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. Resilience of natural-resource-dependent economies

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker) & van Soest, D. P. (Speaker)

    11.09.201113.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Risk preferences under heterogeneous environmental risk

    Olbrich, R. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker), Hänsler, A. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    11.09.201113.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 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

  5. 43rd European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting - 2011

    Peifer, C. (presenter)

    09.09.201112.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 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

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

    Pufal, G. (Speaker)

    08.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 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

  9. Young LOICZ Forum 2011

    Schmidt, A. (presenter)

    08.09.201115.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  15. 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

  16. The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication

    Schulz, D. (Speaker)

    07.09.201110.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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

    Klein, A.-M. (presenter)

    07.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  19. 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

  20. Comunicación de Sostenibilidad

    Rieckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    06.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  21. 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