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. Gerechtigkeitsaspekte in der Naturschutzkommunikation

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    29.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Planet Under Pressure Conference 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    26.03.201229.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Frühjahrstagung: „(Un-)Sicherheit, (Bio-)Macht und (Cyber-)Kämpfe: Kritische Theorieperspektiven auf Technologien als Ort gesellschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung“ 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Gottschlich, D. (Speaker) & Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    23.03.201224.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 1st Conference of the Energy and Society Network 2012

    Fischer, L.-B. (Speaker)

    22.03.201224.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Altlastensymposium der ingenieurtechnischen Vereinigung Altlasten - ITVA 2012

    Sanden, J. (Speaker)

    22.03.201223.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Tag der Hydrologie - TdH 2012

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    22.03.201223.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence

    Challies, E. (presenter)

    21.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  9. TEEB Conference 2012

    Baumgärtner, S. (presenter)

    21.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Describing consumer competence: A transdisciplinary approach

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    20.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Publications

  1. The Great Export Recovery in German Manufacturing Industries, 2009/2010
  2. Unfamiliar fuel
  3. Brief for GSDR 2015: Transforming Higher Education for Sustainable Development
  4. Außervertragliche Haftung der EG, Verhältnis zur Nichtigkeitsklage
  5. Mathematikinteresse im 1. Studiensemester
  6. Einleitung: Blumers Rebellion 2.0: Eine Wissenschaft der Interpretation
  7. Der Zusammenhang von Schulleitungshandeln, Unterrichtsgestaltung und Lernerfolg
  8. Orientierung
  9. Die Ökonomie des Klimawandels
  10. The threat of social decline
  11. Sinn und Sinnlichkeit des Subjekts
  12. Heldenmädchen und gespaltene Männer
  13. Aspects of Sustainability
  14. Estimating the aquatic emissions and fate of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) into the river Rhine
  15. Beratungsarbeit im "Zwischen"
  16. Uthethane dimethacrylate: A molecule that may cause confusion in dental research
  17. Degraded creep resistance induced by static precipitation strengthening in high-pressure die casting Mg-Al-Sm alloy
  18. Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management
  19. Impact of land transformation, management and governance on subjective wellbeing across social–ecological systems
  20. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Umweltschutz-Audits für Krankenhäuser
  21. The role of extensive margins of exports in The Great Export Recovery in Germany, 2009/2010
  22. Aspekte sozialer Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext der beruflichen Bildung Benachteiligter
  23. Aufwand und Ertrag
  24. Der Fußballplatz als ethnische Kampfarena
  25. The effects of psychotherapies for major depression in adults on remission, recovery and improvement
  26. Das Studium als Berufsvorbereitung - ein Mythos der Lehrerbildung
  27. Konzept für einen transsektoralen Auftragsbroker als komponente einer Telematik-Infrastruktur