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. Agroecological practices in the Andean high lands: agrobiodiversity, culture and family farming

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker) & de la Pava, R. (Speaker)

    08.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Agroecological practices in the Andean high lands agrobiodiversity, culture and family farming

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker) & de la Pava, R. (Speaker)

    02.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Agroecological landscapes in rural Bogota. Agrobiodiversity and peasant culture

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker)

    12.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Agrobiodiversity hotspots, a tool to think about landscape and agroecology in Bogota

    de la Pava, R. (Speaker) & Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker)

    21.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Agrobiodiversity between Protection and Use – the Example of Rural Development in Germany

    Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    10.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Agrobiodiversity between conservation and use - examples from Germany

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Agrobiodiversity and culture in rural Bogota

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker)

    07.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  8. Agrobiodiversity and culture: an analysis from place and agroecosystems in the Tunjuelo river

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker), de la Pava, R. (Speaker) & Quiroga, C. (Speaker)

    07.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Agrobiodiversität im Wandel – zwischen Schutz und Nutzung zum erhaltenden Gestalten

    Burandt, A. (Speaker)

    17.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Researchers

  1. Janina Zölch

Publications

  1. Standortbestimmung zur Akademisierung der Gesundheitsförderung
  2. Körperpraktiken und Selbsttechnologien in einer Medienkultur
  3. Öko-Effizienz durch Öko-Controlling
  4. Kooperative Bearbeitung von Wertkonflikten im Küstenschutz
  5. The Vatican City State’s Refusal to Grant its Flag to Search and Rescue Vessels of NGOs Operating in the Mediterranean
  6. Putting sustainability into supply chain management
  7. Lernumgebung und Aufgabenkultur im Unterricht
  8. Gesellschaftsrecht
  9. Parlamentarismus in Niedersachsen
  10. Räume für das Schreiben (er)schaffen - Ein reflektierender Erfahrungsbericht
  11. Potenzialität des kulturellen Erbes
  12. Vom hafen zur city - Städtebauliche projekte im hamburger hafen
  13. Economics of Life Cycle Assessment
  14. Handbuch Europäische Souveränität
  15. Einführung in den Sammelband – „Studentische Forschung im Praxissemester“
  16. Information Asymmetry in the German Public Health Care Market
  17. Unterricht analysieren und reflektieren mit unterschiedlichen Fallmedien: Ist Video wirklich besser als Text?
  18. Frauenhauskinder und ihr Weg ins Leben
  19. Nachhaltige Ernährungsbildung
  20. Junk Food - I'm loving it?
  21. The Psychology of Thinking about the Future
  22. CSR und gesellschaftliche Wertschöpfung
  23. Social–ecological inventory in a postdisaster context
  24. Kinderliterarische Komparatistik
  25. Die ‚Arisierung’ jüdischen Grundbesitzes in Bremen
  26. Kennlinienorientiertes Lagermanagement
  27. Mediale Unterhaltungsangebote aus gesellschaftskritischer Perspektive
  28. Die geistige Geographie Europas
  29. Zur (Un-)Bedeutsamkeit der Ökonomisierung. Eine Differenzierung des Einflusses ökonomischer Logiken auf Akteur:innen der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
  30. Religious freedom and state education in Germany
  31. Sinn und Sound
  32. Mental representation of global environmental risks
  33. The role of multi-functionality in social preferences toward semi-arid rural landscapes
  34. Webbasierte Unterstützungssysteme für Lehrkräfte
  35. Alltag in den Medien - Medien im Alltag
  36. Hindernisse überwinden
  37. Kooperation : Neue Wege für die Sozialwirtschaft
  38. Praxisrelevanz – berechnet oder bedacht? Eine Replik auf Maier und Antoni