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. 2015
  2. Falling Walls of Food Waste

    Pleißner, D. (Lecturer)

    08.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Diskussion "Gute Arbeit ohne Wachstum? Ansatzpunkte für eine nachhaltige Gestaltung der Arbeit" - 2015

    Hofmeister, S. (presenter)

    06.11.201507.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Qualitätskriterien in der Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    05.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    03.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Inklusion in der außerschulischen politischen Bildung

    Offen, S. (Speaker)

    02.11.201503.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Projekt ‚Demokratie leben’ der Hansestadt Lüneburg/Stadtjugendring - 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Moderator)

    27.10.2015

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

  8. Association of the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education - AASHE 2015

    John, B. (Speaker)

    26.10.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. 12. NGU Tagung: Wissenschaftliche Praxis und ökopolitischer Aktivismus

    Meyer, E. M. (presenter)

    23.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  10. GDCP Doktorierendenkolloquium 2015

    Hofer, E. (Speaker)

    23.10.201525.10.2015

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

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Publications

  1. Einleitung
  2. Transformation der Gewalt im Film
  3. Näher an der Realität
  4. Weiblichkeit im Kontext häuslicher Gewalt
  5. Sensorische Umweltsoziologie
  6. Nachhaltiges Ressourcen- und Stoffstrommanagement
  7. Von CSR zu Corporate Sustainability
  8. Rohstoffbedarfsplanung – Konzeptionelle Eckpunkte eines Instruments zur ressourcen- und flächensparenden Rohstoffgewinnung
  9. The adaptive nature of culture
  10. Kritischer Konsum zwischen Reflexivität und Popularisierung – zur Einführung
  11. Increasing the Agility of IT Delivery
  12. Ein Ansatz zur Detektion emotionaler Erregung bei PKW-Fahrern mittels physiologischer Parameter
  13. Berufliche Selbständigkeit als "verlockende" Karrierealternative
  14. NATO 2030
  15. Country-level and individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries
  16. Author Correction
  17. Democratic Aspiration Meets Political Reality
  18. Humans, Materiality and Society
  19. Raf De Bont: Stations in the Field. A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870–1930
  20. Atmungsdetektion und Analyse mithilfe von UWB-Sensorik im Bereich häuslicher Pflege
  21. Dogmatics
  22. Emotionen im Straßenverkehr
  23. Vorabentscheidungsverfahren, schriftliches Verfahren
  24. The granular nature of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
  25. Collective Litigation in German Civil Procedure
  26. Bildkompetenz
  27. Demokratiekompetenz als berufliche Handlungskompetenz
  28. Der Netzausbau gelingt nur mit mehr Wettbewerb und stärkerer Regulierung
  29. Harmonisierungspotenziale zwischen in- und externem Rechnungswesen.
  30. Medien(t)räume