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.
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6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community - IHDP 2005
Newig, J. (Speaker)
09.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
A behavioral science view onto climate risk and uncertainty communications
Kause, A. (Speaker)
19.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
A behavioral science view onto climate risk and uncertainty communications
Kause, A. (Speaker)
23.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Abfälle als Rohstoffquelle – Prozesslösungen für eine Kreislaufwirtschaft mit regionalem Bezug
Pleißner, D. (Speaker)
04.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Advantages and challenges of in silico tools and their contribution to sustainable chemistry with the focus on (Q)SAR
Amsel, A.-K. (Speaker) & Kümmerer, K. (Coauthor)
25.02.2020 → 26.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
archiDART: an R package for the automated 2D computation of root architectural traits
Delory, B. (Speaker), Baudson, C. (Speaker), Brostaux, Y. (Speaker), Lobet, G. (Speaker), du Jardin, P. (Speaker), Pagès, L. (Speaker) & Delaplace, P. (Speaker)
21.06.2015 → 25.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Bestimmung von Diuron, Terbutryn, OIT sowie deren Transformationsprodukte in urbanen Oberflächengewässern und Grundwasser
Olsson, O. (Speaker)
18.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
BNE in der universitären Lehrerausbildung für den Bereich Grund-, Real- und Hauptschule
Barth, M. (Speaker)
09.03.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
BNE inklusiv - ein gutes Leben für alle
Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Speaker)
02.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
BNE inklusiv in der Lehreraus-, fort- und weiterbildung
Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Speaker)
16.05.2019 → 17.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
BNE sowie Trasformatives Lernen in der Hochschullehre
Barth, M. (Speaker)
18.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Challenging Methods Stream 1: Tools of Methods
Meyer, E. M. (Speaker)
20.09.2015 → 26.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Conflicts on shaping societies' relations to nature on a local level. The example of agricultural biotechnology
Friedrich, B. (Speaker)
03.06.2012 → 07.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Damals wie heute? Wie traditionelle Geschlechterrollen Menschen in Verhandlungen beeinflussen
Mazei, J. (Speaker) & Schuster, C. (Panel participant)
28.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Das Losprinzip in der Demokratie – Welche Rolle können Bürgerräte für Politik und Gesetzgebung spielen?
Newig, J. (Speaker)
25.02.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Dekarbonisierung der Wirtschaft konkret – Wege und Herausforderungen in Niedersachsen
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
18.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz
Newig, J. (Speaker)
06.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Der Blick nach vorn - Klimapolitik in der Europäischen Union
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
25.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Die Dokumentarische Methode
Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Speaker)
11.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Interessen zukünftiger Generationen: neue Modelle der Repräsentation
Rose, M. (Plenary speaker)
16.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der Demokratie
Rose, M. (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die politische Repräsentation zukünftiger Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie - Ausgewählte Herausforderungen
Rose, M. (Speaker)
26.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Education for sustainable development - is sharing knowledge a key for sustainability transformation?
Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Speaker)
10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Ein einfaches nicht steriles Verfahren zur simultanen Umwandlung biogener Reststoffe in Bioethanol und Milchsäure
Pleißner, D. (Speaker)
11.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
E-learning module on “Participation” in the context of IWRM – “Social Science” Part
Newig, J. (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Environmental governance research - cumulative knowledge or fragmented adhocracy?
Newig, J. (Keynote Speaker) & Rose, M. (Keynote Speaker)
04.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Ev. Akademie Braunschweig
Maly, C. (Speaker)
20.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Ev. Akademie Braunschweig
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
20.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Expert workshop ‘Sustainability: platforms to facilitate deliberative policy learning’, MCC Berlin
Newig, J. (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Food security and livelihoods in restoration landscapes in western Rwanda: An overview and some reflections on the path to the Rwanda Restore DFG Research Unit on social-ecological restoration in western Rwanda.
Temperton, V. (Speaker)
09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Forschendes Lernen im integrativen naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht - Teil 1
Abels, S. (Speaker) & Hofer, E. (Speaker)
28.08.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Forschendes Lernen im integrativen naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht - Teil 2
Abels, S. (Speaker) & Hofer, E. (Speaker)
18.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Fünfzig Jahre nach morgen - wo werden wir sein? Die ökonomischen Kosten des Klimawandel
Kemfert, C. (Speaker)
01.12.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Für das Wissen entscheiden
Kümmerer, K. (Panel participant)
2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Gerechtigkeit und Transformation. Eine Tagung in Tutzing
Baier, A. (Coauthor), Biesecker, A. (Speaker) & Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)
11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Governance und Transformation: Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen
Newig, J. (Speaker)
14.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Green Hotels: Use of food waste derived from hotels and restaurants for the production of sustainable and biodegradable consumables.
Pleißner, D. (Lecturer)
29.09.2015 → 30.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Grundwassergefährdung durch biozide Wirkstoffe und ihrer Transformationsprodukte im urbanen Niederschlagsabfluss?
Olsson, O. (Speaker)
05.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Grünes Design allein reicht nicht mehr
Kümmerer, K. (Keynote Speaker)
08.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
IHDP Open Meeting
Newig, J. (Speaker)
29.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Implizite, normative und ergebnisbezogene psychologische Aspekte sozialer Angemessenheit
Schuster, C. (Keynote Speaker)
28.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Impulse zum inklusiven Chemieunterricht; Dialoggespräch zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft zum inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht
Abels, S. (Speaker)
10.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Indian Chemical Council Webinar "FROM GREEN CHEMISTRY TO CHEMISTRY IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY TO SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY"
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
18.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR), 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM09)
Newig, J. (Speaker)
06.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Symposium “Uncertainty and Precaution in Environmental Management (UPEM)”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
07.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
International Workshop “Global Change – a Challenge to Environmental Sociology The case of Spain and Germany”
Newig, J. (Speaker)
14.12.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Klimawandel und Küstenschutz: Müssen sich Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft wandeln? Ergebnisse einer Diskursstudie unter den Akteuren des Küstenschutzes in der Ems-Dollart-Region
Schmidt, A. (Speaker) & Kuhn, K. (Speaker)
20.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Maly, C. (Speaker)
12.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lernprozesse in Reallaboren & Co. verstehen und gestalten
Barth, M. (Speaker)
22.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Leverage points for sustainability transformation in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Institutional perspectives
Newig, J. (Speaker)
16.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research