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. Ethyl sulfate: previously to be totally stable against bacterial degradation – wrong!

    Kümmerer, K. (Lecturer)

    02.06.200808.06.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Ethics Education Workshop: Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsethik in der wirt-schaftswissenschaftlichen Ausbildung 2008

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    24.07.200826.07.2008

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

  3. „Es wird eng!“ LandwirtInnen zwischen Aufbruch, Anpassung und Resignation

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    20.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Establishing real-life laboratories: a transdisciplinary approach.

    Bernert, P. (presenter)

    06.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. ESERA Summer School 2017

    Hüfner, S. (Speaker)

    28.06.201704.07.2017

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

  6. ESERA Summer School 2016

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    21.08.201626.08.2016

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

  7. ESERA Online Conference - ESERA 2021

    Hofer, E. (Participant), Abels, S. (Participant), Stinken-Rösner, L. (Speaker), Brauns, S. (Participant) & Egger, D. (Participant)

    30.08.202103.09.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. ESERA Online Conference - ESERA 2021

    Hofer, E. (Reviewer)

    30.08.202103.09.2021

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

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  4. Verfahren zur strategischen Planung bei Unsicherheit
  5. Gender perspectives on university education and entrepreneurship
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  8. Ungleichheit und Differenz im Horizont von Gleichheit
  9. Post-sozialistische Regierungssystemreform
  10. Handbook of European Policies
  11. Gute Aufgaben im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule
  12. Einführende Vorbemerkungen
  13. Climate Conflicts
  14. Stakeholder opinion of a proposed 21.5 MWe biomass gasifier in Winkleigh, Devon
  15. Die Gehilfenfunktion des Abschlussprüfers für den Aufsichtsrat bei der Rechnungslegungsprüfung
  16. Die Stadt studieren
  17. N-Umsatz und Spurengasemissionen typischer Biomassefruchtfolgen zur Biogaserzeugung in Norddeutschland
  18. The importance of religious affiliations among political elites
  19. §41 Internationale Dimensionen des Verwaltungsrechts der Europäischen Union
  20. Experiential marketing as a tool to enhance Tourists’ pre-travel online destination experiences?
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  22. Gerechter Frieden als Orientierungswissen
  23. Oft rüsten hilft viel
  24. Die kontroversen Theorien des Philosophen Peter Singer
  25. Impacts of land-use intensity on soil organic carbon content, soil structure and water-holding capacity
  26. Distanz und Leidenschaft
  27. Fälligkeit der Forderung aus einer zur Abwendung der Sicherungsvollstreckung geleisteten Prozessbürgschaft - Anmerkung zu BGH, Urt. v. 11. November 2014 (XI ZR 265/13)
  28. Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Environmental Management Accounting