School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
- Conference Presentations
Spontaneous self-regulation by mentally contrasting future and reality
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Spontaneous thoughts and images
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stakeholder Governance - A Longitudinal Analysis of UK-based Companies Listed in the BITC Corporate Responsibility Index
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
22.09.2010 → 24.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stakeholder Orientation of Corporate Sustainability Evaluation Methodologies
Kim, K. (Speaker)
15.05.2003 → 17.05.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Standortübergreifende Untersuchungen zur Langzeit-Retardation von BTEX, PAK und N,S,O-Heterocyclen in Aktivkohle-Reinigungswänden
Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker), Ruck, W. (Speaker) & Birke, V. (Speaker)
23.11.2009 → 24.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
State- prescribed (re)productivity? The Philippine Legislation on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Crisis
Dannenberg, J. (Speaker)
03.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stories of a journey: tracing traditional knowledge associated to orphan crops across agrifood circuits in Bogota
Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker)
26.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Strategies for the Control of Water Treatment by Stripping and Injection of CO2
Ruck, W. (Speaker) & Koch, M. (Speaker)
30.10.1990 → 01.11.1990Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Strengthening the rights of future generations: Governance tools towards tackling political myopia
Rose, M. (Speaker)
17.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Student Gender and Teachers' Grading and Written Feedback on Math or Language Assignments
Narciss, S. (Speaker) & Schuster, C. (Coauthor)
14.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Students' concpetions about the sense of smell
Hofer, E. (Coauthor)
05.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Subject-related interactions of students in chemistry lessons during distillation
Abels, S. (Speaker), Koliander, B. (Coauthor) & Plotz, T. (Coauthor)
11.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Substance use without a substance: The risk factors and mechanisms of gambling
Sevincer, T. (Speaker)
26.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Successes and failures of farm diversification processes – some evidence from two Polish regions
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sufficiency: The Missing Elephant in the EU Trade and Biodiversity Agenda?
Coenen, J. (Speaker) & Roux, N. (Speaker)
05.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability and internal supply chain management – A conceptual approach to intra-organisational knowledge transfer
Harms, D. (Speaker)
12.09.2011 → 14.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability and Internal Supply Chain Management: A Conceptual Approach to Intra-Organisational Knowledge Transfer
Harms, D. (Speaker)
12.09.2011 → 14.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability and Learning
Barth, M. (Speaker)
26.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability aspects of flood risk management - interrelations and challenges
Evers, M. (Speaker), Nyberg, L. (Speaker), Johansson, M. (Speaker) & Blumenthal, B. (Speaker)
30.05.2010 → 03.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability Awareness and Volunteer Services in the Global South
Richter, S. (Speaker)
09.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education