

    07.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Nachhaltigkeitsbewusstsein im Kontext von Freiwilligendiensten im Globalen Süden: Lernerfahrungen ehemaliger Teilnehmer(innen)

    Richter, S. (Speaker)

    07.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Studenten-Konferenz “Stop Wasting Food” 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Coauthor)

    07.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Tagung „Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – theoretische, konzeptuelle und empirische Perspektiven“ 2012

    Rieckmann, M. (Organiser)

    07.12.201208.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Sustainability Awareness and Volunteer Services in the Global South

    Richter, S. (Speaker)

    09.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  9. Tagung "Gender trifft Nachhaltigkeit - Nachhaltigkeit braucht Gender" - NaGe 2012

    Heilmann, S. (Organiser), Hofmeister, S. (Organiser), Katz, C. (Organiser), Thiem, A. (Organiser) & Mölders, T. (Participant)

    10.12.201211.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Wald und Gender

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    10.12.201211.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Publications

  1. Respondenz zum Beitrag von Monika Dommann "Reden wir über Geld! Aber wie? Und wozu?"
  2. Métodos de enseñanza y aprendizaje interdisciplinario
  3. Sustainable consumption communication
  4. Nahrung als Bildung
  5. BaWü-labs on their way
  6. Intrinsic human elimination half-lives of polychlorinated biphenyls derived from the temporal evolution of cross-sectional biomonitoring data from the United Kingdom
  7. The woodstock of sustainability science impulses from the wuppertal making utopia possible conference week
  8. Die Konstituierung des Blickes der Sozialen Arbeit
  9. Ordnung, Unordnung und Emergency Design
  10. Emissions Trading and Promotion of Renewable Energy
  11. § 328 Beschränkung der Rechte
  12. Gesetz über die alternative Streitbeilegung in Verbrauchersachen (Verbraucherstreitbeilegungsgesetz - VSBG)
  13. Annäherung an die Konzertstätte
  14. Lebens-Versicherung durch das ‚Standardpaket’
  15. Zukünftiges Engagement der Studierendeninitiative Greening the University - wie es weiter geht
  16. НОВЫЕ ЭТИЧЕСКИЕ РИСКИ В ЭПОХУ БИОКАПИТАЛИЗМА
  17. Healthy Principals - Healthy Schools?
  18. In search of simplification
  19. §§ 9 -13 WindSeeG (Zentrale Voruntersuchung von Flächen)
  20. Ansätze Forschenden Lernens – Perspektiven für die Fachschule Sozialpädagogik
  21. Vom Rand ins Zentrum
  22. Aufgabenkultur in der Hauptschule
  23. Ökonomien des Elends
  24. Antisemitismus im deutschen Mediendiskurs
  25. Großwohnsiedlung Lohbrügge-Nord
  26. Begriffe und Perspektiven des Verbandsklagerechts
  27. Hermann Bahr - Secession
  28. Enhanced reservoir operation as an instrument for supporting water stress mitigation: the Italian case study.
  29. Vom Versuch, Kreativität in der Stadt zu planen