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
Schlüsselkompetenzen für Denken und Handeln in der Weltgesellschaft - Ergebnisse eines europäisch-lateinamerikanischen Expertendelphis
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
16.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Schöns "reflective practitioner" als Leitfigur einer reflexiven LehrerInnenbildung? Ein Streitgespräch
Abels, S. (Lecturer)
25.02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science and Practitioners: Transdisciplinary research a bridge to create socially robust knowledge
Brandt, P. (Speaker) & Gralla, F. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed dispersal and predation: Interactions, ecosystem functions and services
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed fate of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed predation of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seeking Legitimacy for Vvalu Ccreation: a Leadership Perspective on Social Eentrepreneurship and Ccorporate social Responsibility
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
05.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seeking sustainabillity competency and capability in the ESD literature - An hermeneutic analysis
Barth, M. (Speaker), Shepard, K. (Speaker) & Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
22.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Selbstkonzept von Lernenden beim Abschätzen physikalischer Größen
Stinken-Rösner, L. (Speaker)
14.09.2015 → 17.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Selbstregulation im Alltag und spontane mentale Kontrastierung [Self-regulation in every-day life an spontaneous mental contrasting]
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Self-regulation of energization and direction
Oettingen, G. (Speaker) & Sevincer, T. (Coauthor)
08.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Semi-Subsistenzbetriebe zwischen Bereitstellung von öffentlichen Gütern, Erhalt der Vitalität ländlicher Räume und ökonomischer Bedrängnis – Argumente der europäischen und polnischen politischen Debatte über ihre Zukunft
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
17.11.2011 → 18.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
SER Conference (online)
Weidlich, E. (Speaker), Ernzen, J. P. (Speaker), Conti, I. (Speaker) & Neves, M. A. (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting
Wieck, S. (Speaker), Olsson, O. (Coauthor) & Kümmerer, K. (Coauthor)
14.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Simulation of the enviromental fate of the fungicide Penconazole and its transformation products in a vineyard-terraces catchment
Vollert, D. (Speaker), Gassmann, M. (Coauthor), Kümmerer, K. (Coauthor) & Olsson, O. (Coauthor)
18.06.2017 → 22.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sind Gründer-CEOs weniger anfällig für myopisches Verhalten?
Schuster, C. L. (Speaker) & Halberstadt, J. (Speaker)
07.11.2013 → 08.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Situational predictors of mental contrasting
Oettingen, G. (Speaker) & Sevincer, T. (Speaker)
03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Situational predictors of spontaneous mental contrasting
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Small Groups, Big Groups and Social Franchising - A Hayekian Perspective on Scaling Social Entrepreneurship
Beckmann, M. (Speaker) & Zeyen, A. (Speaker)
06.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social and ethical aspects in sustainability performance measurement and assessment. A systematic literature review
Silva, S. L. (Speaker), Beske-Janssen, P. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
05.10.2016 → 07.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social Entrepreneurship and Success Factors - Is There Really a Difference?
Zeyen, A. (Speaker)
28.10.2010 → 30.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social Entrepreneurship: Passion and Compassion as Strategic Drivers for Value Creation
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
06.08.2010 → 10.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sociocultural aspects in ecosystems’ transformation: methodological tools
de la Pava, R. (Speaker), Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker), Pérez, D. (Speaker) & Cortés-Gutiérrez, L. M. (Speaker)
05.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Socio-Economic Analysis of Maintenance Measures for the Preservation of Open Landscapes (Case Lueneburg Heath)
Müller, J. (Speaker)
26.09.2001 → 29.09.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Solubilisierungsvermögen von Sickerwasser und Sickerwasserfraktionen gegenüber organischen Schadstoffen
Ruck, W. (Speaker) & Schnaufer, R. (Speaker)
11.05.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sorption von Pestiziden an Tonmineralien und der Einfluß der Mikroorganismen
Klaas, N. (Speaker), Ruck, W. (Speaker) & Flemming, H. C. (Speaker)
10.05.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
South-East Asian Case Studies on EMA
Herzig, C. (Speaker), Viere, T. (Speaker), Burritt, R. L. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
09.11.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Spatiotemporal dynamics of exotic vegetation along a montane roadside
Turner, S. (Speaker)
01.12.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Spontaneous mental contrasting: Antecedents and consequenses
Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)
02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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