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. 3rd International Sustainability Conference 2012

    Hörisch, J. (Speaker)

    29.08.201231.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. A utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability

    Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)

    29.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Ignorant or gatekeeper? What role do accountants play in the sustainability accounting practice?

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    29.08.201231.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Role-determined information needs of sustainability management control

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    29.08.201231.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology - ECCB 2012

    Brittain, C. (Speaker)

    28.08.201201.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 32nd International Geographical Congress 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (Chair)

    26.08.201230.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Konfliktreiche Begegnungen?!: Sozialwissenschaftliche Einwürfe zur Gewaltdiskussion im Fußball

    Winands, M. (Lecturer)

    16.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Ant Course 2012

    Staab, M. (Participant)

    06.08.201216.08.2012

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

  10. Publications of environmental education programs reveal interdisciplinary boundaries

    Pufal, G. (presenter)

    05.08.201210.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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  3. Climate Change Economics
  4. Das Verschwinden der Moralphilosophie
  5. Mediation
  6. Normative Begründung der Nachhaltigkeitsökonomie
  7. Determinants of the export behaviour of German business services companies
  8. Schwer – schwierig – diffizil
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  10. Außervertragliche Haftung der EG, administratives Unrecht
  11. Trust and repatriate knowledge transfer
  12. International investment law
  13. Valorization of organic residues for the production of added value chemicals
  14. Evaluation der Special Olympics Handballnationalteams
  15. Delineating the interplay between subjective safety and country image in influencing international tourists’ extrinsic travel motives
  16. Mathematik in der Grundschule, ein Arbeitsbuch / Monika Baum, Hans Wielpütz (Hrsg.)
  17. Educational Development Processes of Male Adolescents from Immigrant Families
  18. Selbstentdeckendes und problemorientiertes Lernen in Studiengängen Sozialer Arbeit
  19. The distribution of income of self-employed, entrepreneurs and professions as revealed from micro income tax statistics in Germany
  20. The Top 100 Companies Panel Database
  21. Schwerpunkt
  22. Erleben, Verstehen, Vergleichen
  23. Uncertainty Promotes Neuroreductionism
  24. Auf der Innenseite der Sprache
  25. When passions collide: Passion convergence in entrepreneurial teams
  26. Earnings baths by bank CEOs during turnovers
  27. Kommentierung Art. 23-41
  28. PoNa als inter- und transdisziplinäres Experiment in der Sozial-ökologischen Forschung