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. 24th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management - IACM 2011

    Trötschel, R. (Speaker)

    03.07.201106.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Interdisziplinäre Konferenz Kompetenzen in der Kompetenzerfassung - 2011

    Thiem, A. (Participant)

    01.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Oral Presentation Skills in English, ALMA – Programm zur Förderung der Forschungkultur - 2011

    Burandt, S. (Participant)

    01.07.201102.07.2011

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

  5. Sozialunternehmer als Katalysatoren sozialer Innovation: "Erfahrungssache – Engagement 55+ wirkt!“

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    01.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. Research Synthesis 2018

    Schuster, C. (Speaker), Pinkowski, L. (Coauthor) & Fischer, D. (Coauthor)

    30.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - EAERE 2011

    Engler, J.-O. (Participant)

    29.06.201102.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. 3. Lüneburger Salongespräch zur Nachhaltigkeit - 2011

    Gottschlich, D. (Moderator), Mölders, T. (Moderator), Friedrich, B. (Moderator), Burandt, A. (Participant), Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant) & Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    29.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  9. Pitfalls and potential of institutional change: Rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    29.06.201102.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Resilience of natural-resource-dependent economies: weak vs. strong demand-side interactions

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    29.06.201102.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. 2nd World Congress on Positive Psychology - IPPA 2011

    Peifer, C. (Speaker)

    23.06.201126.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. 37. Tagung "Psychologie und Gehirn" 2011

    Peifer, C. (presenter)

    23.06.201125.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. KITA beweist Zukunftsfähigkeit

    Stoltenberg, U. (Oral presentation)

    22.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. International Society for Environmental Ethics - ISEE 2011

    Glotzbach, S. (Speaker)

    17.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. 73. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung/Pfingsttagung des Verbands für Hochschullehrer - VHB 2011

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    16.06.201118.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Konflikte und Diskriminierung im Stadion: Auswirkungen und Prävention

    Winands, M. (Lecturer)

    16.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  17. Research Seminar at Aarhus university 2011

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    16.06.201117.06.2011

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

  18. 9th International Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics - ESEE 2011

    Hoberg, N. (Speaker)

    14.06.201117.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Moral responsibility, motivational crowding, and efficient regulation of externalities

    Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)

    14.06.201117.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Sustainability, temporal irreversibility and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off

    Hoberg, N. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)

    14.06.201117.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. 1st Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research - CSEAR France 2011

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    13.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch