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. 2013
  2. 1st Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation - i2S 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Participant)

    09.09.201310.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - 2013

    Klein, A.-M. (Participant)

    09.09.201313.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Building Bridges in Ecology – Linking Systems, Scales and Disciplines

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    09.09.201313.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Cross-pollination benefits differ among oilseed rape varieties

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    09.09.201313.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. Learning Potentials and Learning Experiences within Volunteer Services in the Global South: [Posterbeitrag]

    Richter, S. (Oral presentation)

    09.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Reflexive Multi-Criteria Evaluation as a tool to integrate Multiple Values into Decision-Making – a Case Study from Germany

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    09.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  8. 3rd IMPRES Symposium 2013

    Rammelberg, H. U. (Speaker)

    06.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Inquiry-based Learning Environment to Welcome the Diversity of a Chemistry Class

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    03.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. 6th International Conference on Pesiticide Behviour in Soils, Water and Air - 2013

    Kümmerer, K. (Participant)

    02.09.201304.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Conference on Pesiticide Behviour in Soils, Water and Air

    Ulrich, U. (Speaker) & Olsson, O. (Coauthor)

    02.09.201304.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  12. Entrepreneurial Motivations and Tendencies: A South African and German Case Study

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker), Scholtz, B. (Speaker), Nicolai, A. T. (Speaker) & Schuricht, M. (Speaker)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Is small beautiful? Small-scale farming in Poland and its contribution to sustainable rural development

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Methodological Trends and Challenges of Entrepreneurship Research

    Schuster, C. L. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Burger, C. (Speaker)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Money or Charity?: From (Women's) Social Intention to Commercial Business Models

    Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Schuster, C. L. (Speaker)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Research Conference "Social & Economic Transformations Affecting Rural People and Communities in Central & Eastern Europe Since 1990" - 2013

    Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Zu Bodenhydrologie und Kohlenstoffhaushalt sandiger Ackerböden im Klimawandel: Umgang mit Unsicherheiten bei der Modellierung

    Urban, B. (Speaker) & Schmelmer, K. (Speaker)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. 14. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie - FGSP 2013

    Majer, J. M. (Speaker)

    01.09.201304.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. It’s hard to part with gains, but what about losses. Contribution and Distribution of Benefits and Burdens in Integrative Negotiations

    Höhne, B. (Speaker)

    01.09.201304.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    01.09.201310.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  21. Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off

    Hoberg, N. (Speaker) & Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    26.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off - 2013

    Hoberg, N. (Speaker)

    26.08.201330.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  23. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Speaker)

    21.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. Are managed honey bees a threat to native wild bees?

    Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)

    19.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. 11th INTECOL Congress 2013

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Participant)

    18.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  26. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Oral presentation)

    18.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. Biodiversity and ecosystem funtions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany

    Klein, A.-M. (Oral presentation)

    18.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  28. Biodiversity and crop pollination services

    Klein, A.-M. (Oral presentation)

    14.08.201317.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  29. Unkonventionelle Gaslagerstätten und Gasförderung unter Einsatz der Hydraulic Fracturing Technologie

    Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)

    14.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  30. ETH Zürich World Food System Center Summer School - 2013

    Velten, S. (Participant)

    11.08.201325.08.2013

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

  31. Trans Atlantic Sustainability Seminar 2013

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    06.08.2013

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

  32. BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013

    Pleißner, D. (Chair)

    01.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker)

    01.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Erdgasgewinnung durch "Fracking": Erschließung unkonventioneller Lagerstätten durch„Hydraulic Fracturing“

    Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  35. Rethinking economy, nature use and development: Caring as a socio-ecological concept for sustainability and gender justice

    Katz, C. (Speaker) & Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Workshop zur Konstituierung des Instituts für transdisziplinäre Sozialwissenschaft der Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe -2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Is small beautiful? The case of small-scale farming in Poland, the CAP and rural resilience

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)

    30.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. 25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013

    Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. 25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013

    Gottschlich, D. (Organiser)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  40. Competencies for sustainable development of rural areas need the integration of Gender

    Thiem, A. (Speaker) & Katz, C. (Speaker)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  41. Representing Future Generations Today

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    29.07.201310.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  42. 17th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association - APRIA 2013

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker) & Engler, J.-O. (presenter)

    28.07.201331.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  43. Perform to Disclose or Disclose to Perform: Which Drives Which?

    Qian, W. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    26.07.201328.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. Vom schwierigen Vergnügen Nachhaltigkeit zu kommunizieren

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    17.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  45. Zwischenbilanztagung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz-Projekt "nexus" - HRK nexus 2013

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    15.07.201316.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  46. Conference of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network - EMAN Asia-Pacific 2013

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    14.07.201315.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. 2013 Retreat of the Sustainability Economics Group

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker)

    08.07.201309.07.2013

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

  48. The Role and Use of Environmental Management Accounting for Supply Chains: An explorative Study

    Herzig, C. (Speaker), Viere, T. (Speaker), Schaltegger, S. (Speaker) & Burritt, R. L. (Speaker)

    08.07.201309.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. Post Conference Worskhop Pharmaceutical residues - 2013

    Weiss, J. (Speaker), Kümmerer, K. (Speaker), Bolek, R. (Speaker), Boireau, V. (Speaker), Roig, B. (Speaker) & Lamoree, M. (Speaker)

    05.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. Value Trade-offs and Efficiency

    Hoberg, N. (Speaker)

    05.07.201307.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  51. The Politics of Sustainability Indicators in Rhineland-Palatinate: A Case Study

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    03.07.201305.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch