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.
- 2011
Jubiläumstagung der Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie - 2011
Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)
27.10.2011 → 29.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Products service systems as enabler for sustainability-oriented innovation: The case of Osram’s off-grid lighting
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
27.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Experiences on the theme of actions for sustainable development in the field of educational systems
Stoltenberg, U. (Speaker)
26.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Product-Service Systems as Enabler for Sustainability Innovation: The Case of Service Stations in Kenya
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
26.10.2011 → 28.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability-oriented innovation in SMEs - Forms of collaboration for capacity building
Klewitz, J. (presenter)
26.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Social Network Analysis 2011
Zvezdov, D. (Participant)
24.10.2011 → 28.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop "Politiken der Naturgestaltung I" - PoNa 2011
Burandt, A. (Speaker)
21.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das PoNa-Nachhaltigkeitsverständnis
Gottschlich, D. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)
20.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Identitäten? Widersprüche? Geschlechtergerechtigkeit?: Praxisorientierte Reflexion von Jungenarbeitskonzepten
Offen, S. (Lecturer)
20.10.2011 → 21.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ländliche Entwicklung als Politiken der Naturgestaltung: Eine Analyse der europäischen, deutschen und polnischen Politik zur Entwicklung ländlicher Räume in der Förderperiode 2007-2013
Burandt, A. (Speaker)
20.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop "Politiken der Naturgestaltung I" - PoNa 2011
Mölders, T. (Chair), Gottschlich, D. (Chair), Friedrich, B. (Organiser), Szumelda, A. U. (Organiser), Sulmowski, J. A. (Organiser) & Burandt, A. (Organiser)
20.10.2011 → 21.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
14. Eröffnung des Akademischen Jahres 2011/2012
Stoltenberg, U. (Speaker)
19.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1st European Brachypodium Workshop 2011
Delory, B. (Coauthor)
19.10.2011 → 21.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Theorieseminar zur Unternehmensethik
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
19.10.2011 → 21.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Brush up zu KODE© und KODEX© 2011
Thiem, A. (Speaker)
15.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Workshop: "Die Energiefrage im Grünen Kapitalismus" 2011
Friedrich, B. (Organiser)
14.10.2011 → 16.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Verbünde Spezial 2011
Klewitz, J. (Organiser)
13.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management - IWRM BMBF 2011
Vilsmaier, U. (Keynote speaker)
12.10.2011 → 13.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Entwicklung und Einsatz von wassergefüllten Schlauchsystemen im Hochwasserschutz
Brinkmann, B. (Speaker) & Koppe, B. (Coauthor)
11.10.2011 → 13.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
34. Symposium für Land- und Agrarsoziologie „Landreflexionen“ - 2011
Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Friedrich, B. (Participant)
07.10.2011 → 08.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
8. Jahrestagung der Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie - DGS 2011
Schmidt, A. (Organiser) & Wedl, I. (Organiser)
07.10.2011 → 08.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
INSEAD CSI Social Entrepreneurship Forum 2011
Beckmann, M. (Opponent)
07.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Partizipative Veränderung schulischer Konsumkultur Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie aus dem Projekt BINK
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
07.10.2011 → 08.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Herbst-Tagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaf - VHB 2011
Harms, D. (Coauthor)
06.10.2011 → 07.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Identification and Determination of Selected Pharmaceuticals and Their Dead End Degradation Products in Degradation Testing
Mahmoud, W. M. M. (Oral presentation)
06.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
25th Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information - EnviroInfo 2011
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
05.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
5th International Research Workshop for PhD - 2011
Hörisch, J. (Participant)
02.10.2011 → 07.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Biodiversity Principles: Recommendations for the Financial Sector
Beständig, U. (Reviewer)
01.10.2011Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Guidelines for Assessing Biodiversity-Related Risks and Opportunities in the Financial Sector: An Aid for Implementing the VfU Biodiversity Principles
Beständig, U. (Reviewer), Detlefsen, I. (Reviewer) & Jahn, K. (Reviewer)
01.10.2011Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Thiem, A. (Member)
10.2011 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
41st West European Fish Technologists Association Meeting - WEFTA 2011
Pleißner, D. (presenter)
27.09.2011 → 30.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Potential for line-mussel production in the Great Belt (Denmark)
Pleissner, D. (Speaker)
27.09.2011 → 30.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Postfossile Revolution! Abschied vom fossilen Kapitalismus 2011
Kümmerer, K. (presenter)
23.09.2011 → 25.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
HBSC Earthwatch Workshop - 2011
Staab, M. (Speaker)
21.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Untersuchendes Lernen mit allen SchülerInnen
