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. 2015
  2. Education for Sustainable Development in Elementary School Education

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    09.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. ESD in Elementary School Education

    Barth, M. (Speaker), Bruhn, K. (Speaker) & Preisigke, J. (Speaker)

    09.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. The Role of Higher Education in the Transition to a Sustainable Future: Implications for Teaching and Learning

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    09.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. International Transdisciplinarity Conference - td-net 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Moderator) & Meyer, E. M. (Organiser)

    08.09.201510.09.2015

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

  6. International Transdisciplinarity Conference - td-net 2015

    Newig, J. (Speaker), Bergmann, M. (Coauthor), Jahn, S. V. (Coauthor), Kahle, J. (Coauthor) & Lang, D. J. (Coauthor)

    08.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Using a Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Approach in HESD Research: Reflections on Pitfalls and Added Value

    Sundermann, A. (Speaker) & Fischer, D. (Coauthor)

    08.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Scaffolding guided inquiry-based chemistry education at an inclusive school, mit Dominic Klika

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    04.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. ESD in Elementary Education, Literature Review 2005-2014

    Bruhn, K. (Speaker)

    03.09.201511.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Publications

  1. Forschungsbereiche im Themenfeld Geschlechterverhältnisse und Nachhaltigkeit
  2. Selbstständigkeitsorientierter Mathematikunterricht im ganzen Klassenverband ?
  3. Von Kategorien zu Basis- und Fachkonzepten – Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?
  4. Bankenregulierung: Geschäftspolitische Herausforderung der Kreditwirtschaft
  5. Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure
  6. Two cascaded and extended kalman filters combined with sliding mode control for sustainable management of marine fish stocks
  7. Ist die Einschränkung der Erbschaftssteuerfreiheit einer Zugewinnausgleichsforderung gemäß § 5 Abs. 1 S. 2 und 4 ErbStG verfassungswidrig?
  8. Klimaschutz als Wirtschaftschance und Herausforderung für Kommunen
  9. Effekte einer online- und videobasierten Feedback-Intervention im Praktikum auf die professionelle Wahrnehmung von Klassenführung und Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung von Lehramtsstudierenden
  10. Die fragwürdige Autorität des Faktischen: Über Vollendete Tatsachen und die Vollendung der Tatsache
  11. Effects of forest management on species diversity of vascular plants in northern Germany
  12. Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - Themen, Methoden und Trends
  13. Internships, job opportunities and outlook - Critique of psychology curricula
  14. Friend and Foe: The image of Germany and the Germans in British children's fiction from 1870 to the present
  15. Internationalism, the universal child and the world of children's literature
  16. National stereotypes as literary device. Traditions and uses of stereotypes of Germans in British and the English in German children's literature
  17. Art. 351 TFEU, the Principle of Loyalty and the Future Role of Member States' Bilateral Investment Treaties