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. Die Bedeutung von Eco und Social Entrepreneurship für Studierende: Eine vergleichende Studie an Universitäten in Deutschland und Südafrika

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Tegtmeier, S. (Speaker)

    13.11.201414.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Diagnostika, Medikation und Ökologie: – Zukunftsperspektiven.

    Kümmerer, K. (Lecturer)

    05.06.200706.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. DFG-NSF Research Conference “Sustainable Use of Nanomaterials for Novel Engineering Solutions” 2009

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    14.10.200917.10.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Development of the societies of Lake Kyoga in Uganda

    Elba, E. (Speaker), Farghaly, D. (Coauthor) & Urban, B. (Coauthor)

    21.10.201523.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Developing the ‘Benign by Design’ Approach for a Rational Design of Green Derivatives of b -Blockers: Propranolol as an Example

    Rastogi, T. (presenter)

    30.09.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. Developing Sustainability Competencies in Teacher Education – A Case Study

    Bürgener, L. (Speaker) & Brandt, J.-O. (Speaker)

    09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Developing Strategies Against the Risks of Severe Storm Surges: Opportunities for the Integration of Different Stakeholder Perspectives

    Kuhn, K. (presenter) & Schmidt, A. (presenter)

    13.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  8. Developing robust field survey protocols in landscape ecology: A case study on birds, plants and butterflies

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    10.09.201214.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Developing New Markets for Moist Biomass: An Eco-efficient Approach of Dehydrating Agricultural Biomass

    Lüdeke-Freund, F. (Speaker) & Müller, J. (Speaker)

    30.03.200901.04.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  10. Developing learning environments for independent work

    Hofer, E. (Speaker)

    08.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  2. Monstrous Bodies in Rudolf Virchow's Medical Collection in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  3. Local insolvency law meets foreign companies
  4. Durchlässigkeit 3.0 - Studienabbrecher als Zielgruppe Beruflicher Bildung
  5. Richard Caddell and Erik J. Molenaar, eds., Strengthening International Fisheries Law in an Era of Changing Oceans (Oxford/Portland: Hart Publishing, 2019), 512 pp.
  6. Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union
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  8. Zu den Wurzeln des sachenrechtlichen Numerus clausus
  9. Self-initiated expatriates and their career success
  10. Die Verschuldungskapazität
  11. Philippe Parreno at Schinkel Pavillon and Esther Schipper
  12. Philosophie der Zeugenschaft
  13. Im Labyrinth der Linien
  14. Geschlecht III
  15. Potenzialität des kulturellen Erbes
  16. Lehrerkooperation, Unterrichtsqualität und fachliche und überfachliche Ergebnisse von Schüler*innen in Englisch und Mathematik
  17. Intangible Assets und Goodwill im Spannungsfeld zwischen Entscheidungsrelevanz und Verlässlichkeit
  18. Multispecies Futures
  19. Die Verdinglichung der Dinge
  20. VG Göttingen: Kein umfassender Meldedatenabgleich durch Beitragsservice
  21. The Legal Framework Governing Negotiated Settlements/Plea Agreements in Cartel Cases in the United States
  22. Vorausschauend Kriterien Nachhaltiger Chemie integrieren:
  23. Der Kohlenstoffkreislauf im Klimawandel
  24. Messung und Steuerung unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit
  25. Karl Mays 'Sonnenscheinchen'
  26. Operative communication
  27. Family businesses and non-family equity
  28. Russischer Lieferboykott bei Gas?
  29. Para além dos muros da escola
  30. Vom Luxuskonsum zum Standardpaket
  31. Atomkraft für Klimaschutz unnötig - kostengünstigere Alternativen sind verfügbar
  32. A legal framework for biobanking
  33. Diversitäts- und Antidiskriminierungskonzepte im Feld von Schule und Migration
  34. Capital taxation and international cooperation