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. Innovation Potential for Sustainability Management Methods

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker), Hörisch, J. (Speaker), Herzig, C. (Speaker) & Klewitz, J. (Speaker)

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. RGS – IBG DARG Conference 2012

    Richter, S. (Speaker)

    02.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  4. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Industries: The Case of the Apparel Industry

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Science Slam im Wissenschaftsjahr - Zukunftsprojekt Erde 2012

    Bolek, R. (Speaker)

    30.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  6. Abschlusskonferenz des Mercator Forschungsverbundes Innovatives Soziales Handeln – Social Entrepreneurship 2012

    Beckmann, M. (Organiser)

    28.06.201229.06.2012

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

  7. Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. In the forest: doing gender by doing nature

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 19th Annual Conference EAERE 2012

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    27.06.201230.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. proDUO: Job-Sharing for Postdoc and Higher Academic Employees: An Organizing Principle of the Human Resource Management of Science Institutions?

    Birkner, S. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Rehm, A. (Speaker)

    27.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Researchers

  1. Jürgen Lürssen

Publications

  1. Nachhaltige Energieversorgung
  2. Burkina Faso - A history of power, protest, and revolution
  3. Vorwort des Herausgebers
  4. Acoustic textures in distance perception
  5. Do Large Companies Ignore Formal Sustainability Management Controls?
  6. The Rise of International Parliaments
  7. Evaluation und Feedback der Lehrkräfte
  8. Wirksamkeit und Kosteneffektivität eines Online-Trainings zur Reduktion riskanten Alkoholkonsums bei Erwerbstätigen: Ergebnisse einer drei-armigen randomisiert-kontrollierten Studie
  9. The effect of chief financial officers’ expert power on tax avoidance – Empirical evidence from Germany
  10. Zwischen Zeit und Raum, Bewegung und Struktur
  11. Climate Accounting and Sustainability Management
  12. Ressourcensicherung durch Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
  13. Der ‚Stachel des Digitalen‘ – ein Anreiz zur Selbstreflexion in den Geisteswissenschaften?
  14. Europäische Kommission
  15. Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children
  16. Schlüsselwerke der Cultural Studies
  17. Raum, Tourismus, Kultur
  18. Concerns about cultural neurosciences
  19. Art, Ecology, and Sustainability - An Exchange between Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, and Ulf Wuggenig
  20. Emissions trading in Europe
  21. Collaboration in sustainability vision
  22. Centrist anti-establishment parties and their protest voters
  23. Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
  24. Generic substitution, financial interests, and imperfect agency
  25. Sustainability Accounting
  26. Was steckt hinter der mysteriösen Flasche?
  27. Achieving Environmental-Economic Sustainability Through Corporate Environmental Strategies