School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
It’s hard to part with gains, but what about losses. Contribution and Distribution of Benefits and Burdens in Integrative Negotiations
Höhne, B. (Speaker)
30.06.2013 → 03.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
It Matters When You Do It – Issue Packaging in Multi-Issue Negotiation.
Zhang, H. (Speaker), Geiger, I. (Speaker) & Trötschel, R. (Speaker)
09.07.2017 → 12.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Is the question of democracy a blind spot in the debate about transformation?
Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)
22.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting (Journal)
Schaltegger, S. (Editor)
2007 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Is small beautiful? The case of small-scale farming in Poland, the CAP and rural resilience
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
30.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Is small beautiful? Small-scale farming in Poland and its contribution to sustainable rural development
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
02.09.2013 → 03.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
iSleep well: Protokoll für eine Multicenter-Studie zur Nichtunterlegenheit von internetbasierter KVT-I im Vergleich zu KVT-I vor Ort
Grolig, L. (Speaker), Hannibal, S. (Coauthor) & Lehr, D. (Coauthor)
10.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
ISEOR and AoM: International Conference on Evaluation Metrics of CSR
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
08.06.2009 → 10.06.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ISEK Expert*innentagung Lüneburg
Möller, S. (Participant)
07.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
ISA World Congress of Sociology - ISA 2006
Kuhn, K. (Speaker)
24.07.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research