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.
Analyzing diary data: The relationships between activities and the individual mood level
Becker, D. (Speaker), Bremer, V. (Speaker), Funk, B. (Speaker) & Lehr, D. (Speaker)
17.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Analytische Qualitätssicherung, AQS-Ringversuche in Baden-Wüttenberg
Ruck, W. (Speaker)
17.09.1992Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Analyseverfahren zur gemeinsamen Bestimmung von NSO-Heterocyclen, Phenolen und PAK aus wässrigen und festen Proben über GC-MS und LC-MS/MS
Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Tangermann, L. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
22.03.2011 → 25.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ANAKON 2015
Mahmoud, W. M. M. (presenter)
23.03.2015 → 26.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A multi-criteria decision model for selecting a portfolio of sustainable phosphorus management strategies in different regions
Weiser, A. (Coauthor)
07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Amu Darya River Basin Network (External organisation)
Olsson, O. (Member)
2010 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Amplifying the Impact of Local Inititatives in Sustainability Transformations - A pragmatic Typology
Lam, D. (Speaker), Martín-López, B. (Coauthor), Wiek, A. (Coauthor), Bennett, E. M. (Coauthor), Frantzeskaki, N. (Coauthor) & Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Coauthor)
2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Amplifying the Impact of Local Initiatives in Sustainability Transformations – A pragmatic Typology
Lam, D. (Speaker), Martín-López, B. (Coauthor), Wiek, A. (Coauthor), Bennett, E. M. (Coauthor), Frantzeskaki, N. (Coauthor) & Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Coauthor)
30.08.2017 → 01.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
A moral dilemma about terrorism: Predicting desisions in the play "Terror" by Ferdinand von Schirach
Kause, A. (Speaker), Thum, C. M. (Speaker) & Frisch, L. K. (Speaker)
13.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Model of Mental Accounting in Negotiations.
Trötschel, R. (Speaker), Zhang, H. (Speaker), Majer, J. M. (Speaker), Leitsch, L. (Speaker) & Warsitzka, M. (Speaker)
09.07.2017 → 12.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research