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. Environment, Development and Sustainability (Journal)

    Engler, J.-O. (Editorial Board)

    01.02.2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  2. Environment, Development and Sustainability (Journal)

    Engler, J.-O. (Reviewer)

    2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  3. Erdgasgewinnung durch "Fracking": Erschließung unkonventioneller Lagerstätten durch„Hydraulic Fracturing“

    Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  4. Erfolgreiche (Zusammen)Arbeit von Netzwerken der Regionalvermarktung

    Burandt, A. (Speaker)

    07.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  5. Ergebnisse eines Bodenringversuches

    Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    13.03.1997

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. Ergebnisse eines Pestizid-Ringversuchs

    Koch, M. (Speaker), Klaas, N. (Speaker), Simmank, S. (Speaker), Braun, M. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    17.05.1993

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven aus dem Kommunalen Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer Niedersachsen

    Redenius, P. (Speaker)

    02.07.2025

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

  8. ERIM Research Seminar of the Business-Society Management 2011

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    02.02.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. „Erkennen, Untersuchen, Modellieren – Vom Nutzen des Verstehens“

    Kümmerer, K. (Participant), Rastogi, T. (Participant), Menz, J. (Participant), Toolaram, A. P. (Participant), Leder, C. (Participant) & Bolek, R. (Participant)

    10.09.201213.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. „Erneuerbar ist sauber“ – Vorstellungen zur Energiewende als Ansatzpunkte im Biologieunterricht

    Hüfner, S. (Speaker)

    12.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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  1. Medienwissenschaft, Medientheorie oder Medienphilosophie?
  2. Wie kann Exnovation politisch gestaltet werden?
  3. Kreativität? Über das Schöpferische in Natur und Kunst
  4. Führung von Silver Workern
  5. Proceedings of the Conference "Protection of the Environment and the Climate"
  6. Weihnachtem im hohen Norden
  7. Hermann Bahr
  8. Das Versagen der Avantgarde als Bastion der Hochkultur
  9. The (dis)similarity of interindustry wage differentials in Germany and the United-States
  10. Die Rettung des Ontologischen durch das Ontische?
  11. Investigation of friction stir welding process applied to ASTM 572 steel plate cladded with Inconel (R) 625
  12. Der syphilitische Leib des Souveräns
  13. ELearning in mathematischen Vorkursen mit Beispielen zur Analysis
  14. The acquisition of English as an L3 from a sociocultural point of view
  15. Innovation durch Nachhaltiges Wirt­schaften
  16. Bewegungsabläufe nervöser Kunstbegriffe
  17. Managementkompetenzen bei Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen
  18. Relationships between hydrological regime and ecosystem services supply in a Caribbean coastal wetland: a social-ecological approach
  19. Erziehungsstil und Unterrichtsstil
  20. "Leut"
  21. Do chief sustainability officers and CSR committees influence CSR-related outcomes?
  22. Livestock grazing disrupts plant-insect interactions on salt marshes
  23. Abschluss des Vertrages
  24. Hast du heute schon gelebt?
  25. Estimated capital stock values for German manufacturing enterprises covered by the cost structure surveys
  26. Learning about Relevance Concerning Cultural and Gender Differences in Chemistry Education
  27. Bauwerksuntersuchungen an zwei Sturmflutsperrwerken
  28. The Schöningen Middle Pleistocene sequence
  29. Internationales Kartell- und Fusionskontrollverfahrensrecht
  30. Berufliche Selbständigkeit als "verlockende" Karrierealternative