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. Conception of a heat storage system for household applications

    Osterland, T. (Speaker), Rammelberg, H. U. (Speaker), Rönnebeck, T. (Speaker), N'Tsoukpoe, K. E. (Speaker), Fopah Lele, A. (Speaker), Weist, K. (Speaker), Rohde, C. (Speaker), Korhammer, K. (Speaker), Opel, O. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    12.11.201214.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Comunicación de Sostenibilidad

    Rieckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    06.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Competition between honey bees and wild bees? Ecological research to solve stakeholder conflicts in the Lüneburger Heath

    Hudewenz, A. (presenter)

    29.02.201202.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  4. Competencies for sustainable development of rural areas need the integration of Gender

    Thiem, A. (Speaker) & Katz, C. (Speaker)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  5. Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. COMPETENCE 2016

    Fischer, D. (Coauthor)

    19.10.201621.10.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. COMPETENCE 2016

    Sundermann, A. (presenter)

    19.10.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Comparing responses of carbon dyamics to elevated atmosperic CO2 concentrations in arable crop rotations in Germany and China

    Heiduk, K. (Speaker), Pacholski, A. S. (Speaker), Martens, R. (Speaker), Weigel, H. J. (Speaker) & Zhu, J. (Speaker)

    16.07.200719.07.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Comparing Environmental Management and Strategies of Companies in the United Kingdom and Germany

    Wehrmeyer, W. (Speaker), Wagner, M. (Speaker), Pacheco, C. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    23.06.200226.06.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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