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. Sustainability-oriented innovation in SMEs - Forms of collaboration for capacity building

    Klewitz, J. (presenter)

    26.10.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  2. "Sustainability Politics in Germany"

    Laws, N. (Oral presentation)

    13.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Sustainability Reporters

    Herzig, C. (Speaker)

    04.09.200506.09.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Sustainability Reporting and the Need for Capacity Development

    Godemann, J. (Speaker) & Herzig, C. (Speaker)

    24.11.200525.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Sustainability Reporting on the World Wide Web: Developments in Germany

    Herzig, C. (Speaker)

    17.09.200819.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Sustainability Science (Journal)

    von Wehrden, H. (Reviewer)

    2011 → …

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

  7. Sustainability Solutions Initiative - From Knowledge to Action

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    18.10.2010

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

  8. Sustainability, temporal irreversibility and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off

    Hoberg, N. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)

    14.06.201117.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Sustainability through Institutional Failure & Decline? Archetypes of Productive Functions

    Derwort, P. (Speaker)

    06.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Sustainability Transformation: Building Resilience in Sustainability Reporting for a Net-Zero Future

    Bertram, A. (Speaker)

    19.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Publications

  1. The role of multi-functionality in social preferences toward semi-arid rural landscapes
  2. Der Einstieg ins Studium als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe: Das Leuphana Semester
  3. Phänomenologischer versus technologischer Ansatz für das Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen
  4. Präsidenten und Regierungen in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
  5. The meanings of ‘electronic dance music’ and ‘EDM’
  6. Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation
  7. Impact of climate change and pollution driven land use changes on Elbe river (Northern Germany) floodplain vegetation.
  8. Pearce, Robert D.: The Crowth and Evolution of Multinational Enterprise, Aldershot, UK/Brookfield, USA: Edward Elgar, 1993. 176 pp. f 35.00. ISBN 1-85278-396-6
  9. Energiegenossenschaften -das Erfolgsmodell braucht neue Dynamik
  10. Skål, Admiral von Schneider!
  11. Immer wieder Kunst
  12. Forschendes Lernen und das 5E-Modell – ein kurzer Überblick
  13. CSR zwischen unternehmerischer Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Zukunftsgestaltung
  14. The Presence of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Due to Human Use
  15. Smell the fish
  16. Special Issue: Weimar Photography: Bauhaus, Cultural Difference, Exile: Part 1
  17. Emotionsregulation und Problemverhalten von Kindern und Jugendlichen
  18. Von Kunst aus
  19. Nachhaltigkeit ist machbar
  20. Discharge and fate of biocide residuals to ephemeral stormwater retention pond sediments
  21. Un progetto di ricerca e sviluppo come punto di partenza per lo sviluppo sostenibile
  22. Einsatz von diskreten und kontinuierlichen Simulationsansätzen in Stoffstromanalysen
  23. Altern, Sterben und Tod
  24. Strenges Komponieren?
  25. Strengthening gender justice in a just transition
  26. Die Universität als Innovationsinkubator: Projekte mit der Kreativitätswirtschaft an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  27. "Jugend 2015" - kritisch durchmustert
  28. Entwicklung der Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation
  29. Ieva Astahovska et al. (eds) Revisiting Footnotes. Footprints of the Recent Past in the Post‐Socialist Region. Riga: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015.
  30. Silicon Valley
  31. Arbeitsanweisungen verstehen
  32. Humor, revolt, and subjectivity