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. 2017
  2. Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)

    Hunning, S. (Member) & Mölders, T. (Member)

    07.2017

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  3. How the Ant taught Scholars about Science – a story by Iimbovane Outreach Project

    Turner, S. (Speaker)

    01.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Gastvorlesung: Welt im Grid. Zur Poetologie der meteorologischen Simulation

    Schrickel, I. (Lecturer)

    04.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. 12th Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference - IPA 2017

    Sieveking, A. (Participant)

    05.07.201707.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Begutachtung eines Antrags für ein Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Other expert activitiesPeer review of project proposalsResearch

  7. 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management - IACM 2017

    Schuster, C. (Coauthor)

    09.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. A Model of Mental Accounting in Negotiations.

    Trötschel, R. (Speaker), Zhang, H. (Speaker), Majer, J. M. (Speaker), Leitsch, L. (Speaker) & Warsitzka, M. (Speaker)

    09.07.201712.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. It Matters When You Do It – Issue Packaging in Multi-Issue Negotiation.

    Zhang, H. (Speaker), Geiger, I. (Speaker) & Trötschel, R. (Speaker)

    09.07.201712.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Impulse zum inklusiven Chemieunterricht; Dialoggespräch zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft zum inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht

    Abels, S. (Speaker)

    10.07.2017

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

  11. Speaking with One Voice While Being Different - Effects of Comparison Mindsets in Negotiations between Groups

    Schuster, C. (presenter)

    11.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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Researchers

  1. Elina Touil

Publications

  1. Lebensweltliche Mehrsprachigkeit an der Hochschule
  2. When Individual Preferences Defy Sustainability — Can Merit Good Arguments Close the Gap?
  3. How much psychotherapy is needed to treat depression?
  4. Measuring positive sustainability - A systematic literature review
  5. Die Tischgesellschaft
  6. Was ist Stakeholder Value?
  7. Democracy and the global spread of progressive taxes
  8. Leitfaden zum didaktischen Einsatz von Computeranwendungen
  9. Kinder machen
  10. Indikatoren für eine diskursive Evaluation transdisziplinärer Forschung
  11. Namibia, Christianity in
  12. Islam and Patriarchy
  13. Kumulation von Querschnitten
  14. Editorial
  15. Reading the Digital City
  16. The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences of Works Council Relations
  17. Leindotter als Energiequelle nutzen
  18. The Success and Failure of Financial Innovations: The Case of Louis Bachelier
  19. Impacts of land-use intensity on soil organic carbon content, soil structure and water-holding capacity
  20. Repositioning Destinations between Mass Market Requirements and High Quality Offers in Germany
  21. M&A durch private Familienunternehmen
  22. Medienerziehung in Kindertagesstätten
  23. Entführung in Luxor
  24. Schulangst
  25. The impact of political leaders' profession and education on reforms
  26. Die Gaunerei der ökonomisierten Kunst
  27. Stilfragen
  28. Partnerships for Sustainable Business Development
  29. Entstehung und Status der Technikfolgenabschätzung
  30. Mountain roads shift native and non-native plant species' ranges
  31. The effect of chief financial officers’ expert power on tax avoidance – Empirical evidence from Germany
  32. Von der Schwierigkeit, Leistung zu steigern
  33. Gewerblicher Grundstückshandel (Kommentierung des BFH-Urteils vom 05.12.2002, IV R 57/01), Fach 3 EStG, § 15