Abels, S. (Lecturer)
20.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
2. Hochschultagung: Sichere gesunde Hochschule - 2011
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
19.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
World Resources Forum - WRF 2011
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
19.09.2011 → 21.09.2100Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fungizidwirkungen auf Ectomykorrhiza-Pilze
Zunker, I. (Speaker), Ruck, W. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Feldmann, F. (Speaker)
18.09.2011 → 20.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Summer School “Implementation of Sustainability into Research and Teaching of Higher Education Institutions in Eastern Europe” - 2011
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
16.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development - UNESCO Chair Conference 2011
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
15.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development - UNESCO Chair Conference 2011
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
15.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development - UNESCO Chair Conference 2011
Richter, S. (Speaker) & Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
15.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Nachhaltige Entwicklung als Herausforderung für Bildung und Wissenschaft
Stoltenberg, U. (Speaker)
15.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Social Business and Social Entrepreneurship
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
15.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
4th International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development - UNESCO Chair Conference 2011
Stoltenberg, U. (Participant)
14.09.2011 → 16.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Education for Sustainable Development - 2011
Zvezdov, D. (Participant)
14.09.2011 → 16.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
European Conference on Educational Research - ECER 2011
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
14.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Developing and Assessing Students' Competencies For Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty
Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)
13.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Understanding Teacher Engagement with Sustainable Consumption: Results of an Empirical Study
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
13.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ecological justice in agricultural systems. An evaluation of success factors and barriers by the example of the Philippine farmer network MASIPAG.
Glotzbach, S. (Speaker)
12.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability and internal supply chain management – A conceptual approach to intra-organisational knowledge transfer
Harms, D. (Speaker)
12.09.2011 → 14.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sustainability and Internal Supply Chain Management: A Conceptual Approach to Intra-Organisational Knowledge Transfer
Harms, D. (Speaker)
12.09.2011 → 14.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Different Coastal Adaptation Strategies: Integrating Regional Perceptions of Scientists, Practitioners and the Public
Schmidt, A. (Speaker)
12.09.2011 → 15.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisciplinary Evaluation of Different Coastal Adaptation Strategies: Integrating Regional Perceptions of Scientists, Practitioners and the Public
Schmidt, A. (presenter)
12.09.2011 → 15.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Personal norms of sustainability and their consequences in ecological-economic systems under uncertainty – The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions
Olbrich, R. (Speaker), Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker) & Quaas, M. F. (Speaker)
11.09.2011 → 13.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Resilience of natural-resource-dependent economies
Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker) & van Soest, D. P. (Speaker)
11.09.2011 → 13.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Risk preferences under heterogeneous environmental risk
Olbrich, R. (Speaker), Quaas, M. F. (Speaker), Hänsler, A. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)
11.09.2011 → 13.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Agrobiodiversity between Protection and Use – the Example of Rural Development in Germany
Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)
10.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
43rd European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting - 2011
Peifer, C. (presenter)
09.09.2011 → 12.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Responses of herbivory and pollinators to grassland management and plant diversity
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker) & Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)
09.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seed dispersal and predation: Interactions, ecosystem functions and services
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Why is the rare dispersal mechanism hygrochasy so common around the world?
Pufal, G. (Speaker)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Young LOICZ Forum 2011
Schmidt, A. (presenter)
08.09.2011 → 15.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011
Burandt, A. (Participant)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011
Gottschlich, D. (Participant)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23rd International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research - CSEAR 2011
Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 09.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011
Brandt, P. (Coauthor)
07.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Landscape factors affecting Parakeet damage to sunflower fields in Israel.
