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. Give me hope, Jo‘anna? Eine Auswertung des Weltgipfels zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung aus Genderperspektive

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    09.10.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Global Alliance for Sustainable Universities

    Mader, C. (Lecturer)

    18.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Global change biology of ground beetles: Insights from wingless species in mountains

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    03.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Global Environmental Governance - GEG 2010

    Isaac, R. (Participant)

    19.10.202024.10.2020

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

  6. "Global Environmental Justice”: A Constructive Exchange between Political Philosophy and Social Science - 2013

    Stumpf, K. H. (Speaker)

    26.04.201327.04.2013

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

  7. Globales Lernen - Von der Praxis in die Wissenschaft: Zum Forschungsstand eines interdisziplinären Bildungskonzeptes.

    Richter, S. (Lecturer)

    10.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  8. Global warming triggers loss of genetic diversity of Z. exulans populations in Euro-pean high mountain systems

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Goethe University Frankfurt (External organisation)

    Golly, N. (Member)

    2008 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

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  1. Eresus kollari (Araneae: Eresidae) calls for heathland management.
  2. Sind Besucherbefragungen vertrauenswürdig ?
  3. Fantasiegeleitete Welterschließung mittels handlungsorientierter Kunstvermittlung im schulischen Kontext
  4. Theorien des Managements
  5. Proceedings of the Conference "Protection of the Environment and the Climate"
  6. Heinrich Popitz: Einführung in die Soziologie. Konstanz: University Press 2010
  7. Wahlen in der Ukraine
  8. Webtipp: Robert Schumann und Frédéric Chopin
  9. Platons politische Philosophie des Fleischesseropfers
  10. Impact of rhizobacterial volatiles on Brachypodium distachyon (L.) Beauv. growth and response to abiotic stresses
  11. Forschung als Brückenschlag zwischen Theorie und Praxis
  12. Brückenschlag zwischen Wissenschaft und Verwaltung
  13. Katja Siekmann (Hrsg.) Theorie, Empirie und Praxis effektiver Rechtschreibdiagnostik
  14. Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen in Unternehmen und Organisationen
  15. International Survey of Principals Concerning Emotional and Mental Health and Well-Being.
  16. Pigous Beitrag zur Nachhaltigkeitsökonomie
  17. Teilhabe an JHWHs Macht
  18. Zweitalphabetisierung
  19. Leiblichkeit und Erzählen
  20. Medien(t)räume
  21. Don't lock me in
  22. Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants
  23. "Meine zweite Kindheit"
  24. Kreativität im Englischunterricht
  25. Magnesium alloys for biomedical applications
  26. Plants as resources for organic molecules
  27. The tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of the southern Levant and adjacent territories
  28. Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks