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. 2012
  2. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Industries: The Case of the Apparel Industry

    Hansen, E. G. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Science Slam im Wissenschaftsjahr - Zukunftsprojekt Erde 2012

    Bolek, R. (Speaker)

    30.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Abschlusskonferenz des Mercator Forschungsverbundes Innovatives Soziales Handeln – Social Entrepreneurship 2012

    Beckmann, M. (Organiser)

    28.06.201229.06.2012

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

  5. Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. In the forest: doing gender by doing nature

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 19th Annual Conference EAERE 2012

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    27.06.201230.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. 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)

    27.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Referent: Herausforderungen an das Projektmanagement – Vom 7. Forschungsrahmen-programm zu Horizon 2020

    Olsson, O. (Panel participant)

    27.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  11. 6th European Conference on Positive Psychology - ECPP 2012

    Peifer, C. (Speaker)

    26.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Oikos - Theis Workshop

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    26.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Thor Heyerdahl Summer School: Global Environmental Governance 2012

    Stumpf, K. H. (Participant)

    25.06.201206.07.2012

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

  14. 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)

    24.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. ARL-Kongress 2012

    Hofmeister, S. (Moderator)

    21.06.201222.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Stoltenberg, U. (Lecturer)

    19.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  17. Was ist nachhaltige Entwicklung?

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    17.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  18. 3rd International Conference on Implications of GM Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales - GMLS-III 2012

    Friedrich, B. (Participant) & Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant)

    15.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  19. Jahrestagung des Zentrums für Lehrerbildung der Universität Kassel 2012

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    15.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. 13. Österreichischer Klimatag 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (presenter)

    14.06.201215.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. 13th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory - PET12

    Hoberg, N. (presenter)

    12.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. Qualitative Forschung – ein Überblick.

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    12.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Risk Management: An Econometric Analysis of Risk in Energy Market

    Fianu, E. S. (Speaker)

    12.06.201215.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. 2nd International Workshop on Renewable Energy 2012

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    11.06.201215.06.2012

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

  25. 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)

    10.06.201214.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  26. 2. Hofgeismarer Forum für Umweltrecht und Umweltpolitik 2012

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    09.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  27. Fachtagung „Information, Partizipation, Rechtsschutz: Neue Probleme und Konzepte für die Bürgerbeteiligung“ 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    09.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  28. Conference Transdisciplinary Intercultural Ecological Research for Sustainability - TIERS 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    08.06.201210.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. Nachhaltigkeit in Hochschulbildung und Forschung

    Adomßent, M. (Lecturer)

    08.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  30. 12th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management - EURAM 2012

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    06.06.201208.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. Innovation in sustainable supply chains – A reflection on resources and SME collaboration with supply chain stakeholders

    Harms, D. (Speaker)

    06.06.201208.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  32. Educación y comunicación para sociedades sustentables

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    05.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  33. Conflicts on shaping societies' relations to nature on a local level. The example of agricultural biotechnology

    Friedrich, B. (Speaker)

    03.06.201207.06.2012

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

  34. Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker), Klein, A.-M. (Speaker), Thiel, D. (Speaker) & Winkler, K. (Speaker)

    03.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. VI ARALIG PhD-course 2012

    Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    03.06.201207.06.2012

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

  36. 3rd International Symposium on Sustainable Development - ISSD 2012

    Kümmerer, K. (Keynote speaker)

    31.05.201201.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Die Neuererfindung des Ökonomischen: Beitrag ökologischer Ökonomik zur Debatte um Nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)

    30.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  38. Environmental Management Accounting. Purposes, Patterns, Paths

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    30.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  39. Transdisciplinary Research in Corporate Sustainability. Vision, Verdict, Value

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    29.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  40. The RMIT Accounting for Sustainability Conference 2012

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    28.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. 22nd SETAC Europe Annual Meeting - SETAC 2012

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    22.05.201224.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  42. Workshop mit Praxispartnern "Regionale Esskultur Lüneburger Heide"

    Burandt, A. (Organiser)

    22.05.2012

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

  43. Forschungskolloquium am Institut für Soziologie an der Jagiellonen Universität 2012

    Mölders, T. (Participant)

    18.05.2012

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

  44. The Nature of Rurality. Nature-Gender-Relations in Rural Areas

    Mölders, T. (Lecturer)

    18.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  45. Wirtschaftsverfassungs- und Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    18.05.201219.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  46. 34. Bundeskongress der Kunstpädagogik - BuKo 2012

    Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    17.05.201219.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  47. Ressourcenschutz durch Abfallvermeidung – Der Beitrag des KrWG

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    16.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. Schooling for sustainability: Education for sustainable development

    Stoltenberg, U. (Lecturer)

    15.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  49. 22. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Humanökologie - DGH 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Opponent) & Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    12.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. Magstim Neuroscience Conference and Workshop (Oxford) 2012

    Zhang, K. (Participant)

    12.05.201213.05.2012

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

  51. The Second International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

    Korn, C. (Speaker), Fan, Y. (Speaker), Zhang, K. (Speaker), Wang, C. (Speaker), Han, S. (Speaker) & Heekeren, H. (Speaker)

