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.
- 2011
The ecological consequences of Chernobyl
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
05.09.2011 → 07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Trap-nesting insects´ interactions in an urban-rural gradient
Pereira Peixoto, M. H. (Speaker)
05.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Correlation Patterns of PAHs and Heterocyclic PAHs in Sediment Samples from Influence of Two Tar-Contaminated Sites on Adjacent Rivers: Quantitation of PAHs, Heterocyclic PAHs and Phenols in the Aqueous Phase
Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Gellersen, J. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Correlation Patterns of PAHs and Heterocyclic PAHs in Sediment Samples from Northern Germany - Point Sources and Diffuse Immissions
Palm, W.-U. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Polare PAK-Derivate – Analytik und Vorkommen von Azaarenen in Fließgewässern
Tangermann, L. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ubiquitous Distribution of Heterocyclic PAHs in the Large River Systems of Northern Germany
Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A quantiative review of the ecological impacts of the chernobyl disaster
von Wehrden, H. (presenter)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Global warming triggers loss of genetic diversity of Z. exulans populations in Euro-pean high mountain systems
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Growth and competition of tree saplings of subtropical China
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The growing importance of sustainability in European markets and the role of universities in sustainability-oriented management education
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
31.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Workshop Innovationsverbund Nachhaltiger Mittelstand - 2011
Klewitz, J. (Moderator)
31.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
3rd EU-China River Basin Governance Research Network Workshop - RiBaGo 2011
Newig, J. (Speaker)
30.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Konstellationsanalyse - Ein interdisziplinäres Brückenkonzept 2011
Burandt, S. (Participant)
29.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
1. Summer School Wissenschaft kommunizieren im Haus der Wissenschaft Braunschweig - 2011
Schmidt, A. (Participant)
24.08.2011 → 26.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Multifunctionality in EU´s Common Agricultural Policy between Competitiveness and Sustainability
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker), Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)
23.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Working in regional agro-food networks – strengthening local food systems through cooperation
Burandt, A. (Speaker)
23.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rural Gender Relations and Sustainable Development – Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Findings on Feminization Trends
Mölders, T. (Speaker)
22.08.2011 → 25.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The debate on the future of small individual farms in Poland
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker), Lang, F. J. (Speaker) & Thiem, A. (Speaker)
22.08.2011 → 25.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
XXIV Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - 2011
Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)
22.08.2011 → 25.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6th International Conference of Critical Geography - ICCG 2011
Friedrich, B. (Participant) & Gottschlich, D. (Participant)
16.08.2011 → 20.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer