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. 11th Annual Colloquium of the International Association of Hydro-Environment Research and Engineering-Baden-Württemberg - 2010

    Kümmerer, K. (presenter)

    25.11.201026.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Innovation contests for sustainability innovations: Findings from a worldwide shoe innovation contest

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)

    25.11.201027.11.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. International Conference "Equality, Growth and Sustainability - Do they mix?'' - 2010

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

    25.11.201026.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Tagung zum Globalen Lernen und BNE - 2010

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    25.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 2. Workshop Innovationsverbund Nachhaltiger Mittelstand - 2010

    Klewitz, J. (Moderator)

    24.11.2010

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

  7. 5th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education - 2010

    Holz, V. (Speaker)

    23.11.201025.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. 5. Internationalen Konferenz zur Speicherung Erneuerbarer Energien - 2010

    Schomerus, T. (presenter)

    22.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Investitionen in die eigene Geschäftsgrundlage: Warum Unternehmen gut beraten sind, CSR sinnvoll umzusetzen

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    15.11.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Berichte aus der Forschung. Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung – Landesarbeitsgruppe Nord

    Evers, M. (Speaker)

    05.11.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Natur verstehen ist ein kultureller Prozess!: Interkulturalität und interkulturelle Öffnung bei Umweltverbänden

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    05.11.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Researchers

  1. Pia Kohlstedt

Publications

  1. Najkrači put u svet – Der kürzeste Weg in die Welt
  2. Regional renewable energy approaches
  3. Von CSR zu Corporate Sustainability
  4. Assessing difficulties in career decision making among Swiss adolescents with the German My Vocational Situation Scale
  5. Hörbar gut
  6. Drei Fragen zu Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
  7. Partizipation
  8. DIN
  9. Sex differences in general knowledge in German high school students
  10. Bildungsphilosophie
  11. Die Welt aus Eis
  12. Unternehmensrisiko Klimawandel
  13. Erlebniswertorientierte Markenstrategien
  14. Biodiversität und Globales Lernen
  15. "Just-in-Time"-Logistik am Beispiel eines Zulieferbetriebs in der Automobilindustrie
  16. Functional and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants drive herbivory in a highly diverse forest
  17. Landschaft
  18. Fehler beim schätzen
  19. Energiekonzept: Die Energierevolution
  20. Buying organic
  21. Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing firms
  22. VG Göttingen: Kein umfassender Meldedatenabgleich durch Beitragsservice
  23. Buchhaltung und Jahresabschluß
  24. Sandökosysteme im Binnenland
  25. Ecotourism and Coral Reef
  26. § 48 Solare Strahlungsenergie
  27. Mittig ist nur das Mittel
  28. Jünglinge der Moderne
  29. Sachunterricht: Fundstücke aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  30. Biodiversität richtig managen
  31. Zur Notwendigkeit von Nachhaltigkeit in der Corporate Governance
  32. Social–ecological inventory in a postdisaster context
  33. Sprechfiguten und Denkfiguren
  34. Vom Sinn des Erzählens für das Schreibenlernen
  35. Kooperationen in der Supply Chain
  36. Vierzig Jahre "Überwachen und Strafen"
  37. La scomparsa delle impressioni
  38. Zur (Un-)Bedeutsamkeit der Ökonomisierung. Eine Differenzierung des Einflusses ökonomischer Logiken auf Akteur:innen der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe