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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  2. Transformation und Nachhaltigkeit - Podiumsdiskussion

    Michelsen, G. (Panel participant)

    21.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Hochschulen für nachhaltige Entwicklung - Herausforderungen, Stand, Perspektiven

    Michelsen, G. (Speaker)

    15.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Teilnahme und Teilhabe – aktuelle Herausforderungen. Praxis und Erziehungswissenschaft im Diskurs

    Meyn, J. (Speaker)

    15.01.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  5. Determinants of Social Entrepreneurial Appraisal Among Hearing-impaired Persons

    Jasniak, M. (Speaker), Ermakova, T. (Speaker), Baierl, R. (Speaker) & Halberstadt, J. (Speaker)

    14.01.201616.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. How Relationship Networks Influence Women Social Entrepreneurs

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Spiegler, A. (Speaker)

    14.01.201616.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Nachhaltigkeit bewegt die jüngere Generation: Vorstellung der Ergebnisse des Nachhaltigkeitsbarometers 2015

    Michelsen, G. (Speaker)

    14.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. Vocational Integration of Refugees: A Literature Review and (German) Practice

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Freudenberg, J. (Speaker)

    14.01.201616.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Jahrbuch des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 (Journal)

    Härdtle, W. (Editor)

    01.01.201631.12.2016

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  10. Jahrbuch des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 (Journal)

    Härdtle, W. (Editorial Board) & Prüter, J. (Editorial Board)

    01.01.201631.12.2016

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

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Publications

  1. Education for Sustainability, Graduate Capabilities, Professional Employment: How they all connect
  2. Markenvorstellung als Determinante des Weiterempfehlungsverhaltens im Kulturbereich
  3. Emissions at airports and their impact at the habitat
  4. Experteninterviews zur europäischen Reform der steuerlichen Gewinnermittlung, Teil I
  5. Modellierung der Auswirkungen von Offshore Windenergieanlagen auf die Abiotik in der Nordsee
  6. Zur aktuellen Situation der Praktika in Deutschland
  7. Kosteneffizienter und effektiver Vertragsnaturschutz durch Ausschreibungen und eine ergebnisorientierte Honorierung
  8. Applying Stakeholder Theory in Sustainability Management
  9. Wodurch wird die Bereitschaft von Lehrkräften zur Mitarbeit an Schulentwicklungsprojekten beeinflusst?
  10. Zukunftstage Bildung – Konzept und Reflexion eines hochschuldidaktischen Formats zur Erarbeitung tragfähiger Konzepte für Herausforderungen aus der (Bildungs-)Praxis durch Studierende
  11. Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften aus Sicht des "Business Case of Sustainability"
  12. Das Besondere der 'Terroristinnen'
  13. Solidarität – Arbeit an den Grenzen und Reichweiten politischer Gemeinschaft
  14. Investigation of the friction behavior between dry/infiltrated glass fiber fabric and metal sheet during deep drawing of fiber metal laminates
  15. Zum Status des türkischen Nationalismus
  16. Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes
  17. Phonetik lehren und lernen im Kontext Deutsch als Zweitsprache
  18. Betriebsstrategien für Biogasanlagen