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. Flexibility of Industrial Material Flow Networks

    Möller, A. (Speaker) & Viere, T. (Speaker)

    29.06.200302.07.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. FishBanks und Social Entrepreneurship

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    16.03.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. First-Mover Advantages in the international Diffusion of internet-based Business Models

    Nicolai, A. T. (Speaker) & Halberstadt, J. (Speaker)

    12.10.200815.10.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. First Mover-Advantages in der globalen Diffusion internet-basierter Geschäftsideen

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Nicolai, A. T. (Speaker)

    08.11.200709.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. First European Conference on Sustainability Transitions - 2009

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    06.06.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. First Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society - BGCS 2011

    Golly, N. (Speaker)

    08.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  7. Finanzierung Erneuerbarer-Energien-Anlagen/Neue Instrumente zur Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    09.02.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the World-Wide African Diaspora - 2009

    Golly, N. (Speaker)

    08.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Field weeks in the district of Oldenburg, Germany

    Engbers, M. (Participant)

    12.06.201721.06.2017

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

  10. Field release modelling of pesticides and their transformation products during a first significant rainfall in a semi-arid region

    Gaßmann, M. (Speaker) & Olsson, O. (Speaker)

    26.05.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  2. Nonverbale Kommunikation
  3. Kommunikation zwischen Anwalt und Mandant
  4. Apriorische Gewissheit
  5. Magischer Sand
  6. Nachhaltige Entwicklung als Strategie und Ziel von Hochschulentwicklung
  7. § 286 Verzug des Schuldners
  8. Der ökonomische Wert der biologischen Vielfalt
  9. Do Large Companies Ignore Formal Sustainability Management Controls?
  10. Perspektiven für die DV-Unterstützung des Controlling mit Hilfe von Führungsinformationssystemen
  11. Lernförderliche Rückmeldungen zu mathematischer Modellierungskompetenz im alltäglichen Mathematikunterricht: Unterrichtsentwicklung durch Lehrerfortbildungen?
  12. Affektive und intentionale Urteile über Wohnhäuser
  13. Den Wandel begreifen
  14. "It's all in the mix"
  15. The Rise of International Parliaments
  16. The Rising Authority of International Organisations
  17. Editorial
  18. The effect of chief financial officers’ expert power on tax avoidance – Empirical evidence from Germany
  19. Mit-Sein und Prekär-Sein:
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  21. Affective States and Driving Behavior of Novice and Young Drivers
  22. Warum haben Sie keinen Fernseher, Herr Luhmann?
  23. Urban areas and urban-rural contrasts under climate change
  24. The political deadlock on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
  25. VwGO §110 [Teilurteil]
  26. Locating the Impolitical in American Theatre
  27. Ansätze Forschenden Lernens – Perspektiven für die Fachschule Sozialpädagogik
  28. VwGO §109 [Zwischenurteil]
  29. Art, Ecology, and Sustainability - An Exchange between Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, and Ulf Wuggenig
  30. Was steckt hinter der mysteriösen Flasche?