School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
- 2012
Investigación Científica para el Desarrollo Sostenible
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
13.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Qualifizierungsmaßnahme „Multiplikatorinnen und Multiplikatoren für eine Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) in Niedersachsen 2012
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
13.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Resource use and competition between honey bees and wild bees in the Lüneburger Heath
Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)
13.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
British Academy of Management - BAM 2012
Windolph, S. E. (Speaker)
12.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
El desarrollo sostenible y las oportunidades de las universidades
Rieckmann, M. (Lecturer)
12.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Keynote Speech, WELT Bier Gipfel: “Rein” oder “nachhaltig rein”? 7 Thesen zur Nachhaltigkeit in der Brauwirtschaft
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
12.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
La educación para el desarrollo sostenible y el rol de las universidades
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
12.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Spillover effects and importance of urban gardens for trap-nesting bees and wasps
Pereira Peixoto, M. H. (presenter)
12.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Desarrollo Sostenible y el rol de la Comunicación
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off
Hoberg, N. (presenter)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
North America’s Pacific coastal rainforest under climate change: Deriving recommendations for conservation management from spatial modelling approaches
Brandt, P. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Pollination of Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense: Two new potential oil crop species in Germany
Groeneveld, J. H. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science and Practitioners: Transdisciplinary research a bridge to create socially robust knowledge
Brandt, P. (Speaker) & Gralla, F. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Impact of Television Program on Individual Action for Climate Protection regarding Adolescents in Germany
Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Bear activity in traditional woodpastures in souther Transylvania, Romania
von Wehrden, H. (presenter)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Developing robust field survey protocols in landscape ecology: A case study on birds, plants and butterflies
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Different responses of ant species to sugars and amino acids in a subtropical forest of China
Staab, M. (Coauthor)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„Erkennen, Untersuchen, Modellieren – Vom Nutzen des Verstehens“
Kümmerer, K. (Participant), Rastogi, T. (Participant), Menz, J. (Participant), Toolaram, A. P. (Participant), Leder, C. (Participant) & Bolek, R. (Participant)
10.09.2012 → 13.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Genetic markers and climate niche models indicate glacial refugia for the flightless ground beetle Carabus sylvestris north of the Alps
Brandt, P. (Speaker)
10.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Landscape effects on bird and rodent cummunities and seed predation to agriculture in Israel
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Lessons for conservation biology under global change conditions: a case study on two burnet moth species in the high altitudes of the Pyrenees
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
North America's Pacific coastal rainforest under climate change: Deriving recommendations for conservation management from spatial modeling approaches
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Platform for Sustainable Aviation Fuels - Combining Ecological Research and Sustainability Management with Industrial Needs
Walmsley, D. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed predation of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary research - a bridge between science and practitioners to produce reliable knowledge
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Tri‐trophic interaction networks along a tree diversity gradient of BEF‐China
Staab, M. (Speaker)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vegetation changes along a climatic gradient during a severe drought year in the El Nino region
von Wehrden, H. (presenter)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Visiting communities of extrafloral nectaries in a subtropical Chinese forest
Staab, M. (Coauthor)
10.09.2012 → 14.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Corrosion, scaling and biofouling processes in thermal systems and monitoring using redox potential measurements
Opel, O. (Speaker), Eggerichs, T. (Speaker), Otte, T. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
09.09.2012 → 13.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Volunteer Services in the Global South and their Impact on Diversity Education
Richter, S. (Speaker)
09.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Mid-term Conference of the ESA Consumption Research Network 2012
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
07.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
¿Educación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad? Contribuciones de la Educación Superior al Desarrollo Sostenible
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
06.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
University and education – how to teach sustainability and change?
