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. 2017
  2. Postervortrag: The energy transition as a context for secondary science education

    Hüfner, S. (Speaker)

    22.08.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Education

  3. Conference of the European Science Education Research Association 2017

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    21.08.201725.08.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Educational Reconstruction of the concept of renewable energy resources, von Sybille Hüfner und mit Kai Niebert

    Abels, S. (Speaker)

    20.08.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. The 15th Anniversary edition of the European heathlands workshop - EHW 2017

    Härdtle, W. (Speaker)

    20.08.201725.08.2017

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

  6. Exploring priority effects in a central European grassland field experiment in order to inform restoration (Symposium)

    Weidlich, E. (presenter)

    17.08.201701.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. ReThink - ReStructure - ReConnect

    Peukert, D. (Speaker), Holthuizen, P. (Speaker) & Engbers, M. (Participant)

    09.08.2017

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

  8. Co-creating transformative processes - a designerly approach

    Peukert, D. (Speaker)

    08.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Teaching and Learning in an Interconnected World. A Guide to Transnational Education for Sustainability

    John, B. (Speaker), Caniglia, G. (Speaker), Leonie, B. (Speaker), Laubichler, M. D. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)

    31.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 13. Berliner Methodentreffen 2017

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    21.07.201722.07.2017

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

  11. Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy

    Sundermann, A. (Participant) & Frank, P. (Speaker)

    18.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Speaking with One Voice While Being Different - Effects of Comparison Mindsets in Negotiations between Groups

    Schuster, C. (presenter)

    11.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  13. Impulse zum inklusiven Chemieunterricht; Dialoggespräch zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft zum inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht

    Abels, S. (Speaker)

    10.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  14. 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management - IACM 2017

    Schuster, C. (Coauthor)

    09.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. A Model of Mental Accounting in Negotiations.

    Trötschel, R. (Speaker), Zhang, H. (Speaker), Majer, J. M. (Speaker), Leitsch, L. (Speaker) & Warsitzka, M. (Speaker)

    09.07.201712.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. It Matters When You Do It – Issue Packaging in Multi-Issue Negotiation.

    Zhang, H. (Speaker), Geiger, I. (Speaker) & Trötschel, R. (Speaker)

    09.07.201712.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Begutachtung eines Antrags für ein Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Other expert activitiesPeer review of project proposalsResearch

  18. 12th Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference - IPA 2017

    Sieveking, A. (Participant)

    05.07.201707.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Gastvorlesung: Welt im Grid. Zur Poetologie der meteorologischen Simulation

    Schrickel, I. (Lecturer)

    04.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  20. How the Ant taught Scholars about Science – a story by Iimbovane Outreach Project

    Turner, S. (Speaker)

    01.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Spontaneous self-regulation by mentally contrasting future and reality

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

    07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)

    Hunning, S. (Member) & Mölders, T. (Member)

    07.2017

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  23. Rurbane Landschaften

    Friedrich, B. (presenter)

    30.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. Anwendbarkeit des "Reflexionsrahmen für Forschen in gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung des BMBF-Projekts LeNa" im Kontext von Hochschulen

    Vogt, M. (Speaker), Kopfmüller, J. (Speaker) & Kahle, J. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Arizona State University

    Barth, M. (Visiting researcher)

    29.06.201730.06.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  26. ESERA Summer School 2017

    Hüfner, S. (Speaker)

    28.06.201704.07.2017

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

  27. The global sustainability agenda in urban planning - Insights from community visioning

    Weiser, A. (presenter)

    28.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  28. Vortrag (Einladung): Naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht inklusiv gestalten

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    28.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  29. Vortrag: Measuring positive sustainability. A systematic literature review.

    Silva, S. L. (Speaker), Beske-Janssen, P. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    27.06.201729.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  30. Vortrag: Social assessment and management of conflict minerals in supply chains. A systematic literature review

    Silva, S. L. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    27.06.201729.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) 2017

    Weiser, A. (Organiser)

    25.06.2017

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

  32. ‘Thinking the Problematic‘

    Meyer, E. M. (Speaker)

    22.06.2017

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

  33. ‘Thinking the Problematic‘

    Leistert, O. (Speaker) & Hörl, E. (Speaker)

    22.06.201723.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  34. Keep Calm and Solve the Problem: An Integrated Model to Reduce Threat and Defense in Conflicts

    Schuster, C. (Lecturer)

    21.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  35. Agent Psychology and Socio-Technical Transitions: State of Play and Research Agenda

    Upham, P. J. (Coauthor) & Bögel, P. M. (presenter)

    19.06.201721.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Motive activation in business models for sustainable textiles: A field study

    Woznica, A. (Speaker), Freudenreich, B. (Speaker) & Hübner, G. (Speaker)

    19.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Determinants of Researchers' Roles in Real-World Transitions: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Real-World Laboratories.

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    18.06.201721.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2017

    Lam, D. (Speaker)

    18.06.201721.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. Simulation of the enviromental fate of the fungicide Penconazole and its transformation products in a vineyard-terraces catchment

    Vollert, D. (Speaker), Gassmann, M. (Coauthor), Kümmerer, K. (Coauthor) & Olsson, O. (Coauthor)

    18.06.201722.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Field weeks in the district of Oldenburg, Germany

    Engbers, M. (Participant)

    12.06.201721.06.2017

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

  41. Democratic Myopia and Future Generations: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    08.06.201709.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries 2017

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker)

    07.06.201709.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  43. The journey to Balance Brings Beauty

    Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Organiser), Lang, D. J. (Speaker), Lam, D. (Speaker), Apetrei, C. (Participant) & Clarke, E. (Speaker)

    07.06.2017

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

  44. Towards a psychology of expectations in sociotechnical systems: the case of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in Europe

    Upham, P. J. (presenter), Bögel, P. M. (Coauthor), Dütschke, E. (Coauthor), Schneider, U. (Coauthor), Oltra, C. (Coauthor), Sala, R. (Coauthor), Lores, M. (Coauthor) & Klapper, R. (Coauthor)

    06.06.201708.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  45. Co-Production of Knowledge

    Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Organiser), Apetrei, C. (Moderator), Fischer, J. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)

    05.06.2017

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

  46. Für Nachhaltigkeit werben: Praktische Beispiele und Inspirationen

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    31.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  47. Telecoupling. A current challenge to global environmental governance

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    30.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  48. Environmental Fate and Behavior of Transformation Products of Pesticides used in Agricultural and Urban Areas

    Hensen, B. (Speaker), Olsson, O. (Speaker) & Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    29.05.201703.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. Limitations of regulatory risk assessments of chemicals

    Wieck, S. (Speaker), Olsson, O. (Speaker) & Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    29.05.201703.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  50. XVI World Water Congress 2017

    Wieck, S. (presenter)

    29.05.201703.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch