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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  2. 5. Allgemeinen Erfahrungsaustausch „Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit“ des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbands 2014

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    04.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  3. 7th European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy - EFIB 2014

    Pleißner, D. (Participant)

    01.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Schul- und Qualitätsentwicklung im Kontext von Mobilität und Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    01.07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. The Best of the Rest

    Pleißner, D. (presenter)

    01.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Mental Contrasting and Transfer of Energuzation

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. The Psychophysiology of Self-Regulation

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. The botherder's lure and the figure of the pirate: trespassing enclosures and tweaking affordances

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    25.06.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Realizing Sustainability in Institutions needs Gender sensitive Competencies and Organisations and the ethical frame "Self-in-Relation"

    Moths, K. (Speaker)

    24.06.201426.06.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Publications

  1. Temporäre Nutzungen
  2. § 328 Beschränkung der Rechte
  3. Sustainability by Corporate Citizenship
  4. Krisenmanagement im Tourismus
  5. Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
  6. Selbstregulationskompetenz beim Lernen aus Sachtexten Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Kompetenzstrukturmodells
  7. Biodiversität
  8. Environmental Protection of Foreign Firms in Germany:
  9. PISA als Chance für den Kindergarten!
  10. Komparativer Kostenvorteil
  11. Vorabentscheidungsverfahren, Verhältnis zur Nichtigkeitsklage
  12. Kosmologie V. Christentum
  13. Die Lieferkette im Fokus der nichtfinanziellen Berichterstattung
  14. Biokohle in der Landwirtschaft als Klimaretter?
  15. Umformen faserverstärkter thermoplastischer Kunststoff-Halbzeuge mit metallischen Deckblechen für den Leichtbau
  16. Corporate Social Responsibility
  17. Mathematikunterricht, der wirklich bewegt ─ Anlässe zum Modellieren unter freiem Himmel
  18. Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag (§ 687)
  19. Die Berichterstattung des Aufsichtsrats zu den Prüfungsausschüssen und zur Rechnungslegungsprüfung
  20. Höhlenein- und Ausgänge
  21. Die (sozialwissenschaftliche) Hermeneutik als inter- und transdisziplinäre Methode zur Rekonstruktion des Imaginären
  22. PoNa – Politiken der Naturgestaltung
  23. Self-Assessment-Instrumente
  24. Britain and Germany Imagining the Future of Europe
  25. Time and income poverty
  26. Edgar Reitz' 'Heimat' als Sozialgeschichte der Neuen Medien
  27. Ein Kompetenzmodell für die Universität?! Das Beispiel St. Gallen
  28. "Amoklauf von Winnenden" - zur Fahrlässigkeitshaftung neben der volldeliktischen Vorsatztat eines anderen
  29. Wie amerikanisch ist die deutsche Kultur heute?
  30. Un marco conceptual para la gestión de las interacciones naturaleza-sociedad en un mundo cambiante
  31. Mit Bands auf Tour