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. Matching the Core Text Approach with the General Education Philosophy: Breaking Ground at Leuphana College in Lüneburg, Germany

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    09.04.201512.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Match or Mismatch?: Biofuel Sustainability Standards and local Producers’ Perspectives on Sustainable Feedstock Production

    Hildebrandt, T. (Speaker), Moser, C. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    24.01.201325.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Measurement of Mental Models of Climate Change. Cross-Linked Thinking through Scenario Analysis

    Burandt, S. (presenter)

    10.05.200914.05.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  4. Measuring the Impacts of NGO partnerships The Economic and Societal Benefits of Community Involvement at Merck Ltd., Thailand

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)

    20.09.201022.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. MECS Conference: Dealing with Climate Change. Calculus & Catastrope in the Age of Simulation - 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    25.06.201526.06.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Media and Climate-friendly Behavior – Do Media have an Impact on Individual Action for Climate Protection?

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    30.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  7. Media Impact on Climate Protection

    Lüdecke, G. (presenter)

    30.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Transfer

  8. Meeting at the Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC) 2007

    Trötschel, R. (Speaker)

    2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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  1. Alltag in den Medien - Medien im Alltag
  2. "Mehr Netflix als Schulenglisch" Sprachliche Ressourcen junger Deutschchilenen
  3. Book Review: Organizations: A Systems Approach, S. Kühl. Farnham: Gower Publishing, 2013. 195 pp. ISBN 9781472413413.
  4. Emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls in Switzerland
  5. Disentangling the practice of landscape approaches
  6. Artikel 28 AEUV [Zollunion]
  7. Management Roles and Sustainability Information
  8. „Sweet little lies“
  9. Woody plant species diversity as a predictor of ecosystem services in a social–ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia
  10. Der "fachdidaktische Code" der Lebenswelt- und/oder (?) Situationsorientierung in der fachdidaktischen Diskussion der sozialwissenschaftlichen Unterrichtsfächer sowie des Lernfeldkonzepts
  11. Effect of rotational speed and double-sided welding in friction stir–welded dissimilar joints of aluminum alloy and steel
  12. § 352 Aufrechnung nach Nichterfüllung
  13. Regional Institutional Design
  14. Let`s put the person back into entrepreneurship research
  15. Collective Litigation in German Civil Procedure
  16. Gamifikation im Tourismus
  17. Materialbereitstellung in der Montage
  18. How Citizen Entrepreneurship Works
  19. Organisation fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD)
  20. Government popularity and the economy
  21. Education and Training
  22. Website Premia for Extensive Margins of International Firm Activities: Evidence for SMEs from 34 Countries
  23. Pop Insights.
  24. Hochwasser- und Naturschutz in der nachhaltigen Regionalentwicklung
  25. Artikel 40 EUV [Kompetenzabgrenzung]
  26. Wie wirkt die FDS-Intervention auf die Entwicklung des Emotionswissens der Kinder?
  27. Company directors: foreign disqualification etc