Lam, D. (Lecturer)
06.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
6th European Thermal Sciences Conferences/ Eurotherm 2012
Rammelberg, H. U. (presenter)
04.09.2012 → 07.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sustainable economic activity: Some thoughts on the relationship between the care and the green economy
Gottschlich, D. (Reviewer)
01.09.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Sustainable economic activity: Some thoughts on the relationship between the care and the green economy
Gottschlich, D. (Reviewer)
01.09.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Zum Verhältnis von Gender, Green Economy und Finanzmärkten: Warum nachhaltiges, geschlechter_gerechtes Wirtschaften eine andere Gestaltung der Finanzmärkte braucht
Çağlar, G. (Reviewer), Gottschlich, D. (Reviewer) & Habermann, F. (Reviewer)
01.09.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
20th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms - ESA 2012
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Agri-food globalisation and governance for environmental sustainability: Challenges and opportunities of a global commodity chains approach
Challies, E. (Speaker)
30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
3rd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions - IST 2012
Lutz, L. M. (presenter)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd International Sustainability Conference 2012
Hörisch, J. (Speaker)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability
Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Coauthor)
29.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ignorant or gatekeeper? What role do accountants play in the sustainability accounting practice?
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Role-determined information needs of sustainability management control
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
29.08.2012 → 31.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology - ECCB 2012
Brittain, C. (Speaker)
28.08.2012 → 01.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
32nd International Geographical Congress 2012
Vilsmaier, U. (Chair)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Alternative Adaptation Strategies Value-Tree Method as a Tool to Integrate Multiple Values of Science, Practice and the General Public into Decision-Making
Schmidt, A. (Speaker)
26.08.2012 → 30.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Konfliktreiche Begegnungen?!: Sozialwissenschaftliche Einwürfe zur Gewaltdiskussion im Fußball
Winands, M. (Lecturer)
16.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ant Course 2012
Staab, M. (Participant)
06.08.2012 → 16.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Publications of environmental education programs reveal interdisciplinary boundaries
Pufal, G. (presenter)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Seed fate of common grassland species along an experimental plant diversity gradient
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
05.08.2012 → 10.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
13th International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) XIII World Congress on Rural Sociology 2012
Challies, E. (Chair)
04.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managment - AOM 2012
Zeyen, A. (Organiser), Beckmann, M. (Organiser), König, M. (Participant) & Frese, M. (Organiser)
04.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Interlinking Feed/Food Commodity Chains: Social and Environmental Impacts, and Challenges for Governance
Challies, E. (Speaker)
04.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Contingency Analysis of SUccess Definitions - Is Social Entrepreneurship REally Different?
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
03.08.2012 → 07.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Hayekian Perspective on Social Franchising: Scaling Social Entrepreneurship by Combining Small-Group and Big-Group Logics
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
03.08.2012 → 07.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Agrobiodiversity between conservation and use - examples from Germany
Mölders, T. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Nature-Gender-Relations within the Agrarian Change - the Example of Agrobiodiversity
Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Successes and failures of farm diversification processes – some evidence from two Polish regions
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)
02.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainable Land Use: Gender Perspectives - Session 61 A: Introduction “Gender – Culture – Nature
Katz, C. (Speaker)
02.08.2012 → 03.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology of the International Rural Sociology Association - IRSA 2012
Gottschlich, D. (Organiser), Mölders, T. (Organiser), Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)
02.08.2012 → 03.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Does resin represent a neglected component of bee ecology? A comparison between Old and New World bees.
