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. EASY-ECO Brussels Conference - 2010

    Fischer, D. (presenter)

    27.10.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Bildungsgelegenheiten in urbanen Räumen aus der Perspektive einer Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Offen, S. (Lecturer)

    26.10.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  4. Vernetzungstreffen Nachwuchsgruppe "BioDiva" 2010

    Mölders, T. (Participant), Gottschlich, D. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)

    25.10.2010

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

  5. Herstellerneutrale Repräsentationsformen 2010

    Faasch, H. (Speaker)

    23.10.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 18. Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten - 2010

    Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    22.10.201024.10.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Workshop: Risk Elicitation and Stated Preference Methods for Climate Change Research - 2010

    Olbrich, R. (Speaker)

    21.10.2010

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

  8. World Universities Congress 2010

    Stoltenberg, U. (Keynote speaker)

    21.10.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Decentralised Integrated ANalysis and Enhancement of Awareness through Collaborative Modelling and Management of Flood Risk

    Evers, M. (Speaker)

    19.10.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Mid-term conference Eranet-CRUE

    Lange, L. (Participant)

    19.10.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Researchers

  1. Pia Kohlstedt

Publications

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