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. 2012
  2. Seed fate of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    05.08.201210.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 13th International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) XIII World Congress on Rural Sociology 2012

    Challies, E. (Chair)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managment - AOM 2012

    Zeyen, A. (Organiser), Beckmann, M. (Organiser), König, M. (Participant) & Frese, M. (Organiser)

    04.08.2012

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

  5. Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance

    Challies, E. (Speaker)

    04.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. A Contingency Analysis of SUccess Definitions - Is Social Entrepreneurship REally Different?

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    03.08.201207.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. A Hayekian Perspective on Social Franchising: Scaling Social Entrepreneurship by Combining Small-Group and Big-Group Logics

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    03.08.201207.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Agrobiodiversity between conservation and use - examples from Germany

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Nature-Gender-Relations within the Agrarian Change - the Example of Agrobiodiversity

    Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Successes and failures of farm diversification processes – some evidence from two Polish regions

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Sustainable Land Use: Gender Perspectives - Session 61 A: Introduction “Gender – Culture – Nature

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    02.08.201203.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Researchers

  1. Steffen Greve

Publications

  1. Changeability of pre-service teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism
  2. Business owners' network size and business growth in China
  3. Sugars in Antarctic aerosol
  4. Precipitation processes in Mg-Y-Nd-Ag alloys suitable for biodegradable implants
  5. Climate change and modelling of extreme temperatures in Switzerland
  6. Förderung des Transfers metakognitiver Lernstrategien durch direktes und indirektes Training
  7. Meeting the Future
  8. “We are here to stay”
  9. European economic governance
  10. Wouters-Entscheidung
  11. Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala
  12. Das Gebot der eindeutigen Leistungsbeschreibung zwischen Vergaberecht und Allgemeiner Rechtsgeschäftslehre
  13. The Great Pacific Garbage Catch
  14. Sustainability as a Fundamental Challenge for Management Accountants
  15. Seeanlagen-Verordnung
  16. Ein modifiziertes Newton-Verfahren zur Lösung des Hochrechnungsproblems nach dem Prinzip des minimalen Informationsverlustes
  17. Rational Socially Responsible Investment
  18. Russia’s annexation of crimea and the passage of ships through kerch strait
  19. Entrepreneurship and professional service firms
  20. Franz Hessel: Sämtliche Werke in fünf Bänden
  21. Pro & Contra: Kernenergie
  22. Ist die Seele noch zu retten?
  23. Foto
  24. Umweltorientiertes Markenmanagement
  25. Essen in der KiTa
  26. Digitalisierung - Chance oder Risiko für nachhaltigen Tourismus?
  27. Pekka Kärkkäinen: Luthers trinitarische Theologie des heiligen Geistes, VIEG 208, Mainz 2005
  28. Internal markets or hierachies
  29. Der ‚Sympathisanten’-Diskurs im Deutschen Herbst
  30. Oscar Wilde, "Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen"