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. 2011
  2. Responses of herbivory and pollinators to grassland management and plant diversity

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker) & Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)

    09.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Seed dispersal and predation: Interactions, ecosystem functions and services

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    08.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Why is the rare dispersal mechanism hygrochasy so common around the world?

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    08.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. Young LOICZ Forum 2011

    Schmidt, A. (presenter)

    08.09.201115.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011

    Burandt, A. (Participant)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. 23rd International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research - CSEAR 2011

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    07.09.201109.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. 41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011

    Brandt, P. (Coauthor)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Landscape factors affecting Parakeet damage to sunflower fields in Israel.

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. The climate niche of a mountain carabid: consequences under climate change

    Brandt, P. (Speaker) & von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication

    Schulz, D. (Speaker)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Trap-nesting insects' interactions in an urban-rural gradient

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  14. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie - GFÖ-Tagung 2011

    Klein, A.-M. (presenter)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  15. Zwischen Groß- und Kleingruppenlogik: Social Franchising aus einer Hayekianischen Perspektive

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    07.09.201109.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Comunicación de Sostenibilidad

    Rieckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    06.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  17. Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall Landesverbandstagung Nord DWA 2011

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    06.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Séminaire franco-allemand de jeunes chercheurs du Moulin d’Andé 2011

    Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    06.09.201110.09.2011

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

  19. 41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011

    Hudewenz, A. (Participant)

    05.09.201109.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Genetic diversity and extent of hybridization of invasive Ulmus pumila.

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    05.09.201108.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Konzepte der Gesellschaftstheorie - Edmund Phelps 2011

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    05.09.201107.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch