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. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

    Rieckmann, M. (Visiting lecturer)

    19.03.201223.03.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  3. 4th Global TraPs Workshop "Defining Case Studies – Setting Priorities”

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    16.03.201218.03.2012

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

  4. Summer School in the context of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning 2012

    Staab, M. (Participant)

    16.03.201222.03.2012

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

  5. Informationsansprüche im Atom- und Strahlenschutzrecht

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Leaving you mother - what next?: seed dispersal and seed predation

    Pufal, G. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. Soziale Dilemmata - Warum ist Nachhaltigkeit so schwierig?: mit FIshBanks-Planspiel

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  8. Wie beeinflussen sekundäre Samenausbreitung und Samenfraß die erfolgreiche Etablierung von Wiesenkräutern?

    Pufal, G. (Lecturer)

    14.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement - Eine Einführung

    Beckmann, M. (Lecturer)

    13.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  10. University of South Australia

    Zvezdov, D. (Visiting researcher)

    05.03.201202.04.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  11. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in the public - views, misconceptions and misunderstandings

    Pufal, G. (presenter)

    02.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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Researchers

  1. Christoph Kusche

Publications

  1. Heavy resistance training in wheelchair athletes
  2. Gründungsmythen in Paarbeziehungen
  3. Punk - Keine Macht für Niemand
  4. Den Körper abwenden und cool bleiben
  5. Zwischen Gesundheitsbewusstsein und Lifestyle
  6. Tränen
  7. Zu den Wurzeln des sachenrechtlichen Numerus clausus
  8. Keep angry and carry on: Geschlechterverhältnisse in Bildungsprozessen
  9. Chancen und Risiken von Adoleszenz und Migration
  10. Utopie, Physiologie und Technologie des Fernsprechens
  11. National sustainability strategies
  12. New Zealand and Chile: Partnership for the Pacific century?
  13. Gespielte Medien und die Anfänge 'phonographischer Arbeit'
  14. Schülerfeedback in der Grundschule.
  15. Kübra Gümüşay: Sprache und Sein, Berlin 2018
  16. Fahrstuhl: Vom Fremdkörper zum Gebäudekern
  17. Geißel, Brigitte: Kritische Bürger - Gefahr oder Ressource für die Demokratie? Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag 2011
  18. European Research Agenda for Career Guidance and Counselling
  19. Produkteinführung
  20. § 257 HGB Aufbewahrung von Unterlagen.
  21. Reverse Logistics nachhaltig gedacht
  22. § 61 Anforderungen an Erleichterungen für auditierte Unternehmensstandorte
  23. Clean by Nature. Lebhafte Oberflächen und das holistisch-systemische Erbe der zeitgenössischen Bionik
  24. Erziehungsziel "Selbstständigkeit"
  25. Land use legacy effects on woody vegetation in agricultural landscapes of south-western Ethiopia
  26. Tekstowanie Hegiraskopu Stuarta Moulthropa
  27. Umweltkonflikte und Nachhaltigkeit in Lateinamerika
  28. Lokale Agenda 21 und die "Eine Welt"
  29. Multiterritorialidades campesinas: propuestas desde las zonas de reserva campesina para una construcción plural del estado en Colombia