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The climate niche of a mountain carabid: consequences under climate change
Brandt, P. (Speaker) & von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication
Schulz, D. (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Trap-nesting insects' interactions in an urban-rural gradient
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie - GFÖ-Tagung 2011
Klein, A.-M. (presenter)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Zwischen Groß- und Kleingruppenlogik: Social Franchising aus einer Hayekianischen Perspektive
Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
07.09.2011 → 09.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Comunicación de Sostenibilidad
Rieckmann, M. (Panel participant)
06.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall Landesverbandstagung Nord DWA 2011
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
06.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Séminaire franco-allemand de jeunes chercheurs du Moulin d’Andé 2011
Friedrich, B. (Participant)
06.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
41st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2011
Hudewenz, A. (Participant)
05.09.2011 → 09.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Genetic diversity and extent of hybridization of invasive Ulmus pumila.
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
05.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Konzepte der Gesellschaftstheorie - Edmund Phelps 2011
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
05.09.2011 → 07.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The ecological consequences of Chernobyl
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
05.09.2011 → 07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Trap-nesting insects´ interactions in an urban-rural gradient
Pereira Peixoto, M. H. (Speaker)
05.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Correlation Patterns of PAHs and Heterocyclic PAHs in Sediment Samples from Influence of Two Tar-Contaminated Sites on Adjacent Rivers: Quantitation of PAHs, Heterocyclic PAHs and Phenols in the Aqueous Phase
Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Gellersen, J. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Correlation Patterns of PAHs and Heterocyclic PAHs in Sediment Samples from Northern Germany - Point Sources and Diffuse Immissions
Palm, W.-U. (Speaker), Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Polare PAK-Derivate – Analytik und Vorkommen von Azaarenen in Fließgewässern
Tangermann, L. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ubiquitous Distribution of Heterocyclic PAHs in the Large River Systems of Northern Germany
Siemers, A.-K. (Speaker), Mänz, J. S. (Speaker), Steffen, D. (Speaker), Palm, W.-U. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)
04.09.2011 → 08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A quantiative review of the ecological impacts of the chernobyl disaster
von Wehrden, H. (presenter)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Global warming triggers loss of genetic diversity of Z. exulans populations in Euro-pean high mountain systems
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Growth and competition of tree saplings of subtropical China
von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The growing importance of sustainability in European markets and the role of universities in sustainability-oriented management education
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
31.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Workshop Innovationsverbund Nachhaltiger Mittelstand - 2011
Klewitz, J. (Moderator)
31.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
3rd EU-China River Basin Governance Research Network Workshop - RiBaGo 2011
Newig, J. (Speaker)
30.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Konstellationsanalyse - Ein interdisziplinäres Brückenkonzept 2011
Burandt, S. (Participant)
29.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
1. Summer School Wissenschaft kommunizieren im Haus der Wissenschaft Braunschweig - 2011
Schmidt, A. (Participant)
24.08.2011 → 26.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Multifunctionality in EU´s Common Agricultural Policy between Competitiveness and Sustainability
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker), Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)
23.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Working in regional agro-food networks – strengthening local food systems through cooperation
Burandt, A. (Speaker)
23.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rural Gender Relations and Sustainable Development – Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Findings on Feminization Trends
Mölders, T. (Speaker)
22.08.2011 → 25.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The debate on the future of small individual farms in Poland
Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker), Lang, F. J. (Speaker) & Thiem, A. (Speaker)
22.08.2011 → 25.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
XXIV Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - 2011
Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)
22.08.2011 → 25.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6th International Conference of Critical Geography - ICCG 2011
Friedrich, B. (Participant) & Gottschlich, D. (Participant)
16.08.2011 → 20.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Green vs. Jobs: Goal Conflict Inherence in the Solar Policies of California, China and Germany
Hansen, E. G. (Speaker)
15.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research