Leonhardt, S. (Speaker)
08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards and interdisciplinary understanding of ecological novelty 2012
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)
08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Inquiry-based Learning Environment to Welcome Diversity in Chemistry Classes: Vortrag mit Sandra Puddu & Anja Lembens
Abels, S. (Lecturer)
20.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Boon or Bane? Typing Speed in Online Negotiations
Höhne, B. (Speaker)
11.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Never gonna give you up! Better gonna take you back? Negotiating Benefits and Burdens in Common Resource Negotiations
Höhne, B. (Speaker)
11.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wissenschaftliche Tagung „Das neue Recht der Kreislaufwirtschaft“ 2012
Schomerus, T. (Speaker)
09.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Global Sustainability Summer School 2012
Engler, J.-O. (Participant)
08.07.2012 → 21.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
28th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2012
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
04.07.2012 → 07.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11th EABIS Annual Colloquium 2012
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
03.07.2012 → 04.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Innovation Potential for Sustainability Management Methods
Schaltegger, S. (Speaker), Hörisch, J. (Speaker), Herzig, C. (Speaker) & Klewitz, J. (Speaker)
02.07.2012 → 04.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
RGS – IBG DARG Conference 2012
Richter, S. (Speaker)
02.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Industries: The Case of the Apparel Industry
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)
02.07.2012 → 04.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science Slam im Wissenschaftsjahr - Zukunftsprojekt Erde 2012
Bolek, R. (Speaker)
30.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Abschlusskonferenz des Mercator Forschungsverbundes Innovatives Soziales Handeln – Social Entrepreneurship 2012
Beckmann, M. (Organiser)
28.06.2012 → 29.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?
Katz, C. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
In the forest: doing gender by doing nature
Katz, C. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
28.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
19th Annual Conference EAERE 2012
Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)
27.06.2012 → 30.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
proDUO: Job-Sharing for Postdoc and Higher Academic Employees: An Organizing Principle of the Human Resource Management of Science Institutions?
Birkner, S. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Rehm, A. (Speaker)
27.06.2012 → 29.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Referent: Herausforderungen an das Projektmanagement – Vom 7. Forschungsrahmen-programm zu Horizon 2020
Olsson, O. (Panel participant)
27.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
6th European Conference on Positive Psychology - ECPP 2012
Peifer, C. (Speaker)
26.06.2012 → 29.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Oikos - Theis Workshop
Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)
26.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Thor Heyerdahl Summer School: Global Environmental Governance 2012
Stumpf, K. H. (Participant)
25.06.2012 → 06.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Iron Oxidizing Bacteria: Influence of Calcium and Magnesium on Growth Rates
Eggerichs, T. (Speaker), Jerofke, S. (Speaker), Otte, T. (Speaker), Opel, O. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
24.06.2012 → 29.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ARL-Kongress 2012
Hofmeister, S. (Moderator)
21.06.2012 → 22.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Demokratiekonferenz „Gegenseitige Blicke über die Grenze: Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz“ 2012
Newig, J. (Speaker)
21.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
Stoltenberg, U. (Lecturer)
19.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Was ist nachhaltige Entwicklung?
Adomßent, M. (Speaker)
17.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
3rd International Conference on Implications of GM Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales - GMLS-III 2012
Friedrich, B. (Participant) & Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant)
15.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Jahrestagung des Zentrums für Lehrerbildung der Universität Kassel 2012
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
15.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
13. Österreichischer Klimatag 2012
Vilsmaier, U. (presenter)
14.06.2012 → 15.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zusammenhänge verstehen – die Zukunft gestalten: Festvortrag anlässlich der Auszeichnung „Lernorte der Zukunft Hessen“
Stoltenberg, U. (Speaker)
13.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
13th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory - PET12
Hoberg, N. (presenter)
12.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Nachhaltigkeit lernen? Grundlagen einer Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung und nachhaltige Lehre an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
12.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Qualitative Forschung – ein Überblick.
Abels, S. (Lecturer)
12.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Risk Management: An Econometric Analysis of Risk in Energy Market
Fianu, E. S. (Speaker)
12.06.2012 → 15.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2nd International Workshop on Renewable Energy 2012
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
11.06.2012 → 15.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
The 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping - OHBM 2012
Zhang, K. (Speaker), Aust, S. (Speaker), Grimm, S. (Speaker) & Bajbouj, M. (Speaker)
10.06.2012 → 14.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2. Hofgeismarer Forum für Umweltrecht und Umweltpolitik 2012
Newig, J. (Speaker)
09.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research