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. Establishing real-life laboratories: a transdisciplinary approach.

    Bernert, P. (presenter)

    06.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  2. „Es wird eng!“ LandwirtInnen zwischen Aufbruch, Anpassung und Resignation

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    20.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Ethics Education Workshop: Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsethik in der wirt-schaftswissenschaftlichen Ausbildung 2008

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    24.07.200826.07.2008

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

  4. Ethyl sulfate: previously to be totally stable against bacterial degradation – wrong!

    Kümmerer, K. (Lecturer)

    02.06.200808.06.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. ETH Zürich World Food System Center Summer School - 2013

    Velten, S. (Participant)

    11.08.201325.08.2013

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

  6. EU BIS Meeting (Cost-Action) - 2015

    Pleißner, D. (presenter)

    29.09.201530.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. European Academy of Management - EURAM 2008

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)

    14.05.200817.05.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. European Academy of Management - EURAM 2009

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)

    10.05.200914.05.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Researchers

  1. Benjamin Höhne

Publications

  1. Firm size and job quality
  2. Role of scavengers in providing non-material contributions to people
  3. Bilanz der Großen Koalition von 2018 bis 2021
  4. Review: Maris Köpcke, A Short History of Legal Validity and Invalidity – Foundations of Private and Public Law, Cambridge 2019, Zeitschrift
  5. Jenseits von Rente und Vollbeschäftigung
  6. Notting Hill Gate 6
  7. Medienwissenschaft, Medientheorie oder Medienphilosophie?
  8. Wie kann Exnovation politisch gestaltet werden?
  9. Kreativität? Über das Schöpferische in Natur und Kunst
  10. Führung von Silver Workern
  11. Proceedings of the Conference "Protection of the Environment and the Climate"
  12. Weihnachtem im hohen Norden
  13. Hermann Bahr
  14. Das Versagen der Avantgarde als Bastion der Hochkultur
  15. The (dis)similarity of interindustry wage differentials in Germany and the United-States
  16. Die Rettung des Ontologischen durch das Ontische?
  17. Investigation of friction stir welding process applied to ASTM 572 steel plate cladded with Inconel (R) 625
  18. Der syphilitische Leib des Souveräns
  19. ELearning in mathematischen Vorkursen mit Beispielen zur Analysis
  20. The acquisition of English as an L3 from a sociocultural point of view
  21. Innovation durch Nachhaltiges Wirt­schaften
  22. Bewegungsabläufe nervöser Kunstbegriffe
  23. Managementkompetenzen bei Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen
  24. Relationships between hydrological regime and ecosystem services supply in a Caribbean coastal wetland: a social-ecological approach
  25. Erziehungsstil und Unterrichtsstil
  26. "Leut"
  27. Do chief sustainability officers and CSR committees influence CSR-related outcomes?
  28. Livestock grazing disrupts plant-insect interactions on salt marshes