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. Navigating cognition biases in the search of sustainability

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker)

    06.02.201908.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Negotiating Expected Outcomes: Value Creation in Risky Contexts

    Schauer, M. (Speaker)

    2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Negotiating normativity: discourses of (non) belonging and (non) coincidences in the context of transnational adoption

    Golly, N. (Speaker)

    02.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Negotiating Sustainability Transformations [Symposium]

    Schauer, M. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Negotiators Facing Externalities

    Schauer, M. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Negotiators' Value Creation Between Parties, Across Time

    Heydenbluth, C. (Speaker)

    20.06.202323.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Nekane Castillo-Eguskitza

    Martín-López, B. (Host)

    05.201708.2017

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  8. Neon ist doch eine Farbe! Ein Unterrichtsgespräch über den Atombau 

    Abels, S. (Panel participant)

    06.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Neon ist doch eine Farbe!: Ein Unterrichtsgespräch über den Atombau

    Abels, S. (Speaker), Heidinger, C. (Speaker), Koliander, B. (Speaker) & Plotz, T. (Speaker)

    05.09.201608.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  1. Gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen von Lehren und Lernen
  2. Translating Pictures
  3. Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play. Edited by Michael Austin . New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-0853-6 - Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music. Edited by Michiel Kamp , Tim Summers and Mark Sweeney . Sheffield: Equinox, 2016. 231 pp. ISBN 978-1-78179-198-1
  4. German version of the pediatric incontinence questionnaire for urinary incontinence health related quality of life
  5. Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Niedersachsen
  6. Das extraordinäre Haus eines außerordentlichen Professors
  7. Schwärmen
  8. Schriftspracherwerb empirisch
  9. Interpunktionszeichen der Geschichte; Leichen
  10. The role of extensive margins of exports in The Great Export Recovery in Germany, 2009/2010
  11. Hydrological determination of groundwater drainage by Leaky Sewer Systems
  12. Fristendramen
  13. Human Terrain System
  14. On Freedom, Power, Justice
  15. Computerspiele mit und ohne Gewalt
  16. Erziehen - Lehren - Lernen
  17. International human resource management
  18. Aus Wörtern werden Texte
  19. Imagination und Erfahrung
  20. Women on management board and ESG performance
  21. The regulation of zero-price markets by the competition authorities in the USA and the EU
  22. Bodensaure Eichen- und Eichenmischwälder Europas
  23. The Carapacial Ridge of Turtles
  24. Eine alternative Einstiegsvorlesung in die Fachmathematik – Konzept und Auswirkungen
  25. Lehrerprofessionalität und die Qualität von Mathematikunterricht
  26. Das Bild der Anderen erforschen
  27. Exploring artful possibilities: a transdisciplinary research on culture, arts and sustainability