    10.05.201211.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. Transdisziplinarität in der SÖF - 'Fallstricke', Blockaden, Chancen

    Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)

    10.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  53. Erfolgreiche (Zusammen)Arbeit von Netzwerken der Regionalvermarktung

    Burandt, A. (Speaker)

    07.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  54. Produkte regional vermarkten - Netzwerke zur Stärkung der Region

    Burandt, A. (Organiser)

    07.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  55. TADA Conference „Sustainability meets Ethics“, Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility 2012

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    04.05.201205.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  56. Alcohol myopia as a mechanism for the effect of alcohol on goal commitment

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

    05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  57. Ecology & Evolution, Lecture series 2012

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    05.2012

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

  58. positive future fantasies reduce physiological energization instantly and over time

    Oettingen, G. (Speaker), Sevincer, T. (Coauthor) & Kappers, H. B. (Coauthor)

    05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  59. Why have a drink? Emotional, cognitive, and motivational mechanisms of acute alcohol consumption

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

    05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  60. Workshop on occasion of the 10th anniversary DFG Research Unit for 456/1451 2012

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    05.2012

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

  61. Jagiellonian University

    Mölders, T. (Visiting researcher)

    30.04.201225.07.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  62. Scientific conference with integrated meeting of the European network „Gender, Diversity and Urban Sustainability (GDUS)“ 2012

    Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)

    27.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  63.  ICCSR 10th Anniversary Conference 2012

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    26.04.201227.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  64. Gender Relation and Sustainable Spatial Development

    Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)

    25.04.201228.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  65. Green Procurement and Supply: Chancen und Herausforderungen

    Klewitz, J. (Speaker)

    25.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  66. Green Procurement and Supply: Chancen und Herausforderungen

    Harms, D. (Oral presentation)

    25.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  67. Die Energiewende und das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    20.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  68. Social Entrepreneurship in Theorie und Praxis: 2,5-tägiges Blockseminar (mit Anica Zeyen)

    Beckmann, M. (Lecturer)

    19.04.201221.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  69. Social Entrepreneurship in Theorie und Praxis: 2,5-tägiges Blockseminar (mit Markus Beckmann)

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    19.04.201221.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  70. Workshop Transdisziplinäre Wissensproduktion in der Wasserforschung 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    19.04.201220.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  71. 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference - PCST 2012

    Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant)

    18.04.201220.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  72. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Potenziale für die Schulpraxis

    Stoltenberg, U. (Lecturer)

    18.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  73. Agrobiodiversität im Wandel – zwischen Schutz und Nutzung zum erhaltenden Gestalten

    Burandt, A. (Speaker)

    17.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  74. Statusseminar der Nachwuchsforschungsgruppen im Rahmen der Sozial-ökologischen Forschung 2012

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

    16.04.201217.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  75. Panel-Teilnehmer beim "Expertentreffen zu Social Business"

    Beckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    13.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  76. Treffen des Netzwerks Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften 2012

    Mölders, T. (Participant)

    13.04.201214.04.2012

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

  77. Social Entrepreneurship - Was ist das und was bringt es?

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    04.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  78. City University London

    Richter, S. (Visiting researcher)

    01.04.201230.06.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  79. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (External organisation)

    Hofmeister, S. (Member)

    01.04.201201.04.2015

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  80. Ringvorlesung: "Diversity Policies zwischen Zuschreibungen, Repräsentationszumutungen und Gerechtigkeit" 2012

    Offen, S. (Organiser)

    01.04.201231.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  81. Badischer Imkertag 2012

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    04.2012

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

  82. Gerechtigkeitsaspekte in der Naturschutzkommunikation

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    29.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  83. Planet Under Pressure Conference 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    26.03.201229.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  84. Frühjahrstagung: „(Un-)Sicherheit, (Bio-)Macht und (Cyber-)Kämpfe: Kritische Theorieperspektiven auf Technologien als Ort gesellschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung“ 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Gottschlich, D. (Speaker) & Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    23.03.201224.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  85. 1st Conference of the Energy and Society Network 2012

    Fischer, L.-B. (Speaker)

    22.03.201224.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  86. Altlastensymposium der ingenieurtechnischen Vereinigung Altlasten - ITVA 2012

    Sanden, J. (Speaker)

    22.03.201223.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  87. Tag der Hydrologie - TdH 2012

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    22.03.201223.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  88. Linking stakeholder participation and environmental outcomes: In search of evidence

    Challies, E. (presenter)

    21.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  89. TEEB Conference 2012

    Baumgärtner, S. (presenter)

    21.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  90. Describing consumer competence: A transdisciplinary approach

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    20.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  91. Gesprächs- und Verhandlungsführung, Vertiefung

    Burandt, S. (Participant)

    20.03.2012

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

  92. Vernetzungstreffen Nachwuchsgruppe "BioDiva" 2012

    Mölders, T. (Participant) & Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    20.03.2012

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