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.
Rethinking Fragmentation within the Biodiversity Regime: Compliance in a post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Sarno, J. (Speaker)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rethinking economy, nature use and development: Caring as a socio-ecological concept for sustainability and gender justice
Katz, C. (Speaker) & Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)
31.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Results of the German Subtask D Activities.
Adinolfi, M. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
30.10.1990 → 01.11.1990Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Restoration Ecology (Journal)
Weidlich, E. W. A. (Editorial Board)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Ressourcenschutz durch Abfallvermeidung – Der Beitrag des KrWG
Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)
16.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Responsible Supply Chains and Networks: Challenges for Governance and Sustainability 2012
Challies, E. (presenter)
24.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Responsibility and Economics - 2007
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
02.04.2007 → 04.04.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Responses of herbivory and pollinators to grassland management and plant diversity
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker) & Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)
09.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Resource use and competition between honey bees and wild bees in the Lüneburger Heath
Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)
13.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Resource strategies for a sustainable use of critical metals – A framework for the evaluation of their sustainability potential considering their time frames and regulative level
Weiser, A. (presenter)
06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research