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. 2009
  2. Risk preferences under multiple risk conditions – survey evidence from semi-arid rangelands

    Olbrich, R. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    29.06.200902.07.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 1st International Conference on Landscape Economics - 2009

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Innovations for Sustainability through Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Initiatives

    Esders, M. (Speaker)

    05.07.200908.07.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Stolpersteine beim Arbeiten an einer Dissertation, „Methodische Grundlagen der fachdidaktischen Forschung“

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    09.07.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. BOP aber wie? Neue Partner zur Entwicklung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle für Menschen in Armut - 2009

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)

    10.07.2009

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

  7. Social Entrepreneurship: Status Quo - 2009

    Zeyen, A. (Participant)

    16.07.200917.07.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. Social Entrepreneurship und Ordnungspolitik: Zur Rolle gesellschaftlicher Change Agents für Governance-Innovationen

    Beckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    16.07.200917.07.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Umweltinformationsrecht

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    16.07.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  10. Joint Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and the Society for Tropical Ecology (GTÖ) - 2009

    Leonhardt, S. (Opponent)

    26.07.200929.07.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the World-Wide African Diaspora - 2009

    Golly, N. (Speaker)

    08.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Researchers

  1. Adalbert Pakura

Publications

  1. MediaArtHistories, ed. by Oliver Grau
  2. The basiphilous dry grasslands of shallow, skeletal soils (Alysso-Sedetalia) on the island of Öland (Sweden), in the context of North and Central Europe
  3. § 30 Abfallwirtschaftspläne
  4. Finanzierungsstrategien kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen
  5. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das globale Finanzwesen
  6. Queering
  7. Administrative silence
  8. Verhandlungsforschung als Grundlage einer Mediationstheorie
  9. Culture, Technology, and Process in “Media Theories”
  10. Wettbewerb, Verfälschung
  11. Die Neukonzeption der Lehre wird Wirklichkeit
  12. Finanzierung von Elternarbeit
  13. Vom Macht-Wissen-Dispositiv zum Wahrheitsregime
  14. Das Außergewöhnliche der Zeit
  15. Die Einführung des Emissionshandels in Deutschland
  16. Das parlamentarische Petitionswesen
  17. Erfolgsbeteiligung
  18. Freie Berufe im Wandel der Märkte
  19. Experiencing Exhibitions
  20. Das Prinzip des Integrativen Gendering und Diversity - Ausgangspunkt und Entwicklungspfade
  21. Silvio Huonder
  22. Trainingslehre,Testverfahren : Schnelligkeit und Schnellkraft einfach testen
  23. Aesthetic Design of Masonry Arch Bridges
  24. Machina ex artificium. Zur Maschinenästhetik im künstlerischen Werk Ralf Baeckers.
  25. Optimal investment in multi-species protection
  26. Reversible formation of alcohol solvates and their potential use for heat storage
  27. Theodor Storms Gedicht „Geh nicht hinein“
  28. § 40 Stilllegung
  29. Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz
  30. Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa
  31. Einfluss von Nutzung auf die Gefäßpflanzenvielfalt in Wäldern
  32. Das Naturschutzgebiet "Höltigbaum" und seine Vegetation
  33. Der Dichtung einen Moment lang erliegen mögen
  34. Exports and firm characteristics-first evidence from fractional probit panel estimates
  35. Connecting Local Government with Global Finance
  36. The influence of habitat properties on sex determination in cavity-nesting Hymenoptera
  37. Kommunistische Parteien
  38. Weaponising Investments
  39. Dual- und Boardsystem