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. The Psychophysiology of Self-Regulation

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 7th European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy - EFIB 2014

    Pleißner, D. (Participant)

    01.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Schul- und Qualitätsentwicklung im Kontext von Mobilität und Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    01.07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. The Best of the Rest

    Pleißner, D. (presenter)

    01.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 5. Allgemeinen Erfahrungsaustausch „Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit“ des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbands 2014

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    04.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  7. Gruenes Wissen.NET: Ein Angebot der Wissenschaftskommunikation im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit und Globaler Wandel

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    05.07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - EASP 2014

    Majer, J. M. (presenter)

    09.07.201412.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. „Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Themen, Methoden und Trends”

    Sundermann, A. (Participant)

    21.07.201429.07.2014

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

  10. Methods workshop: A social science perspective on coastal issues

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    24.07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

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  1. In for a Penny, in for a Pound? Legal Professional Privilege as a Shield against Disclosure in Private Antitrust Litigation in Europe
  2. Hermann Bahr
  3. A poor international standard for trap selectivity threatens carnivore conservation
  4. "Responsible Leadership Systems“
  5. The Information-anchoring model of first-offers
  6. San Antonio Statement on brominated and chlorinated flame retardants
  7. Kompetenzentwicklung über die Lebensspanne
  8. Biodiversität und Globales Lernen
  9. Energie
  10. Arbeitsmarkt und Silver Workers
  11. Predation risk indirectly enhances survival of seaweed recruits but not intraspecific competition in an intermediate herbivore species
  12. Mela Hartwig: Ekstasen. Novellen
  13. Lipids in preventive dentistry
  14. "Semisouverän" und doch anpassungsfähig
  15. Wider die Datenpraxeologie
  16. Transcultural Science from the Perspective of international Organisations
  17. Social Policy in the European Union by Karen M Anderson. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  18. Machining of hybrid reinforced Mg-MMCs using abrasive water jetting
  19. Je vous salue!
  20. Jenseits von Kontemplation und Aktion
  21. Kontinuität vs. kontinuierlicher Wandel?
  22. Auf dem Weg zu einer kritischen Theorie des Unternehmens
  23. Postkoloniale Erinnerung mit filmischen Mitteln
  24. Gelingensbedingungen von Schulentwicklungsprojekten
  25. Wer von Rassismus nicht reden will
  26. The effect of chief financial officers’ expert power on tax avoidance – Empirical evidence from Germany
  27. Sprachkompetenz - ein übersehenes Risiko?
  28. Die Zeit nach E-Government
  29. Kreativitätsbegriffe. Von der Kritik zu Assimilation, Vergiftung, Ausschlag
  30. "Recht und billig"
  31. Social theatre as a tool for environmental learning processes: a case study from Madrid, Spain
  32. Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa
  33. Der Wahnsinn des Abdias
  34. Museum visitors and non-visitors in Germany: A representative survey
  35. IM OSTEN GEHT DIE SONNE AUF
  36. Kollaboration in globalen wertschöpfungsnetzwerken