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. 2020
  2. 1. Circular Economy Kongress 2020

    Braungart, M. (Keynote Speaker)

    04.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  3. 1. Circular Economy Kongress 2020

    Braungart, M. (Participant)

    04.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Democracy and Intergenerational Justice: Overcoming Harmful Short-termism Through New Institutions?

    Hoffmann, J. M. (Organiser), Leung, G.-K. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Organiser)

    08.09.202009.09.2020

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

  5. GDCP Jahrestagung 2020

    Stinken-Rösner, L. (Participant)

    14.09.202017.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry and Water (Online) 2020

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    21.09.202025.09.2020

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

  7. P029-G0. Product, Process and Programme Revisited: Genome Editing and the Regulation of Genetically Engineered Agricultural ‘Natures’

    Ely , A. (Coauthor), Fischer, K. (Coauthor), Friedrich, B. (Coauthor), Glover, D. (presenter), Schnurr, M. (Coauthor) & Stone, G. D. (Coauthor)

    22.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Fachliche Bildung und digitale Transformation - Fachdidaktische Forschung und Diskurse

    Stinken-Rösner, L. (Speaker)

    23.09.202025.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Transformative Indikatoren: Wirkungsabschätzungen in Reallaboren

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Schleicher, K. (Speaker)

    07.10.2020

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

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Publications

  1. Die Kindzentrierung des Kinderschutzes zwischen institutionellen Vorgaben und lokaler Umsetzung
  2. Participation in multi-level policy implementation: exploring the influence of governance culture
  3. Zugänge zur Bildung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern in der Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
  4. How to estimate carabid biomass?—an evaluation of size-weight models for ground beetles (Coleoptera
  5. Numerical determination of heat distribution and castability simulations of as cast Mg-Al alloys
  6. Kritik der Anerkennung von Vielfalt in der Pädagogik und dem was wir nicht nicht wollen können
  7. Schreiben im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule – Sprachkompetenz diagnostizieren und fördern
  8. Scenarios for coal-exit in Germany-a model-based analysis and implications in the European context
  9. Vergleichende Regierungslehre: institutionelle Bedingungen des Regierens im demokratischen Staat
  10. Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden
  11. Climate and large-sized trees, but not diversity, drive above-ground biomass in subtropical forests
  12. Differential responses of ecosystem components to a low-intensity fire in a Mediterranean forest
  13. Slowing resource loops in the clothing industry through Circular Business Model Experimentation
  14. Global fern and lycophyte richness explained: How regional and local factors shape plot richness
  15. Sowing different mixtures in dry acidic grassland produced priority effects of varying strength
  16. A Multimedia Assessment Scheme to Evaluate Chemical Effects on the Environment and Human Health
  17. "Notwendigkeit des Vergleichs!“ Der Ansatz einer komparativen pädagogischen Berufsgruppenforschung
  18. Der Einfluss von Valenz und Erregungsniveau von Emotionen auf die Griffkraft bei Fahrzeugführern
  19. Friction-Induced Vibrations during Tightening of Bolted Joints—Analytical and Experimental Results
  20. Wirtschaftsethik - quo vadis? «Ist» und «Soll» eines Bindestxichfachs aus protestantischer Perspektive
  21. Testing Cort-Fitness and Cort-Adaptation hypotheses in a habitat suitability gradient for roe deer
  22. Extending talk on a prescribed discussion topic in a learner-native speaker eTandem learning task
  23. Scale-dependent diversity patterns affect spider assemblages of two contrasting forest ecosystems
  24. Functional and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants drive herbivory in a highly diverse forest
  25. Einfluss des Musizierens auf die Alltagsbewältigung und Gesundheit von Schülerinnen und Schülern
  26. Book Review of Amador-Moreno, C.P., McCafferty, K., and Vaughan, E. (Eds.): Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
  27. Remote sensing of bush encroachment on commercial cattle farms in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia