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.
- Presentations (poster etc.)
Governance scenarios for ecological and social goals in agricultural landscapes
Schaal, T. (presenter)
30.08.2016 → 02.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Governing anthropogenic capitals for nature's contributions to people in forests
Isaac, R. (Speaker), Martín-López, B. (Coauthor), Schleyer, C. (Coauthor), Hofmann, J. (Coauthor), Koegst, J. (Coauthor) & Däfler, L. S. (Coauthor)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Herausforderungen in der Planungsphase offenen Forschenden Lernens
Fietkau, A. (presenter), Hofer, E. (Coauthor) & Abels, S. (Coauthor)
12.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Higher Education for Sustainable Development through a Compulsory Module? A Longitudinal Study at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany)
Sundermann, A. (presenter)
11.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Households as important source of biocidal active substances in influents of sewage treatment plants
Wieck, S. (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
How do Austrian chemistry teachers implement inquiry-based learning in their classes?
Hofer, E. (presenter)
21.08.2016 → 26.08.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
How do chemistry teachers implement inquiry-based learning in their classes?
Hofer, E. (presenter) & Lembens, A. (Coauthor)
13.07.2015 → 16.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Identification and Assessment of Photo Transformation Products of the UV Filters Octocrylene and Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate Present in Grey Water Intended for Water Reuse
Jentzsch, F. (Speaker), Leder, C. (Speaker), Olsson, O. (Speaker), Kümmerer, K. (Speaker) & Jentzsch, F. (presenter)
20.09.2015 → 24.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Identification of photo-transformation products of ciprofloxacin and evaluation of their genotoxicity using in silco methods and in vitro assay
Kümmerer, K. (presenter), Haddad, T. (Coauthor), Toolaram, A. P. (Coauthor) & Leder, C. (presenter)
03.06.2013 → 04.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Implementing aspects of inquiry-based learning in secondary chemistry classes: a case study
Hofer, E. (presenter) & Lembens, A. (Coauthor)
22.08.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Individuelle und kollektive Partizipationschancen in Klassenräten heterogener Lerngruppen (Posterpräsentation)
Meyn, J. (Speaker)
01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Education
Informal Competence Development of Volunteers of Sustainability Groups in Ecuador and Germany
Rieckmann, M. (presenter)
21.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Initial microbial ecotoxicitiy assessment of thioridazine, thioridazine 5-sulfoxide and photolytic mixtures of thioridazine
Menz, J. (presenter)
11.05.2014 → 15.05.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Integrating Time Aspects into the Assessment of Sustainable Resource Management
Weiser, A. (presenter)
07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Integration of a Heat Storage System into an Existing Household
Weist, K. (presenter)
11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Interdisciplinary Study Days „Biodiversity - Concept and Value“
Stumpf, K. H. (Speaker)
21.03.2011 → 26.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off
Hoberg, N. (presenter)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Is a better understanding of assembly a way to help reassemble communities for restoration?
Weidlich, E. W. A. (presenter)
23.08.2015 → 27.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
iSleep well: Protokoll für eine Multicenter-Studie zur Nichtunterlegenheit von internetbasierter KVT-I im Vergleich zu KVT-I vor Ort
Grolig, L. (Speaker), Hannibal, S. (Coauthor) & Lehr, D. (Coauthor)
10.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Klimapolitik: nachhaltig und geschlechtergerecht?
Heilmann, S. (presenter)
20.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research