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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  2. Erdgasgewinnung durch "Fracking": Erschließung unkonventioneller Lagerstätten durch„Hydraulic Fracturing“

    Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Rethinking economy, nature use and development: Caring as a socio-ecological concept for sustainability and gender justice

    Katz, C. (Speaker) & Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Workshop zur Konstituierung des Instituts für transdisziplinäre Sozialwissenschaft der Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe -2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Is small beautiful? The case of small-scale farming in Poland, the CAP and rural resilience

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)

    30.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. 25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013

    Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013

    Gottschlich, D. (Organiser)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Competencies for sustainable development of rural areas need the integration of Gender

    Thiem, A. (Speaker) & Katz, C. (Speaker)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  9. Representing Future Generations Today

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    29.07.201310.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  10. 17th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association - APRIA 2013

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker) & Engler, J.-O. (presenter)

    28.07.201331.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Perform to Disclose or Disclose to Perform: Which Drives Which?

    Qian, W. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    26.07.201328.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Publications

  1. Appointing female CEOs in risky and precarious firm circumstances.
  2. Immanenz und Produktivität der Normen
  3. Lesarten des Natürlichen
  4. Besteuerung unternehmerischer Tätigkeit
  5. Hochschulentwicklung als besondere unternehmerische Herausforderung
  6. Expertise zur Lehrerprofessionalität in Zeiten der Schulentwicklung
  7. "Das Vaterland über die Partei!"
  8. Editorial
  9. Toward a New Aesthetics: Institutional Criticism in Art Education from 1900 to Today
  10. Einleitung: Blumers Rebellion 2.0: Eine Wissenschaft der Interpretation
  11. Musik und Medium
  12. Ein unglaubliches Schriftbild, von Rechtschreibung oder Interpunktion ganz zu schweigen
  13. Sind Selbständige zeit- und einkommensarm?
  14. Einspeisung von Biogas in das Erdgasnetz
  15. Effects of elevated CO2, elevated O3 and potassium deficiency on Norway spruce [picea abies (L.) Karst.]: seasonal changes in photosynthesis and non-structural carbohydrate content
  16. Strangpressen von Profilen mit variabler Wandstärke
  17. Herbert Marcuse and the West German Student Movement
  18. Vom Klassen-Körper zum Vorlesungs-Körper
  19. Erzählen - Argumentieren - Beschreiben
  20. Grundvorstellungen zur Division - auch mit Rest
  21. Environmental Shareholder Value
  22. Resonance and subpolitics as subject-related approaches to the critique of sustainability
  23. Stadtentwicklung als Zukunftsaufgabe
  24. Does it Pay to Be Eco-Efficient in the European Electricity Supply Industry?
  25. Fusionsprotein und dessen Verwendungen
  26. EU-Regulierung des öffentlichen Country by Country Reportings
  27. Leseunterricht in der Grundschule
  28. Focus on Tourism Consumers
  29. Elternschaft